Patent ID: 9582064
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N,Y02D

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus which is able to communicate with an external apparatus, comprising: a manual switch adapted to be operated by a user and to be moved between an on state and an off state; an actuator adapted to move the manual switch from the on state to the off state; a relay circuit connected with the manual switch in parallel; a reception unit adapted to receive a command for turning off the power of the information processing apparatus from the external apparatus; an execution unit adapted to execute a shutdown process of the information processing apparatus in accordance with receiving of the command from the external apparatus; and a control unit adapted to control the actuator to move the manual switch from the on state to the off state and to control the relay circuit to be shifted from an on state to an off state after the execution unit starts the shutdown process.