IMAGE COMPOSITION DEVICE AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: SAWAGUCHI SATOSHI, TAKENAKA HIROICHI, TERAO NORIYUKI, YAMAMOTO HIDEAKI, HARADA TORU, ITO YOICHI, TANAKA TOMONORI, SHOHARA MAKOTO, IMAE NOZOMI, SATO HIROYUKI, IRINO YOSHIAKI, MASUDA KENSUKE, BESSHO DAISUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.09.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image composition device that correctly connects captured images so that the captured images are not doubled without depending on a distance to a subject and without using image recognition.SOLUTION: An image composition device comprises: a plurality of image sensors each provided with an optical system; a recording unit that records a plurality of captured images based on the plurality of image sensors; a reference light irradiation unit that irradiates an overlapping portion of the plurality of captured images with reference light; and an image composition unit that combines the plurality of captured images to generate a wide-angle image. The image composition unit combines the plurality of captured images so that the reference light with which the overlapping portion of the plurality of captured images is irradiated is overlapped.