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Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication connection method

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorHiroaki Nakamura

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Abstract

A user causes a portable device (information processing device) to approach one PC (communication apparatus), and the PC transfers to the portable device by means of NFC unique connection information, such as a password, required for communication connection. Also, the user causes the portable device which has obtained the connection information to approach another PC. The portable device transfers connection information unique to the one PC to another PC by means of NFC. Another PC uses the obtained connection information to execute communication connection with the one PC. Thus, connection information required for communication connection is transferred among a plurality of PCs so as to easily execute communication connection among the plurality of PCs.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A communication system, comprising:

a plurality of communication apparatuses;
and
a portable information processing device,
wherein one communication apparatus includes:
a first display section;
a first storage section storing connection information that:
(i) is unique to the one communication apparatus, (ii) is required for another communication apparatus of the plurality of communication apparatuses to execute communication connection by a predetermined communication method, and (iii) includes information designating the one communication apparatus and a password;
and
a first output section that outputs the connection information stored in the first storage section in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by displaying, on the first display section, a first graphic code representing the connection information in a first graphic pattern,
the information processing device includes:
a first camera section that captures the first graphic code;
a second display section;
a first obtaining section that obtains the connection information outputted from the one communication apparatus in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by accepting the first graphic code captured by the first camera section and decoding the first graphic code;
a second storage section that stores the connection information obtained by the first obtaining section;
and
a second output section that outputs the connection information stored in the second storage section in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by displaying, on the second display section, a second graphic code representing the connection information in a second graphic pattern, and
said another communication apparatus includes:
a second camera section that captures the second graphic code;
a second obtaining section that obtains the connection information outputted from the information processing device in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by accepting the second graphic code captured by the second camera section and decoding the second graphic code;
and
a communication connection section that uses the connection information obtained by the second obtaining section to execute communication connection with the one communication apparatus by the predetermined communication method.

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A communication apparatus, comprising:

a display section;
a storage section storing first connection information that:
(i) is unique to the communication apparatus itself, (ii) is required for a first other communication apparatus to execute communication connection by a predetermined communication method, and (iii) includes information designating the one communication apparatus and a password;
an output section that outputs the first connection information stored in the storage section in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by displaying, on the display section, a first graphic code representing the first connection information in a first graphic pattern;
a camera section that captures a second graphic code which is representing a second connection information in a second graphic pattern and which is displayed by an external information processing device which captures and decodes a third graphic code representing the second connection information, the second connection information being unique to a second other communication apparatus and including information designating the second other communication apparatus and a password;
an obtaining section that obtains the second connection information outputted from the information processing device in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by accepting the second graphic code captured by the camera section and decoding the second graphic code;
and
a communication connection section that uses the second connection information obtained by the obtaining section to execute communication connection with the second other communication apparatus by the predetermined communication method.

5 more elements

A method of executing communication connection among a plurality of communication apparatuses, comprising:

a step of one communication apparatus outputting connection information in a method different from a predetermined communication method, by displaying a first graphic code representing the connection information in a first graphic pattern, the connection information:
(i) being unique to the one communication apparatus, (ii) being required for another communication apparatus of the plurality of communication apparatuses to execute communication connection by the predetermined communication method, and (iii) including information designating the one communication apparatus and a password;
a step of a portable information processing device obtaining the connection information in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by capturing the first graphic code displayed by the one communication apparatus and decoding the first graphic code;
a step of the information processing device storing the obtained connection information;
a step of the information processing device outputting the connection information in a method different from the predetermined communication, by displaying a second graphic code representing the stored connection information in a second graphic pattern;
a step of said another communication apparatus obtaining the connection information in a method different from the predetermined communication method, by capturing the second graphic code displayed by the information processing device and decoding the second graphic code;
and
a step of said another communication apparatus using the obtained connection information to execute communication connection with the one communication apparatus by the predetermined communication method.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/514,649Filed 15 Oct 2014
Priority: JP 2013-21669017 Oct 2013
Published: US 2015/0113061 A123 Apr 2015
Granted: 11 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04N 1/00328
With a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus: with an apparatus processing optically-read information
H04L 67/104
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
H04L 67/14
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: session management
H04N 1/00129
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture…:…

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