Patent ID: 9066010
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A photographing apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit that acquires a plurality of picked-up images by picking up images of a subject from mutually different viewpoints; an acquisition section that acquires a plurality of picked-up images by photographing a same target subject a plurality of times while the image pickup unit is moved with respect to the target subject so that a viewpoint of the image pickup unit varies with respect to the target subject; an image comparison section that sets a first region including a plurality of target subjects by synthesizing the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition section, generates a synthetic image by synthesizing the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition section such that image positions of the target subject coincide with each other and sets a second region including the target subject in the synthetic image, and sets a region not including the second region in the first region in the synthetic image as a region to be processed; and an image generating section that generates an image by processing the region set by the image comparison section in the synthetic image.