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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2010
Applicant:
Yasuhito Shikata, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuhito Shikata, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23238 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus captures images of a subject and determines a location where each image is captured at the time of each image capture. The imaging apparatus also obtains the orientation at which an image is captured. With this information, the imaging apparatus generates a panoramic image by combining all of the captured images based on their corresponding capture locations and orientations. A location and orientation for the panoramic image is also calculated and recorded.