Patent ID: 8615613
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A peripheral apparatus comprising: a storage unit which stores a control program for controlling the peripheral apparatus connected to an information processing apparatus, and a management program for managing the control program; and a control unit which controls an operation of the peripheral apparatus based on instruction information written in said storage unit from the information processing apparatus which recognizes the peripheral apparatus as an external storage device, wherein the control program is executed on the information processing apparatus after being loaded to the information processing apparatus from the external storage device, and wherein, after a control object for controlling the peripheral apparatus which is a display object of the information processing apparatus changes from a display state to a non-display state due to end of use of the control program, the management program determines whether or not the control unit writes in said storage unit operation information indicating that an operation unit provided with the peripheral apparatus is operated by a user, and functionalizes the information processing apparatus to return the control object from the non-display state to the display state when the management program determines that the control unit writes the operation information.