Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takeyuki Higashibata

Noriyuki Suzuki

Makoto Kobayashi

Hiroyasu Ito

Masumi Ishiwatari

Tadashi Takayama

Masato Fujiwara

Mamoru Yoshimoto

Shumpei Takenaka

There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of writing and reading of data in and from the hard disk in a casing thereof. A main unit includes an automatic loading/ejecting mechanism that receives the hard disk cartridge into a predetermined inner position within the main unit and ejects the same out from the position, and a microprocessor that controls storage operation for storing data in the hard disk cartridge. Before the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism performs a receiving operation, it is determined whether access to contents recorded on the hard disk can be gained, and when the access cannot be gained, the receiving operation by the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism is inhibited.

Determining the accessibility of a portable storage device using format and access right information

Inhibiting access to a portable storage device

There is provided an image processing apparatus capable of determining the optimum layout based on the designated conditions such as the number of images to be printed on a page, sheet size, number of division of sheet, number of print sheets, page change position designating information etc., and printing the designated images according to thus determined layout.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and memory medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Takeyuki Higashibata