Patent ID: 9247135
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. An electronic device comprising: an input port to which an external device is to be connected; a power supply controller which determines whether a connected external device is an external power supply; an information processing circuit which is configured to execute a first function and a second function which consumes more power than the first function does; a display unit which displays an inquiry about whether or not to allow execution of the first function and execution of the second function, when the power supply controller determines that the connected external device is the external power supply; and an operation unit which receives operation to be executed in response to the inquiry on the display unit, wherein the information processing circuit switches between allowing only the execution of the first function and allowing both of the execution of the first function and the execution of the second function according to the operation received by the operation unit.