Information processing apparatus, system and control method for transmitting data enabling selection of an image to be transmitted

• US 9,141,312 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2013
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Takumi
• Primary Examiner(s): HOGUE, DENNIS A
• Application Number:
  US13/905,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20130258121A1
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.99, 348/207.1, 348/207.2, 3482111-2113, 348/222.1, 348/231.2, 348/333.05, 348/333.11, 348/372, 348/14.01, 348/231.99, 348/376, 358/1.6, 358/1.15, 358/401, 358/403, 358/527, 358/906, 358/909.1, 455/41.2, 320/106, 715/838, 235/375
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/12 Digital output to print unit , e.g. line printer, chain printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1209 resulting in adapted or bridged legacy communication protocols, e.g. emulation, protocol extension
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• 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 2201/006 Using near field communication, e.g. an inductive loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/651 for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

In an information processing apparatus for transmitting and receiving information via a communication medium established relative to an external apparatus, it is determined whether the information to be transmitted and subject to specific processing in the external apparatus is selected or not. If it is determined that the information to be transmitted is selected, the selected information is transmitted via the communication medium. If it is determined that the information is not selected, designation information indicating the information selectable subject to transmission is transmitted via the communication medium. Then, the information designated by the designation information received in response to the transmission of the selection information is transmitted to the external apparatus via the communication medium.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus;

a detection unit configured to detect that connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit selection data in case that the communication apparatus is operating in a capture mode for capturing images, the communication apparatus and the external apparatus approach each other and the detection unit detects that the connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established, wherein the selection data enable a user to select an image to be transmitted from a plurality of data held by said communication apparatus.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a determination unit configured to determine a mode of said communication apparatus.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit performs Near Field Communication.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transfer unit configured to transfer, in response to a request from the external apparatus, image data to the external apparatus, wherein the image data is selected based on the selection data.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus comprises a digital camera.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selection data include a thumbnail image of each of the plurality of data.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the selection data sent by the transmitting unit is transmitted via the communication unit.

8. A method of a communication apparatus comprising a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus, said method comprising:

a detection step of detecting that connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established; and

a transmitting step of transmitting selection data in case that the communication apparatus is operating in a capture mode for capturing images, the communication apparatus and the external apparatus approach each other and it is detected in the detection step that the connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has established, wherein the selection data enable a user to select an image to be transmitted from a plurality of data held by the communication apparatus.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute each of the steps of the method according to claim 8.

10. A communication apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus;

a detection unit configured to detect that connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established;

a transmitting unit configured to in response that the communication apparatus and the external apparatus approach each other and the detection unit detects that the connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established, perform data transfer processing in which data that is being displayed by the communication apparatus at a time of the detection by the detection unit is transmitted to the external apparatus, and configured not to perform the data transfer processing in a case that said communication apparatus is in a capture mode for capturing an image; and

a sending unit configured to send selection data to the external apparatus in case that said communication apparatus is in the capture mode at the time of the detection by the detection unit, wherein the selection data enable a user to select an image to be transmitted from a plurality of data held by said communication apparatus.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said transmitting unit transmits data which said communication apparatus is displaying, to the external apparatus, in case that said communication apparatus is in a reproducing mode in which said communication apparatus reproduces data at the time of the detection by the detection unit.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said transmitting unit transmits the data which is being displayed at the time of the detection by the detection unit, using said communication unit in the data transfer processing.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said transmitting unit transmits the data which is being displayed such that the external apparatus prints or displays the data.

14. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the communication unit performs Near Field Communication.

15. The apparatus according to claim 10 further comprising a selection unit configured to select an image to be displayed based on a user'"'"'s operation,

wherein the transmitting unit transmits the image data selected by said selection unit to the external apparatus, in case that the image selected by said selection unit is being displayed and a state in which the connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has not been established changed to a state in which the connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established by approaching the communication apparatus and the external apparatus.

16. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the external apparatus comprises a printer, and

the data transfer processing is a processing for transmitting the data to the external apparatus to cause the external apparatus to print the data.

17. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising a power-on unit configured to turned on a power in a case where a connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established in a power off sate,

wherein, in a case where a power is turned on by the power-on unit, the transmitting unit does not perform the data transfer processing in response that the connection with the external apparatus through said communication unit has been established.

18. The apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the data transfer processing performed by said transmitting unit is executed through a communication by the communication unit.

19. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising a transfer unit configured to transfer, in response to a request from the external apparatus, image data to the external apparatus, wherein the image data is selected based on the selection data.