Image providing apparatus, image output apparatus, and image output system

摘要

In an image providing apparatus capable of performing close-proximity wireless communication, it is determined whether or not the image providing apparatus come to an active state by moving close to the image output apparatus (whether or not the apparatus has been remotely woken up) if a connection through close-proximity wireless communication is established. It is decided that the image output apparatus is the primary controller after the connection if the image providing apparatus has been remotely woken up, and the use of an appropriate protocol for the primary controller is decided on. On the other hand, if the image providing apparatus has not been remotely woken up, it is decided that the image providing apparatus is the primary controller after connection, and the use of a corresponding protocol is decided on.

主权项

1. An image providing apparatus including a communication unit for communicating with an image output apparatus through proximity wireless communication, and capable of constituting an image output system along with the image output apparatus that is connected via the communication unit, the image providing apparatus comprising:
an operation unit that accepts a user's operation; a determination unit that determines, if a connection through the proximity wireless communication is established with the image output apparatus via the communication unit, whether (1) moving close to the image output apparatus causes the image providing apparatus to come to an active state, or (2) the image providing apparatus has already come to the active state by a user operation accepted by the operation unit before the connection is established, and a decision unit that decides on the primary controller in the image output system as one of the image providing apparatus and the image output apparatus according to a result of the determination by the determination unit, wherein the decision unit decides that the primary controller in the image output system is the image output apparatus if the determination unit has determined that moving close to the image output apparatus causes the image providing apparatus to come to an active state, and decides that the primary controller in the image output system is the image providing apparatus if the determination unit has determined that the image providing apparatus has already come to the active state by a user operation accepted by the operation unit before the connection is established.