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US 8,553,104 B2Granted
Image capture device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi Morino
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Abstract
An image capture device has a first image transfer method for storing a captured digital image on a storage medium and transferring the digital image to a communication device, and a second image transfer method for storing the digital image on the storage medium, reading the digital image from the storage medium and then transferring the digital image to the communication device. The first image transfer method or the second image transfer method is manually or automatically set.
Claims38
An image capture device, comprising:
- an image capture unit that captures an image;
- a memory that stores an image file corresponding to the image captured by the image capture unit;
- a first interface unit that stores the image file stored in the memory to a storage medium;
- a second interface unit that transfers the image file stored in the memory to a communication device;
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- a control unit that selects one of a first image transfer method and a second image transfer method based on an amount of charge remaining in a battery connected to the communication device,
- wherein if the first image transfer method is selected, the control unit controls the first interface unit to store the image file stored in the memory to the storage medium and controls the second interface unit to transfer the image file stored in the memory to the communication device, and
- wherein if the second image transfer method is selected, the control unit controls the first interface unit to store the image file stored in the memory to the storage medium, controls the first interface unit to read the stored image file from the storage medium, and then controls the second interface unit to transfer the read image file to the communication device.
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An image capture device, comprising:
- an image capture unit that captures an image;
- a memory that stores an image file corresponding to the image captured by the image capture unit;
- a first interface unit that stores the image file stored in the memory to a storage medium;
- a second interface unit that transfers the image file stored in the memory to a communication device;
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- a control unit that selects one of a first image transfer method and a second image transfer method based on at least one of an amount of charge remaining in a battery connected to the communication device and an amount of charge remaining in a battery connected to the image capture device,
- wherein if the first image transfer method is selected, the control unit controls the first interface unit to store the image file stored in the memory to the storage medium and controls the second interface unit to transfer the image file stored in the memory to the communication device, and
- wherein if the second image transfer method is selected, the control unit controls the first interface unit to store the image file stored in the memory to the storage medium, controls the first interface unit to read the stored image file from the storage medium, and then controls the second interface unit to transfer the read image file to the communication device.
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A method comprising:
- storing an image file, which corresponds to an image captured by an image capture unit of an image capture device, in a memory;
- storing the image file stored in the memory to a storage medium via a first interface unit of the image capture device;
- transferring the image file stored in the memory to a communication device via a second interface unit of the image capture device;
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- selecting one of a first image transfer method and a second image transfer method based on an amount of charge remaining in a battery connected to the communication device,
- wherein if the first image transfer method is selected, the image file stored in the memory is stored in the storage medium via the first interface unit and the image file stored in the memory is transferred to the communication device via the second interface unit, and
- wherein if the second image transfer method is selected, the image file stored in the memory is stored in the storage medium via the first interface unit, the stored image file is read from the storage medium via the first interface unit, and then the read image file is transferred to the communication device via the second interface unit.
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A method comprising:
- storing an image file, which corresponds to an image captured by an image capture unit of an image capture device, in a memory;
- storing the image file stored in the memory to a storage medium via a first interface unit of the image capture device;
- transferring the image file stored in the memory to a communication device via a second interface unit of the image capture device;
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- selecting one of a first image transfer method and a second image transfer method based on at least one of an amount of charge remaining in a battery connected to the communication device and an amount of charge remaining in a battery connected to the image capture device,
- wherein if the first image transfer method is selected, the image file stored in the memory is stored in the storage medium via the first interface unit and the image file stored in the memory is transferred to the communication device via the second interface unit, and
- wherein if the second image transfer method is selected, the image file stored in the memory is stored in the storage medium via the first interface unit, the stored image file is read from the storage medium via the first interface unit, and then the read image file is transferred to the communication device via the second interface unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.