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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2001
Daisaku Horie, Uji, JP;
Daisaku Horie, Uji, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image processing device for joining a plurality of images while preventing deterioration of a quality of joined images, and particularly for producing an entire image of a subject by joining a plurality of divided images produced from divided portions of the subject having partially overlapping portions, including a setting portion for setting a plurality of sets each including corresponding points in the two divided images having overlap regions overlapped together, a transforming portion for performing geometric transformation of one or the other of the two divided images based on the plurality of corresponding point sets, and a joining portion for joining the two divided images based on the plurality of corresponding point sets after the geometric transformation, wherein higher importance is placed on a specific portion of the overlapping regions compared with the other in the geometric transformation.