File transmission method, file transmission apparatus and file transmission system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9858351-B2
Application number	US-201514856561-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 17, 2015
Priority date	Apr 30, 2015
Publication date	Jan 2, 2018
Grant date	Jan 2, 2018

Abstract

A file transmission method, a file transmission apparatus, and a file transmission system are provided. The method is adapted for a first electronic apparatus to perform a file transmission operation with a second electronic apparatus. The method includes following steps: capturing a target image including a selection region displayed by the second electronic apparatus, wherein the selection region is displayed by the second electronic apparatus in response to a selection operation performed on at least one item displayed by the second electronic apparatus; identifying an encoded pattern located within the selection region in the target image, and decoding the encoded pattern to obtain connection information of the item; and transmitting at least one file with the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A file transmission method, adapted for a first electronic apparatus to perform a file transmission operation with a second electronic apparatus, comprising:
capturing, by the first electronic apparatus, a target image including a selection region displayed by the second electronic apparatus, wherein the selection region is displayed by the second electronic apparatus in response to a selection operation performed on at least one item displayed by the second electronic apparatus;
identifying, by the first electronic apparatus, an encoded pattern located within the selection region in the target image, and decoding the encoded pattern to obtain connection information of the at least one item; and
transmitting, by the first electronic apparatus, at least one file with the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information, wherein step of displaying the selection region by the second electronic apparatus in response to the selection operation performed on the at least one item displayed by the second electronic apparatus comprises:
displaying the selection region around the at least one item in correspondence to the at least one item tapped by the selection operation, or displaying the selection region in correspondence to a circled region of the at least one item circled by the selection operation; and
extracting the connection information of each of the at least one item, encoding the connection information of the at least one item to generate the encoded pattern, and displaying the encoded pattern in the selection region, wherein the connection information is a file path or an internet address of the at least one item.

2. The file transmission method of claim 1 , wherein the step of transmitting the at least one file with the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information comprises:
connecting the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information to download the at least one file corresponding to each of the at least one item from the second electronic apparatus.

3. The file transmission method of claim 1 , wherein the step of transmitting the at least one file with the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information comprises:
connecting the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information to transmit the at least one file of the first electronic apparatus to each of the at least one item of the second electronic apparatus.

4. The file transmission method of claim 1 , wherein the connection information comprises a file path of the at least one file stored in the second electronic apparatus in correspondence to each of the at least one item and a network address of the second electronic apparatus.

5. A file transmission apparatus, comprising:
an image capturing module, configured to capture a target image including a selection region displayed by a second electronic apparatus, wherein the selection region is displayed by the second electronic apparatus in response to a selection operation performed on at least one item displayed by the second electronic apparatus;
a decoding module, configured to identify an encoded pattern located within the selection region in the target image, and decode the encoded pattern to obtain connection information of the at least one item; and
a file transmission module, transmitting at least one file with the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information,
wherein the second electronic apparatus displays the selection region around the at least one item in correspondence to the at least one item tapped by the selection operation, or displays the selection region in correspondence to a circled region of the at least one item circled by the selection operation,
wherein the second electronic apparatus extracts the connection information of each of the at least one item, and encodes the connection information of the at least one item to generate the encoded pattern, and displays the encoded pattern in the selection region, wherein the connection information is a file path or an internet address of the at least one item.

6. The file transmission apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the file transmission module connects the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information to download the at least one file corresponding to each of the at least one item from the second electronic apparatus.

7. The file transmission apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the file transmission module connects the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information to transmit the at least one file of the first electronic apparatus to each of the at least one item of the second electronic apparatus.

8. The file transmission apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the connection information comprises a file path of the at least one file stored in the second electronic apparatus in correspondence to each of the at least one item and a network address of the second electronic apparatus.

9. A file transmission system, comprising:
a second electronic device, comprising:
a file selection identifying module, configured to display a selection region around at least one item in correspondence to the at least one item tapped by a selection operation, or display the selection region in correspondence to a circled region of the at least one item circled by the selection operation;
an encoding module, configured to extract connection information of each of the at least one item, and encode the connection information of the at least one item to generate an encoded pattern, wherein the connection information is a file path or an internet address of the at least one item, and
a displaying module, configured to display the encoded pattern in the selection region; and

a first electronic device, comprising:
an image capturing module, configured to capture a target image including the selection region displayed by the second electronic apparatus;
a decoding module, configured to identify the encoded pattern located within the selection region in the target image, and decode the encoded pattern to obtain the connection information of the at least one item; and

a file transmission module, configured to transmit at least one file with the second electronic apparatus according to the connection information to perform a file transmission operation between the first electronic apparatus and the second electronic apparatus.

Assignees

• Acer Inc

Inventors

• Chen Ching-Ping
• Chen Huang-Kai
• Lin Chun-Chuan

Classifications

• G06F16/9554 Primary

  by using bar codes · CPC title

• G06F16/16

  File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems · CPC title

• H04L67/06

  specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP] · CPC title

• H04L69/22

  Parsing or analysis of headers · CPC title

• G06F17/30879 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic