Patent ID: 7336775

Claim:
An image storage system comprising: an image storage apparatus; and a supporting apparatus, wherein: the image storage apparatus comprises: an input unit to which image information is input, an image display unit, a first communication unit, a management unit that executes management so that the input image information is transmitted from the first communication unit in automatic response to an input of the image information to the input unit, an information holding unit that holds the input image information until a transmission thereof is completed and then automatically discards the input image information after the transmission is completed in response to the management unit, an information storage unit at which related information corresponding to the image information having been transmitted is stored even after the transmission is completed, the related information including display-image information created based upon the image information to be displayed on the image display unit with a resolution level which is lower than a resolution level of the image information and is high enough for display over an entire screen of the image display unit, and an instruction unit that issues an instruction via the first communication unit with regard to processing to be executed on the image information based upon the related information stored at the information storage unit; and the supporting apparatus comprises: a second communication unit, an image storage unit at which the image information from the first communication unit having been received at the second communication unit is stored, and a processing unit that executes processing on the image information stored at the image storage unit based upon the instruction received at the second communication unit from the first communication unit.