Patent ID: 9479665
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming device comprising: a control circuit, the control circuit including a device control platform that manages a standard hardware resource on an operating system; a standard application execution part that executes a standard application utilizing the standard hardware resource under the control of the device control platform; and an extended application platform including an install service adding, without having to change a configuration of a standard firmware, an interface that serves as a second function, wherein the second function is a function of the added hardware resource that is not available from the standard function service, to the extended function service in order that the resulting extended function service is available from the extended application platform, wherein the interface that is added to the extended function service by the install service is an additional hardware function interface that allows for utilizing the second function and the install service also installs a device driver that copes with the added hardware, wherein when the extended application management part executes the extended application to call the first function, (i) the extended function service informs the device control platform of the called first function, and (ii) the device control platform allows for utilizing the standard hardware, and wherein when the extended application management part executes the extended application to call the second function, (i) the extended function service executes the additional hardware function interface, and (ii) the additional hardware function interface allows for utilizing the additional hardware by the installed device driver.