Abstract: A digital camera includes an imaging section, an overlapping area identifying section, a feature point judging section, a luminance adjusting section, and an image combining section. The overlapping area identifying section identifies overlapping areas of images consecutively captured by the imaging section. The feature point judging section judges whether amount of texture within areas of a predetermined range in the identified overlapping areas is larger or smaller than a predetermined reference value. The luminance adjusting section adjusts the pixel values of the images so that the pixel values of the overlapping areas come within a predetermined range, based on a judgment result of the texture. The image combining section combines the adjusted images such that their overlapping areas coincide with each other.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires image consecutively captured by an image capturing unit, while the image capturing unit is moved; a characteristic point detection unit that detects characteristic points in a plurality of areas on a region of the images having a size based on particular information, respectively; an area selection unit that selects a particular area based on the characteristic points; and a combining unit that combines the images, based on the particular area.

Abstract: In the case where a phenomenon called brightness saturation occurs due to high brightness of light output from a transmission apparatus and high lightness in a portion of a transmitter (light source) within a frame obtained by imaging in a reception apparatus, a decoder in a reception apparatus performs first image processing of shifting the focus by moving a lens in an imager or a filtering process (gradation filtering process) of an image for replacing the color of a brightness saturation area with the color surrounding the brightness saturation area, before determination of a change area, determination of the color of the change area, and decoding of bit string data.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus including a processor and a memory having instructions stored therein which are executable by the processor to cause the processor to: cause a display to separately and simultaneously display (i) a panoramic image in progress corresponding to images which are captured by an image capturing unit, and (ii) a live-view image corresponding to an image that is newly captured by the image capturing unit while images are being captured by the image capturing unit; receive an instruction to terminate image capture processing for generating panoramic image data while the panoramic image in progress and the live-view image are being displayed; and perform, in response to reception of the instruction, control to record, as a completed panoramic image, panoramic image data generated from the images captured by a time when reception of the instruction is finished, even if images have not yet been captured in a predetermined capture range set in advance for a full panoramic image to be generat

Abstract: When necessary process times in a reception apparatus for a determination on a change area, a determination on the color of the change area, and a decoding of bit data stream exceed a predetermined time from a frame acquiring timing, and a process delay would occur, an image generator acquires a frame. In addition, a decoder temporarily stores the frame in a memory, and thereafter at a predetermined timing performs the determination on the change area, the determination on the color of the change area, and the decoding of the bit data stream.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a frame image creating unit configured to create a frame image added with code information; and an imprint information generating unit configured to generate imprint information where a mark image for forming an imprint is combined with the frame image.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an image composition unit, and a display control unit. The image capturing unit captures frames at predetermined time intervals. The image composition unit sequentially combines at least a part of image data from image data of a plurality of frames sequentially captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals. The display control unit performs control to sequentially display image data combined by the image composition unit while the image data of the frames are captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus for acquiring a location, comprising: a location acquiring unit which acquires a current location of the electronic apparatus; a correction area setting unit which, based on a link attribute indicating an attribute of an adjacent area of a link in map data, sets a correction area within the adjacent area, the correction area being referred to correct the current location to a location on the link; and a location correcting unit which, in a case in which the current location acquired by the location acquiring unit belongs to the correction area set within the adjacent area, corrects the current location to a location on the link which corresponds to the correction area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus 1 includes: an adjustment unit 55 that adjusts adjacent captured images in panoramic image generation processing; and a panoramic image generation unit 56 that generates data of a panoramic image by combining the adjacent captured images based on a result of this adjustment. The adjustment unit 55 includes: a characteristic point trace unit 552 that calculates vectors of a plurality of corresponding characteristic points in the adjacent captured images; and a position adjustment unit 554 that adjusts the adjacent captured images based on the vectors of the corresponding characteristic points thus calculated, by avoiding a moving object whose image is currently captured.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an imprint image where an imprint is captured, the imprint having code information added to a frame portion; an identifying unit configured to identify a frame image area as a read area where the code information is read, the frame image area corresponding to an imprint of the frame portion in the imprint image obtained by the obtaining unit; and a reading unit configured to read the code information from the read area identified by the identifying unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a display section, a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs a plurality of capturing operations by the capturing section, a generation section which generates a composite image reproducing an image captured at a second viewing angle that is wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by the plurality of capturing operations by the capturing control section, and a display control section which displays the composite image generated by the generation section on the display section.

