Prior art — US Patent 9860450

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 9860450, I will first examine the "Cited By" section of the Google Patents record for US9860450B2, and then look at the "Prior art keywords" and "Prior art date".

From the "Cited By" section on Google Patents, the patent US9860450B2 cites the following patent:

US11490015B2 (Cited by examiner)

In addition, the "Related Parent Applications" and "Applications Claiming Priority" sections indicate a family of patents, including:

It is important to note that these are generally continuations or divisions of the same underlying invention, sharing a priority date, and thus typically do not serve as prior art against US9860450B2 in the sense of 35 U.S.C. § 102 anticipation, as they would have the same priority date. However, they provide context for the evolution of the invention. The relevant prior art for anticipation would typically come from the "Cited By (1)" section or from earlier, distinct patents or publications.

Let's examine the directly cited patent first, and then the "Prior art keywords" for any other potential leads if the direct citation isn't sufficient.

Analysis of Directly Cited Patent (US11490015B2):

Full Citation: US11490015B2, "Method and apparatus for capturing digital video", issued November 1, 2022, to Clear Imaging Research, LLC.
Publication/Filing Date: Priority date: 2004-03-25. Publication date: 2022-11-01.
Brief Description: This patent describes a method and apparatus for capturing digital video, including detecting motion information during capture, determining shift values, modifying images based on these shifts, and combining them. This description is very similar to the abstract of US9860450B2.
Potential Anticipation: US11490015B2 shares the same priority date (2004-03-25) as US9860450B2. Patents sharing the same priority date cannot anticipate each other under 35 U.S.C. § 102. It is common for related patents within the same family to cite each other, but this does not make them prior art in the anticipatory sense.

Since the direct citation is from the same patent family and does not act as anticipatory prior art, I will now consider the broader context of prior art as typically found in the "References Cited" section of a patent and guided by the provided "Prior art keywords" and "Prior art date." The Google Patents page for US9860450B2 shows a "Prior art date" of 2004-03-25, which corresponds to the priority date of the patent itself. To identify anticipatory prior art, we need to look for references prior to this date.

The Google Patents entry also lists "Families Citing this family (75)", which are patents that cite US9860450's family. This is distinct from prior art cited by US9860450. To find prior art that US9860450 itself cited, I need to look at the "References Cited" section, which is typically found within the full patent document. Given that the provided text is the full patent text, I will search within it for "References Cited" or similar sections.

Upon reviewing the provided full patent text for US9860450B2, there is no explicit "References Cited" section listing prior art patents or publications in the standard USPTO format (e.g., U.S. Patent Documents, Foreign Patent Documents, Other Publications). However, the background section implicitly refers to existing techniques and devices.

The patent mentions:

"Commonly used post-processing techniques for digitally correcting blurred images typically involve techniques that seek to increase the sharpness or contrast of the image."
"In the prior art, electro-mechanical devices for correcting image blur due to camera motion are built into some high quality lenses, variously called 'image stabilization', 'vibration reduction', or similar names by camera/lens manufacturers."

Without an explicit "References Cited" list in the provided document, identifying specific prior art patents or publications that were formally cited during the prosecution of US9860450B2 and could potentially anticipate its claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102 is not possible from the given text alone. The "Prior art keywords" (images, sequence, motion, image, imaging device) are broad terms describing the field, not specific prior art documents.

Therefore, based on the provided patent text, I cannot confidently list specific prior art references that were cited against this patent during its examination and that would serve to anticipate its claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102. The "Applications Claiming Priority" are related applications, not typically anticipatory prior art. The "Cited By" patents are those that cited this patent, not vice-versa, with the exception of US11490015B2 which is also a member of the same family and thus shares the same priority date.

To truly identify the most relevant prior art, a direct examination of the patent's official file wrapper on the USPTO website would be necessary, specifically looking at the Information Disclosure Statements (IDS) and office actions. However, the current instruction is to rely only on the provided full patent text and current search results. Since the provided patent text does not contain a "References Cited" section in the typical format, I cannot fulfill the request to list specific cited prior art and analyze its potential anticipation.

Therefore, I must state that I do not know the most relevant cited prior art for US patent 9860450 with high confidence based solely on the provided information, as the full list of prior art references that were formally considered during its prosecution is not present in the given text.