IP Library Granted Patent US 8,139,102
Granted Patent B2
US 8,139,102 · App. 12/186,852 · Granted Mar 20, 2012

Digital camera

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Patent No.
US 8,139,102
App. No.
12/186,852
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A digital camera regards a part of a preceding photograph image as a guide image, and combines the guide image with a through image in shooting a succeeding photograph image. At this time, a transmittance of the guide image is set according to a luminance evaluation value at a time when the preceding photograph image is shot.

Claims (7)

1. A digital camera which displays on a monitor a part of a preceding photograph image previously shot as a guide image for shooting a succeeding photograph image so as to be overlapped with a through image comprises

a setter that sets transmittance of said guide image in accordance with a luminance level at a time that said preceding photograph image is shot, wherein said transmittance is set to a smaller percentage when said luminance level is at a high and the transmittance is set to a larger percentage when said luminance level is at a low.

2. A digital camera according to claim 1 , wherein said luminance level at the time that said preceding photograph image is shot is classified into a plurality of levels, each of said plurality of levels identifying the value that said setter sets as said transmittance of said guide image.

3. A digital camera according to claim 2 , further comprising a combiner for combining said preceding photograph image and said succeeding photograph image to produce a panoramic combined image.

4. A digital camera according to claim 2 or 3 , wherein said transmittance setter sets transmittance of a guide image for a second sheet onward according to the luminance level when a first photograph image is shot in a case that three or more photograph images are shot.

5. A control method of a digital camera which displays on a monitor a part of a preceding photograph image previously shot as a guide image for shooting a succeeding photograph image so as to be overlapped with a through image, including:

a setting step that sets transmittance of said guide image in accordance with a luminance level at a time that said preceding photograph image is shot, said transmittance being set to a smaller percentage when said luminance level is at a high and the transmittance being set to a larger percentage when said luminance level is at a low.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE TO CORRECT THE INCORRECT PATENT NUMBER 13/446,454, AND REPLACE WITH 13/466,454 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 032467 FRAME 0095. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST. Recorded Apr 3, 2014
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: XACTI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032601/0646 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 18, 2014
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: XACTI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032467/0095 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 25, 2008
From: MIYATA, KAZUNORI
To: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021436/0901 →