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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2020
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yoshikazu Nishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinao Kawai, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
The master apparatus includes a communicator that transmits a command to the one or more slave apparatuses in the first communication method, and that transmits a trigger to the one or more slave apparatuses and receives data that is transmitted by the one or more slave apparatuses in response to the trigger in the second communication method, and a controller that controls the communicator during execution of the first communication method to read negotiation information that indicates conditions for the second communication method from a memory and to transmit the negotiation information to the one or more slave apparatuses, wherein upon completion of communication that satisfies the conditions after the first communication method is switched to the second communication method, the controller performs switching from the second communication method to the first communication method.