Patent ID: 8363112

Claim:
A camera unit system comprising a camera unit and a terminal to which the camera unit enables to be attached, wherein the camera unit includes: an image pickup section; a camera storage section for storing camera information concerning the image pickup section, the camera information including an address information specifying a predetermined communication destination; and a camera control section for controlling the image pickup section upon reception of an instruction about photograph from the terminal and outputting image data obtained by the image pickup section to the terminal, and the terminal includes: a camera information acquisition section for acquiring the camera information from the camera storage section; a terminal control section for outputting an instruction about photograph corresponding to the camera information to the attached camera unit if an operation for picking up an image is performed; an image data acquisition section for acquiring image data picked up by the camera unit; a terminal storage section storing the address information received from the camera information acquisition section; and a communication section performing a communication process with the predetermined communication destination specified by the address information acquired by the camera information acquisition section.