Seiko Epson Corporation

Junichi Otsuka

Toshiyuki Sugimoto

Hiroki Nakazawa

Hidetoshi Maeshima

Masakazu Honma

Manabu Okumura

Atsushi Nishioka

Kazuya Toshima

Takashi Kawamori

Masahiro Katagiri

Yoshitake Sato

Hidekazu Maezawa

Takaaki Taniguchi

Yuichi Takano

Masaki Hyogo

Kazunori Shimoda

Toshihiko Yanagisawa

Ryo Nakagawa

To provide an electronic apparatus, a method of detecting a tap operation, etc. for performing appropriate detection processing of a tap operation. The electronic apparatus includes a setting unitthat sets a sampling frequency for acceleration detection of an acceleration sensor, a processing unitthat performs a determination of a tap operation based on sensor information from the acceleration sensor, an operation information acquisition unitthat acquires operation information from an operation unit, and a communication unitthat performs communication processing of information, wherein, when reception of the information by the communication unitis detected or when acquisition of the operation information by the operation information acquisition unitis detected, the setting unitsets the sampling frequency to F2 as a higher frequency than the sampling frequency F1 before detection.

Electronic apparatus and method of detecting tap operation

An electronic apparatus refers to location measurement information measured in the past at each time when the latest location measurement information is output from a location measurement module with a predetermined measurement period, if measurement accuracy is good and it is regarded that a direction change has been made, determines the latest location measurement information as saving 'necessary' and stores the information. If the measurement accuracy is no good or it is regarded that a positioning point shown by the latest location measurement information is an intermediate point during linear traveling, the latest location measurement information is not saved. Therefore, a data size to be saved is made smaller than that in related art and draining of a battery taken for writing of data is reduced.

Wearable electronic apparatus, data analyzer, and travel record control method

An item editing device, and item editing method, and a program stored on a tangible media enable easily editing items whether the item is rectangle or an arch shape by unifying the item editing operation and reducing the number of steps. The item editing method enables editing an editable item within a layout area via an item changing unit where prescribed areas are set as attributes of the item in the top side, the bottom side, the left side, the right side, the center point, and an internal area other than the center point of the item, and has steps of: specifying one of the prescribed areas of the editable item when editing the item; specifying any point in the layout area as a destination of the specified item; and selecting one of the editing units included in the item changing unit according to the specified point and editing the editable item within the layout area, the editing unit including an arch-shape generating unit, an item curvature changing unit, an item width changing unit, an item height changing unit, and an item position changing unit.

Item editing method, item editing device, and program

A media processing device, control method therefor, and associated program prevent a drop in the throughput of a media production process due to cleaning the print head. A publisher has a media drive, a transportation unit that conveys a recording medium according to a transportation command received from a host, and a printer that discharges ink from the nozzles of a print head to print on the label side of the recording medium. The printer also applies a cleaning process to the print head according to an internal signal that is generated when the transportation command or a data write command is received from a host. The cleaning process is executed while the media is conveyed.

Media processing device and a control method and program therefor

A label printer can reliably print an object in a desired position in the printing area of a recording medium. The label printer has a carriage that moves bi-directionally in a main scanning direction over a disc-shaped recording medium; a printer tray that is disposed movably in a subscanning direction with the recording medium placed thereon; an ink head that is disposed to the carriage and prints a desired object by discharging ink to a printing area on the recording medium in conjunction with movement of the carriage in the main scanning direction and movement of the printer tray in the subscanning direction; a detection unit that is disposed to the carriage and detects a reference position alignment mark that indicates a position used as a reference for appropriately printing the object in the printing area of the recording medium; and a printing position control unit that rotates the recording medium so that the object is printed in the printing area of the recording medium based on the reference position alignment mark detection result from the detection unit.

Label printer, media processing device, and media processing system

A data writing control device enable quickly writing data to optical discs. A reading process unitreads data in predetermined read units from a storage device (hard disk drive) that has a head and stores the data. A storage unit (buffersand) has a storage area for storing the read units of data read by the reading process unit. A writing process unitacquires data stored in the storage unit in write units, which are smaller than the read units, and supplies the acquired write units of data to an optical disc drive is connected as a peripheral device.

