Printing apparatus and control method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8976405-B2
Application number	US-201113305544-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2011
Priority date	Dec 20, 2010
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

A printing apparatus comprising a storage unit having a driving unit, determines whether or not access to the storage device is required with reception of data; determines whether or not a predetermined period of time has elapsed after transition to a first operation state; in a case where the predetermined period of time has elapsed, obtains, as an estimation time, a period of time until next reception of data that requires access to the storage device based on history information; and causes the printing apparatus to transition from the first operation state to a second operation state in a case where the estimation time exceeds a threshold of a period of time decided based on an amount of power consumption for when the driving unit is driven, and maintain the printing apparatus in the first operation state in a case where the estimation time does not exceed the threshold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a storage unit;
a driving unit for driving the storage unit;
a first determination unit configured to, in a case where first data that is not print data is received, determine whether or not access to the storage unit is required with reception of the first data;
a control unit configured to cause the printing apparatus to execute transition from a sleep state to a first operation state in a case where the first determi…

Assignees

• Ogushi Takuhiro
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Ogushi Takuhiro

Classifications

• G06K15/402 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K15/4055

  Physics · mapped topic

• Y02B60/1267

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02D10/00

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic