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Title:
IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2019029904
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a technique of supporting recognition of an image region which has a possibility of being not included in a panoramic image by a user, during photographing of an image to be a source of the panoramic image.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus comprises: photographing means of sequentially photographing a plurality of images while moving a photographing direction; image processing means of performing image processing including at least one of distortion correction processing and cylindrical coordinate transformation processing for each of the plurality of images; acquisition means of acquiring a partial image not including a predetermined region of the image for each of the plurality of images to which the image processing is executed; generation means of generating a panoramic image by performing image composition that overlaps overlapping regions of each pair of the two partial images in which a photographing order is continued for a plurality of the partial images acquired by the acquisition means; display means of performing live view display during the sequential photographing, the display means displaying information indicating at least a part of the predetermined region of the next photographing image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

Inventors:
YASUTOMI TAKESHI
Application Number:
JP2017149313A
Publication Date:
February 21, 2019
Filing Date:
August 01, 2017
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Assignee:
CANON KK
International Classes:
H04N5/232; G03B15/00; G03B37/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2013034081A2013-02-14
JP2017103697A2017-06-08
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasunori Otsuka
Yasuhiro Otsuka
Shiro Takayanagi
Shuji Kimura
Osamu Shimoyama
Nagakawa Yukimitsu