Patent ID: 7564482

Claim:
An image capturing device, adapted to capture an object image and to generate an image data, the image capturing device comprising: a plurality of image capturers, each of which is adapted to perform an image capturing of a part of the object image and to generate a partial image data which constitutes a part of the image data based on the part of the object image, each of the image capturers having an optical axis; a detector, operable to detect movement of each of the image capturers in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis during the image capturing and to generate movement data based on the detected movement, for each of the image capturers; and a processor, operable to correct the partial image data so as to compensate the movement during the image capturing based on the movement data, wherein the image capturers are divided into a plurality of groups each of which includes at least one of the image capturers, each of the image capturers belonging to different ones of the groups performs the image capturing at different timing, and the number of the groups is obtained by dividing a sampling rate at which the detector detects the movement by a frame rate related to timing of the image capturing performed by each of the image capturers belonging to different ones of the groups.