Patent ID: 8457386

Claim:
A portable terminal for generating and regenerating three-dimensional (3D) image files based on two-dimensional (2D) image media standards, the portable terminal comprising: a 3D image file generating device having one or more cameras, an image signal processing unit, a storing unit, an encoding unit and a file generating unit that generate a 3D image file, wherein the 3D image file comprises a data area having first image data and second image data synchronized with the first image data so as to be used for generating a 3D image, a header area comprising at least information on a number of frames and a size of each frame for the first image data, and a metadata area, separate from the header area, comprising information on a number of frames and a size of each frame for the second image data; and a 3D image file regenerating device having a file parsing unit that parses at least one of information of the first image data and information of the second image data when a 3D image file is inputted, and having a storing unit, a decoding unit, and a regenerating unit that synthesize and regenerate at least one of the first image data and the second image data into a 3D image file, wherein the regenerating unit refers to information stored in the header area and information stored in the metadata area to regenerate the 3D image, and refers to the information stored in the header area and does not refer to the information stored in the metadata area to regenerate the 2D image.