Image processing apparatus having a remote mode for printing data from an external apparatus and a local mode for recording an image read by a copier
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroaki Takeda
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes a first switch for turning on/off a first power supply, a second switch for turning on a second power supply in response to an ON operation of the first switch, a communication unit for performing an image data communication with an external apparatus, and an operation holding unit for holding the ON operation of the first switch in response to an ON operation of the first power supply. The apparatus controls a holding operation of the operation holding unit, and the first and second switches, in accordance with a signal received via the communication unit.
Claims33
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- first switch means for switching a first power supply;
- second switch means for switching a second power supply, said second switch means being turned on in response to an ON state of said first switch means;
- communication means for performing an image data communication with an external apparatus;
- and
- holding means for holding the ON state of said first switch means,
- wherein said apparatus comprises control means for controlling a holding operation of said holding means, said first switch means, or said second switch means, in accordance with a signal received via said communication means.
A copying apparatus comprising:
- input means for receiving data output from an external apparatus;
- first control means, energized by a first power supply, for turning on/off a second power supply;
- and
- second control means for turning on the first power supply on the basis of a first signal received by said input means, wherein when said second control means turns on the first power supply on the basis of a first signal received by said input means, the first control means turns on the second power supply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.