Seiko Epson Corporation

Shigeo Ikeda

Kazuhiro Takasu

Koichiro Tsutsumi

Yusuke Yamada

Katsutoshi Terashima

Yoshitake Sato

Katsunori Nagao

Hiroka Osano

Yasutoshi Takizawa

The management server acquires information including, at least, a medium price per unit area of one or more types of print media and a consumption amount of one or more types of inks, regarding a print job executed by the printer, calculates a cost of the print job based on the medium price and the consumption amount included in the acquired information, and calculates an index value of a profit obtained by executing a print job, of which a product is a predetermined print medium, based on the calculated cost by the printing apparatus for a predetermined time.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A device control system has a terminalwith an application, and a printerthat controls a scanner, or other device. The terminalsends a request written in XML generated by the application. The printerreceives the XML request, and the terminalreceives an XML response. If the terminalrequested control of the scanner in the XML request, the terminal controls the scanner.

Point-of-sale printer interpreting a markup language from a client device to control a scanner using scanner-control commands

A device control system has a terminalwith a web browser, and a printerthat controls a connected device. The terminalcalls an object that controls a device and is instantiated by the device APIto support the device, and sends a request to the printer, by the web application; and the printerexecutes a device control scriptthat controls the device, receives requests sent through the device API, and controls the device.

Printer communicating with a computing device that has access to a target-device script that initiates a control object to control a target device

In a control method of a control system including a terminal configured to execute an application, a device configured to send or receive data, and a controller connected to the device, a request for a device control is transmitted from the application to the controller. At the controller, the device control by the controller is established after the controller receives the request. At the terminal, the device control by the application through the controller is established after establishing the device control by the controller.

Control system, control method thereof, and controller thereof

A device control system has a terminalwith an application, and a printerthat controls a device. The terminalsends a request written in XML generated by the application. The printerreceives the XML request, the terminalsends an XML response, and if the terminalrequested control of the device in the XML request, controls the device.

Client device using a markup language to control a periphery device via a point-of-sale printer

A content publishing system, a publishing method for a content publishing system, and a publishing terminal provide a service that is particularly convenient for the customer. A content publishing system SY having a plurality of publishing terminalsthat record and publish content information containing content on recording media has an order content input unitenabling customers to input order content, a publishing terminal extraction unitthat extracts from among the plural publishing terminalsone or more publishing terminalsthat can process the order content based on the order content, a calculation unitthat calculates the required time denoting the time required to publish the order content according to the order content for the extracted one or more publishing terminals, a display unitthat displays the calculated required times of the one or more publishing terminals, and an order terminal selection unitfor specifying the publishing terminalto process the order from among the one or more publishing terminalsdisplayed. The content publishing system, a publishing method for a content publishing system, and a publishing terminal record content using the specified publishing terminal

Content publishing system, publishing method for a content publishing system, and publishing terminal

Client device using a markup language to control a periphery device via a printer

Client device using a web browser to control a periphery device via a printer

An electronic apparatus comprises a main circuit having a main CPU and a power supply system which includes plural main batteries for supplying operating power to said main circuit, a back-up battery, a switching circuit connected between each main battery and the main circuit, power means for enabling the operation of the main circuit, a charge detector for detecting the charging level of each main battery, and power controller responsive to the power means and the charge detector and having a sub-CPU for individually controlling the switching circuit according to either a single connection mode or a multiple connection mode. In the single connection mode only one of the main batteries is connected to said main circuit. In the multiple connection mode, at least two main batteries, each in series with a respective diode means, are connected in parallel to the main circuit. The back-up battery is connected to supply power to the power controller only when either no main battery is installed or the charging level of each of the installed main batteries is below a predetermined value required for back-up operation.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Shigeo Ikeda