Patent ID: 8736712

Claim:
An information processing apparatus having an interface for communicating with an image capturing unit, the information processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive, from the image capturing unit, a plurality of image data respectively corresponding to a plurality of images; a storing control unit configured to store the plurality of image data received from the image capturing unit in a storage medium; and a display control unit configured to display at least one setting screen for setting regarding the storage of the plurality of image data in the storage medium, wherein the setting screen includes a first region for inputting a character string for a root name of a file name to be assigned for each of the plurality of image data received by the receiving unit, and a second region for setting a number from which the assigned file name commences, and wherein the storing control unit assigns the file name to each one of the plurality of image data, the assigned file name including the inputted character string for the root name and one of incremented numbers sequentially assigned to the plurality of image data, the incremented numbers starting from the number set in the second region, and stores each such one of the plurality of image data in the storage medium with the assigned file name.