Patent ID: 7515180

Claim:
A shooting apparatus comprising: a shooting portion which shoots a subject to generate an original image; an index image generating portion which generates an index image from the original image; an image memory which stores at least an image; a communicating portion which performs transmission/reception of information with a managing server which manages images by radio; an original image specifying information generation portion which generates original image specifying information which specifies the original image; an encryption key request transmitting portion which transmits an encryption key request including the original image specifying information to the managing server through the communicating portion; an encryption key receiving portion which receives an encryption key from the management server through the communicating portion; an encryption portion which encrypts the original image by using the received encryption key; an encrypted image storage portion which stores the original image specifying information, the encrypted original image and the index image of the original image in the image memory in association with each other; a display which displays the plurality of index images stored in the image memory; a selecting portion which selects at least one index image from the plurality of index images displayed in the display; an extraction portion which extracts the original image specifying information corresponding to the index image selected by the selecting portion from the image memory; a decryption key request transmitting portion which transmits a decryption key request including the original image specifying information to the managing server through the communicating portion; a decryption key receiving portion which receives a decryption key transmitted from the managing server in accordance with the original image specifying information through the communicating portion; a decryption portion which decrypts the encrypted original image specified by the original image specifying information by using the received decryption key; and an original image storage portion which stores the original image decrypted by the decryption portion in the image memory.