Patents by Inventor Hiroyasu Kurashina

Hiroyasu Kurashina has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8834049
    Abstract: A print system includes a paper feed device; a print device which has a platen roller and a print head and inserts the fed paper and an ink ribbon at a head position between the platen roller and the print head to perform printing; a disjunction device which relatively moves the platen roller with respect to the print head between a contact position where the platen roller contacts and a separation position where the platen roller is away therefrom; a non-print section acquiring device which acquires non-print section data of a character image in a feed direction of the paper from print data; and a print control device which controls the devices. The print control device relatively moves the platen roller to the separation position during a non-print section of the fed paper passes through the print head, based on the non-print section data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Patent number: 8767248
    Abstract: A label data processing apparatus including: a label data storage unit configured to store one or more label data for printing a label; and a display unit configured to switch and display, per label, an editing screen including at least a portion of text data included in each label data, as a selection candidate for the label data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Patent number: 8589144
    Abstract: Provided herein is a character processing device that converts an input character formed of an input alphanumeric or symbol to an extended Latin character similar to the input character including: a display unit displaying as an editing character the input character with a cursor attached thereto; a conversion target distinction unit discerning whether or not the editing character is convertible to the extended Latin character; and a notification unit indicating that the editing character is convertible to the extended Latin character when the editing character is regarded as convertible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Patent number: 8582133
    Abstract: Provided herein is a cable label forming apparatus having an edit screen display device, a selection candidate display instructing device, and a selection candidate display device. The selection candidate display device displays a last selected candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a normal edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed, and displays a specific candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a cable label forming edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Patent number: 8441654
    Abstract: Provided herein is a cable label forming apparatus having an edit screen display device, a selection candidate display instructing device, and a selection candidate display device. The selection candidate display device displays a last selected candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a normal edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed, and displays a specific candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a cable label forming edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Publication number: 20120268756
    Abstract: A label data processing apparatus including: a label data storage unit configured to store one or more label data for printing a label; and a display unit configured to switch and display, per label, an editing screen including at least a portion of text data included in each label data, as a selection candidate for the label data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Publication number: 20120041754
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including a display unit configured to display a system language switching screen for selecting and switching a system language from a plurality of options and a display control unit configured to carry out display control of the display unit, and a selection manipulation unit configured to select an arbitrary option from a plurality of options, wherein the display control unit performs control such that a switching message screen for notifying the fact that the system language is switched is displayed on the display unit after manipulation is made to select an arbitrary option using the selection manipulation unit, the switching message screen including a language name of the system language represented using the system language corresponding to a selected arbitrary option and a language name of the system language represented using a predetermined language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Publication number: 20090231607
    Abstract: Provided herein is a cable label forming apparatus having an edit screen display device, a selection candidate display instructing device, and a selection candidate display device. The selection candidate display device displays a last selected candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a normal edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed, and displays a specific candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a cable label forming edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyasu KURASHINA
  • Patent number: 7556444
    Abstract: An embossing control method used in a braille-embossing apparatus includes an embossing head that embosses a braille string on a tape fed along a tape-conveying path, the braille string being embossed in an area biased to one of upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape without changing the upper and lower direction of the braille string. The embossing control method includes the steps of designating the area biased to one of the upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape as a braille-embossing area in which braille embossing is to be performed and embossing the braille string in the designated braille-embossing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, King Jim Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Kurashina, Junichi Kikuchi, Takayuki Uehara
  • Publication number: 20090138256
    Abstract: Provided herein is a character processing device that converts an input character formed of an input alphanumeric or symbol to an extended Latin character similar to the input character including: a display unit displaying as an editing character the input character with a cursor attached thereto; a conversion target distinction unit discerning whether or not the editing character is convertible to the extended Latin character; and a notification unit indicating that the editing character is convertible to the extended Latin character when the editing character is regarded as convertible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu KURASHINA
  • Patent number: 7474421
    Abstract: A printer specifies at least one arbitrary option out of a plurality of options displayed on a display screen as a tentative option, determines the tentative option as a determined option (determinate option), and performs printing based on the determinate option. When a handling explanation is requested before the determination, display is switched to display of the handling explanation from option display. A user can therefore easily and quickly view the handling explanation at once during operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Patent number: 7401292
