Electronic apparatus, printer, program, and consumable
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsHitoshi Abe, Masanobu Hida
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes: a consumable-version-information holding section that holds version information of firmware read from an information medium of a consumable loaded in an own machine; an own-machine-version information holding section that holds version information of firmware currently used in the own machine; a version information comparing section that compares version information of the consumable and version information of the own machine with each other; and an update message notifying section that displays a message that prompts updating of firmware on an information display section of the own machine or another machine when the version information of the consumable is newer than the version information of the own machine.
Claims25
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a consumable-version-information holding section that holds version information of firmware read from an information medium of a consumable loaded in an own machine;
- an own-machine-version information holding section that holds version information of firmware currently used in the own machine;
- a version information comparing section that compares version information of the consumable and version information of the own machine with each other;
- and
- an update message notifying section that displays a message that prompts updating of firmware on an information display section of the own machine or another machine when the version information of the consumable is newer than the version information of the own machine.
A printer which is used with a consumable loaded therein, comprising:
- a consumable-version-information holding section that holds version information of firmware read from an information medium of a consumable loaded in an own machine;
- an own-machine-version information holding section that holds version information of firmware currently used in the own machine;
- a version information comparing section that compares version information of the consumable and version information of the own machine with each other;
- and
- an update message notifying section that displays a message that prompts updating of firmware on an information display section of the own machine or another machine when the version information of the consumable is newer than the version information of the own machine.
A program for causing a computer, which is incorporated in an electronic apparatus that is used with a consumable loaded therein, to execute the steps of:
- reading version information of firmware corresponding to the consumable from an information medium of the consumable;
- reading version information of firmware currently used in an own machine;
- comparing version information of the consumable and version information of the own machine with each other;
- and
- displaying a message that prompts updating of firmware on an information display section of the own machine or another machine when the version information of the consumable is newer than the version information of the own machine.
A consumable which is replaceably loaded in an electronic apparatus, comprising an information medium that stores information relating to an acquisition source for updated firmware.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.