Patent ID: 8483021

Claim:
A medium delivery control apparatus controlling a medium delivery unit performing removal, insertion and delivery of a recording medium with respect to a medium storage unit including a plurality of deep cells capable of housing a plurality of recording media in a depth direction from an opening of the cell and a recording reproduction unit performing reading and writing on the recording medium, the apparatus comprising: a first detection recording unit to detect and record, for each deep cell, whether or not the recording medium is housed and which the recording medium is if the recording medium is housed; a second detection recording unit to detect and record, for each deep cell, the number of removals and insertions of the recording medium; a storage point candidate searching unit to search a storage point candidate cell storing the recording medium that is housed in at least one of a delivery source cell and a delivery destination cell on the basis of the record by the first detection recording unit; a number-retrieval determining unit to retrieve the number of removals and insertions of the recording medium in the storage point candidate cell searched by the storage point candidate searching unit, and to determine whether or not the retrieved number of times exceeds a predetermined threshold on the basis of the record by the second detection recording unit; and a medium-delivery control unit to control the medium delivery unit so that the recording medium is stored in the searched storage point candidate cell if the threshold is not exceeded and for controlling the medium delivery unit so that the recording medium is not stored in the searched storage point candidate cell if the threshold is exceeded, in accordance with the determination of the number-retrieval determining unit.