Patent ID: 7631177

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus, comprising: an image sensing unit adapted to sense an image and generate image data; an internal memory adapted to store the image data; a connection detecting unit adapted to detect that an external storage apparatus is connected to the image sensing apparatus; and a control unit adapted to control saving operation of the image data stored in the internal memory, wherein, if the connection detecting unit detects that the external storage apparatus is not connected to the image sensing apparatus, the control unit controls to save the image data stored in the internal memory in a detachable storage medium but does not transfer the image data to the external storage apparatus, and if a saving location for the image data is the detachable storage medium and the external storage apparatus and the connection detecting unit detects that the external storage apparatus is connected to the image sensing apparatus, the control unit controls to perform saving operation of the image data stored in the internal memory in the detachable storage medium and transferring operation of the image data stored in the internal memory to the external storage apparatus in parallel.