Patent ID: 7499084

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit; a recording unit that records on the recording medium image data photographed by said image pickup unit; a display unit that displays the image data recorded on the recording medium; an assigning unit that assigns to the image data, unique apparatus information for identifying said image pickup apparatus and image identifying information for managing in said image pickup apparatus the image data recorded on the recording medium; a communication unit that is connectable to another image pickup apparatus, for transmitting the image data recorded on the recording medium to said another image pickup apparatus and receiving image data from said another image pickup apparatus; a modifying unit that modifies image identifying information added on the image data received from said another image pickup apparatus by said communication unit and generates modified image identifying information for managing the received image data in said image pickup apparatus; and a control unit that manages the image data recorded on the recording medium by said recording unit and the image data received from said another image pickup apparatus by said communication unit according to the unique apparatus information, the image identifying information and the modified image identifying information, wherein said control unit controls said display unit to display the image data recorded by said recording unit and the image data received by said communication unit from said another image pickup apparatus in different display configuration, respectively, in such a manner that the image data received by said communication unit from the image pickup apparatus and the image data recorded by said recording unit can be distinguished from one another.