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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Miyazawa, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus capable of compositing a plurality of continuously captured images is provided that includes a first detection unit configured to detect shake of the image pickup apparatus; a second detection unit configured to detect a moving amount of a captured image captured by an imaging unit; a correction unit configured to correct image blur of an image caused by shake of the image pickup apparatus; a control unit configured to calculate a blur amount of a background in the captured image from a shake detection signal detected by the first detection unit and the moving amount detected by the second detection unit and to control image blur correction performed by the correction unit; and a combining unit configured to combine a plurality of captured images with corrected image blur.