Communication apparatus using an advertising signal, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTaketomo Naruse
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Abstract
An apparatus that executes a job, broadcasts a wireless signal prior to establishing a connection by wireless communication with an external apparatus. The wireless signal includes information relating to the apparatus, by which it can be identified whether execution of a job by the apparatus is possible, in a predetermined packet.
Claims23
A communication apparatus capable of executing predetermined processing relating to image data, which is able to communicate with an information processing apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured to cause the communication apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- transmitting an advertising signal using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication as a first communication;
- communicating image data with the information processing apparatus via a connection using a second communication which is different from the first communication;
- and
- determining a state related to a power of the communication apparatus,
- wherein the communication apparatus is not able to execute the predetermined processing when the state related to the power of the communication apparatus is a first state, and is able to execute the predetermined processing when the state related to the power of the communication apparatus is a second state different from the first state,
- wherein, in a case where it is determined that the communication apparatus is in the first state, an advertising signal in which a first value that is based on the first state is included in a payload is transmitted using the first communication,
- wherein, in a case where it is determined that the communication apparatus is in the second state an advertising signal in which a second value different from the first value is included in the payload is transmitted using the first communication, and
- wherein a first notification is displayed on a display unit of the information processing apparatus based on the first value included in the advertising signal transmitted by the communication apparatus, and the first notification is not displayed on the display unit based on the second value included in the advertising signal transmitted by the communication apparatus.
A method of controlling an information processing apparatus which is configured to communicate with a communication apparatus that executes a predetermined processing relating to image data, the method comprising:
- obtaining an advertising signal that is transmitted by the communication apparatus using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication as a first communication;
- performing processing for communicating image data with the communication apparatus via a connection using a second communication which is different from the first communication;
- and
- causing a display unit to display a notification,
- wherein, in a case where a state related to a power of the communication apparatus is a first state in which the communication apparatus is not able to execute the predetermined processing, an advertising signal that is transmitted by the communication apparatus using the first communication and in which a first value based on the first state is included in a payload is obtained,
- wherein, in a case where it is determined that the state related to the power of the communication apparatus is a second state in which the communication apparatus is able to execute the predetermined processing, an advertising signal that is transmitted by the communication apparatus using the first communication and in which a second value different from the first value is included in the payload is obtained, and
- wherein a first notification is displayed on the display unit based on the first value included in the advertising signal transmitted by the communication apparatus, and the first notification is not displayed on the display unit based on the second value included in the advertising signal transmitted by the communication apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.