Patent ID: 9167108
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic device, comprising: a display unit capable of displaying an image; a communication unit capable of communicating with an external device, the external device including an image capture unit and a processing unit that stores image data captured by the image capture unit into a storage medium, wherein the communication unit comprises a first communication unit and a second communication unit that is different from the first communication unit; and a control unit, wherein: (i) when the communication unit is in communication with the external device, the control unit receives image data having been captured by the image capture unit before communication between the communication unit and the external device was established, controls the display unit to display a reproduction image according to the image data thus received and performs a copy process to copy the received image data; (ii) when the communication unit is not in communication with the external device, the control unit controls the display unit so as not to display a reproduction image according to image data that is not copied through the copy process; and (iii) the control unit performs a first control in which the second communication unit communicates with the external device after the first communication unit communicates with the external device, and a second control in which the second communication unit communicates with the external device without using the first communication unit.