# US 10,375,268 B2 · Communication device and method for controlling the same

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- Number: US 10,375,268 B2
- Document ID: US10375268B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/049,347
- Filed: 2018-07-30
- Published: 2018-11-22
- Granted: 2019-08-06
- Earliest claimed: 2016-04-28
- Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki; Nobuyuki Bannai; Akinori Horiuchi; Arata Miyagi
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10375268B2

## CPC

- H04N 1/32641: {of transmission or transmitted data, e.g. interruption or wrong number of pages}
- B41J 3/4071: {Printing on disk-shaped media, e.g. CDs}
- G06F 3/1205: {resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets}
- G06F 3/1232: {Transmitting printer device capabilities, e.g. upon request or periodically}
- G06F 3/1285: {Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server}
- G06F 11/0736: {in functional embedded systems, i.e. in a data processing system designed as a combination of hardware and software dedicated to performing a certain function (testing or monitoring of automated control systems G05B23/02)}
- G06F 11/0751: {Error or fault detection not based on redundancy (power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06)}
- G06F 11/0769: {Readable error formats, e.g. cross-platform generic formats, human understandable formats}
- G06F 13/4068: {Electrical coupling}
- G06F 13/42: Bus transfer protocol, e.g. handshake; Synchronisation
- H04N 1/00204: {with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server (programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561)}
- H04N 1/00339: {with an electronic or magnetic storage medium I/O device (RFID or the like H04N1/00342)}
- H04N 1/00973: {from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal}
- H04N 1/32117: {in a separate transmission or protocol signal prior to or subsequent to the image data transmission, e.g. in digital identification signal [DIS], in non standard setup [NSS] or in non standard field [NSF] (for mode signalling H04N1/333)}
- H04N 1/32694: {Storing a fault condition in memory}
- G03G 2215/00109: Remote control of apparatus, e.g. by a host
- G06F 3/1255: {Settings incompatibility, e.g. constraints, user requirements vs. device capabilities}
- H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
- H04N 2201/216: Arrangements for recording on different types of storage medium, e.g. IC card or magnetic tape; Recording on a plurality of storage media
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G03G: ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY

