Patent ID: 8218031

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: a captured image data generation unit that generates captured image data by capturing a subject; a positional information acquisition unit that acquires positional information that indicates a position at which the captured image data are generated; an area determination unit that determines whether the position indicated by the acquired positional information is included in a positional information conversion area for converting the acquired positional information; a positional information conversion unit that, when the area determination unit determines that the position indicated by the acquired positional information is included in the positional information conversion area, converts the acquired positional information into positional information that indicates a position different from the position indicated by the acquired positional information; a record control unit that, when recording the generated captured image data, carries out control so as to record the generated captured image data in association with the positional information converted by the positional information conversion unit; and a positional information history holding unit that holds a history of the acquired positional information, wherein the position different from the position indicated by the acquired positional information is confined by the positional information conversion unit to within a history area defined by the history of the positional information held by the positional information history holding unit.