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Title:
DIGITAL CAMERA
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2010114599
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a digital camera which captures a wide-range image which a user desires, with a high resolution.

The digital camera first determines a photographic range of an entire image and determines how many partial images the determined photographic range of the entire image should be composed of. When the number of partial images to be photographed is determined, the digital camera determines a zoom angle of view of a zoom lens required for covering the photographic range of the entire image with the determined number of partial images. The digital camera adjusts the zoom angle of view of the zoom lens to make an imaging device image the partial images and combines the plurality of captured partial images to obtain an entire composite image.


Inventors:
ASAMI NORIMITSU
Application Number:
JP2008284636A
Publication Date:
May 20, 2010
Filing Date:
November 05, 2008
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Assignee:
NIKON CORP
International Classes:
H04N5/225; H04N5/232; H04N101/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2006245921A2006-09-14
JP2001128106A2001-05-11
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fuyuki Nagai
Takao Watanabe



 
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