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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2012
Image capturing apparatus for enabling generation of data of panoramic image with wide dynamic range
Hiroyuki Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Muraki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Hoshino, Tokyo, JP;
Erina Ichikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Muraki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Hoshino, Tokyo, JP;
Erina Ichikawa, Tokyo, JP;
CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing section, an image capturing control section, an image clipping section, an HDR composing section and a panoramic image composing section. The image capturing control section causes the image capturing section to repeatedly capture an image of different luminance to provide plural images of different luminance. The image clipping section clips respective data of substantially overlapping image regions of the plural images of different luminance. The HDR composing section composes the image regions each clipped by the image clipping section to generate data of plural composite images having a wider dynamic range than the image captured by the image capturing section. The panoramic image composing section joins data of the plural composite images generated by the HDR composing section to generate an image whose range is wider than that of the image captured by the image capturing section.