Patent Document ID: 20110052095
Application ID: 12550559
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for using low resolution images and at least one high resolution image of a scene captured by the same image capture device to provide an improved high resolution image, comprising: a) using the image capture device to capture a plurality of low resolution images of the scene and at least one high resolution image of the scene having a resolution greater than that of the low resolution images; b) combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image; and c) combining the high resolution image with the aggregate low resolution image to provide the improved high resolution image by: i) reducing the resolution of the high resolution image to provide an image representative of a low resolution image that could have been captured by the image capture device; ii) interpolating the representative low resolution image to provide an interpolated high resolution image; iii) calculating a residual image from the high resolution image and the interpolated high resolution image; iv) combining the representative low resolution image and the aggregate low resolution image to provide a final low resolution image; and v) using the final low resolution image and the residual image to provide the improved high resolution image.