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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2003
Shizuka Sakamoto, Hiroshima, JP;
Masahiro Kawasaki, Hiroshima, JP;
Tohru Suetomo, Hiroshima, JP;
Yasuhiro Shibata, Hiroshima, JP;
Shizuka Sakamoto, Hiroshima, JP;
Masahiro Kawasaki, Hiroshima, JP;
Tohru Suetomo, Hiroshima, JP;
Yasuhiro Shibata, Hiroshima, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A memory card reading/writing apparatus, access method, program and storage medium thereof, that have a psychological security function, or in other words a mild security function and that make it possible to perform various kinds of management of the memory card even when the memory card is lost. In the memory card reading/writing apparatus of this invention, an apparatus-user-information-acquisition unit acquires apparatus-user information from a memory unit that stores apparatus-user information that identifies the user of the memory card reading/writing apparatus. Also, a memory-card-user-information-acquisition unit acquires the main-memory-card-user information from the memory card that identifies the main user of the memory card. A user-information-comparison unit compares the two kinds of information, and outputs a comparison result. An output unit outputs specific output based on the comparison result.