Patent ID: 8797557
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image management apparatus comprising: a communication unit; an information storage unit that transmits a set of image data via the communication unit to one of a plurality of outside recipients to be saved therein, stores related information corresponding to the transmitted set of image data, and stores management information indicating which outside recipient among the plurality of outside recipients the set of image data corresponding to the related information has been transmitted to and saved therein; an operation unit that issues an instruction with regard to the related information regardless of which outside recipient to which the set of image data has been transmitted; a first identification unit that identifies, from the plurality of outside recipients, an outside recipient in which the set of image data corresponding to the related information with regard to which the instruction has been issued by the operation unit, by using the management information; a second identification unit that identifies, from the plurality of outside recipients, an outside recipient that is capable of executing an operation according to the instruction issued by the operation unit; and an instruction unit that transmits, via the communication unit, the instruction issued through the operation unit to at least one of the plurality of outside recipients so that the set of image data corresponding to the related information with regard to which the instruction has been issued by the operation unit is obtained from the outside recipient identified by the first identification unit, and an operation as to the obtained set of image data is executed according to the instruction by the outside recipient identified by the second identification unit.