Transmission control device, reception control device, and content transceiving system

• US 8,948,798 B2
• Filed: 11/09/2011
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sakayori, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghebretinsae, Temesgh
• Assistant Examiner(s): SANDIFORD, DEVAN A
• Application Number:
  US13/292,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20120127197A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,182 Days
• Field of Search: 455/39, 455/420, 455/500, 345/619
• US Class Current: 455/500
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

A transmission control device may include an acquiring unit to acquire information indicating an orientation of a transmission apparatus. In addition, the device may include a control unit to control the transmission apparatus to transmit to a reception apparatus content of the transmission apparatus when an operation is performed to the transmission apparatus after the information indicating the orientation is acquired, the operation corresponding to the orientation.

Claims

1. A transmission control device comprising:

an acquiring unit to acquire information indicating an orientation of a transmission apparatus; and

a control unit to control the transmission apparatus to transmit to a first reception apparatus of a plurality of reception apparatuses content of the transmission apparatus when an operation is performed to the transmission apparatus after the information indicating the orientation is acquired, the operation corresponding to a predetermined orientation;

wherein the control unit controls a display, on a display screen, of an indication that a second reception apparatus of the plurality of reception apparatuses is not a reception apparatus of the plurality of reception apparatuses selected for transmission of the content, based on a determination of a positional relationship of each of the first reception apparatus and the second reception apparatus, the determination using position information acquired from the first reception apparatus and the second reception apparatus and based on which of the first reception apparatus and the second reception apparatus has an angle of a position nearest to a reference line determined using the orientation of the transmission apparatus.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a display, on a display screen, of an icon indicating the orientation according to a state of the transmission apparatus.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a display of an index screen for selecting an image as the content to be transmitted.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a display of a display screen for selecting the first reception apparatus as a transmission destination of the content.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a display, on a display screen, for selecting at least two of the plurality of reception apparatuses as transmission destinations of the content.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls acquiring of the position information and identification information of the first and second reception apparatuses.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls specifying a folder of the first reception apparatus.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls transmission of identification information of the device to the first reception apparatus.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit determines whether the first reception apparatus permits transmission of the content.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein, when the first reception apparatus permits the transmission of the content, the control unit controls the transmission of the content using a gesture as the operation.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a display, on a display screen, of content selectable to be transmitted to the first reception apparatus, according to the orientation of the transmission apparatus.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a display, on a display screen, of the content with indicia according to the orientation of the transmission apparatus.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display of the indicia with the content, when information, which relates to the content, corresponds to the orientation of the transmission apparatus.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the control unit controls transmission of the content displayed with the indicia when a predetermined operation is performed to the transmission apparatus.

15. The device of claim 12, wherein the indicia is highlighting.

16. The device of claim 1, wherein the content includes at least one of text, audio, an image, a file or a folder.

17. The device of claim 1, wherein, when the content includes a moving image, the control unit controls the transmission of the moving image to the first reception apparatus by streaming.

18. The device of claim 1 further comprising:

a position unit to obtain the position information of the first and second reception apparatuses and position information of the transmission apparatus.

19. The device of claim 1, wherein the operation is a predetermined gesture.

20. The device of claim 1, wherein the content is transmitted wirelessly.

21. The device of claim 1, wherein directory information of the content is transmitted to the first reception apparatus when the content is transmitted.

22. A method of transmission control comprising:

acquiring information indicating an orientation of a transmission apparatus;

controlling, by a processor, the transmission apparatus to transmit to a first reception apparatus of a plurality of reception apparatuses content of the transmission apparatus when an operation is performed to the transmission apparatus after the information indicating the orientation is acquired, the operation corresponding to a predetermined orientation; and

controlling, by the processor, a display, on a display screen, of an indication that a second reception apparatus of the plurality of reception apparatuses is not a reception apparatus of the plurality of reception apparatuses selected for transmission of the content, based on a determination of a positional relationship of each of the first reception apparatus and the second reception apparatus, the determination using position information acquired from the first reception apparatus and the second reception apparatus and based on which of the first reception apparatus and the second reception apparatus has an angle of a position nearest to a reference line determined using the orientation of the transmission apparatus.

23. A transceiver apparatus comprising:

an acquiring unit to acquire information indicating an orientation of the apparatus;

an operation detection unit to detect an operation performed to the apparatus; and

a control unit to control the apparatus to transmit to a first reception device of a plurality of reception devices content of the apparatus when an operation is performed to the apparatus after the information indicating the orientation is acquired, the operation corresponding to a predetermined orientation,

wherein the control unit controls a display, on a display screen, of an indication that a second reception device of the plurality of reception devices is not a reception device of the plurality of reception devices selected for transmission of the content, based on a determination of a positional relationship of each of the first reception device and the second reception device, the determination using position information acquired from the first reception device and the second reception device and based on which of the first reception device and the second reception device has an angle of a position nearest to a reference line determined using the orientation of the apparatus, and

wherein the control unit controls reception of content from a transmission device at the apparatus when the operation performed to the apparatus after the information indicating the orientation is acquired corresponds to a predetermined orientation.