Patent ID: 7995102

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section that generates a plurality of consecutive shooting images by shooting; a specification section for specifying a movement direction of a subject; a one-dimensional data generating section that generates one-dimensional data according to the movement direction of the subject specified by the specification section for each of the shooting images generated by the imaging section; a subject detecting section that detects subject regions of the respective shooting images by calculating a difference value between a median value of corresponding coordinates in a plurality of the one-dimensional data generated by the one-dimensional data generating section and each of coordinate values of the corresponding coordinates in each of the plurality of the one-dimensional data, and by comparing the difference value with a threshold value; an image selecting section that selects the shooting images that include the subject regions detected by the subject detecting section, such that the subject regions of the selected shooting images do not overlap with one another, as shooting images to be used for generation of a stroboscopic image; a background image generating section that generates a background image from the shooting images selected by the image selecting section; and a stroboscopic image generating section that generates a stroboscopic image by combining the background image generated by the background image generating section with the subject regions of the shooting images selected by the image selecting section.