Patent ID: 8583940

Claim:
A camera configured to store image data obtained by photographing an object in a detachable storage medium, comprising: a device program storage unit in which at least one device program, that can be executed by a different information processing device to the camera, is stored; an authentication information storage unit that stores authentication information for authenticating the camera, the authentication information being unique to the camera to which the detachable storage medium is attached and necessary to access a server; and an information writing section of a processing unit that writes the device program and the authentication information to the detachable storage medium attached to the camera, wherein the information writing section writes a first device program of the at least one device program to the detachable storage medium in a format enabling the different information processing device to read and execute the first device program automatically when the detachable storage medium is attached to the different information processing device, and wherein the first device program causes the different information processing device to read the authentication information and the image data from the detachable storage medium and send the authentication information and the image data to the server.