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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2004
Akira Suga, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Kawamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Ogiwara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Aizawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Suga, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Kawamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Ogiwara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Aizawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention completes an authentication procedure early when it is ready to directly communicate with a printer, and serves as a user interface device of a direct print system. To this end, when a digital camera DSC is ready to directly communicate with a printer, and receives from the printer an inquiry about objects stored and held by the camera, it assigns an object which contains a word serving as authentication information of those stored and held in the DSC to a first handler (S), assigns other objects (image data and the like) to subsequent handlers (S), and sends that assignment result to the printer (S).