Patent ID: 9344678
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus connected to a network, the information processing apparatus comprising: a first acquisition unit configured to obtain a piece of bandwidth information that indicates a bandwidth of the network to which the information processing apparatus is connected; an operation state control unit configured to control an operation state of the information processing apparatus on the basis of a piece of first information associated with the piece of bandwidth information obtained by the first acquisition unit, the piece of first information being one of a plurality of pieces of first information each indicating a quality of an image that is able to be transmitted via the network by the information processing apparatus, the pieces of first information being stored in association with a plurality of pieces of bandwidth information in a first storage unit; an image-capturing unit configured to capture an object to generate a captured image; a generation unit configured to generate the image able to be transmitted by compressing and encoding the captured image; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image generated by the generation unit via the network, wherein the operation state control unit is configured to determine setting of compression and encoding of the generation unit and resolution of the captured image so as to minimize electric power consumption of the information processing apparatus, on the basis of the piece of first information associated with the piece of bandwidth information obtained by the first acquisition unit, and the operation state control unit is configured to