# US 2001/0024232 A1 · Internet camera > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2001/0024232 A1 - Document ID: US20010024232A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 09/785,172 - Filed: 2001-02-20 - Published: 2001-09-27 - Earliest claimed: 2000-02-18 - Assignees: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Katsuyoshi Suzuki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20010024232A1 ## CPC - H04N 1/00244: {with a server, e.g. an internet server (fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324)} - H04N 1/00204: {with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server (programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561)} - H04N 1/00954: {Scheduling operations or managing resources (H04N1/0096 takes precedence; program initiating or switching G06F9/48; allocation of computer resources G06F9/50)} - H04N 1/32122: {in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data} - H04N 5/772: {the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure} - H04N 2201/0084: Digital still camera - H04N 2201/3214: of a date - H04N 2201/3215: of a time or duration - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract An Internet camera is provided with an image capturing device that captures images and converts the captured images into digital data, a storage device that stores digital data corresponding to the captured images in a form of image data files, a memory that stores schedule data including a plurality of schedule scripts. A schedule merging device is further provided to merge the plurality of schedule scripts into a merged schedule. The image capturing device and a data transfer client are controlled, in accordance with the merged schedule, to capture images and transfer image data files corresponding to the captured images to a predetermined site on the Internet. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An Internet camera that captures images of an object and transmitting image data to a predetermined site on the Internet, comprising: an image capturing device that captures images and converts the captured images into digital data; a storage device that stores digital data corresponding to the captured images in a form of image data files, respectively; a memory that stores schedule data which includes a plurality of schedule scripts; a network interface connected to the Internet; a data transfer client that controls the network interface to transfer the image data file to said predetermined site on the Internet; a schedule merging device that merges said plurality of schedule scripts into a merged schedule; and a controller that controls said image capturing device to capture images in accordance with the merged schedule, and controls said data transfer client to transfer the image data file corresponding to the captured image in accordance with the merged schedule to said predetermined site. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The Internet camera according to claim 1, wherein said schedule merging device assigns priorities to said plurality of schedule scripts, respectively, procedures defined by a schedule script having a higher priority being executed if two or more schedule scripts overlap. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The Internet camera according to claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of schedule scripts includes: a start time and an end time, between which the images are to be captured and the image data files are to be transferred; and a designation of days of a week, on which the images are to be captured and the image data files are to be transferred. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The Internet camera according to claim 3, wherein each of said plurality of schedule scripts further includes an interval, at every occurrence of which an image is to be captured and an image data file is to be transferred. ### Claim 5 An Internet camera that captures images of an object and transmitting image data to a predetermined site on the Internet, comprising: an image capturing device that captures images and converts the captured images into digital data; a storage device that stores digital data corresponding to the captured images in a form of image data files, respectively; a memory that stores schedule data which includes a plurality of schedule scripts; a schedule merging device that merges said plurality of schedule scripts into a merged schedule; and a controller that controls said image capturing device to capture images in accordance with the merged schedule. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The Internet camera according to claim 5, wherein said schedule merging device assigns priorities to said plurality of schedule scripts, respectively, procedures defined by a schedule script having a higher priority being executed if two or more schedule scripts overlap. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The Internet camera according to claim 5, wherein each of said plurality of schedule scripts includes: a start time and an end time, between which the images are to be captured; and a designation of days of a week, on which the images are to be captured. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The Internet camera according to claim 7, wherein each of said plurality of schedule scripts further includes an interval, at every occurrence of which an image is to be captured. ### Claim 9 An Internet camera that captures images of an object to store image data corresponding to the captured images and transmitting the stored image data to a predetermined site on the Internet, comprising: a memory that stores schedule data which includes a plurality of schedule scripts; a network interface connected to the Internet; a data transfer client that controls the network interface to transfer the stored image data to a predetermined site on the Internet; a schedule merging device that merges said plurality of schedule scripts into a merged schedule; and a controller that controls said data transfer client to transfer the stored image data in accordance with the merged schedule to said predetermined site. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The Internet camera according to claim 9, wherein said schedule merging device assigns priorities to said plurality of schedule scripts, respectively, procedures defined by a schedule script having a higher priority being executed if two or more schedule scripts overlap. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The Internet camera according to claim 9, wherein each of said plurality of schedule scripts includes: a start time and an end time, between which the stored image data is to be transferred; and a designation of days of a week, on which the stored image data is to be transferred. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) Then Internet camera according to claim 11, wherein each of said plurality of schedule scripts further includes an interval, at every occurrence of which the stored image data is to be transferred. ### Claim 13 An Internet camera that captures images of an object and transmitting image data to a predetermined site on the Internet, comprising: a memory that stores schedule data which includes a plurality of schedule scripts; a network interface connected to the Internet; a data transfer client that controls the network interface to transfer the image data to a predetermined site on the Internet; a schedule merging device that merges said plurality of schedule scripts into a merged schedule; and a controller that controls said data transfer client to transfer the image data in accordance with the merged schedule to said predetermined site.