Patent ID: 7495690

Claim:
An image data processing device, comprising: a processing device that acquires basic image data, and generates simplified image data corresponding to the basic image data that has been acquired, a size of the simplified image data being smaller than that of the basic image data; a transmission device that transmits at least the basic image data to an external storage device after the processing device has generated the simplified image data; an internal storage device; a control device that controls the processing device, the transmission device and the internal storage device, and causes the internal storage device to store the basic image data and the simplified image data, and to delete the basic image data from the internal storage device without deleting the simplified image data from the internal storage device after the transmission device has transmitted the basic image data to the external storage device; an identifying information generation device that generates identifying information for individually identifying correspondence between the basic image data and the simplified image data, the identifying information including at least one of information that identifies the image data processing device individually and information that identifies a user of the image data processing device; a display device that displays a plurality of simplified images corresponding to a plurality of sets of simplified image data; a selection device that selects a simplified image from the plurality of simplified images which have been displayed on the display device; and a command generation device that generates a command for processing at the external storage device of the basic image data corresponding to the simplified image which has been selected by the selection device, wherein the internal storage device further stores the identifying information, and the transmission device transmits the identifying information and the command corresponding to the simplified image that has been selected to the external storage device.