Patent ID: 8134606
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for creating a composite image of a target area by utilizing an imaging device, comprising: a scanning manager of said imaging device for analyzing scan motion data from a scanning procedure that captures a frame sequence corresponding to said target area, said scanning manager extracting still frames from said frame sequence at a selectable time interval entered by a system user, a stitching software program responsively generating said composite image corresponding to said target area by utilizing said still frames and said scan motion data, said stitching software program generating said composite image by combining said image data in frame overlap regions between said still frames, said imaging device being initially positioned at a starting index of a scan path to allow said imaging device to frame said target area using a focus mechanism and a zoom mechanism, said system user entering scan parameters into said imaging device for performing said scanning procedure, said scan parameters including a scan speed control, a scan direction control, a still frame time interval control, a scan overlap control, and a scan resolution control.