Patent ID: 7746492

Claim:
An image data transmitter comprising: an image data acquiring section that acquires image data; an image data transmitter section that transmits the image data to destinations; a destination setting section that sets at least two destinations; a destination selector section that selects at least one of the destinations which is set by the destination setting section; a supplementary information acquiring section that acquires supplementary information which is to be added selectably to the entirety of the image data or to a specific location in the image data; a destination versus supplementary information correlator section that establishes a correlation between the at least one destination selected by the destination selector section and the supplementary information acquired by the supplementary information acquiring section; and a data combiner section that creates composite data for the at least one destination selected by the destination selector section, the composite data being created by adding the supplementary information correlated to the at least one destination by the destination versus supplementary information correlator section to the image data acquired by the image data acquiring section, wherein the image data transmitter section transmits the composite data created by the data combiner section to the destination selected by the destination selector section.