US 11,871,120 B2
Camera-equipped portable information terminal device
Hiroshi Shimizu, Oyamazaki (JP); Motoyuki Suzuki, Oyamazaki (JP); Yasunobu Hashimoto, Oyamazaki (JP); Tomonori Nomura, Oyamazaki (JP); and Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Oyamazaki (JP)
Assigned to MAXELL, LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by MAXELL, LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,053.
Application 17/981,053 is a continuation of application No. 17/369,644, filed on Jul. 7, 2021, granted, now 11,496,692.
Application 17/369,644 is a continuation of application No. 16/086,263, granted, now 11,076,104, issued on Jul. 27, 2021, previously published as PCT/JP2017/006828, filed on Feb. 23, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-071012 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2016; and application No. 2016-095268 (JP), filed on May 11, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059108 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 23/74 (2023.01); G03B 15/05 (2021.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/71 (2023.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 23/74 (2023.01) [G03B 15/05 (2013.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/71 (2023.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/21 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera-equipped portable information terminal comprising:
an imager configured to capture an image of a subject and generate image data;
a transceiver configured to communicate with one or more other portable information terminals; and
a controller configured to control the transceiver,
wherein the controller is configured to, by communicating with the one or more other portable information terminals via the transceiver, form a group of portable information terminals that mutually communicate within a local area;
wherein the controller is configured to execute transmission processing of the image data to the one or more other portable information terminals in the group via the transceiver, and
wherein, when a predetermined period of time has passed after the group is formed and the transmission processing is executed, the controller automatically cancels the group.