Patent ID: 7643739
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pick-up apparatus having an image pick-up element comprising: an image pick-up control unit for making the image pick-up element photograph an object plural times continuously to obtain plural images; a detecting unit for detecting a departure amount of an object image in the image obtained last by the image pick-up element from the object image in the image obtained initially by the image pick-up element and a direction of the departure, while the image pick-up control unit photographs the object plural times; a combining unit for adjusting the object images in the plural images so as to coincide with each other based on the departure amount and direction of the departure detected by the detecting unit to combine the plural images, whereby one image of the object is obtained; a display unit for displaying the image obtained by the image pick-up control unit; and a display control unit for displaying on the display unit a direction of correction opposite to the direction of the departure detected by the detecting unit, when the departure amount detected by the detecting unit exceeds a first predetermined value.