Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image capturing apparatus, image capture system, image processing method, information processing apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium
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Application No.: US14384027Application Date: 2013-03-11
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Publication No.: US09607358B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Hirokazu Takenaka , Yoshiaki Irino , Tomonori Tanaka , Nozomi Imae , Hideaki Yamamoto , Kensuke Masuda , Yoichi Ito , Satoshi Sawaguchi , Daisuke Bessho , Hiroyuki Satoh , Makoto Shohara , Noriyuki Terao , Toru Harada
- Applicant: Hirokazu Takenaka , Yoshiaki Irino , Tomonori Tanaka , Nozomi Imae , Hideaki Yamamoto , Kensuke Masuda , Yoichi Ito , Satoshi Sawaguchi , Daisuke Bessho , Hiroyuki Satoh , Makoto Shohara , Noriyuki Terao , Toru Harada
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2012-053190 20120309; JP2012-263542 20121130
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/057338 WO 20130311
- International Announcement: WO2013/133456 WO 20130912
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; G02B13/16 ; G06T3/00 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
An image capturing apparatus includes a tilt detection unit that detects a tilt in the vertical direction, conversion data used for transforming plane coordinates into spherical coordinates, a correction unit that corrects the conversion data according to the tilt, a plurality of image capturing units, a coordinate transformation unit that transforms plane coordinates of a plurality of pixels included in images captured by the image capturing units into spherical coordinates according to the conversion data corrected by the correction unit, and a combining unit that combines the images including the pixels transformed into spherical coordinates by the coordinate transformation unit.
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