US 12,284,436 B2
Imaging apparatus and control device for notifying a change in a state of the imaging apparatus to the control device
Toru Takashima, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/081,213.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-205227 (JP), filed on Dec. 17, 2021; and application No. 2022-173601 (JP), filed on Oct. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0199303 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/66 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/66 (2023.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging apparatus configured to notify an external control device of information in the imaging apparatus, the imaging apparatus comprising:
a communication circuitry configured to perform data communication with the external control device; and
a control circuitry configured to generate corresponding notification data in response to each of a plurality of types of events and control the communication circuitry to transmit the notification data to the external control device separately from image data, each of the events indicating that a state in the imaging apparatus changes,
wherein the notification data includes a data storage region configured to store data indicating the state of the corresponding event, and
the data indicating the state includes at least a first type of information in combination with a second type of information which change different respective parameters in shooting an image or recording the image in the imaging apparatus.