Patent ID: 8687088

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus which communicates with another image capturing apparatus, the image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to obtain image data by capturing an image of an object; a reception unit configured to receive image data captured by the another image capturing apparatus during communication with the another image capturing apparatus; a storage unit configured to store the image data received by said reception unit in a storage medium; and a processor configured to describe image information of the image data received by said reception unit in an information file which describes image information used to identify image data stored in said storage unit, wherein the information file is a single information file in which is described image information of each of a plurality of image data, wherein the image capturing apparatus has a communication capturing mode for communicating with the another image capturing apparatus, and for allowing to execute both (a) capturing by said image capturing unit and (b) reception of image data captured by the another image capturing apparatus, wherein when said image capturing unit executes capturing during communication with the another image capturing apparatus, said processor describes, in the information file, (a) image information of the image data obtained by the capturing and (b) image information of the image data received in the communication capturing mode, and said processor describes, in the information file in an order of captured dates and times, a file path where the image data is stored, and wherein the information file is used for an output control of the image data described in the information file.