Image communicating apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9413901-B2
Application number	US-201514627610-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2015
Priority date	Mar 3, 2014
Publication date	Aug 9, 2016
Grant date	Aug 9, 2016

Abstract

An image communicating apparatus which includes a telephone control unit configured to control a telephone includes a controller with a main CPU, and a power supply control unit configured to control power supply. When transiting to a sleep mode, the controller stops power supply to itself, and also supplies power to the telephone control unit so that the telephone control unit can detect at least off-hook of the telephone. When the off-hook of the telephone is detected in the sleep mode, the telephone control unit starts power supply to the controller, holds a dial signal input while the controller is activated, and transmits the held dial signal to the controller upon completion of activation of the controller.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communicating apparatus to which a telephone is able to be connected, comprising:
a CPU;
a telephone controller configured to control a telephone which is connected to the communicating apparatus; and
a power supply controller,
wherein the telephone controller comprises:
a detection unit configured to detect an off-hook;
an instruction unit configured to instruct the power supply controller to cancel a sleep mode in which no power supplies to the CPU, in a case where the communicating apparatus operates in the sleep mode and the detection unit detects the off-hook;
holding unit configured to hold a dial signal of a dial input on the telephone, from the instruction unit instructs the power supply controller to cancel the sleep mode until activation processing of the CPU is completed; and
a transmission unit configured to transmit the dial signal held by the holding unit to the CPU, after the activation processing of the CPU is completed.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission unit transmits the dial signal held by the holding unit to the CPU, in a case where the activation processing of the CPU is completed and the CPU detects a dial instruction.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission unit transmits the dial signal held by the holding unit to the CPU, in a case where the activation processing of the CPU is completed and no next dial signal occurs for a predetermined time period.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the telephone controller is able to operate either in a first mode that the telephone controller operates under control of the CPU, or in a second mode that the telephone controller operates without control of the CPU, and
wherein the CPU sets the second mode as an operation mode of the telephone controller in a case where the communicating apparatus starts to operate in the sleep mode, and the CPU sets the first mode as the operation mode of the telephone controller in a case where the communicating apparatus cancels the sleep mode.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a printer, and
wherein power is not supplied to the CPU and the printer in a case where the communicating apparatus operates in the sleep mode.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a printer and a scanner, and
wherein power is not supplied to the CPU, the printer and the scanner in a case where the communicating apparatus operates in the sleep mode.

7. A method for a communicating apparatus to which a telephone is able to be connected, comprising:
controlling a telephone which is connected to the communicating apparatus;
detecting an off-hook;
instructing a power supply controller of the communicating apparatus to cancel a sleep mode in which no power supplies to a CPU of the communicating apparatus, in a case where the communicating apparatus operates in the sleep mode and the detection unit detects the off-hook;
holding a dial signal of a dial input on the telephone, from the instructing of the power supply controller to cancel the sleep mode until activation processing of the CPU is completed; and
transmitting the dial signal held by the holding to the CPU, after the activation processing of the CPU is completed.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute each step of a control method for a communicating apparatus to which a telephone is able to be connected, the control method comprising:
controlling a telephone which is connected to the communicating apparatus;
detecting an off-hook;
instructing a power supply controller of the communicating apparatus to cancel a sleep mode in which no power supplies to a CPU of the communicating apparatus, in a case where the communicating apparatus operates in the sleep mode and the detection unit detects the off-hook;
holding a dial signal of a dial input on the telephone, from the instructing of tthe power supply controller to cancel the sleep mode until activation processing of the CPU is completed; and
transmitting the dial signal held by the holding to the CPU, after the activation processing of the CPU is completed.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Suga Daisuke

Classifications

• H04M19/08 Primary

  with current supply sources at the substations (generating ringing current H04M19/04) · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title