公开(公告)号：US08872937B2

公开(公告)日：2014-10-28

申请号：US14065942

申请日：2013-10-29

Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Kazuhisa Matsunaga ,  Masaru Onozawa ,  Kouichi Nakagomi ,  Tetsuji Makino

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G03B7/00

CPC classification number: H04N5/23267 ,  H04N5/235 ,  H04N5/2356 ,  H04N5/2625

Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes: an image capturing unit; a first image capture controller configured to control the image capturing unit to capture a set of a plurality of images while changing exposure time for each of the images; a second image capture controller configured to obtain a plurality of sets of the images; an addition combination section configured to perform image alignment on the images contained in each of the sets and to perform addition combination on the aligned images to generate a combined image; a combination controller configured to control the addition combination section to perform the image alignment and the addition combination for each of the sets to obtain a plurality of combined images; a selector configured to evaluate the combined images and to select one of the combined images most highly evaluated as a selected image; and a storage configured to store the selected image.

Abstract translation: 一种图像捕获装置，包括：图像捕获单元; 第一图像捕获控制器，被配置为控制所述图像捕获单元在改变每个所述图像的曝光时间的同时捕获多个图像的集合; 第二图像拍摄控制器，被配置为获得多组图像; 附加组合部分，被配置为对包含在每个组中的图像执行图像对准，并且对对准的图像执行加法组合以生成组合图像; 组合控制器，被配置为控制所述相加组合部分以对所述组中的每一个进行图像对准和加法组合，以获得多个组合图像; 被配置为评估组合图像并选择最高评估为所选图像的组合图像之一的选择器; 以及被配置为存储所选择的图像的存储器。