Patent ID: 7455229
Filing Date: 2008-11-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A direct print system that includes a digital camera and a printer that are configured for communicating with each other utilizing a wireless LAN, wherein said printer comprises: a wireless-LAN information acquisition device for acquiring wireless-LAN information, which includes network encryption setting information and transmission-destination information, used in transmission utilizing a wireless LAN; a bar code generating device for generating a bar code representing the wireless-LAN information that has been acquired by said wireless-LAN information acquisition device; and an output device for outputting the bar code that has been generated by said bar code generating device; and said digital camera comprises: an image sensing device for sensing the image of the bar code that has been output by said output device of said printer and outputting data representing the bar code; a wireless-LAN information reading device for reading wireless-LAN information from the bar code data that has been output from said image sensing device to configure network encryption settings of the digital camera; and a wireless LAN transmitting device for transmitting image data, which has been recorded on a recording medium, to said printer using the network encryption setting information and transmission-destination information included in the wireless-LAN information read by said wireless-LAN information reading device.