Patent ID: 9692956
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that images a subject to generate image data; a feature information generation unit that generates feature information smaller in data amount than the image data, the feature information indicating features of a subject image included in an image corresponding to the image data, based on the image data; an imaging-side first communication unit that connects to an external communication device to transmit and receive the image data to and from the external communication device; an imaging-side second communication unit that connects to the external communication device to transmit and receive the feature information to and from the external communication device in a communication mode different from the communication mode of the imaging-side first communication unit; a communication status determination unit that determines whether or not the status of communication between the external communication device and the imaging-side first communication unit is favorable; and an imaging-side communication control unit that transmits the feature information to the external communication device via the imaging-side second communication unit when the communication status determination unit determines that the status of communication between the external communication device and the imaging-side first communication unit is not favorable.