Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic apparatus incorporating a plurality of microprocessor units for use in initializing data
- Patent Title (中): 包含用于初始化数据的多个微处理器单元的电子设备
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Application No.: US11942524Application Date: 2007-11-19
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Publication No.: US07987350B2Publication Date: 2011-07-26
- Inventor: Kenji Miwa
- Applicant: Kenji Miwa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc., IP Division
- Priority: JP2006-318636 20061127
- Main IPC: G06F9/24
- IPC: G06F9/24 ; G06F15/177

Abstract:
An electronic apparatus includes an initializing unit configured to, at power-on, execute in parallel a process of initializing data, which is stored in a first nonvolatile memory and requires initialization, into a first volatile memory by a first microprocessor unit and a process of initializing data, which is stored in a second nonvolatile memory and requires initialization, into a second volatile memory by a second microprocessor unit, and to copy a second set of initialized data, which has been initialized by the second microprocessor unit and stored in the second volatile memory, into the first volatile memory via the communication interface. A startup time of the electronic apparatus is shortened.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080126775A1 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCORPORATING A PLURALITY OF MICROPROCESSOR UNITS Public/Granted day:2008-05-29
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