Patent ID: 9578202
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A communication apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit; a communication unit; a memory; and a processor for executing a program stored in the memory, the program including following steps of: capturing an object by the image capturing unit and generating image data; communicating with an external apparatus via the communication unit by a connection procedure selected from a plurality of connection procedures, the plurality of connection procedures including a first connection procedure in which an external apparatus is connected in accordance with a predetermined operation on the communication apparatus and a second connection procedure in which an external apparatus is connected in accordance with an operation whose operation amount is smaller than the predetermined operation performed on the communication apparatus to do connection by the first connection procedure, wherein the connection procedure is selected before connection between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus is established by the communication unit; operating in a first transmitting mode when the connection with the external apparatus is established by the first connection procedure; operating in a second transmitting mode when the connection with the external apparatus is established by the second connection procedure; wherein, in the first transmitting mode, a content that is selected based on an operation on the communication apparatus is transmitted and, in a second transmitting mode, a content that is selected based on an operation on an external apparatus is transmitted, wherein the first transmitting mode is executed after establishing the connection between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus and the second transmitting mode is executed after the connection between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus is established by the communication unit, and wherein the contents recorded in a recording medium include the image data generated by the image capturing unit.