Patent Document ID: 20120013737
Application ID: 13181865
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image-capturing device, comprising: an image-capturing unit that acquires an image by capturing an image of a photographic subject; a selection unit that selects, as a reference image, a single image from among a plurality of images that have been captured in succession by the image-capturing unit; a calculation unit that calculates an amount of positional deviation between the reference image selected by the selection unit and each of the plurality of images other than the reference image captured in succession by the image-capturing unit; and a generation unit that generates a combined image by positionally aligning and then combining the reference image and those ones of the plurality of images whose amounts of positional deviation calculated by the calculation unit are less than or equal to a predetermined amount of deviation, wherein the selection unit selects the reference image so that the number of images for which the amount of positional deviation is less than or equal to the predetermined amount of deviation becomes large.