Patent ID: 7325061

Claim:
A system which manages photographed image data captured during photography with a digital camera, comprising: a digital camera that captures digital image data during photography, creates an image file including said captured digital image data and index information related to a capturing process of the digital camera, and stores said image file, wherein said index information includes at least location information indicating a location of the camera and time information indicating a time of capturing the digital image, wherein the location information is determined using a GPS; and a server, the server comprising a fetcher for fetching said image file and data identifying a user of the digital camera, a first creator for creating a searchable database of said index information, a second creator for creating an Internet homepage on which said captured digital image data is published and for creating a user password required to access the Internet homepage, the Internet homepage and the user password being created in response to the fetcher fetching said image file and said data identifying the user of the digital camera, a detector for detecting said index information from said image file, and a determiner for determining a publishing position of said captured digital image data on said Internet homepage based on sorting the images with reference to the location information and the time information included in said index information detected by said detector.