Patent ID: 7750941

Claim:
An electronic camera, comprising: an image-capturing command reception device which performs reception of an image-capturing command; an image-capturing device which captures image data representing a subject image upon the reception of the image-capturing command; a recording device which records the captured image data in a recording medium; a communication device which performs communication with an audio regenerating device that performs regeneration of sound; an image-capturing mode selection device which selects one of a normal image-capturing mode and a link image-capturing mode; and a control device which, upon the reception of the image-capturing command, directs the communication device to start the communication with the audio regenerating device in order to receive audio regeneration data, and directs the recording device to record the received audio regeneration data in the recording medium together with the captured image data, the audio regeneration data indicating a location where the sound being regenerated at the reception of the image-capturing command is stored and indicating an elapsed time period extending between a point of starting the regeneration of the sound and a point of the reception of the image-capturing command, wherein in a state where the image-capturing mode selection device selects the normal image-capturing mode, upon the reception of the image-capturing command, the control device directs the communication device to start the communication with the audio regenerating device in order to receive the audio regeneration data, wherein in a state where the image-capturing mode selection device selects the link image-capturing mode, upon the reception of the image-capturing command, the control device directs the communication device to start the communication with the audio regenerating device in order to direct the audio regenerating device to start the regeneration of the sound and in order to receive the audio regeneration data.