Controlling an image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji Hosokawa
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a sensor, an auxiliary storage device, and an operation control unit. The sensor detects disturbance. The auxiliary storage device is provided with a storage medium, and a head which performs operations of reading and writing of data with respect to the storage medium. The operation control unit does not perform a data writing operation with respect to the storage medium until a predetermined condition related to the disturbance is satisfied, and performs the data writing operation with respect to the storage medium by controlling the head, when a predetermined condition related to the disturbance is satisfied while the disturbance is detected by the sensor.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a sensor which detects disturbance;
- an auxiliary storage device which is provided with a storage medium, and a head which performs operations of reading and writing of data with respect to the storage medium;
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- a processor that executes instructions to perform operations, comprising:
- performing a data writing operation with respect to the storage medium by controlling the head according to a command while the disturbance is not detected by the sensor;
- determining not to perform a data writing operation with respect to the storage medium until a predetermined condition related to the disturbance is satisfied while the disturbance is detected by the sensor;
- and
- performing the data writing operation with respect to the storage medium by controlling the head, when a predetermined condition related to the disturbance is satisfied while the disturbance is detected by the sensor.
An operation control method comprising:
- performing a data writing operation with respect to a storage medium by controlling a head which performs operations of reading and writing of data with respect to the storage medium according to a command while a disturbance is not detected by a sensor;
- determining not to execute the data writing operation with respect to the storage medium which is provided in an auxiliary storage device, until a predetermined condition related to the disturbance is satisfied while the disturbance is detected by the sensor;
- and
- executing the data writing operation with respect to the storage medium by controlling the head when the predetermined condition related to the disturbance is satisfied, while the disturbance is detected by the sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.