ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20170103235A1
• Filed: 09/29/2016
• Published: 04/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shimma, Naoki
• Application Number:
  US15/280,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20170103235A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/263 Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC G06F1/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3212 Monitoring battery levels, e.g. power saving mode being initiated when battery voltage goes below a certain level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/445 by mutual authentication, e.g. between devices or programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/81 by operating on the power supply, e.g. enabling or disabling power-on, sleep or resume operations
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/20 Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes an authentication unit that performs authentication for determining whether a battery is a genuine battery, a storage unit that stores an authentication result representing a result of the authentication, a charging unit that charges the battery with power received from a power transmission device, and a control unit that controls the charging unit so that charging of the battery is started when the power transmission device is determined to be a device that satisfies a predetermined condition and the battery is authenticated to be a genuine battery. When the authentication result is stored in the storage unit, the authentication unit does not perform new authentication. When the authentication result is stored in the storage unit, the control unit controls the charging unit so that charging of the battery is started based on the stored authentication result.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an authentication unit configured to perform authentication for determining whether a battery is a genuine battery;

a storage unit configured to store an authentication result representing a result of the authentication;

a charging unit configured to charge the battery with power received from a power transmission device; and

a control unit configured to control the charging unit so that charging of the battery is started when the power transmission device is determined to be a device that satisfies a predetermined condition and the battery is authenticated to be a genuine battery,

wherein the authentication unit does not perform new authentication when the authentication result is stored in the storage unit, and

wherein when the authentication result is stored in the storage unit, the control unit controls the charging unit so that the charging of the battery is started based on the stored authentication result.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detection unit configured to delete the stored authentication result when the battery is removed from the electronic apparatus.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of the battery,

wherein the storage unit stores temperature information representing the detected temperature along with the authentication result.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the authentication result and the temperature information are stored in the storage unit, the control unit controls the charging unit so that the charging of the battery is started based on the stored authentication result and the stored temperature information.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit configured to display a progression of charging performed by the charging unit.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus is an image capture device.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus is a mobile apparatus.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the mobile apparatus includes a mobile phone.

9. A method comprising:

performing authentication to determine whether a battery is a genuine battery;

storing an authentication result representing a result of the authentication;

determining whether a power transmission device is a device that satisfies a predetermined condition; and

charging, when the power transmission device satisfies the predetermined condition and the battery is authenticated to be a genuine battery, the battery,

wherein when the authentication result is stored, new authentication is not performed, and

when the authentication result is stored, the charging of the battery is started based on the stored authentication result.

10. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a program causing a computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

performing authentication to determine whether a battery is a genuine battery;

storing an authentication result representing a result of the authentication;

determining whether a power transmission device is a device that satisfies a predetermined condition; and

charging, when the power transmission device satisfies the predetermined condition and the battery is authenticated to be a genuine battery, the battery,

wherein when the authentication result is stored, new authentication is not performed, and

when the authentication result is stored, the charging of the battery is started based on the stored authentication result.