COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME

• US 20150237664A1
• Filed: 02/09/2015
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tanabe, Akihiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,380,626 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

A communication apparatus comprising: a first communication unit; a second communication unit that is different from the first communication unit; and a control unit configured to control processing in which the first and second communication units are used, wherein the control unit performs control such that information regarding an application needed for processing performed using the second communication unit is sent to a first apparatus using the first communication unit, a signal based on the information regarding the application is received from the first apparatus or a second apparatus connected with the first apparatus using the second communication unit and the application is launched in accordance with the signal, and processing performed using the second communication unit is executed using the launched application.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a first communication unit;

a second communication unit that is different from the first communication unit; and

a control unit configured to control processing in which the first and second communication units are used,

wherein the control unit performs control such that

information regarding an application needed for processing performed using the second communication unit is sent to a first apparatus using the first communication unit,

a signal based on the information regarding the application is received from the first apparatus or a second apparatus connected with the first apparatus using the second communication unit and the application is launched in accordance with the signal, and

processing performed using the second communication unit is executed using the launched application.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information relating to the application includes information regarding an operating system on which the application runs.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit furthermore performs control such that if a signal for determining whether or not the communication apparatus exists within a communicable range of the second apparatus is received via the second communication unit, a response to the signal is sent to the second apparatus using the second communication unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information regarding the application includes identification information for the communication apparatus.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit furthermore performs control such that

information specifying the information regarding the application sent using the first communication unit is received from the first apparatus via the first communication unit, and

the specifying information is sent to the second apparatus using the launched application and the second communication unit.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second communication unit is a communication unit whose communication distance is shorter than that of the first communication unit.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second communication unit uses near field communication.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second communication unit performs communication using NFC, and

the control unit uses the first communication unit to send information regarding the application and information regarding a type of a data format used by the second communication unit to the first apparatus.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

if the application is launched in response to the signal based on the information regarding the application being received from the second apparatus using the second communication unit, the control unit uses the launched application to execute processing performed using the second communication unit without requiring a user operation.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to function the each unit of the communication apparatus according to claim 1.

10. A control method for a communication apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising a first communication unit, a second communication unit that is different from the first communication unit, and a control unit configured to control processing in which the first and the second communication units are used, the control method comprising:

a sending step of sending information regarding an application needed for processing performed using the second communication unit to a first apparatus using the first communication unit;

a launching step of receiving a signal based on the information regarding the application from the first apparatus or a second apparatus connected with the first apparatus using the second communication unit and launching the application in accordance with the signal; and

an execution step of executing, using the launched application, processing performed using the second communication unit.

12. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive information including identification information for a communication apparatus and application information sent by the communication apparatus;

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the communication apparatus exists within a communicable range based on the identification information, and

a sending unit configured to, if it is determined by the determination unit that the communication apparatus exists within the communicable range, send the application information to the communication apparatus.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

an execution unit configured to execute processing designated for an application that is specified using the information received by the reception unit and is to be launched in the communication apparatus.

14. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

the sending unit sends the application information to the communication apparatus using near field communication.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the information processing apparatus according to claim 12.

15. A control method for an information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception step of receiving information including identification information for a communication apparatus and application information sent by the communication apparatus;

a determination step of determining whether or not the communication apparatus exists within a communicable range based on the identification information; and

a sending step of sending the application information to the communication apparatus if it is determined in the determination step that the communication apparatus exists within the communicable range.