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Timestamp: 2019-12-06 18:53:45
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 10', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 201510319538', 'Application No. 201010549878', 'Application No. 2010', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 201510319538', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 2010', 'Application No. 201010549878', 'Application No. 2010105498782', 'Application No. 201010549878', 'Application No. 2015', 'Application No. 201010549878', 'Application No. 10191064', 'Application No. 2015', 'Application No. 201010549878', 'Application No. 201010549878', 'Application No. 10191064']

US10057490B2 - Image capture apparatus and remote control thereof - Google Patents
US10057490B2
US10057490B2 US13/908,784 US201313908784A US10057490B2 US 10057490 B2 US10057490 B2 US 10057490B2 US 201313908784 A US201313908784 A US 201313908784A US 10057490 B2 US10057490 B2 US 10057490B2
US13/908,784
US20130265452A1 (en
2009-11-13 Priority to KR20090109545 priority Critical
2009-11-13 Priority to KR10-2009-0109545 priority
2010-11-09 Priority to KR10-2010-0110959 priority
2010-11-15 Priority to US12/946,408 priority patent/US20110115932A1/en
2013-06-03 Priority to US13/908,784 priority patent/US10057490B2/en
2013-10-10 Publication of US20130265452A1 publication Critical patent/US20130265452A1/en
2018-08-21 Publication of US10057490B2 publication Critical patent/US10057490B2/en
This application is a divisional application of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/946,408,filed on Nov. 15, 2010,in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2009-0109545,which was filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, on Nov. 13, 2009,and Korean Patent Application No. 10-2010-0110959,which was filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, on Nov. 9, 2010,the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a method of providing an image includes receiving an image capture start signal from a remote controller of the camera; successively capturing images after the image capture start signal is received; receiving an image capture end signal from the remote controller; and selecting an image captured at a time which is a predetermined period of time prior to a time at which the image capture end signal is received.
receiving, from a remote device executing an application to remotely control the image capture apparatus to provide a still image to the remote device, a first input to initiate capturing a sequence of images to the remote device if a shutter icon of the remote device is touched;
initiating capturing the sequence of images in response to receiving the first input;
transmitting the sequence of images to the remote device while touch input regarding the shutter icon is maintained;
receiving, from the remote device, a second input instructing the image capture apparatus to stop capturing the sequence of images if the touch input regarding the shutter icon is released;
stopping capturing the sequence of images, in response to receiving the second input;
determining a period of time prior to a time of receiving the second input from the remote device;
automatically selecting the still image from the sequence of images captured during the period of time prior to the time of receiving the second input from the remote device based on a sum of time delays from a time at which the second input is received from the remote device, wherein the time delays include a time delay of an encoding operation in the image capture apparatus, and wherein the determined period of time is a part of a time period between a time of receiving the first input from the remote device and the time of receiving the second input from the remote device; and
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence of images is captured while the shutter icon of the remote device is touched.
determining the time of receiving the second input from the remote device, and the outputting comprises outputting the still image based on the time of receiving the second input from the remote device.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the capturing the sequence of video frames comprises:
storing the sequence of images in a memory of the image capture apparatus.
encoding the sequence of images to a lower resolution lower than a resolution at which the sequence of images is captured; and
streaming the sequence of images having the lower resolution to the remote device.
8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program that causes a mobile device to provide an image of an image capture apparatus, the method comprising:
transmitting to the image capture apparatus a first signal to initiate capturing a sequence of images to the mobile device if a shutter icon of the mobile device is touched;
receiving the sequence of images from the image capture apparatus, in response to transmitting the first signal;
detecting a release of the shutter icon of the mobile device;
transmitting a second signal to the image capture apparatus instructing the image capture apparatus to stop capturing the sequence of images, in response to detecting the release of the shutter icon of the mobile device;
receiving the still image from the image capture apparatus automatically selected based on a sum of time delays from a time at which the second signal is received from the mobile device, wherein the time delays include a time delay of an encoding operation in the in the image capture apparatus and selected from the sequence of images captured during a period of time prior to a time of transmitting the second signal, in response to transmitting the second signal, wherein the period of time is a part of a time period between a time the shutter icon of the mobile device is touched and a time of the release of the shutter icon of the mobile device; and
9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the sequence of images is captured while the shutter icon of the mobile device is touched.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the still image is selected based on a time of transmitting the second signal.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the outputting comprises:
12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the transmitting the first signal comprises detecting a touch of the shutter icon of the mobile device.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the sequence of images is stored in a memory of the image capture apparatus.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the received sequence of images is an encoded sequence of images of a lower resolution lower than a resolution at which the sequence of images is captured.
