1. A method for determining motion of an imaging device during acquisition of an image and assembling the image, the imaging device including an image sensor comprising a plurality of image element acquisition devices, the method implemented at least in part by a data processing system and comprising the steps of: identifying a contiguous first set of the image element acquisition devices, comprising some, but not all of the plurality of image element acquisition devices, at least partially by an analysis of an image scene comprising all of the plurality of image element acquisition devices prior to initiating a capture of the first set of the image element acquisition devices; identifying a second set of the image element acquisition devices comprising remaining image element devices and the first set, wherein the first set is a subset of the second set; beginning acquisition of the image on the image sensor; reading out image element signals from the first set of the image element acquisition devices two or more times; concluding acquisition of the image on the image sensor; reading out image element signals from the second set of image element acquisition devices; determining motion of the imaging device based at least upon a comparison of the two or more readouts of image element signals from the first set of image element acquisition devices; storing information identifying the determined motion in a processor-accessible memory system; and assembling an image based at least upon (a) the information identifying the determined motion, (b) at least a portion of the image element signals from one of the readouts of the first set of image element acquisition devices and (c) at least a portion of the image element signals from the readout of the second set of image element acquisition devices.