Patent ID: 8040384

Claim:
An image transmission apparatus capable of connecting to an image pickup apparatus and configured to transmit image data captured by the image pickup apparatus to an output apparatus, the image transmission apparatus comprising: a first communication unit configured to obtain identification information of the image pickup apparatus; a second communication unit configured to communicate via a network and to obtain type information of the output apparatus; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of sets of parameters into a memory; and a controller configured to select, from the plurality of sets of parameters stored in the memory, a set of parameters corresponding to the identification information of the image pickup apparatus received by the first communication unit and the type information of the output apparatus received by the second communication unit, and output the selected set of parameters to the image pickup apparatus which is capable of converting image data into visible image data based on the selected set of parameters, wherein the first communication unit obtains visible image data from the image pickup apparatus, and the second communication unit transmits the obtained visible image data to the output apparatus, the controller obtains location information on the network for obtaining the set of parameters from the output apparatus in a case where the set of parameters corresponding to the identification information of the image pickup apparatus and the type information of the output apparatus are not stored in the memory, and obtains the set of parameters from a server corresponding to the obtained location information via the network.