Electronic pickup camera and control method of electronic pickup camera
First Claim
1. An electronic pickup camera comprising:
- a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that photo-electrically converts an object image to form an image signal and an image converter that converts the image signal formed by the electronic pickup element to image data of a predetermined format;
a storage unit that stores the image data converted by the image converter;
a wireless transmission unit that enables wireless transmission of the image data; and
a control unit that controls at least the pickup unit, the storage unit and the wireless transmission unit, the control unit adapted to control the camera to read out the image data stored in the storage unit and transmit wirelessly the read out image data to an external storage device for storing the read out image data when the pickup unit is in a non-pickup state.
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Abstract
An electronic pickup camera which can simply perform the transmission of picked-up image data to an external storage device is disclosed. In an electronic pickup camera including a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that picks up an object image and an image converter that converts the picked-up image signal to image data of a predetermined format, a storage unit that stores the image data converted by the image converter and a wireless transmission unit that enables wireless transmission of the image data to an external storage device, a control unit that controls at least the pickup unit, the storage unit and the wireless transmission unit such that when the pickup unit is in a non-pickup state, the control unit is adapted to control the camera so that the image data stored in the storage unit are read and transmitted wirelessly by the wireless transmission unit to an external storage device for storing the image data.
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45 Claims
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1. An electronic pickup camera comprising:
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a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that photo-electrically converts an object image to form an image signal and an image converter that converts the image signal formed by the electronic pickup element to image data of a predetermined format;
a storage unit that stores the image data converted by the image converter;
a wireless transmission unit that enables wireless transmission of the image data; and
a control unit that controls at least the pickup unit, the storage unit and the wireless transmission unit, the control unit adapted to control the camera to read out the image data stored in the storage unit and transmit wirelessly the read out image data to an external storage device for storing the read out image data when the pickup unit is in a non-pickup state. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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15. An electronic pickup camera comprising:
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a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that photo-electrically converts an object image to form an image signal and an image converter that converts the image signal formed by the above electronic pickup element to image data of a predetermined format;
a storage unit that stores the image data converted by the image converter;
a wireless transmission unit that enables wireless transmission of image data;
a specifying unit for specifying whether wireless transmission of image data is to be automatically started when the pickup unit enters a non-pickup state; and
a control unit that controls at least the pickup unit, the storage unit and the wireless transmission unit, the control unit adapted to control the camera to read out the image data stored in the storage unit and transmit wirelessly the read out image data to an external storage device when the pickup unit is in the non-pickup state and the specifying unit specifies that the wireless transmission of image data is to be automatically started when the pickup unit enters the non-pickup state.
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29. An electronic pickup camera comprising:
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a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that photo-electrically converts an object image to form an image signal and an image converter that converts the image signal formed by the electronic pickup element to image data of a predetermined format;
a storage unit that stores the image data converted by the image converter;
a wireless transmission unit that enables transmitting the image data wirelessly;
an error detecting unit that detects communication errors in the wireless transmission of image data by the wireless transmission unit; and
a control unit adapted to control the camera to delete the image data from the storage unit if the error detecting unit does not detect communication errors in the wireless transmission by the wireless transmission unitof the image data.
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30. An electronic pickup camera comprising:
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a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that photo-electrically converts an object image to form an image signal and an image converter that converts the image signal formed by the electronic pickup element to image data of a predetermined format;
a storage unit that stores the image data converted by the above image converter;
a wireless transmission unit that enables transmitting the image data wirelessly;
a power switch; and
a control unit adapted to control the camera to read out and transmit wirelessly by the wireless transmission unit, image data stored in the storage unit when the power switch is turned off. - View Dependent Claims (31)
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32. An electronic pickup camera comprising:
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a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that photo-electrically converts an object image to form an image signal and an image converter that converts the image signal formed by the electronic pickup element to image data of a predetermined format;
a storage unit that stores the image data converted by the image converter;
a wireless transmission unit that enables transmitting the image data wirelessly;
a timer for counting a time of no operation; and
a control unit adapted to control the camera to read and transmit wirelessly, by the wireless transmission unit, the image data stored in the storage unit when the timer counts exceeds the predetermined time. - View Dependent Claims (33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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34. An electronic pickup camera comprising:
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pickup means having an electronic pickup means that photo-electrically converts an object image to form an image signal and image converter means that converts the image signal formed by the electronic pickup means to image data of a predetermined format;
means for storing the image data converted by the above image converter means;
means for transmitting the image data wirelessly to an external storage device; and
means for controlling the camera for reading out and transmitting, by the means for transmitting, the image data stored in the storage means to an external storage device for storing the image data, when the pickup unit is in a non-pickup state.
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35. A control method of electronic pickup camera comprising:
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photo-electrically converting an object image to form an image signal by a photo electrical conversion element, converting the formed image signal to image data of a predetermined format by an image converter;
storing the converted image data in a storage unit; and
transmitting the image data wirelessly to an external storage device, wherein the acts of photo-electrically converting and storing are performed when a pickup unit including the photo-electrical conversion element and the image converter is in a pickup state, and the act of transmitting is performed when the pickup unit is non-pickup state.
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Specification