A system for enhancing images from an electro-optic imaging sensor and for
reducing the necessary focal length of a sensor while preserving system
acuity. This system uniquely reduces the necessary focal length and
enhances images by collecting a video sequence, estimating motion
associate with this sequence, assembling video frames into composite
images, and applying image restoration to restore the composite image
from pixel, lens blur, and alias distortion. The invention synthetically
increases the pixel density of the focal plane array. Thus it reduces the
necessary size of the projected blur circle or equivalently it reduces
the minimum focal length requirements.