Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuji Koide
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus having a plurality of communication modes comprises an image capturing unit adapted to capture an object image and obtain image data, and a control unit adapted to control the image capturing apparatus, wherein the plurality of communication modes include a host mode in which the image capturing apparatus is able to communicate with a plurality of external devices and a client mode in which the image capturing apparatus is disable to simultaneously communicate with the plurality of external devices, and wherein the control unit is able to automatically switch the image capturing apparatus to the host mode after an image capturing instruction is applied to the image capturing unit.
Claims9
An image capturing apparatus having a plurality of communication modes comprising:
- an image capturing unit adapted to capture an object image and obtain image data;
- and
- a control unit adapted to control said image capturing apparatus,
- wherein the plurality of communication modes include a host mode in which said image capturing apparatus is able to communicate with a plurality of external devices and a client mode in which said image capturing apparatus is disable to simultaneously communicate with the plurality of external devices, and
- wherein said control unit is able to automatically switch said image capturing apparatus to the host mode after an image capturing instruction is applied to said image capturing unit.
A method of controlling an image capturing apparatus having a plurality of communication modes, comprising:
- capturing an object image and obtaining image data;
- and
- controlling said image capturing apparatus by a control unit,
- wherein the plurality of communication modes include a host mode in which said image capturing apparatus is able to communicate with a plurality of external devices and a client mode in which said image capturing apparatus is disable to simultaneously communicate with the plurality of external devices, and
- wherein, in said controlling step, said control unit automatically switches said image capturing apparatus to the host mode after an image capturing instruction is applied to said image capturing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.