Patent ID: 7352392

Claim:
An image data managing apparatus comprising: a display section for displaying a plurality of index files which are already produced and stored in an index file storage section, and each of which contains at least one identifier which respectively identifies an image data piece; a first selecting section for selecting via a manual operation a desired index file from the plurality of index files displayed by the display section; and a control section for executing image processing on at least one image data piece among image data pieces stored in an image storage section, said at least one image data piece being identified by the at least one identifier contained in the desired index file selected by the first selecting section via the manual operation; wherein the index file storage section and the image storage section are provided in a digital camera, and the image data managing apparatus further comprises a first receiving section for receiving the plurality of index files stored in the index file storage section in the digital camera; and wherein: said display section displays the plurality of index files received by the first receiving section; said control section comprises: (i) an output section for outputting to the digital camera a transfer request signal for requesting transfer of the at least one image data piece identified by the identifier contained in the selected index file, and (ii) a second receiving section for receiving from the digital camera the image data piece requested to be transferred by the transfer request signal output from the output section; and said control section executes image processing on the image data piece received by the second receiving section.