Image pickup apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNobuyuki Tsukamoto
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus of the present invention includes an image pickup unit, a recording unit for recording image data obtained by the image pickup unit, on a recording medium, a communication unit for exchanging data with an external equipment, a setting unit for setting a parameter relating to an image pickup operation of the image pickup unit, a generation unit for generating setting information based on the parameter set by the setting unit and a control unit for controlling the communication unit to transmit a command for instructing a start of an image reading and the setting information to an image scanner provided externally so that image data corresponding to the setting information are transmitted from the image scanner.
Claims9
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- image pickup means;
- recording means which records image data, obtained by the image pickup means, in a recording medium;
- communication means for exchanging data with an external equipment;
- setting means which sets a parameter relating to an image pickup operation of the image pickup means, wherein the image pickup means generates image data according to the parameter set by the setting means;
- generation means which generates setting information based on the parameter set by the setting means;
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- control means which controls the communication means to transmit a command for instructing a start of an image reading and the setting information to an image scanner provided externally so that image data corresponding to the setting information are transmitted from the image scanner provided externally.
A system comprising of an imaging apparatus and an image scanner,
- wherein the imaging apparatus comprises:
- image pickup means;
- recording means which records image data, obtained by the image pickup means, in a recording medium;
- communication means for exchanging data with the image scanner;
- setting means which sets a parameter relating to an image pickup operation of the image pickup means, wherein the image pickup means generates image data according to the parameter set by the setting means;
- generation means which generates setting information based on the parameter set by the setting means;
- and
- control means which controls the communication means to transmit a command for instructing a start of an image reading and the setting information to the image scanner so that image data corresponding to the setting information are transmitted from the image scanner:
- and
- wherein the image scanner comprises:
- an interface for exchanging data with the imaging apparatus;
- reading means which generates image data by reading an object image;
- and
- reading control means which controls the reading means according to the reading start command and the setting information, wherein the reading control means controls the interface thereby transmitting the image data obtained by the reading means, to the imaging apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.