Patent Document ID: 8736706
Application ID: 13418598
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating a high resolution composite image of an object, the method comprising: accessing, by one or more processing devices, a plurality of source images of the object captured by an image capture system having at least one image capture device, each of the source images being associated with a different region of the object; receiving, by the one or more processing devices, position data associated with the plurality of source images; combining, by the one or more processing devices, the plurality of source images into a composite image based on the position data; performing, by the one or more processing devices, an image quality analysis of the composite image to identify portions of the composite image that satisfy an image quality metric; and controlling, by the one or more devices, the capture of additional source images by the image capture device based at least in part on the image quality analysis; wherein controlling, by the one or more processing devices, the capture of additional source images by the image capture device based at least in part on the image quality analysis, comprises: generating, by the one or more processing devices, a coverage map associated with the composite image based on the position data, the coverage map specifying spatial coordinates of the portions of the composite image that satisfy the image quality metric; analyzing, by the one or more processing devices, the coverage map to determine the location of the one or more portions of the composite image that do not satisfy the image quality metric; and generating, by the one or more processing devices, control commands to control the image capture device to capture source images of the object associated with the one or more portion of the composite image that do not satisfy the image quality metric.