Patent ID: 7298399

Claim:
A control apparatus, connected to a network, which obtains image data sensed by an image sensing device, comprising: a communication device adapted to receive, from an external device, a reservation command which designates an image sensing time and requests the control apparatus to obtain image data at the image sensing time and to store the image data to be obtained in a memory, and notify the external device of identification information identifying the image data to be obtained based on the reservation command, the reservation command of the external device being included in a URL indicating a location of the obtained image data; a controller adapted to determine whether or not a current time is the image sensing time designated by the reservation command received from an external device, and control the image sensing device to sense an image in a case that the current time is the image sensing time; and an obtain device adapted to obtain image data, at the image sensing time, sensed by the image sensing device controlled by said controller, and store the obtained image data in the memory; and wherein the communication device outputs the stored image data corresponding to identification information to the external device, in response to receiving the identification information from the external device.