Communicating apparatus, method, and communicating system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorShinya ENDO
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Abstract
A communicating apparatus, method, and system that capture an image, authenticate a person in the image that has been captured, determine a direction of the person based on a result of authenticating the person, and control transmission of a radio wave in the determined direction to connect a terminal device to a network, and communicate with the terminal device connected to the network by using access information included in the transmitted radio wave.
Claims18
A communicating apparatus that communicates with at least one terminal device, the communicating apparatus comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- capture an image,
- authenticate a person in the image that has been captured,
- determine a direction of the person based on a result of authenticating the person, and control transmission of a radio wave in the determined direction to connect the terminal device to a network, and
- communicate with the terminal device connected to the network by using access information included in the transmitted radio wave.
A method for an apparatus that communicates with at least one terminal device, the method comprising:
- capturing an image;
- authenticating a person in the image that has been captured;
- determining a direction of the person based on a result of authenticating the person, and controlling transmission of a radio wave in the determined direction to connect the terminal device to a network;
- and
- communicating with the terminal device connected to the network by using access information included in the transmitted radio wave.
A communicating system comprising:
- an imaging apparatus;
- and
- a communicating apparatus communicating with at least one terminal device, wherein
- the imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of the terminal device, and
- the communicating apparatus includes
- an authenticating unit configured to authenticate a person based on the image captured by the imaging unit,
- a communication controlling unit configured to determine a direction of the person based on a result of authenticating the person by the authenticating unit, and control transmission in the determined direction of a radio wave to connect the terminal device to a network, and
- a communicating unit configured to communicate with the terminal device connected to the network by using access information included in the transmitted radio wave.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.