Image recording apparatus with controller for selectively executing an energy saving mode
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Hashimoto, Junichi Kimizuka
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus comprises an image information generation unit for generating image information, a record control unit for recording an image represented by the image information generated by the image information generation unit and a communication unit for transferring information between the image information generation unit and the record control unit. The record control unit has multi-level energy saving modes and the communication unit includes a unit for designating at least one of the multi-level energy saving modes from the image information generation unit in response to command data outputted from the image information generation unit.
Claims15
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- image information generation means for generating image information;
- record control means for recording an image represented by the image information generated by said image information generation means;
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- communication means for transferring information between said image information generation means and said record control means,
- wherein said record control means has multi-level energy saving modes, and
- wherein said communication means includes means for designating at least one of the multi-level energy saving modes from said image information generation means in response to command data outputted from said image information generation means.
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- image information generation means for generating image information;
- record control means for recording an image represented by the image information generated by said image information generation means;
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- communication means for transferring information between said image information generation means and said record control means;
- said record control means including an MPU;
- said communication means including means for stopping an operation clock of said MPU in response to command data outputted from said image information generation means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.