Image input output apparatus
OwnerHiroshi EGUCHIinventor
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Abstract
An image input output apparatus includes an image reading portion arranged to be freely opened and closed for reading an image and an image forming portion for forming a print image, so that the image input output apparatus capable of reading and printing the image. The image input output apparatus further includes a power supply portion for supplying power to each of the image reading portion and the image forming portion independently, and a detection portion for detecting whether the image reading portion is opened or closed. The power supply portion is arranged to become a first power save mode, in which the power supply portion reduces power supplied to the image reading portion when the detection portion detects that the image reading portion is opened.
Claims7
An image input output apparatus, comprising:
- an image reading portion arranged to be freely opened and closed for reading an image;
- an image forming portion for forming the image;
- a power supply portion for supplying power to each of the image reading portion and the image forming portion independently;
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- a detection portion for detecting whether the image reading portion is opened or closed,
- wherein said power supply portion is arranged to reduce power supplied to the image reading portion in a first power save mode when the detection portion detects that the image reading portion is opened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.