US 8,914,558 B2Granted

Peripheral device usable without installing driver in computer beforehand

AssigneeCanon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKiyoshi Ito, Hirokazu Higuchi, Ayaka Sato, Yuuki Taguchi

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Abstract

The storage unit of a peripheral device has a first storage area and a second storage area. The first storage area stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types. The second storage area is a storage area which is recognized by an information processing apparatus as an external storage device and in which at least one control program is replicated from the first storage area. The information processing apparatus reads out the control program from the second storage recognized by it as the external storage device, and executes the program. The information processing apparatus thus controls the peripheral device.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A peripheral device comprising:

a connection unit connected to an information processing apparatus;
a processing unit which executes predetermined processing based on a control signal from the information processing apparatus;
a communication unit which communicates with the information processing apparatus via said connection unit;
and
a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas,
said storage unit including:
a first storage area which stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types for information processing apparatuses and a control file;
and
a second storage area in which at least one control program and the control file are replicated from the first storage area wherein the information processing apparatus can write a control command configured to control said processing unit in the control file,
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which executes the control program stored in the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as an external storage device, and
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which reads out the control program from the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as the external storage device, executes the control program, after the peripheral device becomes controllable from the information processing apparatus by executing the control program, displays an user interface according to the control program, accepts an instruction from a user via the user interface and writes the control command based on the accepted instruction in the control file, and said processing unit operates based on the control command written in the control file to control the peripheral device.

8 more elements

A peripheral device comprising:

a connection unit connected to an information processing apparatus;
a processing unit which executes predetermined processing based on a control signal from the information processing apparatus;
a communication unit which communicates with the information processing apparatus via said connection unit;
and
a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas,
said storage unit including:
a first storage area which stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types for information processing apparatuses and a control file;
and
a second storage area in which at least one control program and the control file are replicated from the first storage area wherein the information processing apparatus can write a control command configured to control said processing unit in the control file,
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which executes the control program stored in the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as an external storage device,
wherein a control program corresponding to an operating system running on the information processing apparatus connected to said connection unit is replicated from the first storage area to the second storage area, and
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which reads out the control program from the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as the external storage device, executes the control program, after the peripheral device becomes controllable from the information processing apparatus by executing the control program, displays a user interface according to the control program, accepts an instruction from a user via the user interface and writes the control command based on the accepted instruction in the control file, and said processing unit operates based on the control command written in the control file to control the peripheral device.

9 more elements

A peripheral device comprising:

a connection unit connected to an information processing apparatus;
a processing unit which executes predetermined processing based on a control signal from the information processing apparatus;
a communication unit which communicates with the information processing apparatus via said connection unit;
a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas, and
a determination unit which determines a type of an operating system running on the information processing apparatus,
said storage unit including:
a first storage area which stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types for information processing apparatuses and a control file;
and
a second storage area in which at least one control program and the control file are replicated from the first storage area wherein the information processing apparatus can write a control command configured to control said processing unit in the control file,
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which executes the control program stored in the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as an external storage device after the control program corresponding to the operating system running on the information processing apparatus is extracted from the first storage area to the second storage area based on a determination result of said determination unit, and
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which reads out the control program from the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as the external storage device, executes the control program, after the peripheral device becomes controllable from the information processing apparatus by executing the control program, displays a user interface according to the control program, accepts an instruction from a user via the user interface and writes the control command based on the accepted instruction in the control file, and said processing unit operates based on the control command written in the control file to control the peripheral device.

8 more elements

A peripheral device comprising:

a connection unit connected to an information processing apparatus;
a processing unit which executes predetermined processing based on a control signal from the information processing apparatus;
a communication unit which communicates with the information processing apparatus via said connection unit;
a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas;
and
a determination unit which determines a type of an operating system running on the information processing apparatus,
said storage unit including:
a first storage area which stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types for information processing apparatuses and a control file;
and
a second storage area in which at least one control program and the control file are replicated from the first storage area wherein the information processing apparatus can write a control command configured to control said processing unit in the control file,
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which executes the control program stored in the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as an external storage device after the control program corresponding to the operating system running on the information processing apparatus is extracted from the first storage area to the second storage area based on a determination result of said determination unit,
wherein a control program corresponding to an operating system running on the information processing apparatus connected to said connection unit is replicated from the first storage area to the second storage area, and
wherein the peripheral device is controlled by the information processing apparatus which reads out the control program from the second storage area recognized by the information processing apparatus as the external storage device, executes the control program, after the peripheral device becomes controllable from the information processing apparatus by executing the control program, displays a user interface according to the control program, accepts an instruction from a user via the user interface and writes the control command based on the accepted instruction in the control file, and said processing unit operates based on the control command written in the control file to control the peripheral device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/659,811Filed 24 Oct 2012 · division
Priority: JP 2009-26714925 Nov 2009
Published: US 2013/0050734 A128 Feb 2013
Granted: 16 Dec 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04N 1/00938
Arrangements for controlling a still picture apparatus or components thereof not otherwise provided for: software related arrangements, e.g.…
H04N 1/00241
Using an image reading or reproducing device, e.g. a facsimile reader or printer, as a local input to or local output from a computer: using an…
H04N 2201/007
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus: selecting or switching between a still picture apparatus or…
H04N
Pictorial communication

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Application12/942,956Parent of this division · filed 9 Nov 2010
US 2013/0050734 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Feb 2013
US 8,312,184 B2Parent of this division
US 2011/0125937 A1Published application
US 8,914,558 B2This patent

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