Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Yoshihiko Sugimura

Junya Kawai

Naoki Tanjima

Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu

Hidekazu Ishii

Satoru Moriyama

Yuji Iida

Nako Yoshimura

The disclosure discloses an electronic writing device comprising an image data specifying portion and a transmission control portion. The image data specifying portion configured to, in a case where a writing determining portion determines that the writing action has been performed, and further a entry determining portion determines that either one of a first storage instruction entry column included in a first page and a second storage instruction entry column included in a second page has been filled in, specify the image data in response to an entry mode in the either one of the storage instruction entry columns as a storage target in an external storage device. The transmission control portion controls a communication device triggered by the entry determining portion detecting entry in the storage instruction entry column to perform transmission for storing the image data specified as the storage target.

Electronic writing device

An information input device includes a detection portion, a processor, and a memory. The detection portion is configured to detect a position of a writing portion being in contact with or close to the detection portion. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information input device to perform processes that include acquiring position information at a predetermined time interval, setting, as first position information, information indicating one of positions indicated by the acquired position information, determining whether a distance between a position indicated by the set first position information and a position indicated by second position information is less than a threshold value, and storing, as information configuring trajectory information, the second position information in a storage portion in response to determining that the distance is not less than the threshold value.

Information input device and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions

An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions. The instructions instruct the processor to execute acquiring start time data identified based on first stroke data input by handwriting, acquiring end time data identified based on second stroke data input by handwriting, first correcting the start time data by entering a first numerical value corresponding to a first unit that is the unit of time for which the numerical value is not identified, based on the end time data, when a numerical value corresponding to a unit of time cannot be identified, and second correcting the end time data by entering a second numerical value corresponding to a second unit that is the unit of time for which the numerical value is not identified, based on the start time data, when a numerical value corresponding to a unit of time cannot be identified.

Information processing apparatus and medium for correcting the start and end time data based on handwriting user input

An input apparatus includes a detection portion, a processor, and a memory. The detection portion is configured to detect a position. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions cause the processor to perform processes that include acquiring a plurality of first positions, determining whether a combination and a sequence of the plurality of first positions satisfy a specified first condition, acquiring a plurality of second positions after it has been determined that the combination and the sequence satisfy the first condition, determining whether a combination and a sequence of the plurality of second positions satisfy any of a plurality of second conditions, and identifying, in a case where it has been determined that the combination and the sequence of the plurality of second positions satisfy one of the plurality of second conditions, format information associated with the one of the plurality of second conditions.

Input apparatus

A touch panel control device includes a first identification portion that periodically identifies a plurality of pressed cells, a second identification portion that identifies at least one separation distance based on positions of a plurality of first pressed cells that are identified by the first identification portion at a first timing, a first invalidation portion that invalidates at least one pair of first cells among the plurality of first pressed cells identified at the first timing, a second invalidation portion that invalidates second cell among a plurality of second pressed cells identified by the first identification portion at a second timing, and a decision portion that decides, as a specified position, a position of at least one pressed cell from among a plurality of pressed cells included in at least one first valid pressed cell and at least one second valid pressed cell.

Touch panel control device and non-transitory computer-readable medium

A printer includes a feeding portion configured to feed a printing medium, a printing portion including a plurality of heating elements configured to perform printing of one line at a time on the printing medium, and a processor configured to specify numbers of ON dots for at least a first specified block and a second specified block, specify first speeds that respectively correspond to at least the first specified block and the second specified block based on the numbers of ON dots, set a second speed for the second specified block based on the first speeds that respectively correspond to the first specified block and the second specified block, such that the printing medium is fed at the first speed for the first specified block when the printing of the first specified block is performed, and control the feeding portion and the printing portion.

Printer and non-transitory computer-readable medium

A printing device includes a feeding portion configured to feed a print medium along a feed direction, a printing portion configured to perform printing on the print medium fed by the feeding portion, the printing being performed for each of a print line extending in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction, a storage portion configured to sequentially store print data received from the external device, and a processor configured to determine whether consecutive identical data are accumulated in the storage portion, the consecutive identical data being identical print data for a predetermined number of the print lines that are consecutive in the feed direction, and cause the printing portion to start the printing based on the print data stored in the storage portion when it is determined that the consecutive identical data are accumulated.

