Patent ID: 9628656
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus on which a plurality of applications is installed and which includes at least a first device and a second device, comprising: a display unit configured to display a screen for selecting an application to execute from among the plurality of applications; an acquisition unit configured to obtain attribute information about the application selected on the screen displayed on the display unit, wherein the attribute information includes application information indicating whether the selected application is a specific application or not, and device information indicating whether to supply power or not for each of the first device and the second device when executing the selected application; a determination unit configured to determine whether the selected application is the specific application or not based on the application information obtained by the acquisition unit; and a control unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that the selected application is the specific application, perform a control as to whether to supply power for each of the first device and the second device separately based on the device information obtained by the acquisition unit, and if the determination unit determines that the selected application is not the specific application, perform a control as to whether to supply the power for the first device and the second device together.