Patent ID: 7839446
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an optical system imparting distortion to an image of an object to be captured, the distortion being so that a central portion of the image is magnified and a peripheral portion is reduced; an image sensor having an image-capturing element having a receiving surface, onto which the image having the distortion is focused by the optical system, for converting the focused image including the distortion into initial image data and outputting thereof; an image processing circuit for compensating the distortion in the initial image data having a first perspective angle established to the same initial image data and a second perspective angle which is different from the first perspective angle; and generating first and second images that do not include the distortion corresponding to the first and second perspective angles; a finder for displaying at least one of the first and second images; a display-control circuit having a simultaneous display mode which can display the first and the second images in a view in the finder simultaneously; a memory apparatus for storing the first and the second images; and a capture-mode-selector for selecting one of a first-capture mode and a second-capture mode: wherein the first perspective angle and the second perspective angle are determined in the first-capture mode to store the first image and the second image in the memory apparatus; the first image is displayed in the second-capture mode; the second perspective angle to store only the second image is set in the second-capture mode; and the display-control circuit further has a filtering section for filtering the image in accordance with the selected capture mode so that the image having the perspective angle not to be stored is filtered differently from the image which has been determined to be stored.