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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2008
Applicant:
Toru Koike, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toru Koike, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/66 (2006.01); H04N 9/12 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus operates in a normal power-consumption mode in the period after reception of an image-transfer request command from a digital television set until completion of an operation for transferring still image data in accordance with the image-transfer request command, and operates in a low power-consumption mode in the period after the completion of the operation for transferring the still image data in accordance with the image-transfer request command until reception of another image-transfer request command from the digital television set.