COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20130234965A1
• Filed: 03/08/2013
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: HAYASHI, Toshikazu, NONAKA, Osamu
• Granted Patent: US 9,513,697 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes a transceiving unit that transmits content data to a portable apparatus and receives temporal change information of a touch position from the portable apparatus, and a transmission control unit that establishes wireless communication between the portable apparatus and the communication apparatus and causes the transceiving unit to transmit the content data to the portable apparatus when the temporal change information of the touch position received by the transceiving unit is substantially identical with preset setting information.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus that performs bidirectional wireless communication with a portable apparatus having a touch panel configured to detect a touch of an object from outside and to receive an input of a position signal according to a detected position, and transmits content data including image data, the communication apparatus comprising:

a transceiving unit that transmits the content data to the portable apparatus and receives temporal change information of a position of the touch from the portable apparatus; and

a transmission control unit that establishes the wireless communication between the portable apparatus and the communication apparatus and causes the transceiving unit to transmit the content data to the portable apparatus when the temporal change information of the position of the touch received by the transceiving unit is substantially identical with preset setting information.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a pattern determining unit that determines whether the setting information and the temporal change information of the position of the touch received by the transceiving unit are identical with each other within a specified range,

wherein the transmission control unit causes the transceiving unit to transmit the content data to the portable apparatus according to determination by the pattern determining unit.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data;

a second touch panel that is superimposed on the display unit, detects a touch of an object from outside, and receives an input of a position signal according to a detected position; and

a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a trajectory of a touch operation performed on the second touch panel based on a temporal change signal of the position input from the second touch panel.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit that sets setting information including touch information on a touch pattern drawn on the touch panel.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit that deletes the setting information after the transmission control unit establishes the wireless communication between the portable apparatus and the communication apparatus and causes the transceiving unit to transmit the content data to the portable apparatus.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the setting unit sets setting information including identification information of the portable apparatus, a password corresponding to the identification information, and touch information on a touch pattern to be drawn on the touch panel of the portable apparatus to establish the wireless communication with the portable apparatus.

7. A communication apparatus comprising:

a transceiving unit that performs transmission and reception with an external apparatus;

a setting unit; and

a determining unit that determines whether a character set by the setting unit is identical with temporal change information of a touch on a touch panel received by the transceiving unit,

wherein the transceiving unit transmits content data to the external apparatus according to a determination result by the determining unit.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

a display unit that displays an image corresponding to image data;

a second touch panel that is superimposed on the display unit, detects a touch of an object from outside, and receives an input of a position signal according to a detected position; and

a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a trajectory of a touch operation performed on the second touch panel based on the position signal input from the second touch panel.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the setting unit sets a touch pattern drawn on the second touch panel as setting information.

10. The communication apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the setting unit deletes the setting information after the transceiving unit establishes wireless communication between the external apparatus and the communication apparatus and transmits the content data to the external apparatus.

11. A communication apparatus that performs bidirectional wireless communication with a portable apparatus having a touch panel configured to detect a touch of an object from outside and to receive an input of a position signal according to a detected position, and transmits content data including image data, the communication apparatus comprising:

a transceiving unit that transmits the content data to the portable apparatus and receives trajectory information of the touch from the portable apparatus; and

a transmission control unit that performs the wireless communication between the portable apparatus and the communication apparatus when the trajectory information of the touch received by the transceiving unit is substantially identical with a preset trajectory of the touch.

12. A communication apparatus that performs bidirectional wireless communication with a portable apparatus having a touch panel configured to detect a touch of an object from outside and to receive an input of a position signal according to a detected position, and transmits content data including image data, the communication apparatus comprising:

a transceiving unit that transmits the content data to the portable apparatus and receives character information drawn by the touch from the portable apparatus; and

a transmission control unit that performs the wireless communication between the portable apparatus and the communication apparatus when drawing information of the touch received by the transceiving unit is substantially identical with preset character information.

13. A communication apparatus that performs bidirectional wireless communication with a portable apparatus having a touch panel configured to detect a touch of an object from outside and to receive an input of a position signal according to a detected position, and transmits content data including image data, the communication apparatus comprising:

a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data;

a second touch panel that is superimposed on the display unit, detects a touch of an object from outside, and receives an input of a position signal according to a detected position; and

a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a trajectory of a touch operation performed on the second touch panel based on the position signal input from the second touch panel.

14. A communication method performed by a communication apparatus that performs bidirectional wireless communication with a portable apparatus having a touch panel configured to detect a touch of an object from outside and to receive an input of a position signal according to a detected position, and transmits content data including image data, the method comprising:

receiving identification information of the portable apparatus, a password corresponding to the identification information, and temporal change information of a position of the touch regarding a touch pattern to be drawn on the touch panel of the portable apparatus to establish the wireless communication with the portable apparatus; and

establishing the wireless communication between the portable apparatus and the communication apparatus and transmitting the content data to the potable apparatus when the temporal change information of the position of the touch is substantially identical with preset setting information.

15. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a processor, which is disposed in a communication apparatus that performs wireless communication with another portable apparatus and transmits content data including image data, to execute:

receiving identification information of the portable apparatus, a password corresponding to the identification information, and temporal change information of a touch position regarding a touch pattern to be drawn on a touch panel of the portable apparatus to establish the wireless communication with the portable apparatus; and

establishing the wireless communication between the portable apparatus and the communication apparatus and transmitting the content data to the portable apparatus when the temporal change information of the touch position is substantially identical with preset setting information.