Image capture
First Claim
1. Image capture apparatus, comprising a portable signalling device for transmitting a signal to a remote image capture device to cause said remote image capture device to capture one or more still or moving images, said signal being transmitted to said image capture device in response to a triggering action or instruction by a user, said image capture device being selected by direction (manual or otherwise) of said signal and/or said signalling device towards said image capture device, receiving apparatus for receiving a signal including image data representative of said image(s) from said remote image capture device, and storage or display apparatus for storing and/or displaying said received image data, at least one of said signal from said portable signalling device and said signal from said remote image capture device including data determining or specifying the location at which a captured image can be viewed and/or retrieved.
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Abstract
Image capture apparatus whereby a narrow beam infra-red transmitter (10) and a short range radio receiver (12) are mounted within a personal digital camera (14). A push-button mechanism (16) is provided on the outer cover of the camera (14) to activate the transmitter (10) when required. An environmental camera (18) is provided with a narrow beam infra-red receiver (20) and a short range radio transmitter (22). In the case whereby, for example, a user wishes to capture an image of themselves using the environment camera (18), they can simply position themselves within the camera'"'"'s field of view (26), point the digital camera (14) at the camera (18) and press the push-button mechanism (16) causing the transmitter (10) to transmit an image capture request signal (28) to the security camera (18). The captured image is transmitted via a short range transmitter (22) to the user'"'"'s personal camera (14) where it is received by the receiver (12).
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25 Claims
- 1. Image capture apparatus, comprising a portable signalling device for transmitting a signal to a remote image capture device to cause said remote image capture device to capture one or more still or moving images, said signal being transmitted to said image capture device in response to a triggering action or instruction by a user, said image capture device being selected by direction (manual or otherwise) of said signal and/or said signalling device towards said image capture device, receiving apparatus for receiving a signal including image data representative of said image(s) from said remote image capture device, and storage or display apparatus for storing and/or displaying said received image data, at least one of said signal from said portable signalling device and said signal from said remote image capture device including data determining or specifying the location at which a captured image can be viewed and/or retrieved.
- 21. A method of capturing an image, the method comprising the steps of triggering or instructing a portable signalling device to transmit a signal to a remote image capturing device to cause said remote image capture device to capture an image, said remote image capture device being selected by directing (manually or otherwise) the portable signalling device and/or the signal transmitted thereby towards said image capture device, transmitting image data representative of said image captured by said remote image capture device to said remote storage and/or display device, and transmitting a signal, either from said signalling device to said remote image capture device, or from said remote image capture device to said signalling device, the signal including data determining or specifying the location at which said captured image(s) can be or are to be retrieved and/or viewed.
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23. Image capture apparatus comprising a remote control device for transmitting a signal to a selected remote camera to cause said camera to capture one or more still or moving images, said camera being selected by direction of the remote control toward the selected remote camera, wherein said one or more still or moving images captured by said camera are transmitted to a central storage location, said camera including a transmitter for transmitting to the remote control data representative of how to retrieve/view said one or more captured images via said central storage location.
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24. Image capture apparatus, comprising a portable control device for transmitting a signal to a remote camera selected by direction of the portable control device toward a chosen camera, said signal including data representative of storage or viewing apparatus in or on which one or more images captured by said camera are required to be stored or viewed, said camera being arranged in response to said signal to capture one or more still or moving images and transmit said images to said storage or viewing apparatus, wherein said portable control device is adapted to control one or more camera selected from a plurality of cameras.
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25. An image system comprising a plurality of cameras and a plurality of remote control devices, wherein each of said remote control devices is capable of transmitting a signal to a selected one of said plurality of cameras, in response to receipt of said signal, said selected camera is adapted to capture one or more still or moving images and transmit image data representative of said one or more captured images to a specified remote storage or viewing device.
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