Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240142707
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a display panel being a display element configured to emit image light, a light-guiding member including a first total reflection surface and a second total reflection surface, a first diffraction element being provided on a light incidence side in association with the light-guiding member, a second diffraction element being provided on a light emission side in association with the light-guiding member, and a stray light suppression filter being provided on an external side of an image extraction part provided with the second diffraction element and being configured to limit passage of diffracted light from the second diffraction element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi INOMOTO, Mitsutaka IDE, Masayuki TAKAGI, Takashi TAJIRI
  • Publication number: 20240140102
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a first operation surface that receives a first load for moving the cartridge in an inserting direction, a main surface that constitutes a top surface positioned on a side of an upward direction in a direction of gravity in an inserted posture, a second operation surface that constitutes the top surface in an inserted posture and is positioned on a side of a downward direction in the direction of gravity with respect to the main surface and that receives a second load for moving the cartridge in a rotational-attachment direction, in which an angle formed by the second operation surface and the inserting direction is smaller than an angle formed by the first operation surface and the inserting direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
  • Publication number: 20240142292
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition device that acquires, as a first strength, a strength of a radio signal related to position information received at a position of a first height, and a first determination device that determines that the first height is a water level when an attenuation amount of the first strength with respect to a reference strength exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo SASAHARA, Yoshihiro YAMAMURA, Hidetoshi YAMAMOTO, Yuya OZAWA
  • Patent number: 11970013
    Abstract: A recording device includes a main body including a recording unit configured to perform recording on a medium pulled out from a roll body including the medium wound around a core member, and a leg part configured to support the main body from an installation surface on which the main body is installed. The leg part includes contact parts configured to make contact with the installation surface at respective positions different from each other. The contact parts include three reference contact parts located on a same plane and one movable contact part. The movable contact part is coupled with the main body through an elastic member that is elastically deformable in a direction that intersects the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Yato, Yosuke Nakano, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11973318
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate, and a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a columnar part, wherein the columnar part includes a first GaN layer having a first conductivity type, a second GaN layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first GaN layer and the second GaN layer, the first GaN layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the light emitting layer has a first well layer as an InGaN layer, the first GaN layer has a c-face region, the first GaN layer has a crystal structure of a cubical crystal, and has a first layer constituting the c-face region, and a second layer as a GaN layer having a crystal structure of a hexagonal crystal is disposed between the first layer and the first well layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Shunsuke Ishizawa, Katsumi Kishino
  • Patent number: 11970001
    Abstract: A driving waveform determining method with which a waveform of a driving pulse applied to a driving element provided in a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid is determined includes: a first step of determining a waveform candidate of the driving pulse; a second step of notifying a user of candidate information of the waveform candidate; a third step of receiving an instruction issued by the user in accordance with the candidate information; and a fourth step of determining the waveform of the driving pulse in accordance with the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Toyofuku, Toshiro Murayama, Takahiro Katakura
  • Patent number: 11970016
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit that transports clothing fabric at which a pattern is formed, an imaging unit that images the clothing fabric transported by the transport unit, a printing unit that performs printing on the clothing fabric transported by the transport unit, and a control unit, the control unit registers first image data representing the pattern in a predetermined storage unit, extracts, based on a comparison between the first image data and second image data, a pattern region corresponding to the pattern in the second image data, the second image data is generated by imaging of the clothing fabric by imaging unit, corrects third image data representing an image to be printed overlaid on the pattern to match the shape of the pattern region, and causes the printing unit to perform the printing of the corrected third image data on the clothing fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kayahara
  • Patent number: 11971429
    Abstract: A posture estimation method includes calculating a posture change amount of an object based on an output of an angular velocity sensor, predicting posture information of the object by using the posture change amount, limiting a bias error in a manner of limiting a bias error component of an angular velocity around a reference vector in error information, and correcting the predicted posture information of the object based on the error information, the reference vector, and an output of a reference observation sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Nakaoka
  • Patent number: 11972158
    Abstract: A cartridge provision system includes a printer that ejects liquid (recording material) supplied from a cartridge onto a print medium; and a server 10 that manages a provision of the cartridge to a user of the printer, wherein the server 10 manages vendor inventory data 22, which is data that associated an inventory of the cartridge held by a sales company who provisions the cartridge to the user with expiration date of the cartridge, and a location data 33, which indicates the location of the user, and determines, when the sales company provisions the cartridge to the user, which expiration date of the cartridge should be provided from the inventory of the cartridge held by the sales company based on the vendor inventory data 22 and the location data 33.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Yonekubo, Shigenori Nakagawa, Yoshihisa Horikawa
