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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2001
Yoichi Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Nojiri, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Udagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichiro Ishigami, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruo Asano, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Nojiri, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Udagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichiro Ishigami, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruo Asano, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In progressing a video gate in accordance with a game software program read out from a video game program recording medium and in converting the contents for printing into printing data, which is printed, the printer driver stored in a non-volatile memory is to be updated to enable the printing by the latest printer driver. To this end, as a printer driver is read from the video game program recording medium at step S, the version of the printer driver as read out is checked at step SIf the printer driver as read out is of a new version, the printer driver in the memory card is updated at step S