Patent Document ID: 20070160310
Application ID: 10596137
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image configuring apparatus comprising an object image configuring means, which reads image data of a plurality of reduced object images from a reduced image recording means for recording image data of a plurality of reduced object images obtained by photographing an object as using a compound-eye camera that focuses a plurality of reduced object images on a photo detector through micro lens array having a plurality of micro lenses arrayed therein, and configures a single object image based on said image data and then outputs its image data, said object image configuring means comprising: a generating means of initial object image for generating an initial image data of a single object image based on an image data of a plurality of said reduced object images; a reduced image estimating means for estimating an estimated image of each of said reduced object images from an image data of a provided single object image based on a geometric projection process; an object image updating means for updating an image data of said single object image provided in said reduced image estimating means by projecting a difference between said estimated image of each reduced object images and each of said reduced object images in an inverse process of said geometric projection process; and an iterative control means for firstly giving said initial image data to said reduced image estimating means as an initial value of an image data of said single object image, and then repetitively conducting a estimating processing of said reduced image estimating means as well as a updating processing of said object image updating means until said difference satisfying a predetermined condition, then outputting an image data of said single object image at the time of said difference satisfying said predetermined condition as a final image data of an object image.