ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR

• US 20120268611A1
• Filed: 04/11/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KONDO, Shigeharu, KIMIJIMA, Tadaaki, TAKAHASHI, Yumi, KIMOTO, Hiroshi, KAMEI, Hideaki, CHO, Wonjoon
• Application Number:
  US13/444,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20120268611A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00196 Creation of a photo-montage, e.g. photoalbum H04N1/0019 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera

Abstract

A portable terminal forms the same group with one or more portable terminals. The portable terminal receives photographed images that are photographed by the other portable terminals belonging to the same group and displays the received photographed images. The disclosure of this technology is applicable to, for example, an electronic apparatus such as a portable telephone.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a group formation section that constitutes a same group with one or more communication terminals on a local area network;

a communication section that receives data of a photographed image that is photographed by the communication terminal belonging to the same group; and

a display section that displays the photographed image thus received.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image capturing section that photographs an image of a subject, wherein the display section displays the photographed image photographed by the image capturing section, and the communication section further transmits data of the photographed image photographed by the image capturing section.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the communication section transmits data of a reduced image resulted from reducing the photographed image photographed by the image capturing section at a predetermined ratio to the communication terminal belonging to the same group, and receives data of a reduced image resulted from reducing a photographed image photographed by the communication terminal at the predetermined ratio.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the communication section receives group identification information for identifying the group from the communication terminal, and the group formation section forms the same group with the communication terminal having the group identification information that coincides with group identification information of the electronic apparatus.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a group identification information obtaining section that obtains the group identification information.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the group identification obtaining section obtains the group identification information that is read out from a two-dimensional code or a URL.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display section displays the photographed image in time series by units of a predetermined number.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the display section displays the photographed images by units of the predetermined number so that the photographed images are overlaid on top of another by associating a time series thereof with a vertical direction, and when operation to erase the photographed image displayed on top is performed, the photographed image on which the operation to erase is performed and the photographed images arranged in a time series corresponding thereto and above are erased.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein, when the communication terminal receives data of the photographed image photographed by the communication terminal, the display section performs a display indicating a receipt thereof, and when displaying the photographed image thus received is instructed, the display section displays the predetermined number of the photographed images that are the latest including the photographed image thus received.

10. A control method for an electronic apparatus including a group formation section, a communication section, and a display section, the method comprising:

forming by the group formation section a same group with one or more communication terminals on a local area network;

receiving by the communication section data of a photographed image that is photographed by the communication terminal belonging to the same group; and

displaying by the display section the photographed image thus received.

11. A program causing computer to execute:

forming a same group with one or more communication terminals on a local area network;

receiving data of a photographed image that is photographed by the communication terminal belonging to the same group; and

displaying the photographed image thus received on a display section.