Patent ID: 7411612

Claim:
A photographed image composing apparatus for photographing a face in at least two different partial images and generating a montage image of the face from at least two photographed partial images, comprising: an imaging camera for electronically photographing an object; an image display for displaying the object photographed by said imaging camera; imaging guide displaying programmed logic circuitry for displaying an imaging guide indicating the position of a predetermined region of the face on said image display; operation programmed logic circuitry for inputting an operation input in accordance with an operation by an operator; first image storing locations for storing image data from said imaging camera that shows one of the partial images of said face, as a first image, in response to the operation input from said operation programmed logic circuitry; second image storing locations for storing image data from said imaging camera that shows the other one of the partial images of said face adjacent to said first image, as a second image, in response to the operation input from said operation programmed logic circuitry; mixing ratio storage locations for storing mixing ratios of pixel data of said first image and said second image in accordance with the distance from a boundary line between said two partial images; image mixing programmed logic circuitry for mixing said first image and said second image based on said mixing ratios; montage image generating/displaying programmed logic circuitry for generating a montage image from said first image and said second image mixed by said image mixing programmed logic circuitry and for displaying said montage image on said image display; first basic pixel data storing locations for storing pixel data on said first image only along and adjacent to said boundary line as first basic pixel data; and second basic pixel data storing locations for storing pixel data on said second image only along and adjacent to said boundary line as second basic pixel data, wherein said image mixing programmed logic circuitry mixes pixel data of said first image and said second image with said second basic pixel data and said first basic pixel data in a pixel row perpendicular to said boundary line that corresponds to the relevant pixel, respectively, based on said mixing ratios.