Patent ID: 8782126
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A communication method in a communication apparatus remotely controlling, via the Internet, a camera control apparatus which controls a camera, said method comprising: a requesting step of requesting the camera control apparatus identified by an address according to a first character string included in a URL to acquire an image captured by the camera in a condition according to a third character string included in the URL and to form, from the acquired image, image data according to an image format designated by a second character string included in the URL, wherein the condition according to a third character string comprises a concatenation of a letter representing at least on of the focusing, zooming, panning and tilting of the camera, and a number representing a value of the at least one of the focusing, zooming, panning and tilting; and a receiving step of, from the camera control apparatus which acquires the image captured by the camera in accordance with the request in the requesting step, receiving the image data, which, by the camera control apparatus identified by the address corresponding to the first character string included in the URL, has been acquired from the camera and has been formed in accordance with the image format designated by the second character string included in the URL.