Patent ID: 7095436

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: an imaging section for imaging a subject and outputting a plurality of pieces of image data; a specifying section for specifying a plurality of the image data pieces output from said imaging section; an index file generating section for generating an index file containing a plurality of identifiers which respectively identify the image data pieces specified by said specifying section; a first control section for storing in an image storage section the plurality of image data pieces output from the imaging section, and for storing in an index file storage section the index file generated by the index file generating section; a first transmitting section for transmitting the index file stored in the index file storage section to an external device; a first receiving section for receiving a transfer request signal transmitted from the external device, said transfer request signal requesting transferring of a plurality of the image data pieces stored in the image storage section; and a second transmitting section for successively transmitting the requested image data pieces to the external device, in response to the transfer request signal received by the first receiving section; wherein the external device comprises: a second receiving section for receiving the index file transmitted by the first transmitting section; a third transmitting section for transmitting to the digital camera the transfer request signal, said plurality of requested image data pieces comprising the image data pieces identified by the plurality of identifiers contained in the index file received by the second receiving section; and a third receiving section for successively receiving the plurality of image data pieces successively transmitted by the second transmitting section.