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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 ;
Abstract
An image-sensing server performs moving-image transfer service by sequentially transferring live video images obtained by a video camera via a general network such as the Internet. When live video images are requested from an external device as a client on the network, a system controller controls data-transfer amount per unit time of an image obtained by image sensing by the video camera, in accordance with traffic status on the network, and transfers the image data to the external device.