Patent ID: 6785426
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:an imaging unit that picks up an object image; a deflection correction unit that corrects a deflection of the object image by displacing the object image; and a control unit that actuates said deflection correction unit according to a correlation between a first object image and a second object image, which are picked up by said imaging unit, so that the first and second object images are joined to form a continuous images, wherein said control unit actuates said deflection correction unit on the basis of detection of a relationship leading to the greatest correlation between the first object image and the second object image, and wherein said control unit actuates said deflection correction unit so that part of the first object image defined in a first area within an image pick-up field of said imaging unit will most greatly correlate to part of the second object image defined in a second area, which is located on the opposite side of the first area, within the image pick-up field of said imaging unit.