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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2007
Tetsuya Hashimoto, Inzai, JP;
Tetsuya Hashimoto, Inzai, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device for photographing a subject image to output as image data, a recording device for recording the image data as an image file, a wireless communication device, a partner device searching device for searching for a partner device of a wireless communication, and a wireless communication setting device for setting the wireless communication device to be effective or to be invalid, and when the wireless communication device is effectively set by the wireless communication setting device, the partner device searching device automatically starts the searching of the partner device with activation of the imaging device.