a transmitting unit configured to transmit to an image capture apparatus a first signal to initiating capturing a sequence of images to the mobile device if a shutter icon of the mobile device is touched;
a receiving unit configured to receive the sequence of images from the image capture apparatus, in response to the transmitting unit transmitting the first signal; and
an output unit configured to output a still image,
wherein the transmitting unit is configured to transmit a second signal to the image capture apparatus instructing the image capture apparatus to stop capturing the sequence of images, in response to detection of a release of a shutter icon of the mobile device,
wherein the receiving unit is configured to receive the still image automatically selected based on a sum of time delays from a time at which the second signal is received from the mobile device, wherein the time delays include a time delay of an encoding operation in the image capture apparatus and selected from the sequence of images captured during a period of time prior to a time of transmitting the second signal from the image capture apparatus, in response to the transmitting unit transmitting the second signal, wherein the period of time is a part of a time period between a time the shutter icon of the mobile device is touched and a time of the release of the shutter icon of the mobile device,
16. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the sequence of images is captured while the shutter icon of the mobile device is touched.
17. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the still image is selected based on the time of transmitting the second signal.
18. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured to obtain a destination email address and transmit the still image by email to the destination email address.
19. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the sequence of images is stored in a memory of the image capture apparatus.
20. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the received sequence of images is an encoded sequence of images of a lower resolution lower than a resolution at which the sequence of images is captured.
a receiving unit configured to receive, from a remote device executing an application to remotely control the image capture apparatus, a first input to initiate capturing a sequence of images to the remote device if a shutter icon of the remote device is touched;
an image capturing unit configured to initiate capturing the sequence of images in response to receiving the first input; and
a transmitting unit configured to transmit the sequence of images to the remote device while the touch input regarding the shutter icon is maintained,
wherein the receiving unit is configured to receive, from the remote device, a second input instructing the image capture apparatus to stop capturing the sequence of images if the touch input regarding the shutter icon is released,
wherein the image capturing unit is configured to stop capturing the sequence of images, in response to the receiving unit receiving the second input,
wherein the transmitting unit is configured to determine a period of time prior to a time of receiving the second input from the remote device, and automatically select the still image from the sequence of images captured during the period of time prior to the time of receiving the second input from the remote device based on a sum of time delays from a time at which the second input is received from the remote device, wherein the time delays include a time delay of an encoding operation in the image capture apparatus and wherein the determined period of time is a part of a time period between a time of receiving the first input from the remote device and the time of receiving the second input from the remote device, and output the still image.
22. The image capture apparatus of claim 21, wherein the sequence of images is captured while the shutter icon of the remote device is touched.
23. The image capture apparatus of claim 21, wherein the transmitting unit is configured to determine the time of receiving the second input from the remote device and select the still image based on the time of receiving the second input from the remote device.
24. The image capture apparatus of claim 21, wherein the transmitting unit is configured to transmit the still image by email to a destination email address.
25. The image capture apparatus of claim 24, wherein the transmitting unit is configured to provide the still image by obtaining the destination email address and transmitting the still image by email to the destination email address.
26. The image capture apparatus of claim 21, wherein the image capture unit is further configured to capture the sequence of images by storing the sequence of images in a memory of the image capture apparatus.
27. The image capture apparatus of claim 21, wherein the transmitting unit is configured to stream the sequence of images by encoding the sequence of images to a lower resolution lower than a resolution at which the sequence of images is captured and streaming the sequence of images having the lower resolution to the remote device.
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