Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Ryosuke Amano

Koji Kamiya

Daisuke Nagao

Tadamasa Kurashige

An object information obtaining apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the object with measurement light, a probe configured to receive an acoustic wave propagating from the object, a driving unit configured to move the irradiation unit so that a relative position of the irradiation unit with respect to the object is changed, an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the object and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control a display unit in such a manner that an irradiation position of the measurement light is displayed on the image captured by the image capturing unit.

Object information obtaining apparatus, display apparatus, and display method

A communication apparatus performs wireless communication, determines whether an other communication apparatus is an apparatus that has received permission from a user, based on information written into a memory by the other communication apparatus via another type of wireless communication that differs from the wireless communication. The communication apparatus, in a case where it is determined that the other communication apparatus is an apparatus that has received permission from the user, performs the wireless communication with the other communication apparatus.

Communication apparatus, method for controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A communication apparatus, in a case where a partner apparatus is not in the communicable state in a second mode of a first wireless communication method, specifies a predetermined memory area of the partner apparatus and transmits, to the partner apparatus using a first mode of the first wireless communication method, a communication parameter used for communication between the communication apparatus and the partner apparatus in a second wireless communication method.

Communication apparatus, communication apparatus control method, and program

A communication apparatus transmits service information indicating a first service to be executed via an external apparatus and containing address information for communicating with the external apparatus, with the service information contained in information for handing over connection to a communication method different from a first communication method, to another communication apparatus by the first communication method, and executes the first service based on communication performed by a second communication method different from the first communication method and executes communication between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus.

Communication apparatus, method for controlling communication apparatus, and storage medium

A communication apparatus includes a first communication unit that performs a wireless communication with a second communication apparatus using a first communication method, and a second communication unit that performs a wireless communication with the second communication apparatus using a second communication method different from the first communication method. The first communication unit transmits a message including information indicating a communication protocol to be used in executing a service via the wireless communication by the second communication unit.

Communication apparatus, method of controlling communication apparatus, and storage medium

A communication apparatus that determines between apparatuses whether a service is executable before a wireless LAN connection is established and that establishes the wireless LAN connection only when the service is executable includes a determination unit that determines, if the communication apparatus and a communication partner apparatus overlap each other in terms of their roles as a requester when performing a handover, whether to transmit a response message in response to a request message received from the communication partner apparatus, and a transmission unit that transmits, if the determination unit determines to transmit the response message, a response message rejecting the connection using a second communication method to the communication partner apparatus using a first communication unit that performs wireless communication using a first communication method, regardless of whether the connection using the second communication method is executable.

Communication apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, and storage medium storing program

A communication apparatus includes a storage unit that stores service information corresponding to a service which can be read by another communication apparatus by a first wireless communication method, a communication unit that communicates with the other communication apparatus by a second wireless communication method, and an acquiring unit that acquires from the other communication apparatus, which read the service information from the storage unit, a message indicating whether a service corresponding to the service information is executable. A determination unit determines, based on the message, whether to start execution of the service with the other communication apparatus, and a detection unit detects that reading of the storage unit is performed by the other communication apparatus. The determination unit determines whether to start execution of the service based on the acquired message after it is detected that reading of the storage unit is performed.

Communication system, communication method, communication apparatus, method of controlling the same, and computer program

A communication device performs a first writing of writing, to a memory, one of application information used to activate an application and setting information used to establish communication with a second wireless communication system, transmits the written information to a communication partner device via a first wireless communication unit, performs a second writing of writing, to the memory, in a case where the transmission is performed, either the application information or the setting information, whichever was not previously written, and transmits the information written in the second writing to the communication partner device via the first wireless communication unit, in a case where the communication starts in a condition that the writing is being performed.

Communication device, communication device control method and program

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that has image sensors for each image of red, green, and blue which have a two-line addition function respectively. The imaging unit outputs image signals of red and blue and an image signal of green of which sample phases in a space are shifted by one pixel interval in a vertical direction using the two-line addition function. A resolution conversion unit obtains image signals of red, green, and blue of which the number of lines is doubled by performing interpolation processing on the image signals of red and blue and an image signal of green output from the imaging unit.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method for performing interpolation processing

A communication apparatus includes a first communication unit configured to perform wireless communication in a second communication mode in which information is written into a storage unit from another communication apparatus in a first communication mode, a second communication unit which is different from the first communication unit, and a control unit configured to, in a case where a power source of the communication apparatus is turned on and a communication parameter regarding the second communication unit is stored in the storage unit, control the second communication unit to perform processing for communication connection based on the communication parameter.

A communication apparatus includes a confirmation unit configured to confirm whether a processing, which is to be executed between the communication apparatus and a partner communication apparatus in communication therewith, has been selected by a user, a selection unit configured to select a processing to be executed according to a priority assigned to each of a plurality of processings, and an execution unit configured to execute the processing selected by the selection unit when the communication apparatus is again connected to the partner communication apparatus after the communication with the partner communication apparatus is disconnected, wherein the execution unit executes the selected processing when the confirmation unit confirms that there is a processing selected by the user during a period when the communication with the partner communication apparatus is disconnected and when the communication is connected again.

Communication apparatus and method thereof

Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a lens mount section with a removable lens section; an imaging element adapted to generate a video signal by converting image light of the subject entering through the lens section attached to the lens mount section into an electric signal; a disk-shaped shutter having a light shielding section and a transmission section, the light shielding section adapted to shield the imaging element from incident light, and the transmission section adapted to transmit incident light onto the imaging element; a shutter drive motor adapted to drive the disk-shaped shutter; a detection section adapted to detect whether the lens section is attached or detached; and a shutter control section adapted to supply a control signal to the shutter drive motor to stop the shutter if the detection section has detected that the lens section is detached.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryosuke Amano