Patent ID: 6532037
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A camera system comprising:a camera including a photographing device for photographing an object, and a detachable recording medium for storing divisional images of the object photographed by the photographing device and information relating to an angle of view of photographing; and a panoramic image synthesizing apparatus including: an image information reading section for reading the divisional images and the information relating to an angle of view of photographing stored in the recording medium loaded in the panoramic image synthesizing apparatus; an angle-of-view calculating section for calculating an angle of view of each of the divisional images using the information relating to an angle of view of photographing read by the image information reading section; a cylindrical conversion section for cylindrically converting each of the divisional images using the angle of view calculated by the angle-of-view calculating section; and an image synthesizing section for synthesizing the cylindrically converted divisional images converted by the cylindrical conversion section to produce a panoramic image, wherein the angle-of-view calculating section calculates an angle of view of each of the divisional images by means of an arithmetic formula using a focal length of a lens, a size of a CCD and a size of an image output from the CCD as parameters.