Patent ID: 7664296

Claim:
An image recording method, comprising: loading identification information of a value or a binary information preliminary added to a subject and subject information used by a photographer to confirm an identity of the subject, in a digital camera before photographing the subject; displaying, on a basis of the subject information, subject information used by the photographer to confirm the identity of the subject on a display device of the digital camera before photographing the subject; photographing the subject using the digital camera after confirming the identity of the subject on the basis of the subject information displayed on the display device; and recording a photographed medical image of the subject in connection with the loaded identification information, wherein the photographed medical image recorded in connection with the loaded identification information is saved to a database, wherein the identification information loading comprises: reading a subject identification information from a recording medium having the subject identification information recorded thereon; reading the subject information corresponding to the read subject identification information from the recording medium, from a database having the subject information already stored in connection with the subject identification information; and transmitting the subject information read from the database, to the digital camera together with the identification information read from the recording medium, wherein the subject information comprises an image of a face from the subject's image and name, and wherein the recording records the identification information loaded in the information loading, in a header part of an image file in which the photographed medical image of the subject is recorded wherein, while the subject identification information and the subject information are being transmitted to the digital camera, the digital camera inhibited from photographing the subject.