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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2008
Applicants:

Earl Quong Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

Yoshihiro Murakami, Atsugi, JP;

Pingshan LI, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Eric D. Edwards, Kealakekua, HI (US);

Soroj Triteyaprasert, Bangkok, TH;

Hidenori Kushida, Yokohama, JP;

Makibi Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;

Mamoru Sugiura, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Earl Quong Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

Yoshihiro Murakami, Atsugi, JP;

Pingshan Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Eric D. Edwards, Kealakekua, HI (US);

Soroj Triteyaprasert, Bangkok, TH;

Hidenori Kushida, Yokohama, JP;

Makibi Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;

Mamoru Sugiura, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignees:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A super-resolution image is generated from a sequence of low resolution images. In one embodiment, the image shift information is measured for each of the low resolution images using an image stabilization component of an imaging device. The shift information is used to generate the super-resolution image. In another embodiment, the blurs are calculated for each of the low resolution images and are used to generate the super-resolution image.


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