Patent ID: 8554017
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an orientation sensor that detects orientation representing the direction in which the imaging apparatus is oriented; a controller that produces data formed of a captured image and attribute information associated with the captured image and records the data in a recording section; and the recording section that stores a captured image and attribute information, wherein the controller records a series of entries in a memory, the series of entries relating orientation information calculated by successively receiving a value detected for each entry with the orientation sensor to a time stamp representing the time at which the detected value is inputted from the orientation sensor, extracts a selected plurality of entries from the series of entries with each one of the selected plurality of entries having time stamps close to the time at which the image was captured from the series of entries recorded in the memory, and calculates an orientation representing the direction in which the image was captured by using the selected plurality of extracted entries and wherein the controller extracts the selected plurality of entries having time stamps close to the time at which the image was captured from the series of entries recorded in the memory, reselects a small number of entries having intermediate values of orientation information of the extracted entries, and sets the average of the orientation information of the plurality of reselected entries as the orientation representing the direction in which the image was captured.