Imaging apparatus and image synthesizing method

摘要

An object of the exemplary embodiment is to make it possible to easily take a group photo of a plurality of persons including a photographer.;In a digital camera 1, an image a of other photographed persons is taken by a photographer immediately after an instruction of a composite shooting mode is given. Next, the digital camera 1 is handed over to one of the other photographed persons, by whom an image b of the photographer is taken. When predetermined synthesizing conditions are satisfied, a facial image contained in one of the two taken images a and b shot in series is synthesized with the other taken image so that a new composite image c is created. Thus, a group photo in which all the persons have been photographed can be synthesized easily.

主权项

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:
an imaging portion that takes images of subjects; a first determination portion that, when two taken images taken by the imaging portion are to be synthesized, compares (i) a number of facial images contained in one taken image of the two taken images with (ii) a number of facial images contained in the other taken image of the two taken images, and determines which taken image has a smaller number of facial images; and a synthesizing portion that, after the determination by the first determination portion, extracts a facial image from the taken image of the two taken images determined to have the smaller number of facial images, and synthesizes the extracted facial image with a region of the other taken image of the two taken images where there is no facial image.