Patent ID: 7456864

Claim:
A digital camera for forming image data by capturing a subject image focused on an image sensor through a talking lens, comprising: an angular velocity detector for detecting an angular velocity of a camera body in a yaw direction and a pitch direction when said camera body is being moved; a controller for determining a continuous capturing interval based on said angular velocity in said yaw direction detected by said angular velocity detector and driving an image sensor to perform image capturing plural times according to said determined continuous capturing interval; a temporary memory for temporarily storing image data for plural images obtained by said plural times of image capturing; an image composition section for applying an image processing to said image data stored in said temporary memory based on said angular velocity in said pitch direction detected by said angular velocity detector so as to compose said image data for said plural images to form panoramic image data for a single panoramic image; and a lens driver for moving taking lens in an optical axis direction, wherein said controller controls said lens driver to move said taking lens to a position where distortion of image is minimized, and determines said continuous capturing interval based on a field angle of said taking lens at said minimized distortion position and said angular velocity of said camera body in said yaw direction.