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InventorsYasuyuki Ogawa, Hitoshi Watanabe, Satoshi Asada
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A digital image sensing apparatus having a plurality of programs for connecting the apparatus to a plural types of external device. When sensed video image data is transferred to the external device, the characteristic of the external device is obtained so that the video image data can be converted into data in form receivable and interpretable by the external device. An application program is selected in accordance with the obtained characteristic, then the video image data is converted in accordance with the selected program, and the converted video image data is outputted to the external device.
A digital image-sensing apparatus comprising:
An image sensing apparatus comprising:
A printer comprising:
An image sensing apparatus comprising:
An image processing device having a function for processing image data transferred from an image sensing apparatus, comprising:
An image sensing apparatus having image sensing means, storage means for storing video image data obtained by sensing by said image sensing means, an interface unit for performing bidirectional communication with an external device, and an operation unit, comprising:
An image sensing apparatus comprising:
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Mode signalling or mode changing; Handshaking therefor: storage of mode or retrieval of prestored mode
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Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus: between a recording apparatus and a television camera
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This invention relates to a digital image-sensing apparatus which converts an optical image, obtained by sensing an object, into an electric video signal, then converts the electric video signal into a digital video signal so that an external printer can print the sensed image based on the digital video signal.
In conventional digital image-sensing devices such as a digital camera, to print a sensed image, it is necessary to once download image data into a computer machine such as a personal computer (PC), then output the data to a printer connected to the computer machine by using an application program for performing printing based on the data.
In this technique, a user searches a table of image information and file names displayed on a display device by using the application on the computer machine, and selects output data for printing.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the construction of an image-sensing and printing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows a printer-type management table managed by an image-sensing apparatus of the first embodiment;
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail in accordance with the accompanying drawings.
Note that the present invention is implemented by a system having a digital image-sensing apparatus which comprises a CPU, a memory, a storage device, and an interface unit for communication with a printer, and a communication-protocol management module which discriminates a printer connected to the system and manages the communication protocol, a sample-table generating module which generates a table of stored image data, and a printer-control code generating module which generates printer-control codes.
The above system enables searching and selection of information on paper by using a printer, instead of conventional search and selection made on a display device of a computer machine.