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Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method

  • US 7,889,886 B2
  • Filed: 07/21/2006
  • Issued: 02/15/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image capturing apparatus comprising:

  • an image capturing unit adapted to capture an image of an object and sequentially acquire image data associated with the image capturing;

    a storage unit adapted to store model data associated with a first feature quantity calculated from a feature point of the object in a model image;

    a calculation unit adapted to calculate a second feature quantity from a feature point of the object in each of the sequentially acquired image data;

    a prediction unit adapted to predict, on the basis of (a) a transition of the second feature quantity and (b) the first feature quantity, a timing when a difference between the first feature quantity and the second feature quantity will satisfy a predetermined condition; and

    a control unit adapted to store the image data acquired at the predicted timing in an image data storage unit.

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