US 6,005,987 A · Picture image forming apparatus

Abstract

In forming a panoramic picture image by compositing picture images dividedly imaged, the invention corrects deviations of images of an object at overlap regions caused by a difference in fields of view of imaging means or movement of an object to be imaged in which a picture image forming apparatus includes a picture image inputting device, a frame memory for storing divided picture images inputted from the picture image inputting device, a picture image position calculating unit for calculating positions of compositing the divided picture images, a picture image parallax sampling and processing unit for sampling parallax information among picture images from picture images including parallaxes in the overlap regions among contiguous divided picture images, an intermediate picture image forming and processing unit for forming a plurality of intermediate picture images from the picture images including the parallaxes and a picture image composition and processing unit for compositing a panoramic picture image from the divided picture images where the deviations of images in the overlap regions are corrected by the picture image parallax sampling and processing unit and the panoramic picture images are composited performing an interpolation by the intermediate picture images formed by the intermediate picture image forming and processing unit.

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A picture image forming apparatus comprising:

imaging means for obtain a pair of divided picture images having a parallax by imaging an object and a periphery of the object so as to include a same part of the object in imaging regions for the pair of divided picture images;
calculating means for calculating overlap regions of the respective divided picture images including the images of the object,
parallax sampling means for sampling the parallax from the images of the object in the two overlap regions,
intermediate picture image forming means for forming intermediate picture images to be provided by imaging the object from points between observing points from which the respective divided picture images are imaged on the basis of the images of the object in the overlap regions of the pair of divided picture images and the sampled parallax, and
picture image composition means for providing a composite picture image by interpolating the parallax of the images of the object in the two overlap regions by the intermediate picture images and compositing the pair of divided picture images such that the overlap regions overlap.

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