Patent ID: 11962942
Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A communication method, comprising:
a calculation step executed by a processor included in one of a transmission terminal and a reception terminal;
a first adjustment step executed by the processor; and
a second adjustment step executed by the processor,
wherein the transmission terminal comprises:
a first signal generator configured to generate a first synchronization signal that defines an imaging cycle; and
a first communicator configured to transmit an image generated by an imaging device that performs imaging of a subject in accordance with the first synchronization signal; and

wherein the reception terminal comprises:
a second communicator configured to receive the image transmitted by the first communicator; and
a second signal generator configured to generate a second synchronization signal that defines a display cycle,

wherein the image received by the second communicator is output to a display device that displays the image in accordance with the second synchronization signal,
wherein the processor calculates an adjustment value indicating a difference between the imaging cycle and the display cycle in the calculation step after the first communicator and the second communicator connect to each other,
wherein the processor causes the imaging cycle and the display cycle to match each other by adjusting the first signal generator on the basis of the adjustment value in the first adjustment step in a first case in which the transmission terminal includes the processor,
wherein the processor causes the imaging cycle and the display cycle to match each other by adjusting the second signal generator on the basis of the adjustment value in the first adjustment step in a second case in which the reception terminal includes the processor,
wherein a connection history in which adjustment information and identification information are associated with each other is recorded on a recording medium,
wherein the adjustment information directly or indirectly indicates the adjustment value,
wherein the identification information indicates one of the first communicator and the second communicator,
wherein the processor adjusts the first signal generator on the basis of the adjustment value indicated by the adjustment information associated with the identification information corresponding to the second communicator in the connection history in the second adjustment step when the first communicator and the second communicator connect to each other again in the first case, and
wherein the processor adjusts the second signal generator on the basis of the adjustment value indicated by the adjustment information associated with the identification information corresponding to the first communicator in the connection history in the second adjustment step when the first communicator and the second communicator connect to each other again in the second case.