Patent ID: 8508790

Claim:
An image writing system comprising: a display medium that: i) displays an image on a display screen, the image being rewritably recorded according to an external force for writing, and ii) holds the image after the external force is removed, the display medium including a memory that stores capability information on a capability of displaying the image on the display screen of the display medium, the capability information being externally read out; and a writing apparatus that applies the external force to the display medium so as to write the image into the display medium, the writing apparatus including: a reading section that reads the capability information from the memory; a display-capability presenting section that presents information including the capability information, a list of images to be written, and display attributes of the respective images; an image-selection accepting section that accepts a selection of an image to be written into the display medium; and a writing section that applies the external force to the display medium so as to write the selected image into the display medium, wherein the capability information contains identification information for identifying the capability of the display medium to display the image, the writing apparatus has a display-capability correspondence table associating the identification information with actual data on the capability of the display medium to display the image, and the display-capability presenting section presents information including the actual data corresponding to the identification information.