Patent ID: 6466262
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A digital camera, comprising:an operation input means for starting and ending recording of a scene; an image sensing device for capturing a plurality of images of a scene as a dynamic image; a shift value determining means for determining amounts of shift in position between consecutive ones of the plurality of images due to movement of the camera during the recording; and a wide view image display means for displaying a wide view image obtained by connecting the consecutive images by overwriting a current one of said consecutive images with respect to a last one of said consecutive images by the amount of shift in position determined by said shift value determining means, wherein: said shift determining means uses global pattern matching between the consecutive images taking the projections of the intensity values of the pixels in the horizontal and vertical directions, and said wide view image display means sequentially displays wide view image that is formed from the start to the end of the recording.