Patent 9515509 was granted and assigned to Sony on December, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There is provided an electronic device system including a plurality of battery packs, and an electronic device that is driven by a power source supplied from the battery packs. At least one battery pack of the plurality of battery packs outputs one or both of discharge information indicating whether the battery pack is dischargeable and charge information indicating whether the battery pack is chargeable, and the electronic device includes a control unit that performs one or both of control of discharge of the battery pack based on the discharge information and control of charge of the battery pack based on the charge information.