# US 11,451,738 B2 · Recording apparatus, method of controlling recording apparatus, and storage medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,451,738 B2 - Document ID: US11451738B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/103,395 - Filed: 2020-11-24 - Published: 2021-06-03 - Granted: 2022-09-20 - Earliest claimed: 2019-11-29 - Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Kohei Katsumata; Takashi Hasegawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11451738B2 ## CPC - G11B 27/36: Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing {(for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06)} - H04N 5/77: between a recording apparatus and a television camera - G06F 1/206: {comprising thermal management} - G11C 7/04: with means for avoiding disturbances due to temperature effects - G11C 16/22: Safety or protection circuits preventing unauthorised or accidental access to memory cells - G11C 16/3418: {Disturbance prevention or evaluation; Refreshing of disturbed memory data} - H04N 5/76: Television signal recording - H04N 23/667: Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G11C: STATIC STORES (semiconductor memory devices H10B) ## Abstract A recording apparatus configured to access a recording medium includes a controller that sets a temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium to the recording medium, wherein, based on an operation state of the recording apparatus, the controller selects whether to execute a first setting to set the temperature threshold value to a specific value or a second setting to set the temperature threshold value to a value greater than the specific value. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A recording apparatus configured to access a recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising: an image capturing device; a recording controller configured to record an image captured by the image capturing device in the recording medium; a reproduction controller configured to read the image recorded in the recording medium and reproduce the read image; and a controller configured to set a temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium to the recording medium, wherein the controller selects, based on an operation state of the recording apparatus, whether to execute a first setting to set the temperature threshold value to a specific value or a second setting to set the temperature threshold value to a value greater than the specific value, and wherein in a capturing mode in which the image capturing device captures an image, the controller performs control to execute the second setting, whereas in still image reproduction in which a still image recorded in the recording medium is reproduced, the controller performs control to execute the first setting. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a reproduction mode in which the image recorded in the recording medium is read and reproduced, the controller performs control to execute the first setting in still image reproduction in which a still image is reproduced, whereas the controller performs control to execute the second setting in moving image reproduction in which a moving image is reproduced. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein in a case where a moving image file recorded in the recording medium is to be reproduced, the controller performs control to execute the first setting in a case where a single frame image in the moving image file is to be reproduced, whereas the controller performs control to execute the second setting in a case where a plurality of frames in the moving image file is to be reproduced continuously. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller sets a first value and a second value greater than the first value being a temperature threshold value for execution of a first limitation mode on the recording medium, the second value being a temperature threshold value for execution of a second limitation mode, which places more limitation than the first limitation mode, on the recording medium. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The recording apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a range acquisition circuit configured to acquire a settable value range of the temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium from the recording medium, wherein the controller sets the first value and the second value within the settable value range acquired by the range acquisition circuit. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein in the second setting, the controller sets an upper limit value in the settable value range as the second value and sets a value less than the second value and greater than the second value in the first setting as the first value. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The recording apparatus according to claim 6, wherein in the second setting, the controller sets a value less by one value amount than the upper limit value in the settable value range as the first value. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific value is a default value of the recording medium. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The recording apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a default value acquisition circuit configured to acquire a default value of the temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium from the recording medium, wherein the default value acquisition circuit acquires a temperature threshold value set to the recording medium before a setting of the temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium is changed, and wherein the default value acquisition circuit determines the acquired temperature threshold value as the default value. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a memory card supporting a CFexpress standard, and wherein the controller sets the temperature threshold value using a host controlled thermal management (HCTM) function. ### Claim 11 A recording apparatus configured to access a recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising: a determination circuit configured to determine whether the recording medium supports a predetermined function by which the recording apparatus sets the temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium; and an acquisition circuit configured to acquire information about an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a settable value range that can be set in the recording medium as the temperature threshold value in a case where the determination circuit determines that the recording medium supports the predetermined function; and a controller configured to set a temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium in the predetermined function to the recording medium, wherein the controller switches whether or not to use the predetermined function based on the upper limit value or the lower limit value of the settable value range of the temperature threshold value acquired by the acquisition circuit. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The recording apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the controller performs control not to use the predetermined function in a case where an upper limit value or a lower limit value of the settable value range acquired by the acquisition circuit is zero. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The recording apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the controller performs control not to use the predetermined function in a case where an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the settable value range acquired by the acquisition circuit is zero. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The recording apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the acquisition circuit acquires an upper limit value of a value settable as the temperature threshold value, and wherein the controller performs control not to use the predetermined function in a case where the upper limit value acquired by the acquisition circuit is outside a predetermined range. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The recording apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the acquisition circuit acquires an upper limit value of a value settable as the temperature threshold value and acquires a default value of the temperature threshold value that is initially set to the recording medium, and wherein the controller performs control not to use the predetermined function in a case where the default value is greater than the upper limit value. ### Claim 16 A method of controlling a recording apparatus configured to access a recording medium, the method comprising: recording an image captured by an image capturing device in the recording medium; reading the image recorded in the recording medium and reproducing the read image; and performing control to set a temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium to the recording medium, wherein based on an operation state of the recording apparatus, the control includes, selecting whether to execute a first setting to set the temperature threshold value to a specific value or a second setting to set the temperature threshold value to a value greater than the specific value, and wherein in a capturing mode in which the image capturing device captures an image, the control selects to execute the second setting, whereas in still image reproduction in which a still image recorded in the recording medium is reproduced, the control selects to execute the first setting. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method according to claim 16, wherein the specific value is a default value of the recording medium. ### Claim 18 A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a method of controlling a recording apparatus configured to access a recording medium, the method comprising: recording an image captured by an image capturing device in the recording medium; reading the image recorded in the recording medium and reproducing the read image; and performing control to set a temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium to the recording medium, wherein, based on an operation state of the recording apparatus, the control includes selecting whether to execute a first setting to set the temperature threshold value to a specific value or a second setting to set the temperature threshold value to a value greater than the specific value, and wherein in a capturing mode in which the image capturing device captures an image, the control selects to execute the second setting, whereas in still image reproduction in which a still image recorded in the recording medium is reproduced, the control selects to execute the first setting. ### Claim 19 A method of controlling a recording apparatus configured to access a recording medium, the method comprising: determining whether the recording medium supports a predetermined function by which the recording apparatus sets the temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium; acquiring information about an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a settable value range that can be set in the recording medium as the temperature threshold value in a case where it is determined that the recording medium supports the predetermined function in the determining; and setting a temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium in the predetermined function to the recording medium, wherein in the setting, whether or not to use the predetermined function is switched based on the upper limit value or the lower limit value of the settable value range of the temperature threshold value acquired in the acquiring. ### Claim 20 A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a method of controlling a recording apparatus configured to access a recording medium, the method comprising: determining whether the recording medium supports a predetermined function by which the recording apparatus sets the temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium; acquiring information about an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a settable value range that can be set in the recording medium as the temperature threshold value in a case where it is determined that the recording medium supports the predetermined function in the determining; and setting a temperature threshold value for execution of function limitation on the recording medium in the predetermined function to the recording medium, wherein in the setting, whether or not to use the predetermined function is switched based on the upper limit value or the lower limit value of the settable value range of the temperature threshold value acquired in the acquiring.