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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1999
Koutatsu Oura, Chofu, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A panorama picture synthesis apparatus synthesizes a panorama picture from a plurality of picture data obtained by capturing a plurality of parts of an object such that they overlap one another. The panorama picture synthesis apparatus comprises a whole picture display section for displaying a whole picture including all pictures constituting the panorama picture, a partial picture designating section for designating a plurality of partial pictures within a predetermined range of the whole picture, an automatic synthesizing section for synthesizing the partial pictures designated by the partial picture designating section by automatically joining them to construct an automatically synthesized picture, a manual synthesizing section for dividing the automatically synthesized picture into divided pictures in accordance with a predetermined operation, and for synthesizing the divided pictures by manually joining them to construct a manually synthesized picture, and a partial picture display section for displaying the pictures synthesized by the automatic synthesizing section or the manual synthesizing section in an enlarged size on a screen simultaneously with the whole picture.