Patent ID: 6806975
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A printer connectable to a digital camera, said printer comprising:a storage unit, arranged to store information on a digital camera error and information on a manual for the digital camera; a first discrimination unit, arranged to discriminate whether an error code has been received from the digital camera; a display unit, arranged to display a digital camera error indication, if said first discrimination unit discriminates that the error code has been received; a second discrimination unit, arranged to discriminate whether a print instruction has been entered by a user while said display unit displays the digital camera error indication; a search unit, arranged to search said storage unit for a message corresponding to the received error code, if said second discrimination unit discriminates that the print instruction has been entered; a print unit, arranged to print the message corresponding to the error code searched by said search unit, and arranged to print the information on the manual in response to a camera-manual-print instruction entered by the user; a third discrimination unit, arranged to discriminate whether an error release signal has been received from the digital camera, if said second discrimination unit discriminates that the print instruction has not been entered; and a release unit, arranged to release the digital camera error indication displayed by said display unit, if said third discrimination unit discriminates that the error release signal has been received.