Image combining apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image combining method

摘要

The plurality of image processing units (7a, 7b, 7c) are grouped into a plurality of images that are in sequential order when images having overlapping portions corresponding to the same portion of the subject are arranged side by side. A process is provided in parallel for each of the formed groups, and detects joint position information for joining the images in the group and the images adjacent to the images without positional deviation by image matching. The combined information transfer path (10a, 10b) transfers combined position information between two images in different groups between the image processing units (7a, 7b) and between the image processing units (7b, 7c). .