Communication device, communication system, image presentation method, and program

• US 9,477,860 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2014
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Yoichi, Oshima, Mitsuaki, Yamaoka, Masaru, Mukai, Tsutomu, Sato, Takahiro, Fuchigami, Ikuo, Tezuka, Tadanori, Ohtsubo, Shohji, Matsushita, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Bugg, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Akhter, Sharmin
• Application Number:
  US14/175,207
• Publication Number:
  US 20140152856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 340/10.42, 340/3.1, 340/3.7, 340/5.2, 340 101- 106, 348/207.1, 348/211.2, 348/211.1, 348/211.99, 348/231.99, 348/231.3, 348/372
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10297 arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00007 relating to particular apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00029 Diagnosis, i.e. identifying a problem by comparison with a normal state
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00079 remotely
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00291 with receiver circuitry television receiver circuitry per se H04N5/44
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00342 with a radio frequency tag transmitter or receiver storage of additional information in an RFID tag attached to an image bearing paper sheet H04N1/32138
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00899 Detection of supply level or supply failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00901 Using different supplies or connection to an external supply H04N1/00893, H04N1/00896 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32106 separate from the image data, e.g. in a different computer file
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4182 for identification purposes, e.g. storing user identification data, preferences, personal settings or data restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code in combination with an additional device, e.g. dongle or smart card G06F21/123
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0041 Point to point H04N2201/0039 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0053 Optical, e.g. using an infrared link
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3204 of data relating to a user, sender, addressee, machine or electronic recording medium H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 : of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 : Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 : Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 : Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 : Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 : by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 : adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A communication device including an image capturing device having a RF-ID unit for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer connected via an infrared communication path to a TV. The image capturing device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer; a nonvolatile second memory storing at least UID and an execution program; and a data transmission unit transmitting the UID and the execution program to the RF-ID reader/writer via the antenna according to the input signal. The UID is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program is executed by the TV with reference to the UID. The transmitted UID and execution program are transferred to the TV via the RF-ID reader/writer.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

a high-speed communication unit configured to perform high-speed communication that is speedier than Near Field Communication (NFC);

an NFC unit configured to receive, from an external device by the NFC, (a) operation information for determining a predetermined operation to be performed by the communication device using the high-speed communication and (b) communication information for identifying an external communication device, the external device being located remotely from the external communication device;

a storage unit in which unique information that is unique to the communication device is stored; and

a control unit configured to (i) connect, via the high-speed communication, the high-speed communication unit to the external communication device identified based on the communication information received by the NFC unit, and (ii) cause the communication device to perform the predetermined operation determined based on the operation information received by the NFC unit and the unique information read from the storage unit,

wherein the operation information includes operation device identification information that indicates a type of a target device to perform the predetermined operation,

the unique information includes communication device type information that indicates a type of the communication device, and

the predetermined operation is determined by comparing the operation device identification information to the communication device type information, and is an operation in which the communication device communicates with the external communication device through the high-speed communication.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the NFC unit is a Radio Frequency IDentification (RF-ID) reader that receives the operation information and the communication information from an RF-ID included in the external device.

3. The communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the communication information received by the NFC unit includes authentication information, and

the control unit is configured to connect the high-speed communication unit to the external communication device via the high-speed communication based on the authentication information.

4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the external communication device is a server.

5. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein the external device is an RF-ID card.

6. A communication device comprising:

a high-speed communication unit configured to perform high-speed communication that is speedier than Near Field Communication (NFC);

an NFC unit configured to receive, from an external device by the NFC, (a) operation information for determining a predetermined operation to be performed by the communication device using the high-speed communication and (b) communication information for identifying an external communication device, the external device being located remotely from the external communication device;

a storage unit in which unique information that is unique to the communication device is stored; and

a control unit configured to (i) connect, via the high-speed communication, the high-speed communication unit to the external communication device identified based on the communication information received by the NFC unit, and (ii) cause the communication device to perform the predetermined operation determined based on the operation information received by the NFC unit and the unique information read from the storage unit,

wherein the operation information includes target device information that is identification information for uniquely identifying a target device to perform the predetermined operation,

the unique information includes communication device identification information that is identification information for uniquely identifying the communication device, and

the predetermined operation is determined by comparing the target device information to the communication device identification information, and is an operation in which the communication device communicates with the external communication device through the high-speed communication.

7. The communication device according to claim 6, wherein the external communication device is a server.

8. The communication device according to claim 6, wherein the NFC unit is a Radio Frequency IDentification (RF-ID) reader that receives the operation information and the communication information from an RF-ID included in the external device.

9. The communication device according to claim 8, wherein the external device is an RF-ID card.