Patent ID: 7742690
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: G03B,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device for obtaining an imaging result; an optical system for forming an optical image on an imaging plane of the imaging device; first motion detection means for detecting a movement of the imaging apparatus and for outputting a detection result; second motion detection means for detecting motions of individual parts of the imaging result from the imaging result; motion correction means for correcting the motions of the individual parts of the imaging result detected by the second motion detection means by using the detection result to detect relative motions of the individual parts of the imaging result with respect to a background; and image processing means for generating index thumbnail images by detecting discontinuous motions between a first image frame and a second image frame subsequent to the first image frame, wherein the detecting discontinuous motions includes accumulatively adding the relative movements of the individual parts of the imaging result with respect to the background for the respective first and second image frames and determining a difference between the accumulations for the respective first and second image frames.