Patent ID: 7290042

Claim:
A server apparatus for communicating with a terminal device through a network and transmitting image data to the terminal device, the server apparatus comprising: a reception component for receiving, via network, profile data designation information and transmission method designation information, wherein the profile data designation information is for designating profile data for conversion processing the image data and the transmission method designation information is for designating a transmission method, which is selected from one of the following groups (a) converting the image data based on the profile data and sending the converted image data, (b) embedding the profile data in the image data and sending the image data and the embedded profile data, and (c) sending image data, which has neither been converted based on the profile data nor has the profile data embedded therein; an acquisition component for acquiring the profile data designated by the profile data designation information; an embedding component for applying, to the image data, an embedding process, which embeds the profile data acquired by the acquisition component, when the transmission method designation information designates that the profile data is to be embedded in the image data; a conversion component for applying, to the image data, a conversion process based on the profile data acquired by the acquisition component when the transmission method designation information designates that the image data is to be converted based on the profile data and transmitted; and a transmission component for transmitting, via the network, one of the image data embedding processed by the embedding component, the image data conversion processed by the conversion component, and the image data, which was neither embedding processed nor the conversion processed to the terminal device according to the transmission method designated by the transmission method designation information, wherein the transmission methods of groups a, b and c are all available for selection.