Patent ID: 8036520

Claim:
An image-taking apparatus comprising: storing means for storing information pertaining to a number of predetermined correlations between a number of single processing modes and a number of communication schemes, respectively, in which the number of communication schemes include an ad hoc scheme and an infrastructure scheme, wherein each respective single processing mode defines processing of image data to be executed by the image-taking apparatus, under each single processing mode the image-taking apparatus is configured not to communicate with a mate of communication via a network, the mate of communication comprises another image-taking apparatus, each single processing mode corresponds to a network processing mode under which the image-taking apparatus operates in the corresponding single processing mode and is configured to communicate with a mate of communication via a network; first selection means for selecting a communication scheme, on the basis of the predetermined correlation between a single processing mode that the image-taking apparatus currently operates in and a communication scheme obtained from the storage means; second selection means for selecting, a network processing mode, on the basis of the single processing mode that the image-taking apparatus currently operates in; communication controlling means for controlling communication so as to start communication with the mate of communication via the network by the selected communication scheme; determination means for determining whether a mode to which the mate of communication makes a transition is a mode that is in concert with the selected network processing mode; and mode transition control means for controlling the image-taking apparatus to perform, if the mode to which the mate of communication makes a transition is found to be a mode that is in concert with the selected network processing mode, a mode transition to the selected network processing mode.