Information processing apparatus with internal printer
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJiro Tateyama, Haruhisa Kato, Kenji Maeda, Masato Sugawara, Jun Oida, Shuzo Yamaguchi, Naoki Umemura, Hirohide Tachikawa
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Abstract
In an information processing apparatus with a main control unit and a printer, a transfer unit transfers commands and data between the main control unit and the printer, a memory temporarily stores the data transferred to the printer, and a detector detects the remaining capacity of the memory. The information on remaining capacity of the memory is supplied to the main control unit to improve the execution efficiency of the main control unit.
Claims11
A portable information processing apparatus comprising:
- a foldable common case for housing therein a display portion and a body portion, a keyboard located at an upper side of the body portion for inputting data, a processor located in the body portion for processing input data, a display located at a front side of the display portion for displaying processed data, and an internal printer located at a back side of the body portion;
- a slot, located under the keyboard and in front of the body portion, for inserting a printing medium;
- a transfer path, located under the keyboard, extending to the internal printer from said slot, for transferring the printing medium from said slot to the internal printer;
- an automatic sheet feeding means for feeding the printing medium from said slot to the internal printer through said transfer path automatically in response to the insertion of the printing medium into said slot;
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- control means for serially printing the processed data on a plurality of sheets of the printing medium fed by said automatic sheet feeding means.
An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the body portion further comprises power supply control means for controlling a power supply for supplying electric power to the processor, said power supply control means controlling a battery as a power supply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.