Captured image outputting system, display control apparatus, liquid crystal projector and digital camera that transmit images via wireless network

• US 20080136918A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Yasuhiro, Miura, Hiroki, Inoue, Yasuaki, Hiranuma, Yoshinao
• Application Number:
  US11/980,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20080136918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00283 with a television apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0041 Point to point H04N2201/0039 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0043 Point to multipoint H04N2201/0039 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0044 Connecting to a plurality of different apparatus; Using a plurality of different connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/74 Projection arrangements for image reproduction, e.g. using eidophor

Abstract

In a captured image outputting system, an image shot by an image capturing device is, upon shooting the image thereby, instantaneously transmitted to a display control device of a display system via wireless communication. The display system instantaneously projects the received image on a projection screen. The display system is comprised of a display device and a display control device. A liquid crystal projector may serve as the display device whereas an optional device, for use in wireless communication, connected to image input terminals of the liquid crystal projector may serve as the display control device. A digital still camera may serve as the image capturing device capable of carrying out wireless communication.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A captured image outputting system, the system including:

an image capturing device which captures an image of an object and transmits the image via wireless communication; and

a display system which receives via wireless communication the image transmitted from said image capturing device and displays the received image,

wherein, prior to transmission of the image, specifications of an image that is to be transmitted are determined by said image capturing device and said display system.

19. The captured image outputting system according to claim 2, wherein the image capturing device receives information on a display capacity of the display system from the display system, determines specifications of a captured image that is to be transmitted, based on the received information, and transmits an image conforming to the specifications to the display system.

3. (canceled)

4. (canceled)

5. (canceled)

6. A captured image outputting system, the system including:

an image capturing device which reads out a captured image according to a user'"'"'s instruction to reproduce the image and transmits the captured image via wireless communication; and

a display system which receives via wireless communication the image transmitted from said image capturing device and displays the received image,

wherein, upon readout of the image, the read-out image is displayed almost simultaneously on both a display unit built in said image capturing device and said display system.

7. (canceled)

8. A captured image outputting system, the system including:

an image capturing device which captures an image of an object and transmits the captured image via wireless communication; and

a plurality of display systems which receive via wireless communication the image transmitted from said image capturing device and display the received image,

wherein, prior to transmission of the image, said image capturing device recognizes a plurality of display systems as transmission destinations to which a captured image is to be transmitted, displays the plurality of candidate transmission destinations thus recognized on a display unit built in the image capturing device, selects any of the candidates according to a user'"'"'s instruction for selection, and transmits the captured image, upon the capturing of the image, to the thus selected display system or display systems via wireless communication.

9. (canceled)

10. A captured image outputting system, the system including:

a plurality of image capturing devices which captures images of an object and transmit the captured images via wireless communication; and

a display system which receives via wireless communication the images transmitted from said plurality of image capturing devices and displays the received images,

wherein, prior to reception of the image, said display system recognizes a plurality of image capturing devices as transmission sources from which captured images are to be transmitted, displays the plurality of candidate transmission sources, selects any of the candidates according to a user'"'"'s instruction for selection, and receives the captured image or images, upon the capturing of the image, from the thus selected image capturing device or devices via wireless communication.

11. (canceled)

12. A captured image outputting system, the system including:

an image capturing device which captures an image of an object and transmits the captured image via wireless communication; and

a display system which receives via wireless communication the image transmitted from said image capturing device and displays the received image,

wherein said display system determines whether the display of the transmitted image is permitted or rejected based on a predetermined condition for permission related to priority for display, and displays the transmitted image only if the display thereof is permitted.

16. A captured image outputting system according to claim 12, wherein the display system displays information on permission or rejection of the display thus determined

13. (canceled)

14. A captured image outputting system, the system including:

an image capturing device which captures an image of an object and transmits the captured image via wireless communication; and

a display system which receives via wireless communication the image transmitted from said image capturing device and displays the received image,

wherein at least one of said image capturing device and said display system detects information on connection status of wireless communication between said image capturing device and said display system, and displays the information on connection status almost simultaneously on both a display unit built in the image capturing device and the display system.

