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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:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Eiji Imaeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Eiji Imaeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A communication device having a memory for storing image data and thumbnail data is capable of transmitting the image data to an image storage unit. When the communication device transmits some of the image data stored in the memory, it erases the transmitted image data in the memory to increase an area in the memory where data can be stored. The communication device transmits to the image storage unit a search request for searching for the image data corresponding to the selected thumbnail data during browsing of the thumbnail data, and receives the image data found by searching from the image storage unit.