Patent Document ID: 8422766
Application ID: 12999728
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of stereo matching at least two images, the method comprising: acquiring a sequence of a first image and a second image from a scene, the sequence including a plurality of successive frames of the first and second images; estimating the disparity of at least one point in the first image with at least one corresponding point in the second image for at least one frame; estimating motion of the at least one point in the first image from the at least one frame to at least one next successive frame; estimating the disparity of the at least one next successive frame based on the estimated disparity of at least one previous frame in a first direction of the sequence, wherein the estimate disparity of the at least one next successive frame is compensated with the estimated motion; and minimizing the estimated disparity of each of the plurality of successive frames based on the estimated disparity of at least one previous frame in a second direction of the sequence.