Patent ID: 11928148
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when read and executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute the steps of a method of controlling an information processing apparatus having a communication interface for communicating with an image capturing apparatus having a predetermined codec, and further having a decoding function for decoding encoded image data that is encoded according to at least the predetermined codec, the method comprising:
(a) managing storage of history information relating to communication with an image capturing apparatus with which communication was performed via the communication interface;
(b) in a case of communication with the image capturing apparatus via the communication interface, receiving an image file held in the image capturing apparatus and save the image file to a predetermined storage medium;
(c) in a case where an image of an image file of interest stored in the storage medium is to be displayed, extracting identification information of the image capturing apparatus which captured the image, by analyzing the image file of interest; and
(d) based on the identification information obtained in the extracting (c) and the history information managed in the managing (a), controlling whether or not to use the decoding function in relation to the image file of interest by determining whether or not the image of the image file of interest is an image captured by an image capturing apparatus that the information processing apparatus has communicate with in the past.