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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2011
Hirokazu Ohi, Machida, JP;
Yasutomo Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Tadashi Yamakawa, Yokohama, JP;
Mamoru Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Okuno, Kawasaki, JP;
Hirokazu Ohi, Machida, JP;
Yasutomo Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Tadashi Yamakawa, Yokohama, JP;
Mamoru Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Okuno, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An end user is provided with an environment to easily remote-control a video camera via a general network such as the Internet. For this purpose, on a client side, the content of camera control is described in file-transfer protocol description, and the description is transferred to a camera server on the Internet via a browser. The camera server interprets the description, controls a camera in accordance with the designated content, to perform image sensing, and returns the obtained video image as the content of a file to the client. The client performs various controls while observing the video image. When a desired angle has been found, the client instructs to register the angle in a bookmark, then angle information displayed at that time is registered. Thereafter, when the user of the client can see the video image obtained on the same image-sensing conditions by merely select-designating the angle information registered in the bookmark.