Patent ID: 8587684

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: imaging means, for obtaining images by imaging a subject; imaging control means, for controlling the imaging means to sequentially obtain a plurality of images; reference image selecting means, for selecting a single reference image from the plurality of images; moving object region specifying means, for specifying moving object regions within corresponding images, which comprise the plurality of images other than the single reference image selected by the reference image selecting means; positioning means, for positioning the corresponding images with respect to the reference image in a case that the plurality of images have been imaged by flow shooting, the positioning being performed such that an amount of positioning is greater at the moving object regions specified by the moving object region specifying means than at non-moving object regions; combining means, for combining the corresponding images, which have been positioned by the positioning means, with the reference image; feature point detecting means, for detecting feature points within the single reference image; and corresponding point detecting means, for detecting corresponding points within the corresponding images that correspond to the feature points detected by the feature point detecting means, wherein the moving object region specifying means specifies the moving object regions based on the feature points detected by the feature point detecting means and the corresponding points detected by the corresponding point detecting means, wherein a region having movement vectors less than a predetermined threshold value is designated as a moving object region of the moving object regions, and wherein the moving object region and the non-moving object regions are moved separately without generating interpolative images.