Imaging device and imaging method
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsHideru Ikeda, Akira Ueno
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Abstract
An imaging device includes an imaging processing unit that includes a solid-state imaging device outputting a pixel signal according to incident subject light and outputs a captured image according to the pixel signal output by the solid-state imaging device, image processing circuits that generate a photography image by performing image processing on a corresponding region within a processed region cut out from the captured image output from the imaging processing unit, and a division position determination unit that detects movement of a photography position at which the solid-state imaging device photographs a subject within a captured region of the solid-state imaging device.
Claims7
An imaging device comprising:
- an imaging processing unit including a solid-state imaging device outputting a pixel signal according to incident subject light, and configured to output a captured image according to the pixel signal output by the solid-state imaging device;
- image processing circuits configured to generate a photography image by performing image processing on a corresponding region within a processed region cut out from the captured image output from the imaging processing unit;
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- a division position determination unit configured to detect movement of a photography position at which the solid-state imaging device photographs a subject within a captured region of the solid-state imaging device, to determine the processed region cut out from the captured image according to the photography position after the detected movement in order for the image processing circuits to generate the photography image, and to divide the determined processed region into divided regions and allocates each of the divided regions to one of the image processing circuits.
An imaging method comprising:
- outputting a captured image according to a pixel signal output by a solid-state imaging device outputting the pixel signal according to incident subject light and;
- detecting movement of a photography position at which the solid-state imaging device photographs a subject within a captured region of the solid-state imaging device, determining the processed region cut out from the captured image according to the photography position after the detected movement in order for the plurality of image processing circuits to generate a photography image, and dividing the determined processed region into divided regions and allocating each of the divided regions to one of the plurality of image processing circuits;
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- generating the photography image subjected to the image processing by the plurality of corresponding image processing circuits with regard to each of the regions divided from the processed region cut out from the captured image output in the outputting of the captured image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.