Patent ID: 7391442

Claim:
A digital camera system comprising: a camera body; a lens mounted to the camera body; an image processor operatively coupled to the lens, the image processor converting a visual image passing into the lens to a digital format to form a captured digital image; a multi-spot focus angle sensor mounted in the camera body, the sensor determining a camera angle position by measuring relative lengths of a plurality of beams passing between the camera body and an object to be photographed and outputting camera angle position data; a distortion processor operatively coupled to the digital camera, the distortion processor receiving the camera angle position data obtained from the angle sensor and the captured digital image from the image processor, the distortion processor selectively removing distortions associated with the camera angle position to form a corrected digital image; and a single memory operatively connected to the distortion processor and the image processor, the single memory permanently storing the captured digital image and the corrected digital image, wherein the camera angle position data is stored as a picture file header associated with the captured digital image, the distortion processor selectively employing the camera angle position data in the picture file header to form the corrected digital image and to remove corrections from a corrected digital image.