Patent ID: 7423675

Claim:
An electronic camera, comprising: an image-capturing device that captures a subject image and outputs image data obtained; a dividing device that divides the image data outputted from the image-capturing device into a plurality of sets of divisional image data; and a file generating device that generates a plurality of image data files that are individually reproducible, with each of the plurality of image data files containing a set of the divisional image data obtained by the dividing device, wherein the divisional image data includes: a portion of image data that results from the dividing of the outputted image data, and complementary data, wherein the portion of the image data that results from the dividing of the outputted image data is arranged in the divisional image data at a region that is the same region in which the portion of the image data is arranged in the outputted image data, and wherein each set of divisional image data is individually reproducible and has a number of pixels that is the same number of pixels as the number of pixels of the outputted image data.