| US 7,459,685 B2 | ||
| Imaging device and method, computer program product on computer-readable medium, and imaging system | ||
| Yukio Ikeda, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 18, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/405,564. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-154445 (JP), filed on May 26, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0266942 A1, Nov. 30, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G02B 26/10 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 250—334 | 8 Claims |
| 1. An imaging device comprising:
a color imaging means for making color imaging with an imaging direction being sequentially adjusted for each of a plurality
of color unit images forming together a panoramic color image;
an infrared imaging means for imaging by infrared radiation measurement with the imaging direction being sequentially adjusted
for each of a plurality of infrared unit images forming together a panoramic infrared image;
a panoramic image storing/managing means for storing/managing the panoramic color image produced by overlaying the plurality
of color unit images one color unit image on another color unit image and the panoramic infrared image produced by overlaying
the plurality of infrared unit images one infrared unit image on another infrared unit image;
an image synthesizing means for overlaying, on an infrared image of an object imaged by controlling the imaging direction
by the infrared imaging means to a predetermined imaging direction in an imaging range, a color image corresponding to a location,
where the object has been imaged by the infrared imaging means, in a panoramic color image stored/managed in the panoramic
image storing/managing means; and
an image displaying means for displaying a resultant image produced by the overlaying by the image synthesizing means.
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