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Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, JP;

Inventor:

Hirozumi Arai, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/23216 (2013.01); H04N 5/23218 (2018.08); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing circuit that outputs image capturing data by capturing an image of a photogenic field; a boundary determination circuit that determines a boundary between first and second photogenic-field regions within a first image pertaining to image capturing data output by the image capturing circuit capturing an image of the photogenic field under a first image capturing condition; an image extraction circuit that extracts a partial image corresponding to the second photogenic-field region from a second image on the basis of the boundary; and an image compositing circuit that composites the first image and the partial image.


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