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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2017
Morpho, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Morpho, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure can obtain a high-quality composite image by determining a suitable boundary when input images are sequentially stitched together to generate the composite image. An image generating apparatusgenerates a composite image by stitching sequentially input images together. A difference value calculating sectioncalculates difference values by using the pixel values of a reference image and the pixel values of a target image that partly overlap the reference image. The difference values represent the relative relationship between the reference image and the target image. A boundary determining sectiondetermines a boundary for stitching the reference image and the target image together by using the difference values calculated by the difference value calculating section. Then, an image compositing sectiongenerates the composite image by stitching the reference image and the target image together based on the boundary determined by the boundary determining section