Patent ID: 8823816

Claim:
An imaging apparatus configured to capture an image and create electronic image data of the image, the imaging apparatus comprising: a wireless communicating unit that transmits and receives information including the image data to and from each of other imaging apparatus having same configuration and a television device that displays the image; a storage unit that stores therein the image data of the image captured by the imaging apparatus; a display unit that displays the image data; a searching unit that searches for image data that satisfies a predetermined condition among pieces of the image data stored in the storage unit; a search-condition setting unit that sets a search condition for searching for image data captured by either the imaging apparatus or the other imaging apparatus, the search condition including a condition that a shooting location of an image of the image data is within a preset distance from a shooting location of an image of latest send image data; a send-image-data determining unit that determines image data to be sent to the television device among the pieces of image data stored in each of the imaging apparatus and the other imaging apparatus, based on a search result sent from the other imaging apparatus as a response to the search condition that has been set by the search-condition setting unit and sent to the other imaging apparatus; and a control unit that performs control of causing the display unit to display the image data stored in the storage unit when a first playback mode is selected, and performs control of causing corresponding one of the imaging apparatus and the other imaging apparatus to send, every time the send-image-data determining unit determines image data to be sent to the television device, the image data determined by the send-image-data determining unit to the television device when a second playback mode is selected.