摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate panoramic whole image of high quality at a low cost which captures movement of a moving object with high precision by shortening image pickup interval. SOLUTION: A unit image which constitutes a part of an image pickup range is imaged by sequentially shifting image pickup direction, image regions of a predetermined size which constitute a part of the unit image which was imaged in an image pickup step are cut out so as to produce mutually overlapping regions, the cut-out image regions are sequentially overlapped, and the whole image showing the whole image pickup range is formed. At this time, the image regions are cut out so that at least two image regions overlap each other in average for the position of each image of the whole image to be generated. As a result, noise component of each of the image regions is averaged, and image quality is improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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