A digital camera with audio, visual and motion analysis comprising: a camera body ; a lens supported by the camera body ; an imaging sensor supported by the camera body in alignment with the lens ; a sound sensor supported by the camera body ; an input processing system supported by the camera body including (a) a system bus ; (b) a digital processor coupled to the bus ; (c) a sound sensor subsystem coupling an output of the sound sensor to the bus ; (d) a high precision clock , separate from a system clock, to provide synchronous clock signals to the sound sensor subsystem ; (e) an imaging sensor subsystem coupling an output of the imaging sensor to the bus ; and (f) non-transitory digital memory coupled to the bus including code segments, executable by the digital processor , for real-time audio, visual and motion analysis to develop a digital model of an ambient environment of the digital camera from metadata and data derived from the sound sensor subsystem , the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem . a camera body ; a lens supported by the camera body ; an imaging sensor supported by the camera body in alignment with the lens ; a sound sensor supported by the camera body ; an input processing system supported by the camera body including (a) a system bus ; (b) a digital processor coupled to the bus ; (c) a sound sensor subsystem coupling an output of the sound sensor to the bus ; (d) a high precision clock , separate from a system clock, to provide synchronous clock signals to the sound sensor subsystem ; (e) an imaging sensor subsystem coupling an output of the imaging sensor to the bus ; and (f) non-transitory digital memory coupled to the bus including code segments, executable by the digital processor , for real-time audio, visual and motion analysis to develop a digital model of an ambient environment of the digital camera from metadata and data derived from the sound sensor subsystem , the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem . (a) a system bus ; (b) a digital processor coupled to the bus ; (c) a sound sensor subsystem coupling an output of the sound sensor to the bus ; (d) a high precision clock , separate from a system clock, to provide synchronous clock signals to the sound sensor subsystem ; (e) an imaging sensor subsystem coupling an output of the imaging sensor to the bus ; and (f) non-transitory digital memory coupled to the bus including code segments, executable by the digital processor , for real-time audio, visual and motion analysis to develop a digital model of an ambient environment of the digital camera from metadata and data derived from the sound sensor subsystem , the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem . the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem . <EOS>