APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR FORMING PANORAMIC IMAGE
An apparatus, and an associated method, for forming a panoramic image at a camera. Motion indicia is obtained by one or more sensors. The motion indicia is utilized by a camera controller to cause a panoramic image creator to create a segmented, panoramic image using image frames that permit the creation of the panoramic image of the desired configuration.
1 . An apparatus for facilitating formation at a camera of a panoramic image of a desired image configuration, said apparatus comprising:
a detector configured to detect selection of the desired image configuration; and
a controller configured to control the formation of the panoramic image of the desired configuration utilizing detected motion indicia related to the camera.
2 . The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a sensor configured to detect the motion indicia related to the camera.
3 . The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said sensor comprises an accelerometer.
4 . The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said sensor comprises a magnetometer.
5 . The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said controller is configured to determine a motion parameter responsive to a motion indicia indicative of detected motion of the camera.
6 . The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the motion indicia comprises an acceleration indication.
7 . The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the motion indicia further comprises a camera orientation.
8 . The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said controller is configured to control formation of a segmented, panoramic image.
9 . The apparatus of claim 8 wherein said controller is configured to cause blending together of a set of captured images to form a segmented, panoramic image with adjacent captured images of the set having overlapping fields of view.
10 . The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the motion parameter determined by said controller is configured to associate information indicia with the captured images.
11 . The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said controller is configured to select when to capture image frames that form the panoramic image.
12 . The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said controller is configured to select positioning of the camera at which to capture image frames to form the panoramic image.
13 . A method for facilitating formation, at a camera, of a panoramic image of a desired image configuration, said method comprising:
detecting selection of the desired image configuration; and
controlling the formation of the panoramic image of the desired configuration utilizing detect motion indicia related to the camera.
14 . The method of claim 13 further comprising detecting the motion indicia related to the camera.
15 . The method of claim 13 wherein said detecting the motion indicia comprises detecting the motion indicia with an accelerometer.
16 . The method of claim 13 wherein said detecting the motion indicia comprises detecting the motion indicia with a magnetometer.
17 . The method of claim 13 wherein the motion indicia comprises an acceleration indication.
18 . The method of claim 13 wherein the motion indicia further comprises a camera orientation.
19 . The method of claim 11 wherein the panoramic image comprises a segmented panoramic image.
20 . The method of claim 19 wherein said controlling comprises controlling the panoramic image to cause blending together a set of captured image frames to form the segmented panoramic image with adjacent sensed images of the set having overlapping fields of view.