WO2005020045A1 - 情報処理装置 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an information processing device having a clock function.
- facsimile apparatuses which are examples of information processing apparatuses
- information processing devices used outside the original destination hereinafter, also referred to as “illegal inflow products” cause various problems related to the trust of manufacturers.
- the information processing device recognizes the area used, and if it is not used at the intended destination, stops the normal operation or It is effective to limit.
- Various prior arts have been proposed to identify the country or region in which it is used, and to use that information, including those not intended to prevent the occurrence of problems caused by unauthorized inflows.
- Patent Document 1 JP-A-6-46179
- Patent Document 2 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-243224
- Patent Document 3 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-156960
- Patent Document 4 JP-A-2000-196800
- GPS is used as a means for specifying a place used.
- GPS has become popular as a 'navigation' system
- the GPS device itself is expensive.
- GPS is not as accurate as necessary in terms of location accuracy.
- Great deal since the purpose of preventing problems caused by unauthorized inflows does not bring specific benefits to general users, fraudulent inflows are minimized in terms of price competitiveness of information processing equipment. It is necessary to prevent the problem caused by the problem.
- GPS also has the problem that it is difficult to capture radio waves indoors.
- an object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive information processing apparatus capable of estimating a place to be used with the accuracy of a country or a region.
- an information processing apparatus includes a clock unit that counts a reference time, an input unit that inputs the time of the place of use, the time of the reference time and the time of the place of use. And an estimating unit for estimating a used place based on a difference from 1J.
- the estimating unit stores a difference between the reference time and the time of the place of use, and the reference time and the time of the use value stored in the storage unit. And a use place estimating unit for estimating a place used based on the difference.
- a control unit that changes an operation mode in accordance with the used place estimated by the estimation unit may be provided. As a result, an operation is performed according to the place where the terminal is used, so that it is possible to display information in a language used in the place where the terminal is used.
- control unit determines whether the used place estimated by the estimating unit is a place where the use is originally permitted, and the control unit determines whether the use place is originally permitted.
- An operation control unit that stops or restricts the operation when it is determined that the operation is not performed in the place. As a result, it is possible to prevent problems caused by improper inflow products.
- the present invention it is possible to realize a low-cost information processing device capable of estimating a place to be used with an accuracy of about a country or a region. Since the information processing apparatus according to the present invention estimates the location used by the time difference, it is of course impossible to discriminate between regions having the same longitude, that is, the same time difference. It has sufficient functions with minimum additional cost to achieve the purpose of preventing problems caused by inflow into the system.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a process in a production time writing mode.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process in a normal time setting mode.
- FIG. 4 is a processing flowchart of use area determination.
- FIG. 5 is a processing flowchart of time acquisition.
- FIG. 6 is another processing flowchart of the use area determination. Explanation of reference numerals
- FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.
- the facsimile apparatus shown in FIG. 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit J1, ROM (Read Only Memory J2), RAM (Random Access Memory) 3, and SRAM (Static
- the CPU 1 controls the operation of the entire facsimile apparatus using the RAM 3 as a work area or a buffer according to a program stored in the ROM 2.
- the SRAM 4 is a low-power-consumption memory that stores data (such as a telephone directory and, in some cases, facsimile reception data) that should be stored even after the power of the facsimile apparatus is turned off. The data is retained even when the power of the facsimile machine is turned off by the power supplied from 6.
- a nonvolatile memory such as a flash memory may be used instead of the SRAM 4.
- a nonvolatile memory such as a flash memory
- the RTC 5 normally has a date, hour, minute, and second registers, and keeps and counts the time by the power supplied from the battery 6 even when the power of the facsimile apparatus main body is turned off. Since a facsimile apparatus generally has a function of adding date and time to transmitted or received image data, an RTC is a device usually provided in a facsimile apparatus.
- the SRAM 4 In order to make the capacity of the battery 6 large enough for the power consumption of the SRAM 4 and the RTC 5 and replace the battery 6 during the life of the facsimile machine, the SRAM 4, the RTC 5, and the battery 6 are used. select. If a non-volatile memory such as a flash memory is used instead of the SRAM 4, the capacity of the battery 6 must be sufficiently larger than the power consumption of the RTC 5 to replace the battery 6 during the product life of the facsimile machine. Select RTC5 and battery 6 so that they do not exist.
- FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of the process in the “production time writing mode”.
- the CPU 1 activates the “production time writing mode” according to a signal output from the operation panel 12.
- the method of activating this mode is hidden from general users and should not be easily executed. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the facsimile machine production plant shown in FIG. 1 is located in Thailand.
- the CPU 1 determines the input of the date and time based on the signal output from the operation panel 12 (step S10).
- the input of the date and time is performed by the operator in the production factory operating the operation panel 12 and inputting the current time and date of the operation while checking the display contents on the display unit 11.
- CPU 1 calculates “standard time” from the input time and a known time difference (step S20).
- Greenwich Mean Time is defined as “standard time”.
- the processing software in this mode sets the production location in Thailand by setting in advance, etc. Time difference plus 7 hours is stored in ROM2 in advance as a known time difference, and the standard time can be easily calculated by subtracting the known time difference (plus 7 hours) from the time difference IJ entered in step S10. S can.
- the CPU 1 writes the value of “standard time” into the date, hour, minute, and second registers of the RTC 5 (step S 30), and writes the value of “time difference” (plus 7 hours) in a predetermined area of the SRAM 4. (Step S40), and ends the process in the “time of production time writing mode”.
- step S30 the RTC 5 starts counting.
- the RTC 5 and the SRAM 4 receive the power supplied from the battery 6, and the battery 6 is selected to have a capacity sufficient to satisfy the product life of the facsimile machine. Therefore, the facsimile machine of FIG. 1 is shipped from the production factory to the consumption area with the "standard time” and the “time difference (plus 7 hours)" stored and the time kept counting.
- FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of the process in the “normal time setting mode”.
- the process in this mode is performed when setting the time before use according to the instruction manual when purchasing and installing the S-facsimile machine.
- the consuming area is the east coast of the United States.
- the CPU 1 calculates the Thai time, which is the time of the country of origin, by adding the time difference to the standard time, and displays the calculated Thai time. Display on display unit 11. In addition, without displaying the Thai time, which is the time of the country of origin, nothing is displayed as the time.
- the CPU 1 activates the “normal time setting mode” according to the signal output from the operation panel 12.
- the activation method of the “time of production time writing mode” described above is hidden by the general user and cannot be easily executed.
- CPU 1 determines the force on which the date and time have been set based on the signal output from operation panel 12 (step S50).
- the date and time are set by the user operating the operation panel 12 while checking the contents displayed on the display unit 11 and naturally inputting the local time of the consuming area (Eastern Coast Time in the United States).
- CPU 1 compares the set date and time with the "standard time" stored in RTC5 and compares the result. Is calculated from the above (step S60).
- step S60 the CPU 1 writes the value of “time difference” calculated in step S60 (minus 5 hours) in a predetermined area of the SRAM 4 (step S70).
- step S70 the CPU 1 writes the value of “time difference” calculated in step S60 (minus 5 hours) in a predetermined area of the SRAM 4 (step S70).
- the CPU 1 writes the values set in step S50 as they are for the minutes and seconds in the RTC 5 as they are in order to eliminate accumulation of errors in the RTC 5 due to factors such as component accuracy and temperature (step S80).
- the processing in the “normal time setting mode” ends.
- the CPU 1 reads the value of “time difference” (minus 5 hours) stored in the SRAM 4 (Step S90), and is used in a place where the use is originally permitted or is not originally used. In order to determine whether or not it is used at a location, it is determined in step S90 whether the value of the "time difference" read in is within the usable setting range (step S100). In the present embodiment, the place where the use is originally permitted is the mainland United States, and the usable setting range is -5 hours-1-9 hours.
- step S110 the process of “use area determination” ends.
- the processing shifts to the original processing (step S120), and the processing of “use area determination” ends.
- the normal operation of the requested facsimile machine is performed. Specifically, if the usable setting range is -5 hours minus -9 hours, the time difference is -5 hours (when the east coast time is set) or -9 hours (when the west coast time is set).
- step S100 the operation may be limited to some operation instead of completely stopping the operation.
- step S120 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 4, and the normal operation is performed, and the normal operation is performed.
