The invention is a patched based alignment method and apparatus which aligns a set of overlapping images to construct a mosaic image. The images are aligned by first finding an incremental deformation of one image relative to a 3-dimensional coordinate system tending to reduce registration error between...http://www.google.es/patents/US6018349?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatente US6018349 - Patch-based alignment method and apparatus for construction of image mosaics
Patch-based alignment method and apparatus for construction of image mosaics