Patent Document ID: 9531962
Application ID: 14682895
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for aligning and combining images, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of feature points in an image in a plurality of images generated of a scene by a camera; identifying locations of the identified feature points in remaining images in the plurality of images; selecting a group of the identified feature points indicative of relative motion of the camera between image captures; and aligning a set of the plurality of images using the selected group of feature points; selecting a reference image from the set of aligned images; weighting other images the set by, for each other image in the set: comparing the other image and the reference image to identify one or more moving objects in the other image relative to the reference image; and applying a weight to a plurality of pixel locations in the other image, a value of the weight for a pixel location decreasing based on an amount of relative movement of an object formed by the pixel location; and combining the reference image with the weighted images.