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Panoramic image generation in digital photography

  • US 6,243,103 B1
  • Filed: 05/28/1997
  • Issued: 06/05/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An image sensing apparatus comprising:

  • image pick-up means for sensing an object and obtaining image signals;

    signal processing means for outputting image signals representing first and second picked-up images of the object sensed at different image view positions in response to a request signal from an image synthesizing device, and confirmation image signals obtained by reducing the first and second picked-up images, to the image synthesizing device;

    determination means for automatically determining an overlapping state of the confirmation image signals; and

    displaying means for simultaneously displaying, on a monitor screen, the confirmation image signals corresponding to the first and second images in such a manner that the overlapping state of the first and second images is expressed and an image generated by synthesizing the first and second picked-up images, wherein the second picked-up image is updated at a predetermined interval.

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