## Abstract

A communication device includes a first holding unit which holds a disk-like first recording medium capable of storing information and a second holding unit which holds a second recording medium which is different from the first recording medium. The communication device further includes a request reception unit configured to receive a request for information indicating a recording medium which is usable by the communication device from a terminal device, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the first recording medium and information indicating the second recording medium held by the second holding unit to the terminal device when the request is received.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A communication device comprising:
a first holding unit which is configured to hold a disk-like first recording medium capable of storing information;
a second holding unit which is configured to hold a second recording medium which is different from the first recording medium; and
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor performs operations comprising:
transmitting information indicating the first recording medium to a terminal device; and
transmitting, to the terminal device, information indicating the second recording medium selected, as the second recording medium held by the second holding unit, by an operation by a user to a display device which displays a plurality of the second recording media the second holding unit can hold, or information indicating the second recording medium detected, as the second recording medium held by the second holding unit, by the communication device,
wherein print setting information corresponding to the first recording medium and print setting information corresponding to the second recording medium selected by the user are displayed in the terminal device so as to be selectable by the user in a case that the information indicating the first recording medium and the information indicating the second recording medium selected by the user are transmitted to the terminal device.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, wherein information indicating the first recording medium is transmitted to the terminal device in a case that the second holding unit does not hold the second recording medium and the information indicating the first recording medium is not transmitted to the terminal device in a case that the second holding unit holds the second recording medium.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:
an opening and closing member located in a close position for closing an insertion slot of the first recording medium disposed in the first holding unit or an open position for opening the insertion slot,
wherein the information indicating the first recording medium is transmitted to the terminal device when the opening and closing member is located in the open position, whereas the information indicating the first recording medium is not transmitted to the terminal device when the opening and closing member is located in the close position.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The first communication device according to claim 1, the operations further comprising:
transmitting information indicating an error which has occurred in the communication device,
wherein the error information is not transmitted to the terminal device when the error which has occurred in the communication device is associated with printing using the first recording medium, whereas the error information is transmitted to the terminal device when the error which has occurred in the communication device is not associated with the printing using the first recording medium, and
a screen associated with the error information transmitted to the terminal device is displayed on a display unit included in the terminal device.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The communication device according to claim 4, the operations further comprising:
displaying the screen associated with the error which has occurred in the communication device on the display device included in the communication device irrespective of content of the error which has occurred in the communication device.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, the operations further comprising:
transmitting information indicating an error which has occurred in the communication device,
wherein the error information is transmitted to the terminal device irrespective of content of the error which has occurred in the communication device when communication between the communication device and the terminal device is based on a standard system protocol,
the error information is not transmitted to the terminal device when the communication between the communication device and the terminal device is not based on the standard system protocol and the error which has occurred in the communication device is associated with printing using the first recording medium,
the error information is transmitted to the terminal device when the communication between the communication device and the terminal device is not based on the standard system protocol and the error which has occurred in the communication device is not associated with the printing using the first recording medium, and
a screen associated with the error information transmitted to the terminal device is displayed on a display unit included in the terminal device.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, the operations further comprising:
receiving print setting information from the terminal device; and
causing an image forming unit to perform an image forming process of forming an image using recording material on at least one of the first and second recording media in accordance with the print setting information received from the terminal device,
wherein the print setting information includes at least one of information indicating a size of a recording medium of a printing target, information indicating a type of the recording medium of the printing target, and information indicating a supply unit which supplies the recording medium of the printing target.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The communication device according to claim 7, wherein an image is formed on one of the first and second recording media which corresponds to one of the type information and the supply unit information which is included in the print setting information when the print setting information includes the size information having predetermined content and the print setting information does not include one of the type information and the supply unit information.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The communication device according to claim 7, wherein an image is formed on the second recording medium when the second holding unit holds the second recording medium whereas an image is formed on the first recording medium when the second holding unit does not hold the second recording medium, in a case where the print setting information includes the size information having predetermined content and the type information and the supply unit information included in the print setting information do not match each other.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The communication device according to claim 9, wherein an image is formed on the first recording medium when the first holding unit holds the first recording medium whereas an image is formed on the second recording medium when the first holding unit does not hold the first recording medium, in the case where the print setting information includes the size information having predetermined content and the type information and the supply unit information included in the print setting information do not match each other.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the request is received when a predetermined program for executing communication based on a standard system protocol is activated in the terminal device.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The communication device according to claim 11, the operations further comprising:
transmitting information indicating a function executable by the communication device to the terminal device when a printer driver for executing communication based on a non-standard system protocol which is different from the predetermined program is installed in the terminal device.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the first recording medium is one of a compact disc, a digital versatile disc (DVD), and a Blu-ray disc.

### Claim 14 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the second recording medium is paper.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, wherein information indicating the second recording medium not selected by the user, from among the plurality of the second recording media the second holding unit can hold, is not transmitted to the terminal device.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The communication device according to claim 1, the operations further comprising:
forming an image through inkjet printing based on a print job received from the terminal device.

### Claim 17

A communication device comprising:
a first holding unit which holds a disk-like first recording medium capable of storing information;
a second holding unit which holds a second recording medium which is different from the first recording medium; and
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor performs operations comprising:
displaying, on a display unit, a plurality of second recording media the second holding unit can hold;
receiving an operation from a user for selecting, from among the displayed plurality of the second recording media the second holding unit can hold, the second recording medium held by the second holding unit; and
transmitting information indicating the first recording medium and information indicating the second recording medium selected by the user to a terminal device,
wherein print setting information corresponding to the first recording medium and print setting information corresponding to the second recording medium selected by the user are displayed in the terminal device so as to be selectable by the user in a case that the information indicating the first recording medium and the information indicating the second recording medium selected by the user are transmitted to the terminal device.

### Claim 18

A method for controlling a communication device including a first holding unit which is configured to hold a disk-like first recording medium capable of storing information and a second holding unit which is configured to hold a second recording medium which is different from the first recording medium, the method comprising:
transmitting information indicating the first recording medium; and
transmitting, to a terminal device, information indicating the second recording medium selected, as the second recording medium held by the second holding unit, by an operation by a user to a display device which displays a plurality of the second recording media the second holding unit can hold, or information indicating the second recording medium detected, as the second recording medium held by the second holding unit, by the communication device,
wherein print setting information corresponding to the first recording medium and print setting information corresponding to the second recording medium selected by the user are displayed in the terminal device so as to be selectable by the user in a case that the information indicating the first recording medium and the information indicating the second recording medium selected by the user are transmitted to the terminal device.