Patent ID: 8300084

Claim:
A method for real-time prompting a stitching degree of a panoramic image, applied to a digital image pickup device, wherein the digital image pickup device storing a first image shot previously, the method comprising: dividing the first image into a plurality of image blocks; quantifying an image component of each of the image blocks to a feature value; accumulating the feature values in a sequence starting from the boundary of the first image to obtain an accumulative value; merging at least one of the image blocks, which corresponds to the corresponding accumulated feature value, according to the accumulative value to obtain the boundary image; detecting a second image; merging the boundary image with a local image of the second image; displaying the second image after the merging on a screen of the digital image pickup device, wherein the boundary image overlaps the local image of the second image; calculating an association value of the boundary image and the local image; and displaying a prompt signal corresponding to the association value on the screen of the digital image pickup device.