Image forming apparatus and processing control method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakaharu Ouchi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a detection unit which detects connection of an external storage device; a determination unit which acquires path information of one or plural files in the external storage device that is detected as being connected, by the detection unit, and determines which hardware unit should be started up on the basis of the path information; a startup unit which starts up a hardware unit corresponding to the determination by the determination unit; and a processing execution unit which executes processing to the file, using the hardware unit started up by the startup unit.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a detection unit which detects connection of an external storage device;
- a determination unit which acquires path information of one or plural files in the external storage device that is detected as being connected, by the detection unit, and determines which hardware unit should be started up on the basis of the path information;
- a startup unit which starts up a hardware unit corresponding to the determination by the determination unit;
- and
- a processing execution unit which executes processing to the file, using the hardware unit started up by the startup unit.
A processing control method comprising:
- allowing an image forming apparatus
- to detect connection of an external storage device;
- to acquire path information of one or plural files in the external storage device that is detected as being connected;
- to determine which hardware unit should be started up on the basis of the path information;
- to start up a hardware unit corresponding to the determination;
- and
- to execute processing to the file, using the hardware unit that is started.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.