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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKouji Ikeda
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A communication apparatus capable of achieving both of improvement in operability and suppression of battery consumption. A camera as the communication apparatus wirelessly communicates with one of a plurality of external devices including a remote controller and a smartphone. The state of the camera is switched between an operating state and a power-saving state in which power consumption is smaller than in the operating state. In the power-saving state, when a connection request is received from the remote controller as a device for non-continuous connection, a process for establishing a connection with the remote controller is started, and the camera is shifted to the operating state. In the power-saving state, when a connection request is received from the smartphone as a device for continuous connection, a process for establishing a connection with the smartphone is started, and the camera is not shifted to the operating state.
A communication apparatus comprising:
A method of controlling a communication apparatus including a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with one of a plurality of external devices including a first external device and a second external device, and a control unit configured to have a first state for controlling the communication apparatus to a first predetermined state and a second state for controlling the communication apparatus to a second predetermined state in which power consumption of the communication apparatus is smaller than when the control unit is in the first state,
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program for executing a method of controlling a communication apparatus including a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with one of a plurality of external devices including a first external device and a second external device, and a control unit configured to have a first state for controlling the communication apparatus to a first predetermined state and a second state for controlling the communication apparatus to a second predetermined state in which power consumption of the communication apparatus is smaller than when the control unit is in the first state,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.