Patent ID: 6950128

Claim:
A semiconductor storage medium device operable to couple with an apparatus for inputting and outputting data, the device comprising: a housing; an imaging unit mounted on said housing; an image processor for generating image data from a picture signal captured by said imaging unit; a first memory for storing a plurality of pieces of said image data supplied from said image processor; a second memory for storing control information for enabling access to said first memory; and a controller for controlling said access to said first memory based on said control information stored in said second memory, wherein said controller operates based on said control information stored in said second memory to store said image data and data having a format different from a format of said image data, in the form of a directory structure, in said first memory, and said controller holds said image data and said data having said format different from said format of said image stored in said first memory until said data is deleted in response to a user instruction.