Patent ID: 7725015
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus for taking and recording an image, comprising: an imager which takes an image; a communicator which transmits/receives a signal to/from at least one external imaging apparatus; a display controller which is operable to display the image taken by the imager and at least one received image taken by and transmitted from the at least one external imaging apparatus and received by the communicator; an image recognizer which recognizes an image in which an object having set characteristics is present within the image taken by the imaging apparatus and the at least one received image; a recording controller operable to control the recording of one or more selected images according to a first result of an image recognition executed by the image recognizer on the image taken by the imager and the at least one received image, and a second result associated with a priority ranking applied to the image taken by the imager and the at least one received image; and a data separation portion operable to separate two images when the at least one received image taken by and transmitted from the at least one external imaging apparatus comprises the two images, wherein the separated two images are received by the recording controller.