Patent ID: 7248751

Claim:
A method of enhancing images from an electro-optic imaging system, comprising: estimating motion associated with a sequence of images collected from an object source; assembling said sequence of images to form a single composite image based on estimated positions of individual pixels; and restoring the composite image, wherein said assembling video frames into a single composite image based on estimated positions of individual pixels of the sequence of images includes defining and constructing a lattice array with a higher sampling density than a template image, computing for each lattice site an associated coordinate interval corresponding to a rectangular span of each lattice site relative to said template image coordinate grid, finding and selecting all pixels whose estimated coordinates and uncertainty intervals are statistically likely to belong within the rectangular span of each lattice site, processing intensity values associated with selected pixels by an aggregate estimator to produce a single intensity estimate for each lattice site thus forming a composite image, and determining an uncertainty of said lattice intensity estimates to produce an adjunct lattice of statistical variances of intensities of the composite image.