Information processing apparatus, remote indication system, and computer readable medium

• US 8,125,525 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2009
• Issued: 02/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tokai, Kiwame
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Tuan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Kent
• Application Number:
  US12/425,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20100085435A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.11, 348/231.2, 348/207.1, 348/231.3, 348/231.6, 348/231.9, 348 86- 95, 348125-134, 348/139, 348/143, 348/153, 348/159, 386/218, 386/219, 386/220, 386/230
• US Class Current: 348/207.11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00098 via a television channel, e.g. for a series of still pictures with or without sound
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00915 Assigning priority to, or interrupting, a particular operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3212 of data relating to a job, e.g. communication, capture or filing of an image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/144 camera and display on the same optical axis, e.g. optically multiplexing the camera and display for eye to eye contact
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives multiple captured images that are captured with a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected; a detection unit that detects a priority image that is included in the multiple captured images being received by the reception unit and is assigned priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device; and a controller that controls the reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit that receives multiple captured images that are captured with a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected;

a detection unit that detects a priority image from among the multiple captured images being received by the reception unit, the priority image having priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device;

a controller that controls the reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive first image data that corresponds to the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the first image data corresponding to the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit; and

a requesting unit that requests a second image data based on priority information while receiving the first image data.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit detects the priority image with the priority information from header information of each of the multiple captured images received by the reception unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display device to display selection information to choose whether or not a user stops updating an image displayed on the display device to the priority image when the reception unit receives the priority image.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit that sets an identifier of at least one of the captured images,

wherein the requesting unit requests the second image based on the identifier.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the reception unit to receive the second image data if the priority information of the second image data identified the second image data as a priority image and to stop receiving the first image data.

6. A remote indication system comprising:

a first information processing apparatus including

a first reception unit that receives multiple captured image from a capture device that captures an object, and

an addition unit that adds priority information that specifies a priority image displayed preferentially on a display device to one or more of the multiple captured image received by the first reception unit; and

a second information processing apparatus including

a second reception unit that is connected to the first information processing apparatus via a communication medium, and receives the multiple captured image in parallel from the first information processing apparatus,

a detection unit that detects the priority image from the multiple captured images received by the second reception unit in accordance with the priority information,

a controller that controls the second reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive first image data that corresponds to the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the first image data that corresponds to the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit; and

a requesting unit that requests second image data based on priority information while receiving the first image data.

7. The remote indication system according to claim 6, wherein the addition unit adds the priority information to a captured image selected by the first information processing apparatus or the second information processing apparatus.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the detection unit detects the priority image with the priority information from header information of each of the multiple captured images received by the second reception unit.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller controls the display device to display selection information to choose whether or not a user stops updating an image displayed on the display device to the priority image when the second reception unit receives the priority image.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a setting unit that sets an identifier of at least one of the captured images,

wherein the requesting unit requests the second image based on the identifier.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller controls the second reception unit to receive the second image data if the priority information of the second image data identified the second image data as a priority image and to stop receiving the first image data.

12. A recording medium causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

receiving multiple captured images by a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected;

detecting a priority image from among the multiple captured images being received, the priority image having priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device;

stopping receiving other captured images not assigned the priority information, and receiving first image data that corresponds to the priority image with the priority information to display the first image data that corresponds to the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected; and

requesting second image data based on priority information while receiving the first image data.

13. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a setting unit that sets an identifier of a captured image which is captured by a capture device as an identifier of a receiving image and updates the identifier;

a requesting unit that requests an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected to send a captured image in accordance with the identifier;

a receiving unit that receives the captured image which is requested to be sent; and

a detection unit that detects a priority tag which is included in header information of the captured image received by the receiving unit,

wherein the receiving unit receives a second image if the second image has a priority tag and stops receiving a first captured image which is currently being received if the first captured image does not have a priority tag,

the received second captured image is displayed on a display device, and

the setting unit updates the identifier of the receiving image when the detection unit does not detect a priority tag in a captured image.