Information processing apparatus and capture image transmitting method

• US 8,233,843 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Issued: 07/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohkita, Hideki, Nakagawa, Hideyuki, Odakura, Satoshi, Hashimoto, Ayumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US12/827,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20100328469A1
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.1, 455/41.3, 455/566, 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 455/557, 348/207.1, 340/10.1, 340/539.1, 235/486, 235/492, 726/8
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/025 LAN communication management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• 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 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32771 in response to a request, e.g. for a particular document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32776 using an interactive, user-operated device, e.g. a computer terminal, mobile telephone H04N1/32782, H04N1/32784 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0041 Point to point H04N2201/0039 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/006 Using near field communication, e.g. an inductive loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0096 Portable devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a communication module which performs close proximity wireless transfer, a connection establishing module which establishes connection between the communication module and an external device, and a capture image transmission module which transmits screen capture image data to the external device when a command for requesting data transmission is received from the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and external device is established. The command is determined in a protocol for transmitting and receiving data between the communication module and the external device, and is added a parameter for specifying the attribute of requested data as images.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a communication module configured to execute close proximity wireless transfer;

a connection establishing module configured to establish connection between the communication module and an external device; and

a capture image transmission module configured to generate image data for a screen being displayed on a display device and to transmit the image data to the external device when a command for requesting data transmission is received from the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and the external device is established, the command being defined in a protocol for transmitting and receiving data between the communication module and the external device, and the command being added a parameter for indicating an attribute of requested data as images.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the command for requesting data transmission comprises a default object acquisition request.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the capture image transmission module is configured to generate image data for an entire display screen.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the capture image transmission module is configured to generate image data for an active window area on the display screen.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a setting module configured to set either the entire display screen or an active window area on the display screen as a range for which image data is to be generated by the capture image transmission module.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the command for requesting data transmission comprises a “

Get default object”

defined in a push protocol class of an object exchange (OBEX) protocol.

7. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a communication module configured to execute close proximity wireless transfer;

a connection establishing module configured to establish connection between the communication module and an external device;

a transmission module configured to transmit a command for requesting data transmission as a transmission request for image data for a screen being displayed on a display device to the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and external device has been established, the command being defined in a protocol for transmitting and receiving data between the communication module and the external device, and the command being added a parameter for indicating the attribute of requested data as images; and

a reception module configured to receive image data transmitted in response to the command.

8. A capture image transmitting method for an information processing apparatus comprising a communication module configured to execute close proximity wireless transfer, the method comprising:

establishing connection between the communication module and an external device; and

generating image data for a screen being displayed on a display device and transmitting screen capture image data to the external device when a command for requesting data transmission is received from the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and external device is established, the command being defined in a protocol for transmitting and receiving data between the communication module and the external device, and the command being added a parameter for indicating the attribute of requested data as images.