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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2008
Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Kurebayashi, Shizuoka, JP;
Mikiko Mase, Aichi, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a camera unit, a panorama-image generating section generating a panorama image of the entire area by combining a plurality of unit images obtained by the camera unit, a panorama-image storage/management section storing and managing the panorama image generated by the panorama-image generating section, an infrared camera photographing an object that has a temperature falling within a preset temperature range as an infrared image, a direction controller sequentially shifting the photographing direction of the infrared camera within the area being photographed, an infrared-image generating section combining a plurality of infrared images provided by the infrared camera, an image-synthesizing section synthesizing the panorama image generated by the panorama-image generating section, with the panorama infrared image generated by the infrared-image generating section, and a display displaying the synthesized image generated by the image-synthesizing section.