Sony Corporation

Toshio Narushima

Yoshinori Tanaka

Yuji Kawamura

Yoshio Kitamura

Makoto Niioka

Hideaki Ohmuro

Masao Araya

Koichiro Kakinuma

Shinichiro Mikami

Masayuki Sato

Yasuhito Eguchi

Yushi Ihara

Junko Ikegami

Makoto Ando

Kanji Murano

Akira Sanpei

Kaoru Tomono

Ryusuke Furuhashi

Tetsuya Mitani

Naohide Koumura

A printing system has a printer device including a communication control portion and a print engine carrying out a print processing, and an information processing device connected to the printer device as external equipment via a USB interface, the printer device being connected to external equipment by the communication function of the communication control portion via a USB interface, and inputting the electric power of the print engine by a print request from the external equipment to perform the print processing in a printer standby state in which the electric power of the print engine is reduced while maintaining the communication function of the communication control portion.

Printing system and method of controlling printer device

An electronic appliance designed for low power consumption mode having a plurality of hardware interfaces mounted thereon for communication with an external device is disclosed. The electronic appliance includes a return interface setting part configured to variably set a part of the plurality of the hardware interfaces as a return interface that waits for receiving a return signal.

Electronic appliance, method of setting return interface, return communication method and computer program

A printer includes: an inkjet print head; an image processing part that processes image data and supplies the data to the print head; a main power supply that is connected to a commercial power source and supplies first power to the print head; a rechargeable sub-power supply that supplies second power for supporting the first power to the print head when power necessary for driving of the print head exceeds the first power during execution of printing; and a switch part that is located on a power supply line and electrically connects the sub-power supply to the power supply line when the power necessary for driving of the print head exceeds the first power.

Printer, supplied power controller and computer program

An electronic appliance having a communication function conforming to a wide band wireless communication system is disclosed. The electronic appliance includes: an EMI pattern information storage part configured to store EMI (electromagnetic interference) pattern information unique to the electronic appliance itself or EMI pattern information unique to an electronic appliance of the same type; an EMI standard value information acquiring part configured to acquire EMI standard value information valid in a relevant nation or region based on location information of the electronic appliance itself; and a communication condition setting part configured to set a communication condition relating to a wide band wireless communication based on the result of comparison between the acquired EMI standard value information and the EMI pattern information.

Electronic appliance, communication condition setting device, communication condition setting method and computer program

The video data contained in the digital broadcasting received by a receiver are transmitted to a printer at high speed and at low cost. A receiver (STB) for receiving digital broadcasting, a displayfor displaying the images of the digital broadcasting received by the STBand a printerfor printing images contained in the digital broadcasting received by the STBare connected to each other by way of a first signal transmission means adapted to transmit digital signals. The printerobtain video data from the receiverby way of the first signal transmission means.

Digital broadcasting reception system, digital broadcasting receiver, display, printer and printing method

A printer in which difference in color tone or contrast between a picture displayed on a display and a picture printed by the printer device is suppressed to a minimum. The display is preferably integrated with the printer. The printer includes an image data inputting unit for receiving input image information, e.g., by reading image data from a digital storage medium or from film, and providing digital image data based thereupon. Display outputting circuitry outputs an image signal corresponding to the digital image data to the display. A picture printing unit prints an image corresponding to the digital image data on a recording medium. A characteristics correction unit corrects a display setting prescribing display image properties of the display and a printing characteristics setting prescribing printing picture properties of the printing unit, so that color tone and/or contrast of the displayed and printed pictures are equalized. The printer also preferably includes circuitry for automatically correcting a tilt of a picture, e.g., tilt of an object in a photograph.

Printer having image correcting capability

An image-printing system for printing a fine image represented by digital image data, which is being displayed by a television receiver. The system comprises an image-processing section, an image output section, a printer apparatus, and a printing control section. The image-processing sectionprocesses an externally input image signal, generating image data. The image output sectionoutputs a packet to the printer apparatus. The packet complies with the IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)standards and contains the image data generated by the image-processing section. The printing control sectioncontrols the printer apparatusso that the apparatusmay print the data represented by the image data contained in the packet that the image output sectionhas output to the printer apparatus

Image print system

The present invention relates to an image printing apparatus for printing character data information of an electronic program guide added to externally inputted image information, comprising: an information processor comprising: demodulating/decoding means for detecting and demodulating/decoding the character data information of the electronic program guide added to the externally inputted image information; storage means for storing the demodulated/decoded character data information of the electronic program guide by the demodulating/decoding means; and output means for including the character data information of the electronic program guide stored by the storage means into a packet compliant with the IEEE 1394 standard and outputting the packet to the printer, and a printer comprising: input means for inputting the character data information of the electronic program guide included in the packet compliant with the IEEE 1394 standard outputted from the output means; print control means for detecting print control information from the character data information of the electronic program guide supplied from the input means; and printing means for printing the character data information of the electronic program guide under the control of the print control means.

Outputting a packet of character data information of an electronic program guide compliant with IEEE 1394 standard to a printer independent of a vector font

A printing apparatus for printing the content information contained in the digital broadcast received by an STB, in which flexible printing is achieved efficiently at a low cost. The digital broadcast is received by an STB and demonstrated on a display device as the contents information comprehended in the ddb is printed by a printer The contents information comprehended in the digital broadcast is converted by a contents information conversion unit into contents suited for printing.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshio Narushima