15. (canceled)

17. (canceled)

18. (canceled)

20. An image capturing device comprising:

an image capturing control unit which captures an image of an object;

a transfer processing unit which transmits the captured image to a display system via wireless communication; and

a specification setting unit which determines, prior to transmission of the image, specifications for an image to be transmitted, based on a display capacity of the display system, the determination being made through communication with the display system.

21. An image capturing device comprising:

an image capturing control unit which captures an image of an object;

a transfer processing unit which transmits the captured image to a display system via wireless communication;

a specification setting unit which determines, prior to transmission of the image, specifications for an image to be transmitted, based on a display capacity of the display system, the determination being made through communication with the display system;

a display unit which displays the captured image; and

a reproduction control unit which instructs the display unit to display the captured image, upon the capturing of the image,

wherein the transfer processing unit transmits the captured image to the display system upon the capturing of the image and almost simultaneously with display on the display unit.

22. An image capturing device comprising:

an image capturing control unit which captures an image of an object;

a display unit which displays the captured image;

a reproduction control unit which reads the captured image according to a user'"'"'s instruction to reproduce the image, and instructs the display unit to display the captured image; and

a transfer processing unit which transmits the captured image to a display system via wireless communication upon readout of the image and almost simultaneously with display on the display unit.

23. An image capturing device comprising:

an image capturing control unit which captures an image of an object;

a display unit which displays the captured image; and

a transfer processing unit which transmits the captured image to at least one of a plurality of display systems via wireless communication,

wherein, prior to transmission of the image, the transfer processing unit recognizes the plurality of display systems as transmission destinations to which a captured image is to be transmitted, displays the plurality of candidate display systems thus recognized on the display unit, selects any of the candidates according to a user'"'"'s instruction for selection, and transmits the captured image, upon the capturing of the image, to the thus selected display system or display systems.

24. A display system comprising:

a communication unit which receives a captured image from at least one of a plurality of image capturing devices via wireless communication;

an object setting unit which sets the received image as an object of display; and

a reproduction control unit which controls an output of the image set as an object of display,

wherein, prior to reception of the image, the object setting unit recognizes a plurality of image capturing devices capable of carrying out wireless communication as transmission sources, displays the plurality of candidate transmission sources thus recognized, selects any of the candidates according to a user'"'"'s instruction for selection, and receives the image, upon the capturing of the image, from the selected image capturing device via wireless communication.

25. A display system comprising:

a communication unit which receives a captured image from at least one of a plurality of image capturing devices via wireless communication;

an object setting unit which sets the received image as an object of display; and

a reproduction control unit which controls the output of the image set as an object of display,

wherein the object setting unit determines whether the display of the received image is permitted or rejected based on a predetermined condition for permission related to priority for display, and

the reproduction control unit outputs the image only if the display thereof is permitted by the determination.

26. The display system according to claim 26, wherein the object setting unit sets the condition for permission such that, for a predetermined period of time after an image is received and displayed, the display of subsequent images is rejected, and determines whether the display is permitted or rejected based on the condition thus set.

27. The display system according to claim 26, wherein the object setting unit sets the condition for permission such that, only the first image transmitted after a receiving mode, in which an image reception is awaited, is entered, is displayed,

the object setting unit determining whether the display is permitted or rejected based on the condition thus set.

28. An image capturing device comprising:

an image capturing control unit which captures an image of an object;

a display unit which displays the captured image;

a reproduction control unit which instructs the display unit to display the captured image, upon the capturing of the image;

a transfer processing unit which transmits the captured image to a display system via wireless communication; and

a status display unit which instructs the display unit to display information on the state of wireless communication between the image capturing device and the display system, and transmits the information on the state of communication to the display system via the transfer processing unit almost simultaneously with the display.