Patent Document ID: 9197822
Application ID: 14085136
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image enhancement method to reduce obscurants in front of an image of an object that obscures the image in an output video stream, the obscurants comprising an obscurant size, said method comprising: providing a plurality of spaced apart cameras spaced apart by a distance that is greater than an aperture of each of said plurality of spaced apart cameras; providing that said distance is sufficient that said image of said object is viewable by at least one camera of said plurality of cameras when said image of said object is obscured for another one of said plurality of cameras by an obscurant comprising the obscurant size; providing that each of said plurality of cameras produce a raw video stream whereby said plurality of cameras produce a plurality of raw video streams; utilizing user input to select between designating brighter elements as obscurants for a front lighted view or designating darker elements as obscurants for a back lighted view; identifying obscurant pixels in said plurality of raw video streams; and combining said plurality of raw video streams into said output stream by replacing said obscurant pixels with image pixels of said image of said object in said output stream.