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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2024
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Watanabe, Tochigi, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus for controlling a plurality of nodes connected to a network is provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit configured to transmit/receive, via the network in a predetermined period, a data frame including a plurality of data areas respectively assigned to the nodes; and a setting unit configured to, in a case where a first data area, of the plurality of data areas, which is scheduled as a data area of a first node is unused in a first period, assign the first data area as a data area of a second node different from the first node in the first period. The communication unit is configured to cause the second node to read out, in the first period, response data written in the first data area.
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