Apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium for communicating between devices of an image capturing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8994840-B2
Application number	US-201313776357-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2013
Priority date	Feb 27, 2012
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

A communication device in a system including a first device and a second device includes an input unit configured to receive a predetermined control command, and a shift unit configured to cause the wireless communication unit to shift to any of operation modes including a reception mode for receiving a signal from another device and a transmission mode for not receiving a signal from another device. In a case where the input unit receives a control command, the shift unit causes the wireless communication unit to shift to the transmission mode without shifting to the reception mode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication device adapted for use in an image capturing system including an image capturing device and at least one further device, the communication device comprising:
an interface configured to communicate with the image capturing device;
a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with said at least one further device in the image capturing system;
an input unit configured to receive control signals relating to said at leas…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Koike Kohtaro

Classifications

• H04N23/66 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/56 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/23203 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/2256

  Electricity · mapped topic