Patent ID: 7424218
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera for automatically generating mosaic images from a set of images of a scene, comprising: a device for performing real-time generation of a mosaic image from images captured by the camera; a display screen for displaying the mosaic image; a display window showing a current view through the camera lens of a next image frame to be possibly captured by the camera, said display window being automatically mapped in real-time to a corresponding location on the mosaic image being displayed on the display screen; and a device for automatically displaying, on the display screen, alerts regarding a loss of tracking between the display window showing the current view through the camera lens and the mosaic image being displayed on the display screen, said alerts including suggestions as to how to reacquire the tracking for automatically mapping the display window to the corresponding location on the mosaic image.