COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20180241939A1
• Filed: 02/20/2018
• Published: 08/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kawai, Yuji
• Granted Patent: US 10,623,632 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/617 Upgrading or updating of programs or applications for camera control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices

Abstract

A communication apparatus carries out control such that in the case where a display of a selection screen is to be resumed after the display of the selection screen has been interrupted in response to a reception of an instruction to start a predetermined process from an operation unit while the selection screen is being displayed, a content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption is displayed in the selection screen.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a communication unit that can communicate with an external apparatus;

an operation unit configured to accept a user operation;

a transfer unit configured to transfer content selected by a user to the external apparatus via the communication unit; and

a display control unit configured to display a selection screen for the user to select content to be transferred,

wherein the display control unit carries out control such that in the case where the display of the selection screen is to be resumed after the display of the selection screen has been interrupted in response to the reception of an instruction to start a predetermined process from the operation unit while the selection screen is being displayed, the content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption is displayed in the selection screen.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit carries out control such that at least one of an index indicating that an image to be transferred is selected and an identification frame indicating a target for selecting whether or not to transfer is displayed in the selection screen, and in the case where the display of the selection screen is to be resumed, displaying at least one of the index and the identification frame on the same content as the content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined processing is image shooting processing;

and

the display control unit carries out control such that a display selection screen enabling the user to select whether to display a shot image in the selection screen or to display the content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption is displayed before resuming the display of the selection screen.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein in the case where a selection has been made to display the shot image in the display selection screen, and the display of the selection screen is to be resumed, the display control unit displays the shot image in the selection screen.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined processing is image shooting processing;

the apparatus further comprises a setting unit through which the user can select, in advance, whether to display a shot image or the content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption in the selection screen; and

in the case where a selection has been made to display the shot image through the setting unit, and the display of the selection screen is to be resumed, the display control unit displays the shot image in the selection screen.

6. The apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the display control unit further displays a screen through which a user operation instructing the transfer of the shot image to be started can be accepted, and when the instruction to start the transfer has been accepted, displays the content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption in the selection screen in the case where the display of the selection screen is to be resumed.

7. The apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the transfer unit starts the transfer of the image via the communication unit upon a new image being acquired through the shooting processing;

and

when the transfer of the new image has been started by the transfer unit, the display control unit displays the content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption in the selection screen in the case where the display of the selection screen is to be resumed.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein in the case where the display of the selection screen is interrupted, the display control unit resumes the display of the selection screen after displaying at least part of the new image so that the new image can be confirmed.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the content includes at least one of an image, video, audio, three-dimensional data, and position data.

10. A control method of a communication apparatus which includes a communication unit that can communicate with an external apparatus, an operation unit configured to accept a user operation, and a transfer unit configured to transfer content selected by a user to the external apparatus via the communication unit, the method comprising:

displaying a selection screen for the user to select content to be transferred,

wherein the displaying includes;

interrupting the display of the selection screen in response to an instruction to start predetermined processing being received from the operation unit while the selection screen is being displayed; and

carrying out control to display content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption in the selection screen in the case where the display of the selection screen is to be resumed.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as a communication apparatus comprising:

a communication unit that can communicate with an external apparatus;

an operation unit configured to accept a user operation;

a transfer unit configured to transfer content selected by a user to the external apparatus via the communication unit; and

a display control unit configured to display a selection screen for the user to select content to be transferred,

wherein the display control unit carries out control such that in the case where the display of the selection screen is to be resumed after the display of the selection screen has been interrupted in response to the reception of an instruction to start a predetermined process from the operation unit while the selection screen is being displayed, the content that had been displayed at the time of the interruption is displayed in the selection screen.