US 7,460,781 B2 · Photographing system

Abstract

The invention easily photographs a subject from plural directions collectively. When a picture photographing instruction and a moving picture photographing instruction are inputted in a master digital still camera 3 set as a master of photographing for a subject 2, the invention transmits picture photographing instruction data D13 and moving picture photographing instruction data D18 to slave digital still cameras 4A to 4N, subjects the subject 2 to picture photographing and moving picture photographing according to the picture photographing instruction data D13 and the moving picture photographing instruction data D18 with the slave digital still cameras 4A to 4N, and generates and records slave picture-photographed image data D25 and slave moving-picture-photographed image data D26 corresponding to a photographed image of the subject 2. Consequently, it is possible to photograph photographing directions different from one another collectively according to simple operation of inputting a picture photographing instruction and a moving picture photographing instruction to the master digital still camera 3. As a result, it is possible to easily photograph the subject 2 from plural directions collectively.

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Dependent claims

A photographing system established by connecting plural photographing apparatuses, that photograph a subject as slaves to a photographing master apparatus by communication, the photographing master apparatus serving as a master of photographing for the subject, wherein:

when a photographing instruction for the subject is inputted on the photographing master apparatus, the photographing system transmits photographing instruction data to the plural photographing apparatuses;
the plural photographing apparatuses receive the photographing instruction data transmitted from the photographing master apparatus and photograph the subject according to the received photographing instruction data to thereby generate and record slave photographed image data corresponding to a photographed image of the subject;
and
when the photographing master apparatus and at least one of the photographing apparatuses, or at least two of the photographing apparatuses are requested to be set as the master simultaneously in photographing of the subject, the photographing master apparatus or one of the photographing apparatuses is set as the master preferentially in accordance with a priority for master setting set in advance.

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A photographing master apparatus that makes connection with plural slave photographing apparatuses, which photograph a subject subordinately, by communication and serves as a master of photographing for the subject, the photographing master apparatus comprising:

photographing instruction input means for causing a user to input a photographing instruction for the subject at an arbitrary point;
photographing instruction data transmitting means for transmitting, when the photographing instruction is inputted via the photographing instruction input means, photographing instruction data for causing the respective slave photographing apparatuses to photograph the subject to thereby generate and record slave photographed image data corresponding to a photographed image of the subject to the respective slave photographing apparatuses;
image data group generating means that consolidates the slave photographed image data to generate a photographed image data group for sharing;
and
image data group transmitting means that transmits the photographed image data group to at least one of the slave photographing apparatuses.

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A slave photographing apparatus that makes connection with a photographing master apparatus to be a master of photographing for a subject by communication and photographs the subject as a slave of the photographing master apparatus, the slave photographing apparatus comprising:

photographing instruction data receiving means that receives photographing instruction data transmitted according to a photographing instruction for the subject inputted from the photographing master apparatus at an arbitrary point;
slave photographed image data generating means that generates slave photographed image data corresponding to a photographed image of the subject by photographing the subject according to the photographing instruction data received by the photographing instruction data receiving means;
and
slave recording means that records the slave photographed image data generated by the slave photographed image data generating means;
and
image data group receiving means that receives a photographed image data group from a photographing master apparatus, the photographed image data group having been consolidated from photographed images of a subject generated by photographing the subject with other slave photographing apparatus and master photographed image data corresponding to a photographed image of the subject generated by photographing the subject at the photographing instruction input point when the photographing instruction is inputted in the photographing master apparatus, wherein the slave recording means records the photographed image data group for sharing received by the image data group receiving means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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