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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daisaku Horie, Itami, JP;
Shinya Matsuda, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 ;
Abstract
An electronic camera is provided with an image sensor, an image processor, and a controller for the image sensor and the image processor so that: the image sensor executes a first mode of sensing a whole image in a specified region of the object, and a second mode of sensing partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the specified region, and the image processor combines the plurality of sensed partial images into a single image corresponding to the whole image in the specified region, each sensed partial image being transformed with reference to the sensed whole image.