Patent ID: 8917313
Filing Date: 2014-12-23
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus for controlling an image capturing apparatus, the image capturing apparatus is operable to capture a plurality of images with a shooting direction being moved for generating a panoramic image, the control apparatus comprising a circuitry configured to cause a driving unit to displace at least one of a lens unit and an imaging device with respect to an optical axis in response to motion of the image capturing apparatus, and to cause the driving unit to a displace position of the lens unit and/or the imaging device at a start of exposure of each image to be captured in a direction based on a direction in which the shooting direction is moved; and, a displacement amount at the start of the exposure is set in response to a length of an exposure time period such that when the exposure time period has a first exposure time period which is longer than a second exposure time period the displacement amount is set to be larger than that when the exposure time period has the second exposure time period, in which the displacement amount represents a distance from a position at which a center of the lens unit and/or the imaging device corresponds to the optical axis is displaced from the optical axis in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis.