Devices and methods for performing operations on image data stored in an external storage device

• US 9,456,091 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2014
• Issued: 09/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kurosawa, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): LETT, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US14/328,628
• Publication Number:
  US 20140320683A1
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/001 specially adapted for transmission via digital wireline networks H04N1/00098 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• 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 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0013 Arrangements for the control of the connected apparatus by the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0049 By wire, cable or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

A technique of directly and simply operating image data stored in an external storage device using a camera is provided. To accomplish this, an image processing device connectable to a network, comprises a connection unit configured to connect to an imaging device, an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data captured by the imaging device from an external device on the network, in accordance with a user operation on the imaging device, and a display control unit configured to display the image data acquired by the acquisition unit and image data stored in the imaging device in accordance with a display unit of the imaging device.

Claims

1. An image capturing device connectable to an external storage device on a network, comprising:

a retrieve request transmitting unit configured to transmit a retrieve request, the retrieve request including as retrieval conditions an identifier associated with the image capturing device, to the external storage device for acquiring first image data related to the identifier stored in the external storage device;

a receiving unit configured to receive, from the external storage device, acquisition path information for acquiring the first image data related to the identifier as a response to the retrieve request;

a first memory configured to store second image data;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire, using the acquisition path information received by the receiving unit, the first image data related to the identifier from the external storage device; and

a display control unit configured to display the first image data acquired by the acquisition unit and the second image data stored in the first memory on a display unit,

wherein at least one of the retrieve request transmitting unit, the receiving unit, the acquisition unit, or the display control unit is implemented by a processor and at least one of the first memory or a second memory.

2. The image capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the first image data corresponding to a layout of image data on the display unit from the external storage device.

3. The image capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit pre-reads image data.

4. The image capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition path information includes a first uniform resource locator (URL) for acquiring the first image data and a second URL for acquiring a thumbnail image of a first image, and

wherein the acquisition unit is configured to acquire, using the first URL and the second URL, the first image data and the thumbnail image of the first image.

5. A method of controlling an image capturing device connectable to an external storage device on a network, the method comprising:

transmitting a retrieve request, the retrieve request including as retrieval conditions an identifier associated with the image capturing device, to the external storage device for acquiring first image data related to the identifier stored in the external storage device;

receiving, from the external storage device, acquisition path information for acquiring the first image data related to the identifier as a response to the retrieve request;

acquiring, using the received acquisition path information, the first image data related to the identifier from the external storage device; and

displaying the acquired first image data and second image data stored in a memory of the image capturing device on a display unit.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an image capturing device connectable to an external storage device on a network, the method comprising:

transmitting a retrieve request, the retrieve request including as retrieval conditions an identifier associated with the image capturing device, to the external storage device for acquiring first image data related to the camera identifier stored in the external storage device;

receiving, from the external storage device, acquisition path information for acquiring the first image data related to the identifier as a response to the retrieve request;

acquiring, using the received acquisition path information, the first image data related to the identifier from the external storage device; and

displaying the acquired first image data and second image data stored in a memory of the image capturing device on a display unit.