Patent ID: 7724390
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus which comprises plural card slots in which plural kinds of detachable memory cards are respectively inserted, comprising: a reading unit configured to read out data from memory cards inserted in the card slots; an access control unit configured to set a card slot as an accessible card slot which the reading unit can access and to set a card slot other than the accessible card slot as inaccessible; a checking unit configured to check whether a memory card is inserted in each of the plural card slots, in order; and a determining unit configured to determine which card slot has been set to have a priority relative to others of the plural card slots, wherein, in a case where a first memory card is inserted in a first checked card slot which is first checked by the checking unit, the access control unit sets the first checked card slot in which the first memory card is inserted as the accessible card slot if the determining unit determines that the first checked card slot has been set to have the priority, and sets a second card slot in which a second memory card is inserted as the accessible card slot if the determining unit determines that the first checked card slot has not been set to have the priority and the checking unit finds that the second memory card is inserted in the second card slot, wherein the second card slot is a card slot other than the first checked card slot in which the first memory card is inserted, and wherein, in a case where the first memory card is inserted in the first checked card slot but the second memory card is not inserted in the second card slot and the access control unit has set the first checked card slot as inaccessible, the access control unit resets the first checked card slot in which the first memory card is inserted as the accessible card slot.