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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2008
Applicants:
Adrian Crisan, San Diego, CA (US);
Nikolaos Georgis, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Adrian Crisan, San Diego, CA (US);
Nikolaos Georgis, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus to providing higher resolution images on an embedded device by performing a super resolution technique on a compressed image sequence and one or more motion vectors are described. In one example, the method includes compressing an image sequence using a video compression technique, wherein the image sequence comprises a plurality of lower resolution images and applying a super resolution technique to the compressed image sequence to generate a higher resolution image.