Image generating apparatus
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorsDaisaku Horie, Shinya Matsuda
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Abstract
An electronic camera is provided with an image sensor, an image processor, and a controller for the image sensor and the image processor so that: the image sensor executes a first mode of sensing a whole image in a specified region of the object, and a second mode of sensing partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the specified region, and the image processor combines the plurality of sensed partial images into a single image corresponding to the whole image in the specified region, each sensed partial image being transformed with reference to the sensed whole image.
Claims20
An image generating apparatus comprising:
- an image sensing device which senses an image of an object;
- an image processor which processes a sensed image;
- a display device which displays a processed image;
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- a controller which controls the image sensing device, the image processor, and the display device so that:
- the image sensing device executes a first sensing of sensing a whole image in a specified region of the object, and a second sensing of sensing partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the specified region;
- the image processor combines the plurality of sensed partial images into a single image corresponding to the whole image in the specified region;
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- the display device displays the sensed whole image while the image processor combines the sensed partial images.
An image generating apparatus comprising:
- an image sensing device which senses an image of an object;
- an image processor which processes a sensed image;
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- a controller which controls the image sensing device and the image processor so that:
- the image sensing device executes a first sensing of sensing a whole image in a specified region of the object and storing the whole image, and a second sensing of sensing partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the specified region;
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- the image processor combines the plurality of sensed partial images into a single image corresponding to the whole image in the specified region, each sensed partial image being transformed on the basis of the stored whole image itself.
An image generating apparatus comprising:
- an image sensing device which senses an image of an object;
- an image processor which processes a sensed image;
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- a controller which controls the image sensing device and the image processor so that:
- the image sensing device executes a first sensing of sensing a whole image in a specified region of the object and storing the whole image, and a second sensing of sensing partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the specified region;
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- the image processor combines the plurality of sensed partial images into a single image corresponding to the whole image by determining respective positions of the sensed partial images on the basis of the stored whole image itself, and combining the sensed partial images with one another based on the determined positions.
An image generating method comprising the steps of:
- preparing a whole image of an object and partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the object;
- transforming each partial image on the basis of the prepared whole image itself, using the whole image as a template;
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- combining the plurality of the transformed partial images into a single image corresponding to the whole image.
An image generating method comprising the steps of:
- preparing a whole image of an object and partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the object;
- determining respective positions of the partial images on the basis of the prepared whole image itself, using the whole image as a template;
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- combining the partial images with one another based on the determined positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.