  • Patent number: 11969905
    Abstract: A control method for a robot performing a task on a workpiece conveyed by a belt conveyor having a moving belt is provided. The control method includes: causing a first image pickup device to detect an inclination between a first direction serving as a reference for traveling of the belt and a direction in which the belt is traveling, and a first distance that is a distance between the belt and a first reference position in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction at the first reference position; calculating a position of the workpiece as of when the workpiece is moved by the belt conveyor from a first position to a second position away from the first position by a second distance in the first direction, based on the inclination and the first distance detected by the first image pickup unit; and causing the robot to perform a task on the workpiece at the second position that is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Yokota
  • Patent number: 11969900
    Abstract: A teaching apparatus includes a display unit having a simulation area in which a viewpoint for a virtual robot as a simulation model of a robot is changeably displayed and an operation area in which a plurality of operation signs for moving a control point of the virtual robot by changing a posture of the virtual robot are displayed, and a display control unit that controls actuation of the display unit, wherein the display control unit changes directions of the respective operation signs in the operation area to interlock with a change of the viewpoint for the virtual robot in the simulation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuchi Kokubun
  • Publication number: 20240137476
    Abstract: A projection image adjustment method includes acquiring a captured image produced by capturing an image of a range containing a first and second region in a situation wherein a first projector projects a first image having uniform luminance toward a first region and a second projector projects a second image having uniform luminance toward a second region overlapping part of the first region, identifying based on the captured image the brightness at a third region where the first region and the second region overlap each other, and the brightness at a fourth region that is part of the first region and does not overlap with the second region, adjusting the first image when the fourth region is darker than the third region, and not performing correction that adjusts the first image to increase the highest brightness at the fourth region when the fourth region is brighter than the third region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumiya HORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240134259
    Abstract: A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a first light source configured to emit a first light flux, a second light source configured to emit a second light flux, a third light source configured to emit a third light flux, a first light combiner configured to enlarge a first light flux width of the first light flux, and combine the first light flux and the second light flux to generate a first combined light flux, and a second light combiner configured to combine the first combined light flux and the third light flux with each other to generate a second combined light flux. The first light flux width is equal to a second light flux width of the second light flux or smaller than the second light flux width, and the first light flux width is smaller than a third light flux width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wataru YASUMATSU
  • Publication number: 20240131850
    Abstract: A liquid storage container includes: a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside; and an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of a container attachment portion is inserted, the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell, and the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
  • Publication number: 20240137640
    Abstract: A parameter determination method includes: determining N, N being a natural number greater than 1, first regions included in at least a part of a first image acquired by capturing a target with a first optical device positioned at a first position and whose internal parameters are known, or the first image projected from the first optical device; determining N second regions corresponding to the respective N first regions in a one-to-one manner in a second image acquired by capturing the target with a second optical device positioned at a second position different from the first and whose internal parameters are known; determining N homographies between the N first regions and the N second regions in a one-to-one manner; and determining at least one of a first parameter related to the second optical device and a second parameter related to the capturing target by decomposing each of the N homographies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki SENSHIKI
  • Publication number: 20240131851
    Abstract: A print material storage container has: a substrate on which an electric circuit having terminals is provided; a fixing portion on which the substrate can be mounted by re-fixing; and a fixing member that fixes the fixing portion and a non-terminal portion, which is formed by excluding the terminals from the substrate, to each other. The non-terminal portion includes a re-fixed portion, which can be re-fixed to the fixing portion by the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Noriyuki Fukasawa, Hiroyuki Kawate
  • Patent number: 11968480
    Abstract: A display method includes detecting a write operation on a display surface by a pointer, determining whether an operation button provided on the pointer is pressed or not, displaying an image corresponding to the write operation as a first image on the display surface, when the write operation is detected and it is determined that the operation button is pressed, and erasing the first image when it is determined that the operation button is not pressed during a period when the first image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomonori Kumagai
  • Patent number: 11964477
    Abstract: A recording system includes: a recording apparatus; a post-processing apparatus; and a transport apparatus which transports the medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus, and the transport apparatus includes a transport mechanism which transports a medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus, and a loading stand which loads the discharged medium without transporting the medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kodama
  • Patent number: D1025072
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoriko Hama, Kazuaki Takahashi, Ichiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: D1025204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kaminaga, Hideki Kato, Manabu Kawahara