Patent Document ID: 9077915
Application ID: 12755575
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for interweaving visible image data and infrared image data using an image processing computer, the method comprising: using the image processing computer to receive a visible light input signal, each frame of the visible light input signal having a plurality of color channels; using the image processing computer to receive an infrared input signal, the infrared input signal for displaying infrared images in synchronization with an infrared light source; using the image processing computer to process the visible light input signal and the infrared input signal into a combined output signal having a plurality of channel output data; wherein the plurality of channel output data includes data from the infrared input signal substituted for data from one of the plurality of color channels in the visible light input signal for each of a plurality of frames, further wherein the plurality of color channels comprises a red channel, a green channel and a blue channel; and wherein data from the infrared input signal is sequentially substituted in for the red channel, the green channel or the blue channel, such that: in a first frame of three sequential frames, the red channel is substituted with the infrared input signal, in a second frame of three sequential frames, either the green channel or the blue channel is substituted with the infrared input signal, and in a third frame of three sequential frames, the remaining color channel is substituted with the infrared input signal.