Method for automatically shooting panoramic image by digital image pickup device
AssigneeAltek Corporation
InventorsHong Long Chou, Chia Chun Tseng
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Abstract
A method for automatically shooting a panoramic image by a digital image pickup device is described. In the method, a pixel error value between a real-time image and an alignment image overlapped with each other is continuously compared and calculated. When the pixel error value is smaller than a preset threshold value, the digital image pickup device is automatically driven to shoot a second image to be stitched and blended with a previous image into a panoramic image. The shooting of the panoramic image is simplified by using automatic image capturing.
Claims4
A method for automatically shooting a panoramic image by a digital image pickup device, applied to a digital image pickup device, the method comprising:
- shooting a first image by the digital image pickup device;
- selecting an area from the first image to be set as an alignment image;
- obtaining a real-time image and overlapping the alignment image on the real-time image;
- continuously comparing and calculating a pixel error value between the alignment image and the real-time image;
- determining whether the pixel error value is smaller than a preset threshold value;
- if yes, driving the digital image pickup device to shoot a second image;
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- stitching and blending the first image and the second image to obtain a panoramic image.
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