Nikon Corporation

Seiichi Azuma

Toshiyuki Nakamura

Hirotaka Maeda

Takeshi Shinohara

Mio Nagisa

An electronic camera includes a wireless communication means for connecting to a wireless network; a transfer control means for transferring a captured image to a server through the wireless network connected by the wireless communication means; a power supply judgment means for judging whether or not power supply from outside has started; and a power source switching means for switching a power source of the electronic camera to ON or OFF. When the power source of the electronic camera has been switched to OFF by the power source switching means and if it has been judged by the power supply judgment means that supply of the power has started, the transfer control means transfers the captured image to the server, and when the power source of the electronic camera has been switched to ON by the power source switching means and if it has been judged by the power supply judgment means that supply of the power has started, the transfer control means prohibits transfer of the captured image to the server.

Electronic camera

A server apparatus includes a recording means for recording a captured image transferred from an electronic camera; and a user registration means for registering the electronic camera and a user in correlation based on user registration information that has been input by the user.

Sever apparatus including a user registration unit to register a correlation between a camera and a user

An electronic camera having a function of accessing a specific server via Internet includes: a storage unit in which related information concerning the electronic camera is stored in advance; a generation unit that dynamically generates an identifier to be used to identify the electronic camera in conformance to a predefined specific rule based upon at least part of the related information stored in the storage unit; and a setting unit that sets the identifier generated by the generation unit within a request message to be transmitted to the Internet.

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Wuxi, China

Seiichi Azuma