Patent Document ID: 8699820
Application ID: 11977403
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a circuit configured to combine a plurality of partial images into a combined image, by: extracting at least one parameter including a lens distortion coefficient from a subset of the plurality of partial images, wherein at least two of the partial images in the subset are disposed to overlap, by performing a block matching process for each pair of partial images in the subset disposed to overlap; and combining the plurality of partial images into the combined image based at least in part on the at least one extracted parameter, the combining comprising: performing, based at least in part on the extracted lens distortion coefficient, the block matching process for at least one pair of partial images in the plurality of partial images to be combined to obtain corresponding boundary errors, and updating an optical axis direction to reduce the corresponding boundary errors, wherein the plurality of partial images is obtained from a plurality of image-captures by the image processing apparatus.