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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toyoshi Adachi, Iwakura, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes: an image reading unit configured to perform image reading; an interface to which an external memory is detachably attached; an input unit configured to receive an instruction of a user; a storage unit configured to store at least one of a reading driver of controlling the image reading unit and a reading driver-command of acquiring the reading driver from an external; and a control unit configured to: receive, from the input unit, a reading instruction of storing the image data, which is acquired by performing image reading, in the external memory attached to the interface, perform, when receiving the reading instruction of storing the image data, a reading driver-data storing process of storing both the image data and one of the reading driver and the reading driver-command in the external memory attached to the interface.