Patent ID: 8735845

Claim:
An X-ray imaging apparatus that acquires an X-ray image of a subject and outputs the X-ray image to a plurality of output apparatuses, the X-ray imaging apparatus comprising: a first acquisition unit that acqurires a first partial image by, in a case where a size represented by the number of pixels of an irradiated region in the X-ray image is larger than a permissible size of an external storage apparatus, extracting a portion of a size not larger than the permissible size from the irradiated region in the X-ray image; and a second acquisition unit that acquires a second partial image by, in a case where the size given in life size of the first partial image is larger than the size given in life size of an image that can be output by a printer, extracting a portion of a size not larger than the size of the outputtable image from the first partial image.