Image forming apparatus having control codes and rewrite control method for the same

• US 7,403,957 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2004
• Issued: 07/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Muto, Tsuyoshi, Ikegami, Hideyuki, Koh, Shokyo, Kaneko, Tokuharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Tanh Q
• Application Number:
  US10/979,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20050062984A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,357 Days
• Field of Search: 710/7, 710 14- 16, 710 18- 20, 710/59, 710/104, 707/200, 707202-203, 713/1, 713/2, 713/100, 714/1, 714/2, 714/21, 714/36, 714/100
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0097 Storage of instructions or parameters, e.g. customised instructions or different parameters for different user IDs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 Version management

Abstract

In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control the image forming apparatus is rewritten, rewrite execution codes adapted to execute rewrite of the control codes are transferred to predetermined one of the plurality of memory media from an external apparatus, and rewrite of the control codes is performed in accordance with the transferred rewrite execution codes.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes, said image forming apparatus comprising:

a printing unit for printing an image;

a code memory for storing control codes, which are adapted to control the image forming apparatus having said printing unit;

a processor for controlling the image forming apparatus in accordance with the control codes stored in said code memory, for controlling transfer of new control codes from an external apparatus and for controlling rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes; and

a rewrite execution code memory for storing rewrite execution codes, which are adapted to control rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory,

wherein if rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, has not been normally ended, said processor leaves information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended,

wherein if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes corresponding to the new control codes are not stored in said rewrite execution code memory, said processor controls transfer of the rewrite execution codes from the external apparatus and controls rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are transferred from the external apparatus after the information is left, and

wherein if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes corresponding to the new control codes are stored in said rewrite execution code memory, said processor controls rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are stored in said rewrite execution code memory before the information is left.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes corresponding to the new control codes are not stored in said rewrite execution code memory when a power supply is turned on, said processor controls transfer of the rewrite execution codes from the external apparatus and controls rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are transferred from the external apparatus after the power supply is turned on, and

wherein if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes corresponding to the new control codes are stored in said rewrite execution code memory when the power supply is turned on, said processor controls rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are stored in said rewrite execution code memory before the power supply is turned on.

2. A rewrite control method for rewriting control codes, which have been stored in a code memory and are adapted to control an image forming apparatus having a printing unit to form an image, said rewrite control method comprising:

a first controlling step of controlling transfer of new control codes from an external apparatus;

a second controlling step of controlling rewrite of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes;

a storing step of storing rewrite execution codes, which are adapted to control rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, in a rewrite execution code memory;

a leaving step of, if the rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, has not been normally ended, leaving information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended;

a third controlling step of, if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes corresponding to the new control codes are not stored in said rewrite execution code memory, controlling transfer of the rewrite execution codes from the external apparatus and controlling rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are transferred from the external apparatus after the information is left; and

a fourth controlling step of, if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes corresponding to the new control codes are stored in said rewrite execution code memory, controlling rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are stored in said rewrite execution code memory before the information is left.

4. A method according to claim 2, wherein said third controlling step controls transfer of the rewrite execution codes from the external apparatus and controls rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are transferred from the external apparatus after a power supply is turned on, if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes coffesponding to the new control codes are not stored in said rewrite execution code memory when the power supply is turned on;

and

wherein said fourth controlling step controls rewriting of the control codes, which have been stored in said code memory, with the new control codes in accordance with the rewrite execution codes, which are stored in said rewrite execution code memory before the power supply is turned on, if the information indicating that the rewriting has not been normally ended is left and the rewrite execution codes corresponding to the new control codes are stored in said rewrite execution code memory when the power supply is turned on.