Data writing control device, data writing control method, and data writing control program

A printer, image registration method, and printer system improve image data processing efficiency by tracking and storing the identical image data that is registered and stored in a printer. The image registration device has a graphics register for registering images in a printer. The graphics register sends the image data to be registered to the printer, receives an identification number from the printer, and records and stores a registered image data information file linking the image data sent to the printer with the printer identification number.

Printer system, printer, and image registration method

A data writing control device enables quickly writing data to optical discs. A reading process unitreads data in predetermined read units from a storage device (hard disk drive) that has a head and stores the data. A storage unit (buffersand) has a storage area for storing the read units of data read by the reading process unitA writing process unitacquires data stored in the storage area of the storage unit in write units, which are smaller than the read units, and supplies the acquired write units of data to an optical disc drive which is connected as a peripheral device.

Data writing control device, data writing control method, and data writing control program for writing to an optical disc

A recording medium production control device, recording medium production control method, and program instructions stored on a tangible computer-readable medium acquire the operating status of the existing data recording device, printer, and other devices in the recording medium production device, plans an operating command sequence for each of the devices to process a request from an application based on the acquired operating status information for the devices, and controls the operation of the devices according to this operating command sequence to produce optical recording media with maximum production efficiency without the devices interfering with each other. The recording medium production control devicehas a system control unit, a data recording unit driver, an auto loader driver, and a printer driver. The system control unitmanages the operating sequence of the devices in the recording medium production deviceto control the devices of the recording medium production deviceto not interfere with each other.

Recording medium production control device, recording medium production control method

The effect of detection errors when detecting if a disc recording medium is in a disc drive is eliminated. A control unitdetects if an optical discwas supplied to an optical disc drivebased on the operation of the transportation unitcauses the optical disc driveto detect if an optical discis inside the disc drive, and compares the results of these detection operations. If the results do not match, the control unitcauses the optical disc driveto repeat the operation discharging and loading the optical discand causes the optical disc driveto again detect if an optical discis present after the discharge and loading operation. The control unitthen determines if the new detection result from the optical disc driveand the detection result related to supplying the optical discto the optical disc drivematch, and based on the result of this evaluation detects an optical disc driveoperating error.

Error detection apparatus and method for a disc loading system

A communication setup program eliminates the need for setting communication data common to multiple applications individually for each application. The communication setup program configures communication data that is reflected by the applications when each application is loaded, and provides a device selection module for selecting a target communication device from among one or more devices setup on the computer; a related application extraction module for extracting related applications that support the selected device from among a plurality of applications installed on the computer; a communication data setup module for configuring the communication data used by related applications to communicate with the selected device; and a communication data ID output module for providing a communication data ID for referencing the configured communication data to the extracted applications.

Method, program, and system for setting up communication data for devices and supported applications

A device status monitoring system and method for a POS (point of sale) terminal system, in which an OPOS (OLE for Retail POS) object continuously records changes in device status to a file. A control system (OPOS object) includes a first object (control object) providing an interface for a device class to an application program, and a second object (service object) providing an interface for a specific device to the first object. The second object has commands for executing a process for: receiving status data indicating a device status from the specific device; detecting, as status change data, status data that changed by comparing the received status data with previously received status data; determining, based on predefined recording conditions, whether the status change data is data to be recorded in a log file; generating log data for recording the status change by converting the status change data to a text message and adding time information to the text message; and storing the log data to a log file specified by the recording conditions.

Device status monitoring system, device status monitoring method, and a data storage medium and object program therefor

Character strings containing null can be reliably passed between objects without using a complicated process and without changing the character string type declared by the control object or service object. An interface object for passing character strings from a control object to a service object casts the character string received from the control object as a BSTR type even if the received string is LPCTSTR type, determines the number of characters in the string, converts the string to wide characters without dropping any characters in the string, and creates a COM-standard BSTR type wide character string. Null (0x00) and all following characters in the character string can therefore be reliably passed to the service object.

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