Patent ID: 7679656

Claim:
An image taking system comprising: a transmitter that is disposed near a subject and transmits subject information of the subject; and an image taking apparatus that has a receiver capable of receiving the subject information transmitted from the transmitter and stores in a memory the subject information received by the receiver in association with image data representing a subject image obtained by image taking through an image taking lens, wherein the transmitter transmits the subject information in a predetermined direction, and the receiver is capable of receiving the subject information within a predetermined range around an optical axis of the image taking lens, and the image taking apparatus stores in the memory the subject information received by the receiver within the predetermined range in association with the image data, and wherein the transmitter is adapted to transmit the subject information by field angle, and the image taking apparatus is adapted to freely change field angle of a subject, and the image taking apparatus further comprises: a field angle detecting unit, and stores in the memory the subject information by field angle, out of all the subject information received by the receiver, that corresponds to the field angle detected by the field angle detecting unit, in association with the image data.