Information processing device, information processing system, and method for controlling information processing device

• US 10,530,958 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2018
• Issued: 01/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ito, Ryogo, Okamoto, Keiji, Akamatsu, Kazuma, Fukata, Yoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Berhan, Ahmed A
• Application Number:
  US16/117,871
• Publication Number:
  US 20180376026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/02 Bodies
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/566 Accessory clips, holders, shoes to attach accessories to camera if integral part of camera body G03B17/02
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/00 Details of cameras or camera bodies; Accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/436 Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB or one or more peripheral devices inside the home
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6181 involving transmission via a mobile phone network arrangements for providing broadcast or conference services to substation in data switching networks in combination with wireless systems H04L12/189; wireless uplink channel access H04W74/004
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

Content transmission between devices is to be appropriately performed. An information processing device includes a control unit. In addition, the control unit included in the information processing device performs control to select content to be transmitted from among content recorded on a recording medium and transmit the selected content to a second external information processing device when a contact with or proximity to the second external information processing device is detected by using short-distance radio communication. In this case, the control unit of the information processing device uses selection information, which is information for selecting content to be transmitted from among the content recorded on the recording medium and which is generated by the first external information processing device. Thus, the control unit of the information processing device performs control to transmit content recorded on the recording medium to the second external information processing device on the basis of the selection information.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

a control unit configured to;

receive selection information from a first external information processing device, wherein

the selection information is based on content information of a plurality of content items recorded in a second external information processing device,

the second external information processing device is different from the first external information processing device, and

the selection information indicates at least one first content item selected from the plurality of content items;

determine the second external information processing device is one of in contact with or in proximity to the information processing device based on short-distance radio communication;

transmit the selection information to the second external information processing device based on the determination; and

receive the at least one first content item of the plurality of content items from the second external information processing device, based on the transmitted selection information.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of content items is image content,

the content information is image information to display a reduced image representing the image content, and

the first external information processing device:

displays the reduced image based on the image information, and

generates the selection information based on a user operation on the reduced image.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit is further configured to receive a second content item of the plurality of content items from the second external information processing device based on a position on the second external information processing device where one of the contact with or the proximity to the information processing device is determined, and

the position is determined based on the short-distance radio communication.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is further configured to control a display screen to display the received at least one first content item.

5. A method, comprising:

in an information processing device;

receiving selection information from a first external information processing device, wherein

the selection information is based on content information of a plurality of content items recorded in a second external information processing device,

the second external information processing device is different from the first external information processing device, and

the selection information indicates at least one first content item selected from the plurality of content items;

determining the second external information processing device is one of in contact with or in proximity to the information processing device based on short-distance radio communication;

transmitting the selection information to the second external information processing device based on the determination; and

receiving the at least one first content item of the plurality of content items from the second external information processing device, based on the transmitted selection information.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein

the plurality of content items is image content,

the content information is image information to display a reduced image representing the image content, and

the first external information processing device displays:

the reduced image based on the image information, and

generates the selection information based on a user operation on the reduced image.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising

receiving a second content item of the plurality of content items from the second external information processing device based on a position on the second external information processing device where one of the contact with or the proximity to the information processing device is determined,

wherein the position is determined based on the short-distance radio communication.

8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising controlling a display screen to display the received at least one first content item.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the processor to execute operations, the operations comprising:

receiving selection information from a first external information processing device, wherein

the selection information is based on content information of a plurality of content items recorded in a second external information processing device,

the second external information processing device is different from the first external information processing device, and

the selection information indicates at least one first content item selected from the plurality of content items;

determining the second external information processing device is one of in contact with or in proximity to the information processing device based on short-distance radio communication;

transmitting the selection information to the second external information processing device based on the determination; and

receiving the at least one first content item of the plurality of content items from the second external information processing device, based on the transmitted selection information.