Seiko Epson Corporation

Yoshitake Sato

Tadashi Furuhata

Masahiro Katagiri

Eiji Ito

Junichi Otsuka

Shigeo Ikeda

Katsutoshi Terashima

Tomohito Someya

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

A media processing device enables continuous high-speed processing of recording media. A media processing device has a magnetic headthat reads information recorded on checksin the checkconveyance path, a magnetic recognition unitthat acquires the result of a verification based on information read by the magnetic head, and a conveyance control unitthat starts conveying the checkto be processed next. The conveyance control unitselectively operates in an individual processing mode that starts conveying the checkto be read next after the results of verifying the read data are acquired by the magnetic recognition unit, and a continuous processing mode that starts conveying the checkto be read next after the magnetic headreads at least part of the information without waiting for the magnetic headto acquire the complete verification result.

Media processing device and method of controlling a media processing device

A media processing device enables continuous high-speed processing of recording media. A media processing device has a magnetic headthat reads information recorded on checksin the checkconveyance patha magnetic recognition unitthat acquires the result of a verification based on information read by the magnetic head, and a conveyance control unitthat starts conveying the checkto be processed next. The conveyance control unitselectively operates in an individual processing mode that starts conveying the checkto be read next after the results of verifying the read data are acquired by the magnetic recognition unit, and a continuous processing mode that starts conveying the checkto be read next after the magnetic headreads at least part of the information without waiting for the magnetic headto acquire the complete verification result.

A recording device is made to record text after suitably correlating universal character code characters to font data that is actually stored in the printer. A printerstores a plurality of code pages CP each storing font data for a plurality of characters that is used when recording text on a recording medium. Based on the plural code pages CP stored by the printer, a character code conversion tablethat stores Unicode characters correlated to information identifying a code page CP containing font data corresponding to the Unicode character and information denoting the storage address of the font data on the code page CP is created or updated.

Control device, method of controlling a recording device, and a storage medium

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

Background images are removed and only desired payment information is extracted from a grayscale image of a check or similar financial instrument. A density distribution improvement process applied to grayscale raw image dataacquired by scanning a check corrects the density distribution of the raw image datato separate the density range of the desired payment information from the density range of the background image. A threshold levelfor clearly separating the payment information from the background image is then calculated from the characteristics of the density distribution of the grayscale improved image dataacquired by the density distribution improvement process. Histograms of the density distributions are used to determine the characteristics of the density distribution. The improved image datais then converted to binary image datausing the threshold level

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Yoshitake Sato