Imaging apparatus and image composition apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorShuji ONO
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus capable of capturing an in-focus image while moving, and an image composition apparatus capable of generating a high detail composite image are provided. A camera 100 is mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle 10, and imaging is performed while moving. During imaging, a focusing mechanism included in the camera 100 is controlled, and a focus position is periodically scanned. In addition, during imaging, movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle 10 is controlled such that at least one scanning is performed during movement to a position shifted by an imaging range.
Claims30
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a moving object;
- an imaging part included in the moving object;
- a focusing mechanism included in the imaging part;
- a focusing control part that periodically scans a focus position by controlling the focusing mechanism;
- a movement control part that moves the moving object at a speed at which at least one scanning is performed during movement to a position shifted by an imaging range;
- an imaging control part that causes the imaging part to continuously capture a motion image or periodically capture a still image;
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- a recording part in which a motion image or a still image group captured by the imaging part is recorded.
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- an imaging lens including a first optical system and a second optical system that have the same optical axis and have different properties;
- an image sensor in which pixels that selectively receive light passing through the first optical system and light passing through the second optical system are regularly arranged, and that captures an image formed in the first optical system and an image formed in the second optical system at the same time;
- a first optical system focusing mechanism that displaces a focus position of the first optical system by moving a part or all of lens groups constituting the first optical system;
- a first optical system focusing control part that periodically scans the focus position of the first optical system by controlling the first optical system focusing mechanism;
- an imaging control part that causes the image sensor to continuously capture a motion image or periodically capture a still image;
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- a recording part in which a motion image or a still image group captured by the first optical system and the motion image or the still image group captured by the second optical system are recorded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.