Patent ID: 7102686
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-capturing apparatus, comprising: a first image-capturing unit having a first image-capturing optical system; and a second image-capturing unit having a second image-capturing optical system, the second image-capturing unit being detachably connected to the first image-capturing unit in a multi-lens camera mode; wherein the first image-capturing unit is an electronic camera, said first image-capturing unit comprising: wherein each of the first and second image-capturing optical systems comprises a zoom lens; and the image-capturing apparatus further comprises a lens controller for driving the zoom lenses of the first and second image-capturing optical systems to equalize zooming magnifications of the first and second image-capturing optical systems, wherein said first and second image-capturing units cooperatively provide at least one of a panoramic imaging mode and a three-dimensional imaging mode when operatively connected in the multi-lens camera mode, and wherein full image data from both the first and second image-capturing units are captured simultaneously and the simultaneously captured image data are stored while in the multi-lens camera mode.