Patent Document ID: 20120162379
Application ID: 13115589
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for using primary and auxiliary image capture devices, each including an image sensor and a lens, to perform image processing, the method comprising: using the primary image capture device to capture a first image of a scene, the first image having a first quality characteristic; using the auxiliary image capture device to capture a second image of the scene, the second image having a second quality characteristic, and the second quality characteristic being of lower quality than the first quality characteristic; adjusting at least one parameter of one of the captured images to create at least one adjusted image for one of approximating and matching a quality characteristic of the other image; forming an adjusted image pair that includes two images from a first group of images including the adjusted and captured images; extracting image features using one or more pixels from the images in the adjusted image pair; matching extracted image features between the images in the adjusted image pair; computing a transformation to align at least one of the matched image features between the images in the adjusted image pair; applying the transformation to at least one of the images in the adjusted image pair to align the images in the adjusted image pair; forming a transformed image pair by selecting two images from a second group of images including the transformed, adjusted, and captured images; and utilizing the transformed image pair to one of: form a stereoscopic image pair; and create another image segment utilizing disparity information and higher quality pixels generated from the transformed image pair to replace corresponding pixels on a lower quality image in response to determining that a corresponding image segment of the second image does not meet predefined quality criteria, wherein the replaced corresponding pixels are non-occluded pixels.