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US 2019/0098246 A1Published application
Electronic Apparatus And Method For Conditionally Providing Image Processing By An External Apparatus
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorsSho KAMIDE, Yasuyuki MOTOKI, Kunihiro KUWANO, Teppei OKUYAMA, Takeo MOTOHASHI, Yae JOTAKI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes a processing unit that processes an image capture signal captured by an image capturing unit, a communication unit that is capable of transmitting the image capture signal captured by the image capturing unit to an external apparatus, and a determination unit that determines whether or not to transmit the image capture signal to the external apparatus, according to a capture setting for the image capturing unit.
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An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a photography unit that performs photography and outputs prior-to-processing image data;
- a communication unit that is capable of communicating with an external apparatus, which includes an image processing unit and communicates with a plurality of electronic apparatuses, and, after transmitting the prior-to-processing image data to the external apparatus, receives externally-processed image data generated by processing on the prior-to-processing image data by the image processing unit of the external apparatus;
- a selection unit that is capable of selecting a photographic mode of the photography unit to a movie image photographic mode or to a still image photographic mode;
- a determination unit that determines whether or not the prior-to-processing image data is to be transmitted to the external apparatus, according to selection of the movie image photographic mode or the still image photographic mode by the selection unit;
- a processing unit that processes the prior-to-processing image data to internally-processed image data;
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- a display unit that displays an image generated by the externally-processed image data or the internally-processed image data.
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An electronic apparatus comprising
- a photography unit that performs photography and outputs prior-to-processing image data;
- a communication unit that is capable of communicating with an external apparatus, which includes an image processing unit and communicates with a plurality of electronic apparatuses, and, after transmitting the prior-to-processing image data to the external apparatus, receives externally-processed image data generated by processing on the prior-to-processing image data by the image processing unit of the external apparatus;
- a determination unit that determines whether or not the prior-to-processing image data is to be transmitted to the external apparatus;
- a processing unit that processes the prior-to-processing image data to internally-processed image data;
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- a display unit that displays a live-view image generated according to the externally-processed image data.
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A display method comprising:
- outputting prior-to-processing image data from a photography unit;
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- determining whether image processing is performed in an image processing unit of an external apparatus that communicates with a plurality of electronic apparatuses or an internal processing unit, according to whether a photographic mode of the photography unit is selected to a movie image photographic mode or a still image photographic mode, wherein
- if it is determined that the image processing is performed in the image processing unit of the external apparatus, the prior-to-processing image data is transmitted to the external apparatus, externally-processed image data generated by processing on the prior-to-processing image data by the image processing unit of the external apparatus is received, and an image generated by the externally-processed image data is displayed.
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A display method comprising:
- outputting prior-to-processing image data from a photography unit;
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- determining whether image processing is performed in an image processing unit of an external apparatus that communicates with a plurality of electronic apparatuses or an internal processing unit, wherein
- if it is determined that the image processing is performed in the image processing unit of the external apparatus, the prior-to-processing image data is transmitted to the external apparatus, externally-processed image data generated by processing on the prior-to-processing image data by the image processing unit of the external apparatus is received, and an image generated by the externally-processed image data is displayed.
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An electronic apparatus comprising:
- an image processing unit that performs image processing;
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- a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a plurality of external apparatuses each of which includes a photography unit outputting prior-to-processing image data and a display unit displaying an image, wherein
- if the communication unit receives the prior-to-processing image data from one of the plurality of external apparatuses, the communication unit transmits externally-processed image data to the one of the plurality of external apparatuses, the externally-processed image data being generated by performing image processing on the received prior-to-processing image data by the image processing unit so as to be able to be displayed on the display unit of the one of the plurality of external apparatuses, and
- the image processing performed by the image processing unit is equivalent to image processing performed in the one of the plurality of external apparatuses.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.