Patent Document ID: 9171361
Application ID: 13437645
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a visual image of a scene captured using a visual image sensor; receiving, by the processor, an infrared (IR) image of the scene captured using an IR image sensor; for a portion of said IR image: extracting, by the processor from a corresponding portion of the visual image, pixel data representing high spatial frequency content, wherein the high spatial content includes contours and/or edges that show low or no contrast in the IR image; and combining, by the processor, luminance information of said extracted pixel data from said portion of the visual image with luminance information of corresponding pixels in said portion of the IR image to augment the IR image with the contours and/or edges from the visual image, wherein the augmented IR image comprises temperature information that is unaltered by the combining.