Patent ID: 8406600

Claim:
A imaging apparatus, comprising: a storage unit configured to store registration information in which information about a feature of an object, related to a subject, to be recognized, personal information relevant to an attribute of the subject, and non-personal information, which is different from the personal information, are related with each other and registered; a video generator configured to capture a subject image to generate video data; a detector configured to detect an object to be recognized which has a same feature as that registered in the registration information, in an image represented by the video data generated by the video generator; an embedding unit configured to embed the non-personal information relating to the object to be recognized which is detected by the detector into the video data to be generated; and a management file generator configured to generate a management file, the management file storing the non-personal information to be embedded into the video data and the personal information related, in the registration information, to the non-personal information to be embedded into the registration information.