Patent ID: 7861089

Claim:
A communication device that communicates with an electronic device via a network, the communication device comprising: storage means storing device identification information identifying the electronic device and one or more face images of one or more users that use the electronic device while associating the device identification information with each of the face images of the users of the electronic device; image capturing means capturing an image of a face of the user of the electronic device; and identification means identifying the electronic device on the basis of the device identification information stored in association with one of the stored face images that matches the captured image of the face of the user of the electronic device, the electronic device being a first digital camera usable by the user and the communication device being a second digital camera separate from the first digital camera and usable by a second user who is different from the user of the first digital camera such that during operation the image capturing means of the second digital camera captures the image of the face of the user currently using the first digital camera.