Apparatus, method and computer program product for controlling routing of a request in an image input apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorEiichiro Kitagawa
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Abstract
In an image input apparatus which can be controlled by a host computer, and has a request sending unit for sending a request input by the user to the host computer, an internal command execution unit for executing the request, and a request route flag table which stores correspondence data of the request type and destination, the user input is accepted, a request in a predetermined format is generated on the basis of the accepted user input, and the generated request is sent to the request sending unit or command execution unit with reference to the request route flag table.
Claims17
An image input apparatus comprising;
- a camera unit for sensing images:
- an operation unit for controlling image sensing of said camera unit:
- a request generation unit for generating a request in a predetermined format on the basis of user input by said operation unit;
- a sending unit for sending the request generated by said request generation unit to an external control apparatus;
- a processing unit for executing the request generated by said request generation unit;
- a memory for storing correspondence data of a request type for controlling the image sensing and destination;
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- a route determination unit for sending the request generated by said request generation unit to one of said sending unit and said processing unit with reference to the data stored in said memory.
A control method for controlling an image input apparatus, the method comprising:
- a request generation step of generating a request in a predetermined format on the basis of user input by an operation unit;
- and
- a route determination step of sending the request generated in said request generation step to one of a sending unit and a processing unit with reference to the data stored in a memory,
- wherein the image input apparatus has which, has a camera unit for sensing images, the operation unit for controlling the image sensing, the sending unit for sending a request to an external control apparatus, the processing unit for executing the request, and the memory for storing correspondence data of a request type for controlling the image sensing and destination.
A computer program product comprising a computer storage medium having computer readable program code embodied in said medium for controlling an image input apparatus, said product including:
- first computer readable program code for generating a request in a predetermined format on the basis of user input by an operation unit;
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- second computer readable program code for sending the request generated in said request generation step to one of a sending unit and a processing unit with reference to the data stored in a memory,
- wherein, the image input apparatus has a camera unit for sensing images, the operation unit for controlling the image sensing, the sending unit for sending a request to an external control apparatus, the processing unit for executing the request, and the memory for storing correspondence data of a request type for controlling the image sensing and destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.