Patent ID: 8855691

Claim:
A portable radiographic imaging device comprising: a generating unit configured to generate image data expressing a radiographic image formed by irradiated radiation; a first communicating unit configured such that wireless communication is possible selectively in either of a direct communication mode, in which devices communicate directly with one another, or an indirect communication mode, in which devices communicate with one another via another wireless device; a storing unit configured to store a setting as to which of the direct communication mode or the indirect communication mode wireless communication is to be carried out in; and a control unit that, in a case in which a setting to carry out communication in the direct communication mode has been made at the storing unit, is configured to control the first communicating unit to carry out wireless communication in the direct communication mode, and, in a case in which a setting to carry out communication in the indirect communication mode has been made at the storing unit, is configured to control the first communicating unit to attempt wireless communication in the indirect communication mode with a control device that controls the radiographic imaging device, and, on condition that communication is impossible, is configured to control the first communicating unit to carry out wireless communication in the direct communication mode to communicate information which is to be communicated in the indirect communication mode if communication in the indirect communication mode were possible.