Image capturing apparatus capable of capturing panoramic image

摘要

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.

主权项

1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising:
an image capturing unit that includes an image sensor and that sequentially captures images; and a processor which is configured to function as:
an image generation unit that generates panoramic image data from the images captured by the image capturing unit;a display control unit that causes a display to separately and simultaneously display (i) a panoramic image in progress corresponding to the panoramic image data generated by the image generation 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;a reception unit that receives an instruction to terminate image capture processing for generating the panoramic image data while the panoramic image in progress and the live-view image are being displayed; anda recording control unit that performs, 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 by the reception unit 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 generated.