Patent ID: 8731327

Claim:
An image processing system performing a position-matching operation on first and second images, which are obtained by photographing a same object sequentially, each of the first and second images being obtained in a single photographing operation, so that said first and second images are composed, said image processing system comprising: a shift point detecting processor that detects a plurality of shift points in said second image, said plurality of shift points corresponding to a plurality of fixed points that are dispersed throughout the whole of said first image; an image dividing processor that divides said second image into a plurality of polygonal partial images, the vertices of which are positioned at the same coordinates as said fixed points in said first image; an image transforming processor that shifts the vertices of each of said partial images to said shift points, to transform said partial images so that corresponding transformed partial images, having irregular shapes, are produced; and an image combining processor that forms a combined image by combining all of said transformed partial images in such a manner that the common shift points remain in the same positions.