Patent ID: 7725729
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic device for performing a typical processing by storing a series of operations in a stored operating procedure and reproducing the series of operations stored in the stored operating procedure, wherein the stored operating procedure comprises information indicating that an operation in the series of operations requires placing the electronic device in a mode that requires a predetermined authentication, comprising: an operating unit; a memory that stores plural operations, which are selected by a user through the operating unit, as the series of operations; a reproducing unit that reproduces the series of operations sequentially; and a control unit configured to control the reproducing unit and the operating unit, wherein if the series of operations to be reproduced comprise the operation that requires placing the electronic device in the mode that requires the predetermined authentication, the control unit requires input of authentication information corresponding to the operation that requires placing the electronic device in the mode that requires the predetermined authentication, before the reproducing unit reproduces a first operation of the series of operations, and then if the operation unit receives the authentication information and the control unit authenticates the received authentication information, the control unit controls the reproducing unit to reproduce the series of operations from the first operation, wherein the operation that requires placing the electronic device in the mode, which requires the predetermined authentication, is any of second and subsequent operations of the series of operations.