Method and system for capturing an image from video

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[0023]FIG. 1 illustrates one embodiment of a system 100 in which aspects of the disclosed embodiments can be used. Although aspects of the disclosed embodiments will be described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings and described below, it should be understood that these aspects could be embodied in many alternate forms of embodiments. In addition, any suitable size, shape or type of elements or materials could be used.

[0024]The disclosed embodiments generally allow a user of a device or system, such as the system 100 shown in FIG. 1 to select one or more frames of a video sequence. The video sequence may be captured by the system or acquired by the system in any suitable manner. The disclosed embodiments select the highest quality frames (e.g. the sharpest and clearest frames) from a video sequence. In the disclosed embodiments a sharpness value is calculated for each frame of the video and a relative sharpness measure compares the sharpness between adjacent vide