Compensation of motion blur in CCD color endoscope images

Color CCD endoscopes with sequential three-color illuminations have the advantage of high spatial resolution but are sensitive to object motion. A digital method is proposed for the restoration of images color-shifted by the object motion. The method makes use of phase-only matching followed by a resampling operation to compensate for a space-variant shift between different primary color images. Restored images are suitable for further image processing such as color emphasis and structure enhancement.