Photographing apparatus, photographing system and photographing method

A photographing apparatus comprising:

• an image pickup section;
• a reception section for receiving an image transmitted from another photographing apparatus and photographing information related to the image;
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• a control section for performing photographing control based on the photographing information received by the reception section and an image acquired by the image pickup section.

A photographing system capable of performing photographing by making a plurality of photographing apparatuses including at least a first photographing apparatus and a second photographing apparatus cooperative with each other, the photographing system comprising:

• the first photographing apparatus including a first image pickup section, a transmission section for transmitting photographing information acquired based on an image acquired by the first image pickup section to the second photographing apparatus, and a first reception section for receiving an image transmitted from the second photographing apparatus;
• and
• the second photographing apparatus including a second reception section for receiving the photographing information transmitted from the first photographing apparatus, a second image pickup section for acquiring an image based on the photographing information received by the second reception section, and a transmission section for transmitting the image acquired by the second image pickup section to the first photographing apparatus,
• wherein the first photographing apparatus stores the image acquired by the first image pickup section and the image received by the first reception section in association with each other.

A photographing apparatus comprising:

• an image pickup section;
• a face detection section for acquiring face image information from an image acquired by the image pickup section;
• and
• a transmission section for transmitting the photographing information acquired by the face detection section to another apparatus.

A photographing method comprising:

• a detection step of acquiring photographing information related to an image acquired by an image pickup section;
• a transmission step of transmitting the photographing information acquired in the detection step;
• a reception step of receiving an image photographed by another photographing apparatus based on the photographing information and transmitted from the other photographing apparatus;
• and
• a memory step of storing the image acquired in the detection step and the image received in the reception step in association with each other.

A photographing method comprising:

• a face detection step of acquiring face image information from an image acquired by an image pickup section;
• a transmission step of transmitting the photographing information acquired in the face detection step to another apparatus;
• and
• an image acquisition step of acquiring an image based on the transmitted photographing information.