Imaging System with Reduced Function Mode, and Methods Therefor

摘要

A system and method for operating an imaging device is shown. The method includes detecting the malfunction when the imaging device is in a normal mode of operation; causing the imaging device to enter a reduced function mode following the detecting; enabling only one or more functions of the imaging device when in the reduced function mode, the one or more functions being less than all of the functions available when the imaging device is in the normal mode of operation. The one or more functions have operating points when the imaging device is in the reduced function mode that are different than the operating points of the one or more functions when the imaging device is in the normal mode of operation.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a device having a plurality of subsystems; and program code, stored in nontransitory memory, having instructions which, when executed by a processor, results in the processor:
during the device performing in a normal mode of operation, identifying a malfunction in at least one of the subsystems of the device, causing the device to enter a reduced function mode following the identifying, the reduced function mode enabling at least one first function and disabling at least one second function of the device, the at least one first function and the at least one second function being enabled when the device is in the normal mode of operation, and controlling the device in the reduced function mode so that the device performs the at least one first function with predetermined operating points that are the same as or different from operating points for performing the at least one first function when the device is in the normal mode of operation.