Patent ID: 8539219

Claim:
An information access apparatus having an activation state permitting an information access to a recording medium on which information is recorded, and a non-activation state prohibiting the information access to the recording medium and being changed thereto from the activation state in response to a predetermined operation, the information access apparatus comprising: a medium access section which is supplied with electric power in the activation state and is not supplied with electric power in the non-activation state and on which the recording medium is loaded, the medium access section to permit, in the activation state, the information access to the recording medium and an ejection of the recording medium out of the information access apparatus; an instruction operating section that receives an instruction operation for instructing the ejection of the recording medium by the medium access section; and an activation control section that causes the information access apparatus to change from the non-activation state to the activation state in response to reception of the instruction operation by the instruction operating section when the recording medium is loaded on the medium access section, and does not cause the information access apparatus to change from the non-activation state to the activation state when the recording medium is not loaded on the medium access section at the time of the reception of the instruction operation.