Patent ID: 8373771
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus configured to capture an image and create electronic image data of the image, the imaging apparatus comprising: a communicating unit that transmits and receives information including the image data to and from each of other imaging apparatus having same configuration and a display device that displays the image; a storage unit that stores therein the image data of the image captured by the imaging apparatus; a searching unit that searches for image data that satisfies a predetermined condition among pieces of the image data stored in the storage unit; a search-condition setting unit that sets a search condition of image data so as to contain a condition that the image data to be searched is created between a latest send image data that has most recently been sent among pieces of image data sent from either the imaging apparatus or the other imaging apparatus to the display device and image data that is created at the earliest time after the latest send image data has been created among the pieces of image data stored in the storage unit; a send-image-data determining unit that determines image data to be sent to the display device among the pieces of image data stored in each of the imaging apparatus and the other imaging apparatus, based on a search result sent from the other imaging apparatus as a response to the search condition that has been set by the search-condition setting unit and sent to the other imaging apparatus; and a control unit that performs control of causing corresponding one of the imaging apparatus and the other imaging apparatus to send, every time the send-image-data determining unit determines image data to be sent to the display device, the image data determined by the send-image-data determining unit to the display device.