Image forming apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakaaki Miyata
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprises a non-volatile memory storing start-up firmware a volatile memory having a memory space commonly available for the start-up firmware and an operating system of the image forming apparatus; and a control unit configured to copy, to the memory space, a setting value of a setting item for write-protecting the non-volatile memory, among setting items included in the start-up firmware, wherein the operating system acquires and checks the setting value copied to the memory space.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a non-volatile memory storing start-up firmware
- a volatile memory having a memory space commonly available for the start-up firmware and an operating system of the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a control unit configured to copy, to the memory space, a setting value of a setting item for write-protecting the non-volatile memory, among setting items included in the start-up firmware, wherein
- the operating system acquires and checks the setting value copied to the memory space.
A control method of an image forming apparatus including a non-volatile memory storing start-up firmware, and a volatile memory having a memory space commonly available for the start-up firmware and an operating system of the image forming apparatus, the control method comprising:
- copying, to the memory space, a setting value of a setting item for write-protecting the non-volatile memory, among setting items included in the start-up firmware;
- and
- acquiring and checking, by the operating system, the setting value copied to the memory space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.