INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, REMOTE INDICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20100085435A1
• Filed: 04/17/2009
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tokai, Kiwame
• Granted Patent: US 8,125,525 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.110
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00098 via a television channel, e.g. for a series of still pictures with or without sound
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00915 Assigning priority to, or interrupting, a particular operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3212 of data relating to a job, e.g. communication, capture or filing of an image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/144 camera and display on the same optical axis, e.g. optically multiplexing the camera and display for eye to eye contact
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives multiple captured images that are captured with a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected; a detection unit that detects a priority image that is included in the multiple captured images being received by the reception unit and is assigned priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device; and a controller that controls the reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit that receives multiple captured images that are captured with a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected;

a detection unit that detects a priority image that is included in the multiple captured images being received by the reception unit and is assigned priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device; and

a controller that controls the reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit detects the priority image with the priority information from header information of each of the multiple captured images received by the reception unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display device to display selection information to choose whether or not a user stops updating an image displayed on the display device to the priority image when the reception unit receives the priority image.

4. A remote indication system comprising:

a first information processing apparatus including

a first reception unit that receives multiple captured image from a capture device that captures an object, and

an addition unit that adds priority information that specifies a priority image displayed preferentially on a display device to one or more of the multiple captured image received by the first reception unit; and

a second information processing apparatus including

a second reception unit that is connected to the first information processing apparatus via a communication medium, and receives the multiple captured image in parallel from the first information processing apparatus,

a detection unit that detects the priority image from the multiple captured images received by the second reception unit, and

a controller that controls the second reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit.

5. The remote indication system according to claim 4, wherein the addition unit adds the priority information to a captured image selected by the first information processing apparatus or the second information processing apparatus.

6. A computer readable medium causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

receiving multiple captured images by a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected;

detecting a priority image that is included in the multiple captured images being received and is assigned priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device; and

stopping receiving other captured images not assigned the priority information, and receiving the priority image with the priority information to display the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected.