Communication apparatus, method for controlling communication apparatus, and storage medium

• US 9,148,747 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2014
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tanji, Masamichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Menberu, Beniyam
• Application Number:
  US14/184,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20140240769A1
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/1231 Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/002 Interacting with the operator
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00233 details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12
• 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 1/32767 in response to a user operation, e.g. actuating a switch H04N1/32769 and H04N1/32771 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0098 User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

A communication apparatus capable of executing a wireless communication includes an identification unit, a display unit, a notification unit, and a connection unit. The identification unit identifies a communication partner of the wireless communication. The display unit displays, if an external apparatus which is the communication partner of the wireless communication is identified by the identification unit, a confirmation screen for allowing a user to confirm whether to execute the wireless communication with the external apparatus. The notification unit notifies, if the confirmation screen is displayed by the display unit, the external apparatus that the user is confirming whether to execute the wireless communication. The connection unit executes, if the user issues an instruction via the confirmation screen to execute the wireless communication with the external apparatus, connection processing for executing the wireless communication with the external apparatus.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus capable of executing a direct wireless communication, the communication apparatus comprising:

an identification unit configured to identify, by performing search processing, one external apparatus as a communication partner of the direct wireless communication;

a display unit configured to display, in a case where the identification unit identifies one external apparatus as a communication partner of the direct wireless communication, an instruction screen for a user to instruct to establish the direct wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus identified by the identification unit;

a notification unit configured to notify, in a case where the display unit displays the instruction screen, the external apparatus identified by the identification unit that the communication apparatus is waiting for the instruction of the user; and

a connection unit configured to perform, in a case where the user instructs to establish the direct wireless communication via the instruction screen, connection processing for establishing the direct wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus identified by the identification unit.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the user instructs not to establish the direct wireless communication via the instruction screen, the connection unit does not perform the connection processing.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the connection processing is processing for determining roles of the external apparatus identified by the identification unit and the communication apparatus in the direct wireless communication, and establishing the wireless communication based on the determined roles.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, in a case where the user instructs not to establish the direct wireless communication via the instruction screen, the connection unit does not perform the connection processing and the notification unit notifies the external apparatus identified by the identification unit that the direct wireless communication is not established.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the communication apparatus executes the direct wireless communication, either one of the communication apparatus and the external apparatus identified by the identification unit operates as an access point.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein identification information of the external apparatus identified by the identification unit is displayed on the instruction screen.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the identification information is a name of the external apparatus identified by the identification unit.

10. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus is a printing apparatus capable of executing printing processing.

4. A method for controlling a communication apparatus capable of executing a direct wireless communication:

the method comprising;

identifying, by performing search processing, one external apparatus as a communication partner of the direct wireless communication;

displaying, in a case where identifying includes identifying one external apparatus as a communication partner of the direct wireless communication, an instruction screen for a user to instruct to establish the direct wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the identified external apparatus;

notifying, in a case where displaying includes displaying the instruction screen, the identified external apparatus that the communication apparatus is waiting for the instruction of the user; and

performing, in a case where the user instructs to establish the direct wireless communication via the instruction screen, connection processing for establishing the direct wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the identified external apparatus.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute the method according to claim 4.