Patent ID: 8749698

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: a lens unit; a body unit detachably attached to the lens unit; and an interface unit configured to connect the lens unit and the body unit so as to be capable of communicating with each other, the interface unit having a bidirectional interface and a unidirectional interface, wherein the lens unit includes an optical lens configured to transmit light from an object, an imaging device configured to form an image with the light, and an image processing section configured to generate image data based on an output of the imaging device; and wherein the lens unit is configured to receive setting information to be used in the image processing section for generating the image data, from the body unit via the bidirectional interface of the interface unit, the setting information including a display performance of a display section of the body unit, a data format and an image size, generate the image data based on the received setting information, send notification information to the body unit, via the bidirectional interface of the interface unit, to be used by the body unit for receiving the image data, and send the image data to the body unit via the unidirectional interface of the interface unit after sending the notification information to the body unit via the bidirectional interface of the interface unit.