Patent Document ID: 20110234855
Application ID: 13071758
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle; a capturing control section which performs consecutive image capturing at a predetermined cycle by the capturing section; a setting section which sets a plurality of areas to be captured at the first viewing angle so as to generate a composite image reproducing a captured image at a second viewing angle wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by a plurality of image capturing operations performed by the capturing control section; a judgment section which judges whether or not a captured image in the consecutive image capturing by the capturing control section is a suitable image for anyone of the plurality of areas set by the setting section; and a recording control section which corresponds the captured image with an area and records the captured image in a recording section, when the judgment section judges that the captured image is a suitable image; wherein the judgment section further judges whether or not the captured image in the consecutive image capturing by the capturing control section is more suitable for an area than previously recorded by corresponding a recorded image in comparison with a previously recorded image, when an image that was previously recorded in the record means exists.