- the normal operation the time is attached to the facsimile transmission data and the reception data.
- the processing of the flowchart shown in FIG. 5 is performed.
- CPU1 reads the "standard time” stored in RTC5 (step S130), reads the value of the "time difference” (minus 5 hours) stored in SRAM4 (step S140), and reads "standard time”. The time difference (minus 5 hours) is added to the time difference to calculate the consumption time (Eastern Coast Time) (step S150), and the time acquisition process ends.
- the facsimile apparatus shown in Fig. 1 does not use GPS to detect the position used by the time difference, so that it can detect the position used at low cost and with the accuracy of a national or regional level. S can.
- the facsimile machine shown in Fig. 1 prohibits normal operation when it is determined that the facsimile machine is used in a place where use is originally not allowed, thereby preventing the problem caused by unauthorized inflow products. be able to.
- the user of the facsimile machine shown in Fig. 1 is no different from a conventional facsimile machine from the viewpoint of the user as long as the facsimile machine is used in a place where use is originally permitted.
- the CPU 1 reads the date data stored in the RTC 5 and automatically corrects the “time difference” stored in the SRAM 4 based on the read date data, such as daylight saving time. It is desirable.
- the “standard time” stored by the RTC 5 is not limited to Greenwich Mean Time, but may be any reference time. For example, if the “standard time” stored in the RTC5 is set to the production time, the production time is written to the RTC5 register as “standard time” in the “production time writing mode”.
- RTC5 stores “standard time”.
- the TC stores the “consumption time”, and the CPU1 uses the “standard time”
- one place originally permitted to use is set.
- a plurality of places originally permitted to be used are set, and a normal operation corresponding to each place is performed. You can.
- the processing shown in FIG. 6 is used instead of the processing of the flowchart shown in FIG. Make sure the process in the flowchart is performed
- the CPU 1 reads the value of the “time difference” stored in the SRAM 4 (step S160), and determines whether or not the power is being used at the first use location where the original use is permitted. In S160, it is determined whether the value of the "time difference" read in is within the first usable setting range (step S170). In the present embodiment, the first use place where the use is originally permitted is the mainland United States, and the first usable setting range is minus 5 hours minus 1 minus 9 hours.
- step S170 If the value of "time difference” is within the first usable setting range (YES in step S170), the process shifts to the original process in a mode suitable for the first use place (step S190), and " Since the process of ⁇ use area determination '' is completed, the normal operation of the requested facsimile machine is performed in the mode suitable for the first use place (for example, in accordance with the English display and U.S. subscriber telephone network terminal regulations). Mode in which the processing is performed.
- the value of “time difference” is not within the first usable setting range (N ⁇ in step S170)
- it is determined whether or not the time difference is used in the second use place where use is originally permitted.
- step S180 it is determined whether the value of “time difference” read in step S160 is within the second usable setting range (step S180).
- the second use place where the use is originally permitted is Taiwan, and the second usable setting range is plus 8 hours.
- step S180 If the value of “time difference” is within the second usable setting range (YES in step S180), the process shifts to the original process in a mode suitable for the second use place (step S210), and “ Use area As a result, the normal operation as a facsimile machine that has been requested is completed in a mode suitable for the second place of use (for example, in accordance with the Chinese display or the regulations of the subscriber's telephone network terminal in Taiwan). Mode in which the processing is performed.
- the CPU 1 causes the display unit 11 to display a message indicating that the time cannot be used or causes the printer 8 to print. To stop the operation (step S200), and terminate the “use area determination” process.
- the time difference is minus 5 hours (US East Coast time). Used when the time is set) or minus 9 hours (if U.S. West Coast time is set).
- Step S200 Location is assumed to be the first place of use (U.S. mainland), normal operation in the mode appropriate for the first place of use is allowed, and a time difference of plus eight hours (if Taiwan time is set).
- the location used is assumed to be the second location (Taiwan) and normal operation in the mode suitable for the second location is permitted, but the time difference is plus 9 hours
- the used place is other than the first and second places and normal operation is prohibited. Note that a mode in which some operation is limited rather than completely stopping the operation in step S200 may be adopted.
- the information processing device of the present invention can be used for various devices having a clock function, such as a facsimile device.
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