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A photographing apparatus, including: a photographing section for generating photographed image data by performing a continuous shooting, and a controller for causing the photographing section to perform the continuous shooting with a continuous shooting speed thereof being slowed down in stages to correspond to a plurality of different continuous shooting speeds.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect camera shake and image blurring with high accuracy, and to record an image in the state where there is no camera shake or image blurring. SOLUTION: At first, a rough degree of image blurring is determined by using a global motion vector. After it is determined that the image blurring is converged to some extent, the degree of image blurring is determined more in details, by using a difference value between image frames. Then, when it is determined that there is no image blurring, photographic recording is performed. As a result, photography is surely performed in timing without camera shake or image blurring. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain captured image data at a continuous shooting speed corresponding to a subject in motion which moves at various speeds. SOLUTION: A image capturing apparatus 1 includes: an image data generating unit 21 for performing continuous shooting to generate captured image data, and a control unit 204 for causing the image data generating unit 21 to perform continuous shooting corresponding to a plurality of continuous shooting speeds. The shooting is a shooting model of N>C when the upper limit number of sheets to be shot is defined as N, and the proper number of bodies in motion in an image obtained by synthesizing continuously shot bodies in motion is defined as C. As soon as the subject in motion is framed in, the first continuous shooting is started. Even though, in a normal case, continuous shooting is repeated at a continuous shooting speed set in advance from the start up to the upper limit number of sheets to be shot, in this embodiment, continuous shooting is performed while gradually reducing the continuous shooting speed (increasing continuous shooting intervals). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus, imaging method thereof and the like in which deterioration caused by "blur" is eliminated and a high-quality and a high-resolution image can be obtained when capturing a photographic image by combining a plurality of images picked up consecutively. SOLUTION: In photographing, photographing is consecutively performed at such a high shutter speed as not to generate "blur" caused by a camera shake or the like, and a plurality of picked-up images is overlapped and combined to match positions of subjects in the images. During photographing, if a direction and an amount of deviation from the beginning of photographing exceed a previously estimated allowable range, a correction direction mark 200 indicating a correction direction opposite to the deviation direction and simultaneously indicating the deviation amount as its size is displayed while overlapping a slew image 100. Thus, the photographing range is corrected toward the photographing range in the beginning of photographing, such that the photographing range is prevented from being considerably deviated during a photographing term. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a composite image by continuous shooting of a moving object, the image which has good quality, irrespective of brightness of a photographing environment. SOLUTION: An original frame storage section 121 stores image data of a plurality of original frame images obtained by consecutive shooting of a moving object. If a brightness determining section 104 determines that the brightness of the photographing environment is lower than a predetermined value, a moving object extracting section 106 extracts the moving objects from each of the plurality of original frame images on the basis of results of detection by a moving object detecting section 109 for darkness. Also, a background frame generating section 110 for darkness generates an addition average composite image obtained by additionally averaging each of the original frame images as a background frame image. An image compositing section 108 superimposes each of the moving objects extracted for each of the plurality of original frame images for the background frame image, thereby generating the composite image by continuous shooting of the moving object. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus, an image processing method and a program for improving accuracy of extracting a subject region. SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus 100 includes: a lens unit 1, an electronic imaging unit 2 and an imaging control unit 3 as an imaging means for capturing a subject-image including a subject in the background and then capturing a background image including no subject under the same condition as when capturing the subject-image; and an image processing unit 8 for positioning the subject-image and the background image, then generating difference information of corresponding pixels between the positioned subject-image and background image, and extracting a subject region including the subject from the subject-image on the basis of the difference information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image capturing apparatus for improving the precision of the extraction of an object region. SOLUTION: An image capturing apparatus 100 is provided with a lens portion 1, an electronic image capturing portion 2 and an image capturing control portion 3 as image capturing means for capturing an object existing image in which an object exists in the background and capturing a background image in which any object does not exit under the same image capturing conditions as image capturing conditions in the case of capturing the object existing image, and an image processing portion 8 for positioning the object existing image and the background image, generating the difference information of each pixel associated between the positioned object existing image and background image, and extracting an object region including the object from the object existing image based on the difference information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a better stroboscopic image. SOLUTION: In the case of combining a plurality of images captured by consecutive photographing to generate a stroboscopic image, when a displacement VF between a reference frame N (first frame) and a target frame n' (each of subsequent frames) is less than a first threshold th1 indicating that such a frame is not likely to be affected by occlusion (step S912; Yes), smoothing is performed on an object area through a morphological operation with a normal process amount (steps S913-S915). Conversely, when the displacement VF is larger than or equal to the first threshold th1 (step S912; No), smoothing is performed with the process amount of morphological operation being increased than a normal process amount (steps S916-S918). Thus, even if a part of a background portion is erroneously recognized as a subject because of effects of occlusion, a stroboscopic image can be generated from which such an unwanted portion has been removed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid synthesis of a subject in a close-range view when obtaining an additive synthesis image including a spot light source by photographing a night view, or the like. SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus (1) continuously picks up a plurality of images without using auxiliary light of a strobe or the like, extracts feature points from these images, specifies amounts and directions of deviation between the plurality of images on the basis of the feature points, correcting deviation between the plurality of images, and synthesizes the images to generate a synthesis image. A strobe (10) is caused to emit light to pick up an image before the plurality of images are continuously picked up, and feature point areas (25 and 37) indicating a position of a subject at a close distance, which is included in this image, are set. The feature points to be used for specifying the amounts and directions of deviation between the plurality of images are extracted from an inside of the feature point areas or are preferentially extracted from the inside of these areas. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT