Patent ID: 7187407

Claim:
A system for controlling an image file comprising: an image-recording device capable of photographing images; and an image-saving device connected with said image-recording device for saving an image file of said image-recording device, said image-recording device having, when saving photographed image data in an image-recording medium provided in itself, a function to record predetermined record unit information identifying said image data and to save the information as said image file in a header of the image data to be saved, said image-saving device having a storage device for saving said image file, and said system transmitting the image file from said image-recording device to said image-saving device in such a state that said image-recording device and said image-saving device are connected so as to be capable of performing data communication, wherein said image-saving device includes a function to read out said record unit information of said header recorded in said image-recording medium, and to compare the record unit information in the image-recording device, which has been read out, with the record unit information of the header of the saved image file that said image-saving device has already saved, and acquire to save an image file having unacquired said record unit information that said image-saving device does not have from said image-recording device to the recording device of said image-saving device, wherein after completing transfer of said image file from said image-recording device to said image-saving device in said data communication, said image-saving device includes a function to generate record unit information newer than said record unit information of the acquired image file and to transmit the newer record unit information to said image-recording device to make the newer record unit information as a reference to be recorded in a header of an image file newly photographed by said image-recording device.