Patent ID: 7454078

Claim:
A computer implemented method for removing flicker in a sequence of images, the method comprising: reading a sequence of images including a source image and a target image, wherein each image in the sequence of images includes a plurality of pixels and flicker exists in the sequence of images; defining a plurality of regions of interest in the source image and a plurality of spatially counterpart regions of interest in the target image; measuring an image quality for all of the pixels in each of the regions of interest in the source image; measuring an image quality for all of the pixels in each of the spatially counterpart regions of interest in the target image; generating a corrected source image on a region of interest basis depending on the image quality for the pixels in each of the plurality of regions of interest in the source image and the spatially counterpart regions of interest in the target image; and storing the corrected source image for output in a corrected sequence of images wherein the flicker existing in the sequence of images is removed.