Patent ID: 11949829
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. A medium processing apparatus comprising:
a medium processing mechanism that processes a medium;
a first board configured to communicate with an external apparatus by a first communication method and control the medium processing mechanism;
a second board configured to communicate with the first board by the first communication method;
a third board configured to communicate with the second board by the first communication method and communicate with the external apparatus by a second communication method different from the first communication method;
a switcher that switches a communication destination of the first board to the second board or the external apparatus; and
a notification section that is a display or a speaker and that makes, when the communication destination of the first board is switched to the second board by the switcher, a notification of communication information based on the second communication method, wherein
the first communication method is a serial communication method, the second board is on a host side in the serial communication method, and the first and third boards are on a device side in the serial communication method, and
the second communication method is a network communication method.