Patent ID: 8723918

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: a driving unit configured to displace at least one of a lens unit and an imaging device with respect to an optical axis; and a control unit configured to cause the driving unit to displace at least one of the lens unit and the imaging device, in response to motion of the image capturing apparatus, wherein when, with a shooting direction being moved, a plurality of captured images are generated so that a panoramic image is generated from the plurality of captured images, the control unit displaces positions of the lens unit and/or the imaging device at the start of exposure of each image to be captured in a direction based on a direction in which the shooting direction is moved; and, a displacement amount at the start of the exposure is set in response to a length of an exposure time period which corresponds to a shutter speed such that when the shutter speed has a first shutter speed value which is slower than a second shutter speed value the displacement amount is set to be larger than that when the shutter speed has the second shutter speed value, in which the displacement amount represents a distance from a position at which a center of the lens unit and/or the imaging device corresponds to the optical axis is displaced from the optical axis in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis such that when the shutter speed has the first or slow shutter speed value the center of the lens unit and/or the imaging device is displaced from the optical axis in the plane perpendicular to the optical axis by a larger displacement amount than that when the shutter speed has the second or fast shutter speed value.