Camera adapter for remote controlling a camera, control method thereof, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorEiichiro Kitagawa
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Abstract
An adapter connected to a device and also connected to a client terminal via a network displays an operation window corresponding to the process mode of the device on the client terminal and remote-controls the operation of the device based on an operation signal for the operation window. When the process mode is a remote control mode that allows the client terminal to read out data accumulated in the device, the client terminal displays an image for which open setting is done by the device.
Claims11
An adapter in a system where a control apparatus controls an image capturing apparatus via the adapter, comprising:
- a first control unit adapted to invalidate control from the control apparatus for the image capturing apparatus into which power is being input, and adapted to cause the control apparatus to display that the control for the image capturing apparatus is invalid in the control apparatus, when an image which is stored in the image capturing apparatus is selected by a user operation in the image capturing apparatus;
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- a display control unit adapted to transfer the selected image and a thumbnail image thereof via the adapter from the image capturing apparatus to the control apparatus and adapted to cause the control apparatus to display the selected image, when the image is selected by the user operation.
A control method of an adapter in a system where a control apparatus controls an image capturing apparatus via the adapter, comprising:
- invalidating control from the control apparatus for the image capturing apparatus into which power is being input, and causing the control apparatus to display that the control for the image capturing apparatus is invalid in the control apparatus, when an image which is stored in the image capturing apparatus is selected by a user operation in the image capturing apparatus;
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- transferring the selected image and a thumbnail image thereof via the adapter from the image capturing apparatus to the control apparatus and causing the control apparatus to display the selected image, when the image is selected by the user operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.