Image capturing apparatus capable of capturing a panoramic image

摘要

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.

主权项

1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising:
an image capturing device; and a controller which is configured to: acquire a displacement amount by which the image capturing apparatus moves in a first direction while an object is sequentially captured by the image capturing device; set a determination criterion for determining whether image data output by the image capturing device is suitable for combining; change a level of the determination criterion from a first level which is set when a total displacement amount of the image capturing apparatus is within a first range of the displacement amount, to a second level which is more relaxed than the first level and which is set when the total displacement amount of the image capturing apparatus exceeds the first range of the displacement amount to be within a second range of the displacement amount; determine whether image data of an object is valid as a composition target based on the determination criterion with the changed level; and combine image data determined to be valid as a composition target.