Patents Examined by Erin Wisdahl
  • Patent number: 6720997
    Abstract: An electronic camera is provided with an image sensor, an image processor, and a controller for the image sensor and the image processor so that: the image sensor executes a first mode of sensing a whole image in a specified region of the object, and a second mode of sensing partial images in a plurality of divided parts of the specified region, and the image processor combines the plurality of sensed partial images into a single image corresponding to the whole image in the specified region, each sensed partial image being transformed with reference to the sensed whole image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisaku Horie, Shinya Matsuda