Patent ID: 7602419

Claim:
A photography mode setting information transfer system which transfers photography mode setting information indicating a correspondent relationship of each of a plurality of photographic scenes and a plurality of photographic parameters of each photographic scene from a first imaging device to a second imaging device, the system comprising: first setting information storage means, in the first imaging device, for storing the photography mode setting information appropriate for characteristics of the first imaging device; first photography condition setting means, in the first imaging device, for automatically setting the plurality of photographic parameters corresponding to a photographic scene when photographing using the photography mode setting information stored by the first setting information storage means; conversion information storage means, in the first imaging device, for storing conversion information for converting the correspondent relationship of each of the plurality of photographic scenes and the plurality of photographic parameters of each photographic scene based on model types of a plurality of imaging devices; first receiving means, in the first imaging device, for receiving a model type of a main unit of the second imaging device from the second imaging device; conversion means, in the first imaging device, for: (i) reading conversion information from the conversion information storage means corresponding to the model type of the second imaging device received by the first receiving means, and (ii) converting the correspondent relationship of each of the plurality of photographic scenes and the plurality of photographic parameters of each photographic scene included in the photography mode setting information stored by the first setting information storage means based on the read conversion information; setting information transmission means, in the first imaging device, for transmitting the photography mode setting information converted by the conversion means to the second imaging device; model type transmission means, in the second imaging device, for transmitting the model type of the main unit of the second imaging device to the first imaging device; second receiving means, in the second imaging device, for receiving the photography mode setting information transmitted by the setting information transmission means; second setting information storage means, in the second imaging device, for storing the photography mode setting information received by the second receiving means; and second photography condition setting means, in the second imaging device, for automatically setting the plurality of photographic parameters corresponding to a photographic scene when photographing using the photography mode setting information stored by the second setting information storage means.