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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2005
Takashi Soga, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Soga, Saitama, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A digital camera comprises an angular velocity detector for detecting angular velocity of a camera body in a yaw direction and a pitch direction. In capturing panoramic image, when movement of the camera body is detected, a system controller determines an image capturing interval based on the detected angular velocity in the yaw direction, and controls a CCD image sensor to perform plural times of image capturing at the determined image capturing interval. The system controller temporarily stores the captured image data for the plural images in a buffer memory, and controls an image signal processor based on the angular velocity in the pitch direction and the image-capturing interval so as to compose the image data for the plural images to form a single panoramic image.