Patent ID: 7299423

Claim:
An image sensing system, comprising: a digital still camera and an image data receiving apparatus, wherein said digital still camera includes: an image sensing device configured to sense an image of a subject and outputting main-image data representing the image of the subject; a recording controller configured to record the main-image data output from said image sensing device on a recording medium in association with an identification code that identifies the image of the subject; a thumbnail-image data generating device configured to generate thumbnail-image data that represents a thumbnail image the amount of data whereof is less than that of the image of the subject represented by the main-image data output from said image sensing device; a thumbnail-image data transmitting device configured to transmit wirelessly the thumbnail-image data generated by said thumbnail-image data generating device to said image data receiving apparatus in association with the identification code that corresponds to the corresponding image of the subject; and a controller configured to control said image sensing device, said recording controller, said thumbnail-image data generating device, and said thumbnail-image data transmitting device so as to carryout sensing the image of the subject, recording the main-image data on the recording medium, generating the thumbnail-image data, and transmitting the thumbnail-image data to said image data receiving apparatus in response to set a communication imaging (sensing) mode, establish a communication between said digital still camera and said image data receiving device, and depression of a shutter release button of said digital still camera, and wherein said image data receiving apparatus includes: an image data receiving device configured to receive wirelessly the thumbnail-image data transmitted from said thumbnail-image data transmitting device of said digital still camera and with which the identification code has been associated; and a display controller configured to control a display device in such a manner that the thumbnail image represented by the thumbnail-image data received by said image data receiving device will be displayed in association with the corresponding identification code.