Patent ID: 9041821
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image composing apparatus comprising: an image pickup device; and a processor which is configured to (i) control the image pickup device to continuously perform image-pickup operations plural times to obtain plural images each including a moving subject and a motionless subject, (ii) image portions of the moving subject from the plural images obtained by the image pickup device, wherein the image portions occupy different positions in the plural images, respectively, (iii) extract image portions of the motionless subject from the plural images obtained by the image pickup device, wherein the image portions occupy fixed positions in the plural images, respectively, and (iv) move the image portions of the moving subject extracted from the plural images, depending on the positions occupied by the image portions of the moving subject in the plural images, hold the image portions of the motionless subject at the fixed positions in the plural images, and combine the moved image portions of the moving subject with the image portions of the motionless subject held at the fixed positions to compose a shooting image.