Imaging Apparatus Synthesis Area Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing imaging technologies face challenges in seamlessly synthesizing images between frames, leading to gaps and difficulties in capturing desired angles of view, and users struggle to set and record areas in synthesized images according to their preferences.
Innovation Solution
An imaging apparatus with a synthesis imaging mode that allows for sequential shooting, image data storage, and an image synthesizing process to superimpose duplicated areas, enabling users to set and display areas of any size, with features like circumscribed area setting, coloration of non-captured portions, and evaluation-based record area optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If images are captured sequentially with predetermined intervals for synthesis, then multiple image data can be stored and synthesized, but gaps may form between frames and images cannot be synthesized during capturing
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously capturing images at predetermined intervals and storing them in advance in a buffer memory before synthesis is required. This allows the synthesis process to access pre-prepared image data without gaps, ensuring continuous and reliable synthesized image generation while maintaining the ability to capture multiple frames.
2Area of stationary object
If the synthesized image area is set to integral multiplication of captured area, then complete coverage is achieved, but it becomes difficult to capture images at desired angle of view
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic area setting that allows the synthesized image area to be flexibly adjusted based on user preferences and shooting conditions. Instead of being fixed at integral multiplication of captured area, the display area setting unit enables users to specify arbitrary rectangular regions within the synthesized image, allowing adaptation to different angles of view and composition requirements while maintaining complete coverage capability when needed.
3Ease of operation
If users can set display area of any size, then desired areas can be displayed and recorded, but device complexity increases with additional setting units
Solution Approach 1:
The display area setting unit serves multiple functions: it allows user specification of arbitrary rectangular regions, automatically adjusts areas based on synthesized image boundaries, coordinates with the record area setting unit, and provides flexible control for both display and recording operations. This multi-functional design enables comprehensive user control over display areas without requiring separate dedicated units for each function, thereby managing device complexity efficiently.
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AI summary
An imaging apparatus displays and records any area in a synthesized image according to user's taste. The synthesized image is displayed based on the set display area and the record area is set to display the synthesized image, so that the display area is compared with the record area to enable easily confirming whether the actually acquired synthesized image satisfies the area desired by the user and assisting recording in an area where a better composition is provided even if the user is unfamiliar with the composition.