Image pickup apparatus, cartridge locking apparatus, and cartridge locking method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Hase
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Abstract
In an image pickup apparatus, a cartridge locking apparatus and a cartridge locking method, a cartridge, accommodating a recording medium for printing, mounted in a mounting unit for mounting the cartridge is locked so as not to be detached in response to a state a printing operation is being performed.
Claims13
An image pickup apparatus having a function for printing a sensed image, said apparatus comprising:
- a mounting unit that mounts a cartridge accommodating a recording medium for printing;
- and
- a locking device that locks the cartridge mounted in said mounting unit so as not to be detached, in response to a state in which a printing operation is being performed.
A cartridge locking method for an image pickup apparatus having a function for printing a sensed image, said method comprising the step of:
- locking a cartridge, accommodating a recording medium for printing, mounted in a mounting unit for mounting the cartridge, so as not to be detached, in response to a state in which a printing operation is being performed.
A cartridge locking apparatus comprising:
- a mounting unit that mounts a cartridge accommodating a recording medium for printing;
- and
- a locking device that locks the cartridge mounted in said mounting unit so as not to be detached, in response to a state in which a printing operation is being performed.
A cartridge locking method comprising the step of:
- locking a cartridge, accommodating a recording medium for printing, mounted in a mounting unit for mounting the cartridge, so as not to be detached in response to a state in which a printing operation is being performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.