Image synthesizing apparatus, image synthesizing method, and image synthesizing program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMasatoshi Sugiyama, Toru Shiono, Shinichi Fujii
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Abstract
An image synthesizing apparatus includes a subject region determination unit that determines a region of a nearby subject for each of taken images based on subject distance information of a plurality of points generated by distance measurement made during imaging and an image synthesizing unit that creates a synthetic image by cutting out an image from each of the taken images based on a position of the region of the nearby subject and combining the cut images of the taken images.
Claims13
An image synthesizing apparatus comprising:
- a subject region determination unit that determines a region of a nearby subject for each of taken images based on subject distance information of a plurality of points generated by distance measurement made during imaging;
- and
- an image synthesizing unit that creates a synthetic image by cutting out an image from each of the taken images based on a position of the region of the nearby subject and combining the cut image for each of the taken images.
An image synthesizing method comprising:
- determining a region of a nearby subject for each of taken images based on subject distance information of a plurality of points generated by distance measurement made during imaging;
- cutting out an image from each of the taken images based on a position of the region of the nearby subject;
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- combining the cut image for each of the taken images to create a synthetic image.
A program letting a computer execute a process for image synthesis creating a synthetic image with a wide angle of view from a plurality of taken images, the process comprising:
- determining a region of a nearby subject for each of taken images based on subject distance information of a plurality of points generated by distance measurement made during imaging;
- cutting out an image from each of the taken images based on a position of the region of the nearby subject;
- and
- combining the cut image for each of the taken images to create a synthetic image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.