Abstract: An image acquisition unit 52 acquires images consecutively captured while an image capture range is moved in a predetermined direction. A face detection unit 53 detects same subject images from the images acquired. A facial expression determination unit 55 calculates evaluation values of each of the same subject images detected. A facial expression decision unit 56 decides, as a combination target, a specific subject image from the same subject images, based on the evaluation values calculated. A combination unit 58 generates a wide-range image by combining the subject image decided as the combination target with the images sequentially acquired by the image acquisition unit 52.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus include a display section, a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs a plurality of capturing operations by the capturing section, a generation section which generates a composite image reproducing an image captured at a second viewing angle that is wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by the plurality of capturing operations by the capturing control section, and a display control section which displays the composite image generated by the generation section on the display section.

Abstract: A digital camera according to the present invention includes a CCD, a CPU and an image processing section. The CPU sets an arbitrary aspect ratio, and acquires a composite image having a predetermined aspect ratio which has been generated by a plurality of images consecutively captured by the CCD being combined. The image processing section trims the composite image acquired by the CPU to be an image having the set arbitrary aspect ratio.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus for acquiring a location, comprising: a location acquiring unit which acquires a current location of the electronic apparatus; a correction area setting unit which, based on a link attribute indicating an attribute of an adjacent area of a link in map data, sets a correction area within the adjacent area, the correction area being referred to correct the current location to a location on the link; and a location correcting unit which, in a case in which the current location acquired by the location acquiring unit belongs to the correction area set within the adjacent area, corrects the current location to a location on the link which corresponds to the correction area.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an image composition unit, and a display control unit. The image capturing unit captures frames at predetermined time intervals. The image composition unit sequentially combines at least a part of image data from image data of a plurality of frames sequentially captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals. The display control unit performs control to sequentially display image data combined by the image composition unit while the image data of the frames are captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an angular velocity sensor, an image determination unit, and an image composition unit. The angular velocity sensor acquires a displacement amount in a field of view of image data when the image data is captured at predetermined time intervals. The image determination unit sets a determination criterion for determining whether the image data thus captured is to be combined or not based on the displacement amount in the field of view acquired by the angular velocity sensor. Also, the image determination unit determines whether or not the image data thus captured is valid as a composition target based on the determination criterion thus set. The image composition unit combines image data determined by the image determination unit as being valid as a composition target.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an image composition unit, and a display control unit. The image capturing unit captures frames at predetermined time intervals. The image composition unit sequentially combines at least a part of image data from image data of a plurality of frames sequentially captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals. The display control unit performs control to sequentially display image data combined by the image composition unit while the image data of the frames are captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires a photographed image of an object on which a plurality of indicators have been arranged, recognizes an indicator in the photographed image, detects a position of the indicator, judges a timing at which a state of the object is changed to a predetermined state based on a change in the detected position of the indicator with respect to respective sequentially acquired images, and judges a state of the photographed image based on detected positions of the plurality of indicators with respect to a photographed image acquired at the judged timing at which the state of the object is changed to the predetermined state.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an angular velocity sensor, an image determination unit, and an image composition unit. The angular velocity sensor acquires a displacement amount in a field of view of image data when the image data is captured at predetermined time intervals. The image determination unit sets a determination criterion for determining whether the image data thus captured is to be combined or not based on the displacement amount in the field of view acquired by the angular velocity sensor. Also, the image determination unit determines whether or not the image data thus captured is valid as a composition target based on the determination criterion thus set. The image composition unit combines image data determined by the image determination unit as being valid as a composition target.