Image combination device, image combination method, image combination program, and recording medium containing the image combination program
First Claim
1. An image combination device, comprising:
- amount of background correction calculating means for calculating an amount of background correction or reading out the amount of background correction after the amount of background correction is calculated and recorded, the background correction being performed among (i) a background image, which is an image of a background, (ii) a first object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a first object, and (iii) a second object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a second object, the amount of background correction being one or a combination of relative amounts including an amount of movement, an amount of rotation, a rate of expansion or reduction, and an amount of distortion correction, with respect to a background; and
superimposed image generating means for generating a superimposed image by using one of the background image, the first object image, and the second object image as a standard image, correcting the other two images by the amount of correction obtained from the amount of background correction calculating means, the other two images being corrected so that backgrounds, other than objects, of the other two images correspond to the standard image at least partially, and superimposing the standard image and one or both of the other two images.
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Abstract
An image combination device acquires a first object image, a second object image, and a background image by first object image acquiring means (1), second object image acquiring means (3), and background image acquiring means (2) and by using one of the three images as a standard image, generates two corrected images by background correction amount calculating means (4) and corrected image generating means (5), so that background portions of the two images correspond. Superimposed image generating means (9) generates an image by superimposing the standard image and one or two of the corrected images. According to this arrangement, since the backgrounds of the superimposed images correspond to each other, the first object and the second object, which have been photographed separately, can be combined without causing an impression that these objects are combined to the background artificially.
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36 Claims
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1. An image combination device, comprising:
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amount of background correction calculating means for calculating an amount of background correction or reading out the amount of background correction after the amount of background correction is calculated and recorded, the background correction being performed among (i) a background image, which is an image of a background, (ii) a first object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a first object, and (iii) a second object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a second object, the amount of background correction being one or a combination of relative amounts including an amount of movement, an amount of rotation, a rate of expansion or reduction, and an amount of distortion correction, with respect to a background; and
superimposed image generating means for generating a superimposed image by using one of the background image, the first object image, and the second object image as a standard image, correcting the other two images by the amount of correction obtained from the amount of background correction calculating means, the other two images being corrected so that backgrounds, other than objects, of the other two images correspond to the standard image at least partially, and superimposing the standard image and one or both of the other two images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 31, 34)
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16. An image combination method, comprising:
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amount of background correction calculating step, in which an amount of background correction is calculated, or the amount of background correction is read out after the amount of background correction is calculated and recorded, the background correction being performed among (i) a background image, which is an image of a background, (ii) a first object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a first object, and (iii) a second object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a second object, the amount of background correction being one or a combination of relative amounts including an amount of movement, an amount of rotation, a rate of expansion or reduction, and an amount of distortion correction, with respect to a background; and
superimposed image generating step, in which a superimposed image is generated by using one of the background image, the first object image, and the second object image as a standard image, correcting the other two images by the amount of correction obtained in the amount of background correction calculating step, the other two images being corrected so that backgrounds, other than objects, of the other two images correspond to the standard image at least partially, and superimposing the standard image and one or both of the other two images. - View Dependent Claims (33, 35, 36)
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17. An image combination device, comprising:
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amount of background correction calculating means for calculating an amount of background correction or reading out the amount of background correction after the amount of background correction is calculated, the background correction being performed among (i) a first object image, which includes a background and a first object, and (ii) a second object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a second object, the amount of background correction being one or a combination of relative amounts including an amount of movement, an amount of rotation, a rate of expansion or reduction, and an amount of distortion correction, with respect to a background; and
superimposed image generating means for generating a superimposed image by using one of the first object image or the second object image as a standard image, correcting the other of the first object image or the second object image by the amount of correction obtained from the amount of background correction calculating means, so that a background portion, other than the object, of the other of the first object image or the second object image corresponds to the standard image at least partially, and superimposing the standard image and a corrected image. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An image combination method, comprising:
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amount of background correction calculating step, in which an amount of background correction is calculated, or the amount of background correction is read out after the amount of background correction is calculated and recorded, the background correction being performed between (i) a first object image, which includes a background and a first object and (ii) a second object image, which includes at least a part of the background and a second object, the amount of background correction being one or a combination of relative amounts including an amount of movement, an amount of rotation, a rate of expansion or reduction, and an amount of distortion correction, with respect to a background; and
superimposed image generating step, in which a superimposed image is generated by using one of the first object image or the second object image as a standard image, correcting the other of the first object image or the second object image by the amount of correction obtained from the amount of background correction calculating means, so that a background portion, other than the object, of the other image corresponds to the standard image at least partially, and superimposing the standard image and the corrected image.
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32. (canceled)
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