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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenichi Fujii
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A system according to this invention easily and adequately notifies, on a remote controller, the user of the release timing on an image sensing apparatus side. To accomplish this, the remote controller receives a release timing signal associated with the image sensing timing from a digital camera, and notifies the image sensing timing on the basis of the received release timing signal.
An image sensing system which includes an image sensing apparatus, and a remote controller for remote-controlling said image sensing apparatus,
A communication apparatus having a function of remote-controlling an image sensing apparatus, comprising:
An image sensing apparatus comprising:
A method of controlling an image sensing system which includes an image sensing apparatus, and a remote controller for remote-controlling the image sensing apparatus, comprising:
A method of controlling a communication apparatus having a function of remote-controlling an image sensing apparatus, comprising:
A method of controlling an image sensing apparatus, comprising:
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Control of cameras or camera modules: remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
Still video cameras
Pictorial communication
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The present invention relates to an image sensing system, a communication apparatus and image sensing apparatus having a remote control function, and their control method.
Conventionally, some image sensing apparatuses such as a digital still camera, digital video camera, and the like can be remotely controlled by remote controllers via wireless communications that exploit infrared rays or radio waves.
A remote controller for such conventional image sensing apparatus is disclosed in, e.g., Japanese Patent Laid-Open Nos. 5-72608, 2001-275030, 10-274802, and 2000-19629.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a feature of a digital camera according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a feature of a remote controller according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the operation of the digital camera according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the relative arrangement of the components, the numerical expressions, numerical values, order of processes, display screen images, and the like, set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention unless it is specifically stated otherwise.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a digital camera 1 which can be applied to an image sensing system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Note that the digital camera 1 may be a digital video camera or the like other than cameras dedicated to take digital still photos. Also, a mobile phone, PDA(Personal Digital Assistance), or the like with a camera function may be used as long as it can sense an image using a so-called self timer.