US Patent No: 6,535,650

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Creating high resolution images

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Abstract

A digital imaging system includes a camera to capture a plurality of images representing a scene. A program is executable on the processor to align the images with respect to a reference image and to combine the images into a composite image that represents the scene. The camera may include a low resolution camera, and the composite image may be a high resolution, digitized image.

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Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
INTEL CORPORATIONSANTA CLARA, CA24345

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bostrom, Vareck S Aloha, OR 1 40
Gorman, Walter L Portland, OR 2 55
Nguyen, Vu X Seattle, WA 5 60
Poulo, Richard J Beaverton, OR 2 55

Cited Art

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INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC (2)
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5,907,626 Method for object tracking and mosaicing in an image sequence using a two-dimensional mesh 19 1997
 
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2)
5,590,261 Finite-element method for image alignment and morphing 45 1993
5,706,416 Method and apparatus for relating and combining multiple images of the same scene or object(s) 46 1995
 
SARNOFF CORPORATION (2)
6,075,905 Method and apparatus for mosaic image construction 277 1997
5,999,662 System for automatically aligning images to form a mosaic image 101 1998
 
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES THINK, INC. (1)
5,798,761 Robust mapping of 2D cursor motion onto 3D lines and planes 18 1996
 
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY (1)
5,973,700 Method and apparatus for optimizing the resolution of images which have an apparent depth 24 1992
 
HARRIS CORPORATION (1)
5,550,937 Mechanism for registering digital images obtained from multiple sensors having diverse image collection geometries 86 1994
 
MICROSOFT CORPORATION (1)
6,018,349 Patch-based alignment method and apparatus for construction of image mosaics 43 1997

Patent Citation Ranking

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (8)
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7,006,707 Projecting images onto a surface 29 2001
7,103,236 Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composite image 18 2001
7,660,464 User interface for high dynamic range merge image selection 3 2005
7,386,188 Merging images to form a panoramic image 18 2006
7,471,849 Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composite image 12 2006
7,646,932 Merging images to form a panoramic image 0 2008
8,027,538 User interface for high dynamic range merge image selection 1 2010
 
CYBEROPTICS SEMICONDUCTOR, INC. (5)
7,289,230 Wireless substrate-like sensor 5 2003
7,283,255 Wireless substrate-like sensor 9 2006
7,456,977 Wireless substrate-like sensor 2 2006
7,778,793 Wireless sensor for semiconductor processing systems 0 2008
7,893,697 Capacitive distance sensing in semiconductor processing tools 0 2008
 
GOOGLE INC. (3)
8,396,325 Image enhancement through discrete patch optimization 0 2009
8,391,634 Illumination estimation for images 0 2009
8,385,662 Principal component analysis based seed generation for clustering analysis 0 2009
 
AEROSPACE CORPORATION, THE (2)
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APPLE INC. (2)
7,978,925 Smoothing and/or locking operations in video editing 0 2005
7,912,337 Spatial and temporal alignment of video sequences 1 2005
 
FUJIFILM CORPORATION (2)
8,078,010 Method and device for video image processing, calculating the similarity between video frames, and acquiring a synthesized frame by synthesizing a plurality of contiguous sampled frames 0 2010
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MICROSOFT CORPORATION (2)
7,119,816 System and method for whiteboard scanning to obtain a high resolution image 21 2003
7,301,548 System and method for whiteboard scanning to obtain a high resolution image 1 2004
 
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (2)
7,286,716 Image quality enhancement circuit and method using inter-frame correlativity 2 2003
7,593,635 Digital imaging apparatus capable of creating panorama image and a creating method thereof 0 2005
 
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (2)
7,535,497 Generation of static image data from multiple image data 3 2004
7,565,029 Method for determining camera position from two-dimensional images that form a panorama 5 2005
 
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (1)
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COLUMBIA INSURANCE COMPANY (1)
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CyterOptics Semiconductor, Inc. (1)
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FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. (1)
7,729,563 Method and device for video image processing, calculating the similarity between video frames, and acquiring a synthesized frame by synthesizing a plurality of contiguous sampled frames 3 2003
 
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. (1)
7,619,658 Methods and systems for producing seamless composite images without requiring overlap of source images 3 2004
 
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA (1)
8,155,448 Image processing apparatus and method thereof 0 2009
 
KLA-TENCOR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (1)
7,227,984 Method and apparatus for identifying defects in a substrate surface by using dithering to reconstruct under-sampled images 6 2003
 
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. (1)
7,123,779 Method and apparatus for merging images into a composite image 4 2001
 
SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (1)
7,256,799 Image synthesizer, image synthesis method and computer readable recording medium having image synthesis processing program recorded thereon 9 2002
 
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA (1)
7,228,007 Resolution correction apparatus, resolution correction program, and computer-readable recording medium having same program recorded thereon 0 2002
 
YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD. (1)
7,428,019 System and method for increasing space or time resolution in video 6 2002
 
YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (1)
7,477,284 System and method for capturing and viewing stereoscopic panoramic images 5 2001

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