Electronic device, imaging device, image reproduction method, image reproduction program, recording medium with image reproduction program recorded thereupon, and image reproduction device

• US 10,264,146 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2017
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Fujinawa, Nobuhiro, Mitsuhashi, Setsu, Sekiguchi, Masakazu, Kuriyama, Takashi, Nagamine, Hiroto, Takemoto, Masami, Toyama, Motoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Fosselman, Joel W
• Application Number:
  US15/852,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20180124262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 34820711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00251 with an apparatus for taking photographic images, e.g. a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0013 Arrangements for the control of the connected apparatus by the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/673 based on contrast or high frequency components of image signals, e.g. hill climbing method
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a first communication circuit that communicates with an external device having an image capture unit;

a second communication circuit, different from the first communication circuit, that communicates with the external device; and

a controller that has a function of performing a first processing in which the second communication circuit performs communication with the external device after the first communication circuit obtains information relating to the external device, and a function of performing a second processing in which the second communication circuit performs the communication with the external device without obtaining the information relating to the external device by the first communication circuit, wherein;

the controller displays an image captured by the image capture unit at the external device upon a display unit after establishing the communication between the second communication circuit and the external device.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein:

the controller selectively performs the first processing and the second processing.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein:

the first communication circuit performs the communication if a distance to the external device is equal to or less than a predetermined distance.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein:

the first communication circuit performs the communication if a distance to a communication circuit at the external device is equal to or less than a predetermined distance.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein:

the first communication circuit performs the communication as a part of the electronic device comes into contact with a part of the external device.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first image capture unit; and

an operating member that is operated to instruct at least one of the first image capture unit and the image capture unit at the external device to capture an image, wherein;

the controller differentiates control performed in accordance with operation by the operating member while the communication with the external device is performed and while the communication with the external device is not performed.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein:

the operating member is disposed at a position different from a position of the display unit.

8. A method executed at an electronic device including a first communication circuit that communicates with an external device having an image capture unit;

and a second communication circuit, different from the first communication circuit, that communicates with the external device, the method comprising;

performing a first processing in which the second communication circuit performs communication with the external device after the first communication circuit obtains information relating to the external device, and a second processing in which the second communication circuit performs the communication with the external device without obtaining the information relating to the external device by the first communication circuit; and

displaying an image captured by the image capture unit at the external device upon a display unit after establishing the communication between the second communication circuit and the external device.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

selectively performing the first processing and the second processing.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable computer program product containing a program executed at an electronic device including a first communication circuit that communicates with an external device having an image capture unit;

and a second communication circuit, different from the first communication circuit, that communicates with the external device, the program comprising;

an instruction for performing a first processing in which the second communication circuit performs communication with the external device after the first communication circuit obtains information relating to the external device, and

an instruction for performing a second processing in which the second communication circuit performs the communication with the external device without obtaining the information relating to the external device by the first communication circuit; and

an instruction for displaying an image captured by the image capture unit at the external device upon a display unit after establishing the communication between the second communication circuit and the external device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable computer program product according to claim 10, wherein:

the computer-readable computer program product is a recording medium on which the program is recorded.