Method and system for capturing media by using BAN

• US 9,712,256 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2015
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Larsson, Malin, Bolin, Thomas, Rodzevski, Aleksandar, Thorn, Ola, Bengtsson, Erik, Tarnhed, Kristian, Bengtsson, Henrik
• Primary Examiner(s): TALUKDER, MD K
• Application Number:
  US14/612,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20160226599A1
• Time in Patent Office: 896 Days
• Field of Search: 455 411, 455 412, 455 413
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 13/005 Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

A method and system for capturing media data using an Body Area Network, BAN, wherein the BAN comprises a BAN enabled media capturing device associated with a first user and at least one BAN enabled communication device associated with a second user, wherein a BAN link is established through the body of the second user between the capturing device and the communication device, when the second user touches the capturing device, settings, related to capturing media data and related to said second user, are downloaded to the capturing device by using the established BAN link and media data is captured with the capturing device by using the downloaded settings wherein the capturing is triggered by the second user.

Claims

1. A method for capturing image data and storing the image data to an account corresponding to a second user using Body Area Network (BAN), wherein said BAN comprises a BAN enabled image capturing device associated with a first user and at least one BAN enabled communication device associated with a second user, said method comprising:

establishing a BAN link through the body of said second user between said image capturing device and said communication device, when said second user touches said image capturing device;

downloading settings, related to capturing media data and related to said second user, to said capturing device, wherein said settings are downloaded over said established BAN link; and

capturing image data with said image capturing device the capturing triggered by the second user; and

automatically signing out of the image capturing device upon the second user no longer touching the image capturing device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said transferring said captured image data from said capturing device to said communication device includes using a communication network.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said downloaded settings comprises media capture history related to said second user.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein capturing image data comprising:

downloading a media capturing application to said image capturing device by using a communication network; and

capturing said image data by activating an instance of said capturing application.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said method comprising:

adding metadata to said captured image data.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said metadata comprising identification information of said second user.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein said metadata comprising security information.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein said metadata comprising any of time, location or a combination thereof.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said method comprising:

setting restriction of access to said capturing device.

20. The method according to claim 1, further comprising transferring the captured image data to the account of the second user.

10. A system for capturing image data and storing the image data to an account corresponding to a second user using a Body Area Network (BAN), wherein said system comprises a BAN enabled image capturing device associated with a first user and at least one BAN enabled communication device associated with a second user wherein said image capturing device comprising:

a processing circuitry configured to;

i. establishing a BAN link through the body of said second user between said image capturing device and said communication device, when said second user touches said image capturing device; and

ii. downloading settings, related to capturing media data and related to said second user, to said capturing device, wherein said settings are downloaded over said established BAN link,

an image capturing unit configured to capturing image data, wherein the capturing is triggered by said second user, wherein said communication device comprising;

a processing circuitry configured to;

i. establishing said BAN link through the body of said second user between said communication device and said image capturing device, when said second user touches said capturing device; and

ii. automatically signing out of the image capturing device upon the second user no longer touching the image capturing device.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein said processing circuitry of said image capturing device is configured to transfer said captured image data from said image capturing device to said communication device by using a communication network.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein said settings comprise media capture history related to said second user.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein said processing circuitry of said image capturing device is configured to downloading a media capturing application to said image capturing device by using a communication network and said image capturing unit is configured to capturing said image data by using said capturing application.

14. The system according to claim 10, wherein said processing circuitry of said image capturing device is configured to adding metadata to said captured image data.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein said metadata comprising identification information of said second user.

16. The system according to claim 14, wherein said metadata comprising security information.

17. The system according to claim 14, wherein said metadata comprising any of time, location or a combination thereof.

18. The system according to claim 10, wherein said processing circuitry is configured to setting restriction of access to said image capturing device.

19. The method according to claim 10, wherein the processing circuitry of the communication device is configured to transfer the captured image data from the image capturing device to the account of the second user.