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- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and method of setting updating information both of which being for executing firmware updating with external equipment connected
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置以及用于执行与所连接的外部设备执行固件更新的更新信息的方法
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Application No.: US14695891Application Date: 2015-04-24
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Publication No.: US09319552B2Publication Date: 2016-04-19
- Inventor: Shuntaro Tsuji
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Hawaii Patent Services
- Agent Nathaniel K. Fedde; Kenton N. Fedde
- Priority: JP2014-090154 20140424
- Main IPC: G06F3/12
- IPC: G06F3/12 ; H04N1/00 ; G06K15/00
Abstract:
To provide a technique that makes it possible, for a user without conscious of the detailed firmware program contents and the current state of a device, to execute an update process in a case of using file in which plural firmware programs are packaged. Upon connection of an external auxiliary storage device that stores the package file, a detection of a firmware program to be updated turns a staring mode into an update mode for updating a firmware program. If a failure in an internal auxiliary storage device is detected after re-starting, a starting is made by the update mode using a firmware program in the package file. In a case where a firmware program that is to be installed into the flash memory is updatable, only the firmware program that is to be installed into the flash memory is installed and updated.
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