Patent ID: 7459685

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: a color imaging means for making color imaging with an imaging direction being sequentially adjusted for each of a plurality of color unit images forming together a panoramic color image; an infrared imaging means for imaging by infrared radiation measurement with the imaging direction being sequentially adjusted for each of a plurality of infrared unit images forming together a panoramic infrared image; a panoramic image storing/managing means for storing/managing the panoramic color image produced by overlaying the plurality of color unit images one color unit image on another color unit image and the panoramic infrared image produced by overlaying the plurality of infrared unit images one infrared unit image on another infrared unit image; an image synthesizing means for overlaying, on an infrared image of an object imaged by controlling the imaging direction by the infrared imaging means to a predetermined imaging direction in an imaging range, a color image corresponding to a location, where the object has been imaged by the infrared imaging means, in a panoramic color image stored/managed in the panoramic image storing/managing means; and an image displaying means for displaying a resultant image produced by the overlaying by the image synthesizing means.