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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2016
Luxvisions Innovation Limited, New Territories, HK;
Keng-Chun Wang, Taipei, TW;
LUXVISIONS INNOVATION LIMITED, New Territories, HK;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus and an image smooth zooming method thereof are provided. The image capturing apparatus includes a wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens having different sizes of field of view (FOV). In the method, a wide-view image and a tele-view image are respectively captured by using the wide-angle lens and the telephoto lens according to a zoom scale in a capturing setting. Ratios of the FOV sizes of the wide-angle lens and the telephoto lens to the zoom scale are respectively calculated and used to zoom the captured wide-view image and tele-view image so as to fit the zoom scale. The zoomed wide-view image and tele-view image are aligned according to a shift between view centers of the wide-angle lens and the telephoto lens. Finally, the zoomed and aligned wide-view image and tele-view image are overlapped to output an overlapped image fitting the zoom scale.