Digital camera and control method of digital camera

• US 8,237,953 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2005
• Issued: 08/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tieu, Benny Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): THOMAS, ASHISH
• Application Number:
  US11/242,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20060077455A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,500 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.13, 358/1.15, 358/402, 235/462.01, 709/220, 709/238, 709/227, 455/41.1, 455/500, 455/88, 455/518, 455/557, 348/211.4, 348/333.02, 348/207.2, 713/300, 713/168, 710/16
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/128 Direct printing, e.g. sending document file, using memory stick, printing from a camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1286 via local network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00278 with a printing apparatus, e.g. a laser beam printer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0041 Point to point H04N2201/0039 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0044 Connecting to a plurality of different apparatus; Using a plurality of different connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0049 By wire, cable or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera

Abstract

To reduce trouble of specifying a target equipment, a nickname, an image, and the like are transmitted from a digital camera to a printer by wire connection not through a LAN. After the digital camera is connected to the printer through the LAN, the digital camera displays information regarding the printer on a monitor based on the nickname, the image, and the like received from the printer.

Claims

1. A control method for a digital camera connectable to a wireless network, comprising the following steps:

a storing step of preliminarily storing printer identification information in correlation with a thumbnail image created from an image photographed by a digital camera;

a wired communication step of transmitting the printer identification information to a printer and the thumbnail image stored in the storing step;

a wireless communication step of communicating with a printer in a wireless network;

a searching step of searching whether there is a printer which the camera can communicate with in a vicinity when the camera is connected to the wireless network and receiving the thumbnail image and the printer identification information from the printer by the wireless communication;

a display step of displaying on a selection screen display unit a list of searched printers by using the thumbnail image and the printer identification information received in the receiving step; and

a selecting step of selecting a printer to start communication with the selected printer as a communication partner.