Patent ID: 8428341

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a digital photographing apparatus for calculating 3D spatial coordinates of digital images, comprising: an image acquiring unit that acquires images by photographing a subject; a sensor information acquiring unit that acquires positional information, directional information, and posture information of the digital photographing apparatus at the time of photographing a subject; a device information acquiring unit that acquires device information of the digital photographing apparatus at the time of photographing a subject; and a spatial coordinates calculator that calculates 3D spatial coordinates of photographed images using the acquired positional information, directional information, posture information, and device information, wherein the device information of the digital photographing apparatus includes at least one of view angle information, focal length information, expansion information, and reduction information, wherein the sensor information acquiring unit includes a directional information acquiring unit and the directional information acquiring unit acquires the directional information of the digital photographing apparatus using a geomagnetic sensor, wherein the sensor information acquiring unit includes a posture information acquiring unit and the directional information acquiring unit acquires the posture information of the digital photographing apparatus using a tilt sensor.