Abstract: A system for providing an image service includes a Social Networking Service (SNS) server for requesting and collecting data from multiple service users connected through the internet; a map server for providing a regional map in association with a Global Positioning System (GPS); a portal server for providing a content search service; and an image server for managing objects provided from each server in association with the servers, and providing objects acquired from each server to a user terminal in association with each other upon receiving a data request from the user terminal.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for extracting a direction of an image in a portable terminal without using a sensor for extracting direction information of a captured image. An apparatus for extracting direction information of an image in a portable terminal includes a camera unit and a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts a detection direction of an object from the captured image as direction information, and stores the captured image together with the extracted direction information for a subsequent display of the captured image in a normal direction.