Patent ID: 7474768
Filing Date: 2009-01-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: appending information generating means for generating appending information based on contents of an image data when the image data is received from outside of the image processing apparatus; a data storage unit for storing an other image data including the appending information; correlativity judgment means for judging a correlativity between the image data and the another image data based on the appending information; maintenance judgment means for judging whether the received image data is to be maintained in the data storage unit based on the correlativity, wherein when the maintenance judgment means judges that the image data is not to be maintained, the maintenance judgment means deletes the received image data from the image processing apparatus, a communication unit for communicating with other image processing apparatuses, wherein when it is judged that the image data is not to be maintained, said maintenance judgment means causes said communication unit to transfer the image data to the other image processing apparatuses; wherein said maintenance judgment means attaches information for identifying an image processing apparatus, which is an origin of the image data, and the information for identifying the other image processing apparatuses, which is a destination of the image data, to the image data as a transference history of the image data when the image data is to be transferred.