    Abstract: In a character-information processing method, a candidate alternative having relative positional information including at least the front-and-rear relation of ink-characters and braille, which are printed and embossed, respectively, on the same sheet, is stored as one of those alternatives for setting margins capable of being set as margins of the Braille. When the candidate alternative is selected from among those alternatives for margins, the ink characters and the braille are arranged based on the relative positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Publication number: 20080153072
    Abstract: A braille-information processing apparatus includes: a braille pattern converting device that converts input character information into a braille pattern based on a first grade braille description processing rule or a second grade braille description processing rule; and an input environment setting device that sets an input environment to a first grade braille mode based on the first grade braille description processing rule or a second grade braille mode based on the second grade braille description processing rule, wherein the braille pattern converting device converts the input character information into a first grade braille pattern based on the first grade braille description processing rule when the input environment is set to the first grade braille mode, and converts the input character information into a second grade braille pattern based on the second grade braille description processing rule when the input environment is set to the second grade braille mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyasu KURASHINA
  • Patent number: 7357585
    Abstract: A printing tape has a translucent recording-tape layer with a recording surface on a face thereof, and a translucent pseudo-laminating layer adhered to a back of the recording-tape layer. The pseudo-laminating layer has an adhesive-agent layer on a face thereof and a translucent tape layer on a back thereof. The recording-tape layer has a print-recording piece whose face serves as a printing region and a cut-off piece to be peeled off from the adhesive-agent layer. The print-recording piece is separated from the cut-off piece by a long-side cutting line formed in a longitudinal direction of the recording surface. By inverting both the recording-tape layer and the pseudo-laminating layer inside out for adhering to an object of adhesion after removing the cut-off piece, the pseudo-laminating layer serves as a laminate tape for the recording surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Publication number: 20080069619
    Abstract: A paper bundle print system for lifting up and separating paper sheets from a bundle of paper sheets one by one and performing a printing operation on the paper sheet includes: a message acquiring device which acquires a message including a contact name; a storage device which stores the contact name and contact information related to the contact name; a contact name extraction device which extracts the contact name from the message; a contact information acquiring device which acquires the contact information by comparing the extracted contact name with contents of the storage device; and a print device which adds the acquired contact information to the message and performs a printing operation on the paper sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Publication number: 20080053324
    Abstract: A print system includes a paper feed device; a print device which has a platen roller and a print head and inserts the fed paper and an ink ribbon at a head position between the platen roller and the print head to perform printing; a disjunction device which relatively moves the platen roller with respect to the print head between a contact position where the platen roller contacts and a separation position where the platen roller is away therefrom; a non-print section acquiring device which acquires non-print section data of a character image in a feed direction of the paper from print data; and a print control device which controls the devices. The print control device relatively moves the platen roller to the separation position during a non-print section of the fed paper passes through the print head, based on the non-print section data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyasu KURASHINA
  • Publication number: 20080047971
    Abstract: A sticky note feeder includes: a casing; a discharge slot provided on the casing, to which slot a sticky note having an adhesive portion at one end of the back surface is sent; a feeding unit which sends the sticky note to the discharge slot along a feeding path; and a sticky note holding portion which holds the sticky note sent by the feeding unit such that the back face of the sticky note faces to below and that the end of the sticky note where the adhesive portion is not provided is exposed through the discharge slot. The sticky note holding portion is disposed on the upstream side of the discharge slot in the feeding direction at such a position as to face the feeding path from below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki SAKANO, Hiroyasu KURASHINA
  • Patent number: 7314321
    Abstract: In case where any one of longitudinal direction printing in which an arranging direction of character strings coincides with a longitudinal direction of a tape, and width direction printing in which the arranging direction coincides with a width direction, is selected and a print image having the character strings arranged therein is printed on the tape to produce a label, a size in the longitudinal direction of the tape which is made into a label is set as a label width in the width direction printing. Character strings for the width direction printing are inputted and arrangement widths of respective lines of the character strings are set. A print image is created and printed according to the arrangement widths and the tape is cut in accordance with the set label width, whereby a label is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Patent number: 7251044
    Abstract: There are provided an image forming method and apparatus in which character string having one or more characters is registered as a regular character string, regular printing for printing the regular character string is instructed, irrespective of whether or not a character string other than the regular character string is being input or edited, and when regular printing is instructed, a regular character string image corresponding to the regular character string is printed as a print image. Irrespective of whether or not another character string is being edited, this construction enables the regular character string image of a registered regular character string to be printed at a desired time point through simple operations, while saving the capacity of the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina
  • Patent number: 7249902
    Abstract: There is provided a tape printing apparatus in which characters to be printed on a recording face of a recording tape layer of a print tape are inputted, and a folding-line position of a pseudo-laminate layer of the print tape is defined. A print-width range on a recording face is defined based on the defined folding-line position to print the characters therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kurashina