Printing device for printing from stored print data

A label creation device includes a feeding portion configured to feed a printing medium in a first direction and a second direction, the second direction being an opposite direction from the first direction, a printing portion configured to perform printing on the printing medium fed in the first direction, a cutting portion configured to cut the printing medium, the printed portion being a portion of the printing medium on which the printing has been performed, and a processor configured to specify a first distance, which is a length of a blank portion, the cut position being a position of the printing medium where the printing medium is cut, and control the feeding portion to feed the printing medium in the second direction in a case where a second distance is greater than the first distance, the second distance being a distance between the printing portion and the cutting portion.

Label creating device and program for controlling feeding of print medium

A printer comprises a print head, a discharge port, a display portion, and a processor. The processor displays a head marker indicating a position of the print head and a discharge port marker indicating a position of the discharge port on the display portion in correspondence to a positional relationship of the print head and the discharge port. The processor also displays, in real-time on the display portion, an image of the print medium on which the print image has been printed, in accordance with the printing by the print head, such that the image is initially displayed in a state in which a start edge of the image is aligned with the head marker when the printing by the print head starts, and a position of the initially displayed image is moved toward the discharge port marker in accordance with progress of the printing by the print head.

Printer

A printer includes a printing device, a transport device that transports the printing medium, an optical sensor that outputs a specified output value, based on light that is reflected from the reverse face of the printing medium, a first determination portion that determines whether a first detection object color has been detected, based on the output value, a second declaration portion that declares that the mark has been detected in a case where, after a first declaration portion that, in a case where the number of times that the first determination portion has consecutively determined that the first detection object color has been detected, declares that the first detection object color is continuous over a specified width, the number of times that a second determination portion has consecutively determined that the second detection object color has been detected, based on the output value.

Printer and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing printing control program

A printer includes a feeding portion, a printing portion and a processor. The feeding portion is configured to feed a printing medium in an auxiliary scanning direction. The printing portion includes a plurality of heating elements arrayed in a main scanning direction and configured to perform printing of one line at a time on the printing medium. The processor is configured to set, based on a first speed, a number of lines for each of which a number of ON dots is specified, specify numbers of ON dots for the set number of lines, set a second speed based on a maximum value among the specified numbers of ON dots, control the feeding portion such that the feed speed is changed from the first speed to the second speed, and control the printing portion such that the printing is performed sequentially one line at a time.

A printer includes a printer memory that stores information, a printer communication device that performs communication with a terminal, a printing device that prints based on print data, a receiving device that receives operating state information, the operating state information indicating that an operating state of the printer is one of a storage device state and a printing device state, the storage device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of using the printer memory, and the printing device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of printing by using the printing device, and a switching device that switches the operating state of the printer to one of the storage device state and the printing device state, based on the operating state information received by the receiving device.

Printer, terminal, and printing system with operating state communication

A tape printing apparatus registers a word string constituting document data to be printed by depression of a print key in a learnt-contents storing region under subscribed conditions. A CPU divides the document data to be printed into letter strings based on information about constituent letters of the to-be-printed word string and a learning condition determination table. Thereafter, the CPU determines whether or not the to-be-printed word string should be registered based on registered letter string data stored in the learnt-contents storing region and the contents of the divided letter string.

A printer includes a connection device that connects to an external device, a printing device that prints a character on a print medium, an input device that inputs the character and an instruction, and a first data acquisition device that acquires first data created in the external device via the connection device. The printer further includes a print history storage device that stores print history information of the first data and a second data used for printing by the printing device among the first data acquired by the first data acquisition device and the second data created based on the character and the instruction inputted by the input device. The printer also includes a print control device that causes the printing device to perform printing based on the print history information stored in the print history storage device.

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Nagoya, Japan

Yoshihiko Sugimura