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Multifunction peripheral having a plurality of functions

A multi-functional equipment and functional technology, applied in the direction of program control design, instrument, electrical digital data processing, etc., can solve the problems that multi-functional peripheral equipment is not easy to master and use, it is difficult to quickly execute the required control, interference control, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-11-21
BROTHER KOGYO KK
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Therefore, when a large amount of data is transferred, the data transfer interferes with the control, making it difficult to quickly perform the desired control
[0011] Thus, even though the conventional techniques described above can reduce the number of required endpoints, multifunction peripherals are less user-friendly and may interfere with proper control

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[0031] Structure of the device control system

[0032] figure 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the device control system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

[0033] The device control system includes a multifunction peripheral 11 and a personal computer (PC) 12 . Both the multifunction peripheral 11 and the PC 12 have USB interfaces and are connected to each other via a USB hub 13 so that data can be exchanged between them both. For example, another USB device 14 is also connected to the USB hub 13 . The multifunction peripheral 11 has a CPU 11a.

[0034] In this embodiment, the multifunction peripheral 11 is a device having multiple functions including a printer function, a scanner function, a PC-FAX function, and a card reader (data storage function). These functions can be controlled from the PC 12 .

[0035] Internal Structure of Multifunction Peripherals

[0036] figure 2 is a block diagram showing the internal str...

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A multifunction device has a plurality of functions selected from among a printer function, scanner function, facsimile function, and data storage function and capable of being connected to a computer via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. The multifunction device includes: a device data outputting unit that outputs information forcing an OS in the computer to recognize the multifunction device as a USB storage class device having a plurality of USB-compliant logic unit numbers (LUNs) when establishing a connection with the computer; and a controlling unit that determines, when output data is transmitted from the computer, which one of the plurality of functions the output data is for controlling, based on the LUN included in the output data, and that controls the determined functionbased on the output data.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-84772 filed on March 28, 2007. The entire content of this priority application is hereby incorporated by reference. technical field [0003] The present invention relates to a multifunctional peripheral device and a device control system. Background technique [0004] Multifunctional peripherals capable of being connected to computers and the like via a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface have been commercially produced. The construction of such multifunction peripherals is known in the art to include endpoints for transferring data to multiple functions. [0005] However, as the number of functions increases, the number of endpoints also increases, with the result that the hardware configuration is expensive, thereby increasing the manufacturing cost of the multifunction peripheral. Therefore, this configuration presents difficulties in pro...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04N1/00G06F13/00
CPCG06F9/4411G06F13/426
Inventor 宇野文敏
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KK