1. A method for using a video compression technique to enable super resolution in an embedded device, comprising: compressing an image sequence, the image sequence comprising a plurality of lower resolution images, by: determining motion vectors between a reference image and one or more additional images in the image sequence and applying the motion vectors to the reference image to form a predicted next image; and generating a difference image between the actual next image and the predicted next image; extracting a plurality of blocks of pixels for each image of the plurality of lower resolution images in the compressed image sequence; and applying a super resolution technique on a block by block basis to the extracted plurality of blocks of the compressed image sequence to sequentially generate a higher resolution image.