Image capturing apparatus, image compositing method, and recording medium having recorded therein image compositing program to be executed by computer of image capturing apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorHirozumi Arai
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing circuit that outputs image capturing data by capturing an image of a photogenic field; a boundary determination circuit that determines a boundary between first and second photogenic-field regions within a first image pertaining to image capturing data output by the image capturing circuit capturing an image of the photogenic field under a first image capturing condition; an image extraction circuit that extracts a partial image corresponding to the second photogenic-field region from a second image on the basis of the boundary; and an image compositing circuit that composites the first image and the partial image.
Claims18
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an image capturing circuit that outputs image capturing data by capturing an image of a photogenic field;
- a boundary determination circuit that determines a boundary between first and second photogenic-field regions within a first image pertaining to image capturing data output by the image capturing circuit capturing an image of the photogenic field under a first image capturing condition;
- an image extraction circuit that extracts a partial image corresponding to the second photogenic-field region from a second image on the basis of the boundary;
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- an image compositing circuit that composites the first image and the partial image.
An image compositing method implemented by an image capturing apparatus that includes an image capturing circuit for outputting image capturing data by capturing an image of a photogenic field, the image compositing method comprising:
- determining a boundary between first and second photogenic-field regions within a first image pertaining to image capturing data output by the image capturing circuit capturing an image of the photogenic field under a first image capturing condition;
- performing, for the first image, first image processing appropriate for the first photogenic-field region and performing, for a second image, second image processing appropriate for the second photogenic-field region, the second image pertaining to image capturing data output by the image capturing circuit capturing an image of the photogenic field under a second image capturing condition appropriate for the second photogenic-field region;
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- extracting a partial image corresponding to the second photogenic-field region from the second image after the second image processing on the basis of the boundary;
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- compositing the first image after the first image processing and the partial image.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein an image compositing program to be executed by a computer of an image capturing apparatus that includes an image capturing circuit for outputting image capturing data by capturing an image of a photogenic field, the program causing the computer to execute a process comprising:
- determining a boundary between first and second photogenic-field regions within a first image pertaining to image capturing data output by the image capturing circuit capturing an image of the photogenic field under a first image capturing condition;
- performing, for the first image, first image processing appropriate for the first photogenic-field region and performing, for a second image, second image processing appropriate for the second photogenic-field region, the second image pertaining to image capturing data output by the image capturing circuit capturing an image of the photogenic field under a second image capturing condition appropriate for the second photogenic-field region;
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- extracting a partial image corresponding to the second photogenic-field region from the second image after the second image processing on the basis of the boundary;
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- compositing the first image after the first image processing and the partial image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.