Patent ID: 8619159

Claim:
An imaging device for capturing an image of a subject to acquire captured-image information, comprising: positioning circuitry that measures a location at which the image is captured to acquire capturing location information indicating a capturing location where the image is captured; creation circuitry that creates image information including the capturing location information acquired by the positioning circuitry and the captured-image information; memory that stores the image information created by the creation circuitry; decision circuitry that decides, when the image information stored in the memory is to be output to outside the imaging device, whether or not the capturing location information included in the image information is to be kept secret; and fabrication circuitry that fabricates the capturing location information included in the image information in accordance with a result of a decision by the decision circuitry, wherein the fabrication circuitry fabricates the capturing location information included in the image information in accordance with the result of the decision by the decision circuitry indicating that the capturing location information included in the image information is to be kept secret to create fabricated image information, the fabricated image information being a variation of the image information stored in the memory.