Patent ID: 8564714

Claim:
An electronic camera that transfers captured image data to a computer or a printer to which the electronic camera is connected via wireless communication, the electronic camera comprising: an image display unit that displays various types of image including a captured image; a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with the computer or the printer; an electrical power supply control unit that permits or prohibits supply of electrical power from a battery that supplies electrical power to the image display unit and the wireless communication unit, to the wireless communication unit; an actuation unit for receiving actuation input of an user; a first sleep control unit that, if actuation input by the user upon the actuation unit is not performed for at least a predetermined time period when supply of electrical power from the battery to the wireless communication unit is prohibited by the electrical power supply control unit, transits to a first sleep mode in which operation of the wireless communication unit and the image display unit being stopped; and a second sleep control unit that, if actuation input by the user upon the actuation unit is not performed for at least a predetermined time period when supply of electrical power from the battery to the wireless communication unit is permitted by the electrical power supply control unit, transits to a second sleep mode in which operation of the image display unit being stopped while continuing the operation of the wireless communication unit.