Patent ID: 9336463
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a printing unit configured to perform printing; a volatile storage unit; a nonvolatile storage unit configured to be stored with a file system and divided into a plurality of partitions, wherein the plurality of partitions include at least an image development partition in which an image to be printed by the printing unit is developed; a development unit configured to develop the file system on the volatile storage unit; and a change unit configured to change at least one to-be-changed partition of the plurality of partitions of the nonvolatile storage unit by using the file system developed by the development unit, wherein the change unit saves data of the to-be-changed partition into the image development partition, and changes the to-be-changed partition after the data has been saved into the image development partition, wherein a data save process is not performed for the image development partition, when the to-be-changed partition is the image development partition, before the change of image development partition, and wherein the image development partition is larger in size than the other partitions of the plurality of partitions.