Patent ID: 7548662

Claim:
A computer-implemented process for creating an apparently higher resolution image of a scene on a display exhibiting a resolution that is lower than said apparently higher resolution, comprising using a computer to perform the following process actions: generating a sequence of images which exhibit said lower resolution, wherein each of the images is generated by moving a sub-sampling grid comprising intersection points spaced apart so as to correspond to a prescribed sub-sampling frequency to a different offset in relation to an image of said scene having a higher resolution than the display and decimating the higher resolution image at each offset to generate a lower-resolution image, said moving and decimation comprising, assigning a fixed point on the grid, establishing a path on or adjacent the higher resolution image, said path having a plurality of predefined points thereon, for each point in turn on the path, finding the closest pixel of the image, aligning the fixed point of the grid with said closest pixel, and decimating the image to establish for each grid intersection point a single pixel value, thereby generating a decimated image; and displaying the sequence of images on the display in an order in which they were generated and at a prescribed rate, so as to create the appearance of an image of the scene having a higher resolution than that of the individual decimated images.