Camera

• US 20110193973A1
• Filed: 04/12/2011
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Motoki, Yasuyuki, Nakamura, Toshiyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,902,317 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0014 via e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00148 Storage information retrieval G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0058 Docking-station, cradle or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera

Abstract

A camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject to acquire image data; an image storing unit that stores a plurality of image data acquired by the image-capturing unit in a storage medium; an image specifying unit that specifies image data designated by a user from among the plurality of image data stored in the storage medium; and a transmission controlling unit that when transmitting the plurality of image data to an external device using a wireless communication device, identifies specified image data specified by the image specifying unit and non-specified image data that are not specified by the image specifying unit from each other and transmits the specified image data to the external device in priority to the non-specified image data.

Claims

1. A camera comprising:

an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject to acquire image data;

an image storing unit that stores a plurality of image data acquired by the image-capturing unit in a storage medium;

an image specifying unit that specifies image data designated by a user from among the plurality of image data stored in the storage medium; and

a transmission controlling unit that when transmitting the plurality of image data to an external device using a wireless communication device, identifies specified image data specified by the image specifying unit and non-specified image data that are not specified by the image specifying unit from each other and transmits the specified image data to the external device in priority to the non-specified image data.

2. A camera according to claim 1, further comprising:

an information storing unit that stores information for identifying the specified image data to the storage medium.

3. A camera according to claim 1, wherein

the image specifying unit specifies image data to which information about destination is related as the specified image data.

4. A camera according to claim 1, wherein

the image specifying unit specifies image data that are designated to create a back up copy thereof in the external device as the specified image data.

5. A camera according to claim 1, wherein

the transmission controlling unit starts transmission of the non-specified image data when transmission of the specified image data is suspended according to instruction by the user.

6. A camera according to claim 5, wherein

when the transmission of the specified image data is suspended and the transmission of the non-specified image data is started, the transmission controlling unit resumes the transmission of the specified image data after the transmission of the non-specified image data is completed.

7. A camera according to claim 1, wherein

the transmission controlling unit changes transmission priority between the specified image data and the non-specified image data such that the non-specified image data are transmitted in priority to the specified image data according to instruction by the user.

8. A camera comprising:

an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject to acquire image data;

an image storing unit that stores a plurality of image data acquired by the image-capturing unit in a storage medium;

an image specifying unit that specifies image data to which information about destination is related from among the plurality of image data stored in the storage medium; and

a transmission controlling unit connected to an external device through an external wireless device of which wireless communication is established that when transmitting the plurality of image data to the external device, identifies specified image data specified by the image specifying unit and non-specified image data that are not specified by the image specifying unit from each other and transmits the specified image data to the external device through the wireless communication in priority to the non-specified image data.

9. A camera according to claim 8, further comprising:

an information storing unit that stores information for identifying the specified image data to the storage medium.

10. A camera according to claim 8, wherein

the transmission controlling unit starts transmission of the non-specified image data when transmission of the specified image data is suspended according to instruction by the user.

11. A camera according to claim 10, wherein

when the transmission of the specified image data is suspended and the transmission of the non-specified image data is started, the transmission controlling unit resumes the transmission of the specified image data after the transmission of the non-specified image data is completed.

12. A camera according to claim 8, wherein

the transmission controlling unit changes transmission priority between the specified image data and the non-specified image data such that the non-specified image data are transmitted in priority to the specified image data according to instruction by the user.