Patent ID: 8503830

Claim:
A digital image processing apparatus for storing a digital image file with a name including a serial number under a folder with a name including a part indicating a manufacturing company and a serial number, the digital image processing apparatus comprising: a processor which, when a first digital image file stored in a first digital image processing apparatus is duplicated or moved to a second digital image processing apparatus, compares a name of a folder containing the first digital image file of the first digital image processing apparatus with a name of a folder of the second digital image processing apparatus, duplicates or moves the first digital image file to the folder of the second digital image processing apparatus, or generates a new folder in the second digital image processing apparatus and duplicates or moves the first digital image file to the new folder of the second digital image processing apparatus; wherein if the part indicating the manufacturing company included in the name of the folder containing the first digital image file is included in the name of the folder of the second digital image processing apparatus before the duplication or movement of the first digital image file, the processor compares a model name of a digital image processing apparatus stored in a header of the digital image file under the folder of the second digital image processing apparatus with that of the first digital image, if both model names are identical to each other, duplicates or moves the first digital image file to the folder of the second digital image processing apparatus, and if both model names are not identical to each other, generates a new folder in the second digital image processing apparatus and duplicates or moves the first digital image file to the new folder.