Patent ID: 8253806

Claim:
An image sharing system comprising a camera, a server device and a client terminal, in which the camera uploads image data to the server device and the client terminal downloads the image data from the server device, on a network: wherein the camera comprising: an extracting unit configured to extract shooting information of image data that is to be uploaded; a determining unit configured to determine one or more categories of the image data in accordance with the extracted shooting information; an adding unit configured to add identification information related to the image data to respective update information files corresponding to the determined one or more categories of the image data; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the update information files and the image data to the server device, wherein the client terminal comprising: a selecting unit configured to select at least one of the one or more categories corresponding to the update information files; an acquiring unit configured to automatically acquire the update information file(s) corresponding to the selected at least one of the one or more categories from the server device; and a downloading unit configured to download the image data, which is related to the identification information that is added to the acquired update information file(s), from the server device.