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Image processing apparatus and a method to compensate for shaking during image capture

  • US 7,015,952 B2
  • Filed: 09/10/2001
  • Issued: 03/21/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

  • an image capture device configured to generate a video image containing an image shake caused by a shake of the image capture device;

    a region selector configured to select, from the video image, a laterally elongated region for detecting a vertical shake but not for detecting a lateral shake or a vertically elongated region for detecting a lateral shake but not for detecting a vertical shake;

    a shake detector configured to detect an amount of the image shake within the laterally elongated region or the vertically elongated region; and

    an image compensator configured to compensate the video image based on the amount of the image shake to cancel the image shake.

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