US 12,143,653 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, imaging apparatus, and image transfer system
Ryo Jinnouchi, Kanagawa (JP); and Hiroshi Kanma, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/928,837
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/019769
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/251127, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-100971 (JP), filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0179811 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/2393 (2013.01) [H04N 21/235 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a control unit that performs:
initial information transfer processing of obtaining additional information on a basis of associated information and transmitting the associated information and the additional information to a client terminal in response to reception of the associated information that is information associated with an image captured by an imaging apparatus and has a smaller data amount than the image;
main image transfer processing of transmitting an image transmitted from the imaging apparatus to the client terminal according to request information generated by selection processing in the client terminal based on transmission of the associated information or the additional information; and
as the initial information transfer processing, switching processing of a plurality of transmission patterns including a transmission pattern to which the additional information is added and a transmission pattern to which the additional information is not added.