Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAtsushi Fukuda
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus comprises an interface configured to connect to an external apparatus, a transmitting unit configured to transmit image data to an external apparatus connected by the interface, a processing unit configured to encode the image data with a predetermined format, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not image data to be encoded by the processing unit includes decoding information for decoding the image data, and a control unit configured to switch, based on the determination result, between processing for transmitting image data encoded by the processing unit and the decoding information to the external apparatus and processing for transmitting an image file in which image data including the decoding information is encoded to the external apparatus.
Claims15
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an interface;
- a memory and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit,
- wherein the processor and/or the circuit connects to an external apparatus by the interface;
- wherein the processor and/or the circuit has a function of encoding image data;
- wherein the processor and/or the circuit transmits an image file including decoding information to the external apparatus when the image data is encoded into an image file in a format in which the image data contains the decoding information, and transmits image data in the encoded image file and the decoding information to the external apparatus when the image data is encoded into an image file in a format in which the image data does not contain the decoding information.
A method of controlling an image capturing apparatus that transmits image data to an external apparatus connected by an interface and encodes the image data, the method comprising:
- transmitting an image file including decoding information to the external apparatus when the image data is encoded into an image file in a format in which the image data contains the decoding information, and
- transmitting image data in the encoded image file and the decoding information to the external apparatus when the image data is encoded into an image file in a format in which the image data does not contain the decoding information.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores a program for causing an image capturing apparatus that transmits image data to an external apparatus connected by an interface and encodes the image data to execute a method comprising:
- transmitting an image file including decoding information to the external apparatus when the image data is encoded into an image file in a format in which the image data contains the decoding information, and
- transmitting image data in the encoded image file and the decoding information to the external apparatus when the image data is encoded into an image file in a format in which the image data does not contain the decoding information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.