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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2010
Junji Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A panoramic image is to be easily generated. A driverdisplaces at least one of a lens unitand an image capturing elementwith respect to an optical axis. A control unitdisplaces, using the driver, at least one of the lens unitand the image capturing elementin accordance with a motion of an image capturing apparatus. When generating a plurality of captured images while shifting an image capturing direction in order to generate a panoramic image from the plurality of captured images, the control unitchanges a position of the lens unitand/or the image capturing element, the position being a position at the start of exposure of each of the captured images, in a direction set according to a direction in which the image capturing direction shifts, thereby performing correction of deviation caused by a motion of the image capturing apparatus.