Patent ID: 8743182

Claim:
A multi-eye photographing apparatus comprising: a photographing unit which captures a plurality of images from a plurality of different viewpoints; a first photographing control unit which controls the photographing unit so as to capture a first image for displaying a stereoscopic view from one viewpoint among the plurality of viewpoints; a distance measurement unit which measures a camera distance to an object in the first image; a movement distance calculation unit which calculates, on the basis of the distance from the object measured by the distance measurement unit, the movement distance of the viewpoint between a first image and a second image for displaying the stereoscopic view on the basis of the first image and the second image, which is captured from the one viewpoint as a viewpoint different from the first image; and a display control unit which controls such that, as guidance information for guiding the capturing of the second image, at time of image capture, an instruction to move the photographing unit is displayed on a through view image, which is displayed by a display unit displaying images, on the basis of the movement distance of the viewpoint calculated by the movement distance calculation unit.