Patent ID: 7016528

Claim:
An image measuring apparatus comprising: an approximate position measuring portion for approximately obtaining from a pair of images of a subject for measurement in different directions, positional information of the subject for measurement in each of the images; a data setting portion, having one image of the pair of images set as a reference image and the other image as a searched image, for setting up, in accordance with the positional information obtained in said approximate position measuring portion, reference data blocks in the reference image and setting up searched areas in the searched image and searched data blocks in the searched area; and a correspondence determining portion for obtaining correspondence between the searched data block set up in the searched area and the reference data block, wherein said data setting portion is adapted, in accordance with the positional information obtained in said approximate position measuring portion, to perform at least either setting up of the reference data blocks in the reference image or setting up of the searched areas and setting up of the searched data blocks in the searched image.