Patent ID: 7907188

Claim:
An image reproduction device comprising: a data reading unit that reads data from an external recording device as well as having a connection section capable of electrically connecting said external recording device recording photographic image data; an image processing section that generates monitor image data based on said photographic image data, wherein an image size of the monitor image data corresponds to an image resolution of a monitor device having a display screen; a recording unit that records said monitor image data in a nonvolatile memory; and a control section that carries out a reproduction mode in which the control section reads said monitor image data from the nonvolatile memory and in which a reproduction image based on said monitor image data recorded within said nonvolatile memory is displayed on said monitor device, wherein said control section reproduces said reproduction image even when said external recording device is not connected to said connection section, said control section records a relationship of correspondence between identification information relating to said photographic image data, said monitor image data of which has already been generated, and an external recording device of a recording destination of said photographic image data in said nonvolatile memory, when said external recording device is connected to said connection section, said control section extracts difference photographic image data newly recorded in said external recording device based on the identification information of said photographic image data and determines whether said difference photographic image data is nonexistent in said external recording device, in which when said difference photographic image data is nonexistent, said control section causes said monitor device to output a display indicative of no photographic image data to be updated and terminates an operation of generation of said monitor image data, and when said difference photographic image data exists, said image processing section generates said monitor image data of said difference photographic image data, and when said external recording device is connected electrically to said connection section, said image processing section automatically generates said monitor image data based on said data read from said external recording device by said data reading unit, and said recording unit records said monitor image data in said nonvolatile memory.