IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSFER METHOD AND PROGRAM

摘要

The present invention enables images to be displayed using the appropriate top-and-bottom direction even when image data in which top-and-bottom direction is recorded is transmitted to a device that is external to an image pick-up device and that is not provided with an image rotation function. The image pick-up device comprises an image pick-up unit, an addition unit that adds data indicating the top-and-bottom direction at the time of image pick up to the image data of an image picked up using the image pick-up unit and stores the same, a transmission unit that transmits image data to an external device, and an editing unit that prior to transmitting image data to an external device rotates the top-and-bottom direction of an image in accordance with image data.