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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2012
Applicants:
Masatoshi Sugiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Shiono, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Fujii, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2011.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image synthesizing apparatus includes a subject region determination unit that determines a region of a nearby subject for each of taken images based on subject distance information of a plurality of points generated by distance measurement made during imaging and an image synthesizing unit that creates a synthetic image by cutting out an image from each of the taken images based on a position of the region of the nearby subject and combining the cut images of the taken images.