Patent ID: 7965906

Claim:
An image registration system comprising a first client device and a second client device which can communicate with a server, wherein said first client device comprises: first image data transmission means for transmitting to said server image data to be registered, wherein the server comprises: image data receiving means for receiving the image data transmitted from said first image data transmission means in said first client device; image data generation means for generating image data representing an image which can be outputted to the second client device and representing the same image as an image represented by the image data received by said image data receiving means and including a different form of representation therefrom; and image data storage means for storing the image data generated by said image data generation means so as to be accessible from the second client device, wherein said second client device comprises: request data transmission means for transmitting to said server request data representing a request to transmit the image data stored in said image data storage means, and wherein the server further comprises: request data receiving means for receiving the request data transmitted from the request data transmission means in the second client device; image data retrieval means responsive to the request data received by said request data receiving means for finding from the image data storage means the image data suitable for image output to the second client device which has transmitted said request data out of the image data stored in the image data storage means in the server; and second image data transmission means for transmitting to the second client device the image data found by said image data retrieval means.