Referring more specifically to the drawings, for illustrative purposes the present invention is
embodied in the apparatus and methods generally shown in FIG. 1 through FIG. 7. It will be …

BACKGROUND 1. Field of the Invention This invention is related to the field of video and still
frame capture in portable electronic devices. 2. Description of the Related Art Various …

Appl. No.: 09/270,395 A method and apparatus that provides a high resolution Still (22)
Filed: Mar 16, 1999 image. The method includes receiving a plurality of images in which …

Significant advances continue to be made in Video pro cessing technology. Analog video
(eg NTSC, PAL, etc.), which provided only limited compression through typically Single Scan …

BACKGROUND Video content such as that seen on a television screen often has a relatively
low resolution. Because multiple images are being displayed in rapid succession, the viewer …

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 0004 Embodiments of the present invention provide
improved methods and systems for detecting changes in digitally-represented images …

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A method of processing video data comprising subdividing a video stream into image
portions, encoding the image portions with high resolution in respective encoded video …

BACKGROUND 0001. In the past, the technique known as “super resolu tion'has been used
in satellite imaging to boost the resolution of the captured image beyond the intrinsic …