Imaging device, image generation method, and recording medium for generating composite image from two or more images
AssigneeTanaka Engineering Inc.
InventorsTakayoshi Hasegawa, Yukisada Fukaya
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Abstract
Obtaining a needed image has been difficult with conventional technology. A needed image can be obtained by an imaging device including an optical signal acquisition unit that performs imaging and acquires an optical signal, an original image acquisition unit that acquire two or more different original images using the optical signal, a selection unit that acquires one output image from candidate images including the two or more original images acquired by the original image acquisition unit, and an image output unit that outputs the output image acquired by the selection unit.
Claims11
An imaging device comprising:
- an image sensor configured to capture an image of an object and generate an optical signal;
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- a processor;
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- a recording medium storing a program, wherein the program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
- generate two or more original images different from each other from the optical signal;
- generate a composite image by compositing the two or more original images;
- after the composite image is generated, select one output image, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from three or more candidate images including the composite image and the two or more original images;
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- output, to an image display device, the output image, and
- when the composite image satisfies the predetermined condition, the processor outputs the composite image as the output image, and
- when one of the two or more original images satisfies the predetermined condition, the processor outputs the one of the two or more original images that satisfies the predetermined condition as the output image.
An image generation method comprising:
- imaging, by an image sensor, an object and generating an optical signal corresponding to the object;
- generating, by a processor, two or more original images different from each other, from the optical signal;
- generating a composite image by compositing the two or more original images;
- after the composite image is generated, selecting one output image from three or more candidate images including the composite image and the two or more original images;
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- outputting the output image,
- wherein in the selecting,
- as a result of determining that the composite image satisfies a predetermined condition, the composite image is selected as the output image, and
- as a result of determining that one of the two or more original images satisfies the predetermined condition, the one of the two or more original images that satisfies the predetermined condition is selected as the output image.
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