Patent ID: 9253401
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging device comprising: an imaging processing unit including a solid-state imaging device outputting a pixel signal according to incident subject light, and configured to output a captured image according to the pixel signal output by the solid-state imaging device; image processing circuits configured to generate a photography image by performing image processing on a corresponding region within a processed region cut out from the captured image output from the imaging processing unit; and a division position determination unit configured to detect movement of a photography position at which the solid-state imaging device photographs a subject within a captured region of the solid-state imaging device, to determine the processed region cut out from the captured image according to the photography position after the detected movement in order for the image processing circuits to generate the photography image, and to divide the determined processed region into divided regions and allocates each of the divided regions to one of the image processing circuits, wherein the division position determination unit is configured to determine a division position at which the processed region is divided so that processing amounts of the image processing performed by the image processing circuits are equal to each other, and to output division region information indicating each region in the processed region divided at the determined division position to each of the corresponding image processing circuits, and wherein each of the image processing circuits is configured to generate a photography image of the corresponding region by performing the image processing on the region within the processed region indicated by the corresponding division region information input from the division position determination unit.