Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Niiyama

Shinichiro Niiyama 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: 11947793
    Abstract: Provided is a portable terminal including a communication section configured to acquire operational information about a monitoring target device, a display section, a detector configured to detect a gesture motion involving a change in orientation of the portable terminal, and a processor configured to, when the gesture motion is detected while a first screen including an object in accordance with content of the operational information is displayed on the display section, cause a screen in accordance with a type of the gesture motion and a type of the object included in the first screen to be displayed on the display section. When the operational information differs, the object included in the first screen differs and, even when the same gesture motion is detected, a different screen is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Patent number: 11727234
    Abstract: A printer includes: a printing section; a transport belt that transports a print medium; a camera that detects both end portions in an intersecting direction that intersects a transport direction of the print medium among end portions of the print medium placed on the transport belt; and a control section that causes the printing section to execute printing based on print data while one end portion of the both end portions detected by the camera is set as a print start position and a distance from the one end portion to the other end portion is set as a width of the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Publication number: 20220244843
    Abstract: Provided is a portable terminal including a communication section configured to acquire operational information about a monitoring target device, a display section, a detector configured to detect a gesture motion involving a change in orientation of the portable terminal, and a processor configured to, when the gesture motion is detected while a first screen including an object in accordance with content of the operational information is displayed on the display section, cause a screen in accordance with a type of the gesture motion and a type of the object included in the first screen to be displayed on the display section. When the operational information differs, the object included in the first screen differs and, even when the same gesture motion is detected, a different screen is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11373072
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a generation unit generating a sample image showing each of a first surface and a second surface that are next to each other of a label attachment target object having a plurality of surfaces, and a first image and a second image allocated to the first surface and the second surface, respectively, in association with each other; and a display processing unit performing control to display, on a display unit, a print setting screen for a printer printing a label, the print setting screen including the sample image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Patent number: 11318758
    Abstract: A printer includes: a transport belt that transports a print medium; a print head that discharges ink to form an image on the print medium placed on the transport belt; a carriage that mounts the print head thereon and scans in an intersecting direction that intersects a transport direction of the print medium; a sensor unit that detects a non-printable area of the print medium capable of coming into contact with the print medium placed on the transport belt and the print head; and a control section that retracts the carriage from a position where the image is formed by the print head when the sensor unit detected the non-printable area during the printing, causes the transport belt to transport the print medium until the non-printable area is positioned downstream of the print head in the transport direction, and continues printing from a printable area adjacent to the non-printable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Patent number: 11203200
    Abstract: A printer includes: a transport belt; a print head that has a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink, a carriage that mounts the print head thereon, a sensor that detects a non-printable area of the print medium where the print medium placed on the transport belt and the print head are capable of coming into contact with each other; and a control section that performs printing by the print head by dividing the plurality of nozzles into a plurality of nozzle groups in the transport direction, and the control section prints an image indicated by image data assigned to one nozzle group by the other nozzle group different from the one nozzle group, in printing with respect to an adjacent area which is an area of which a length in the transport direction corresponds to a length of a nozzle row in the transport direction of the print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Publication number: 20210279537
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a generation unit generating a sample image showing each of a first surface and a second surface that are next to each other of a label attachment target object having a plurality of surfaces, and a first image and a second image allocated to the first surface and the second surface, respectively, in association with each other; and a display processing unit performing control to display, on a display unit, a print setting screen for a printer printing a label, the print setting screen including the sample image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11029902
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism, a display device, a print controller configured to control the printing mechanism to print an image on a print medium, and a display controller configured to make the display device display a preview image in which the image to be printed on the print medium and a processing position where processing is performed on the print medium after the printing are superimposed with each other, wherein the print controller makes the printing mechanism print the image and a processing position image representing the processing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Publication number: 20210078340
    Abstract: A printer includes: a transport belt that transports a print medium; a print head that discharges ink to form an image on the print medium placed on the transport belt; a carriage that mounts the print head thereon and scans in an intersecting direction that intersects a transport direction of the print medium; a sensor unit that detects a non-printable area of the print medium capable of coming into contact with the print medium placed on the transport belt and the print head; and a control section that retracts the carriage from a position where the image is formed by the print head when the sensor unit detected the non-printable area during the printing, causes the transport belt to transport the print medium until the non-printable area is positioned downstream of the print head in the transport direction, and continues printing from a printable area adjacent to the non-printable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210078318
    Abstract: A printer includes: a transport belt; a print head that has a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink, a carriage that mounts the print head thereon, a sensor that detects a non-printable area of the print medium where the print medium placed on the transport belt and the print head are capable of coming into contact with each other; and a control section that performs printing by the print head by dividing the plurality of nozzles into a plurality of nozzle groups in the transport direction, and the control section prints an image indicated by image data assigned to one nozzle group by the other nozzle group different from the one nozzle group, in printing with respect to an adjacent area which is an area of which a length in the transport direction corresponds to a length of a nozzle row in the transport direction of the print head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210081734
    Abstract: A printer includes: a printing section; a transport belt that transports a print medium; a camera that detects both end portions in an intersecting direction that intersects a transport direction of the print medium among end portions of the print medium placed on the transport belt; and a control section that causes the printing section to execute printing based on print data while one end portion of the both end portions detected by the camera is set as a print start position and a distance from the one end portion to the other end portion is set as a width of the print medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10885404
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism, a display device, a print controller configured to control the printing mechanism to print an image on a print medium, and a display controller configured to make the display device display a preview image in which the image to be printed on the print medium and a processing position where processing is performed on the print medium after the printing are superimposed with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Patent number: 10768866
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism configured to print images on a print medium, a print controller configured to execute a job group including a plurality of print jobs configured to print the images to make the printing mechanism print the images in the respective print jobs in sequence to thereby form a single printing result, a detector configured to detect a print error of the printing mechanism, a display device, and a display controller configured to make the display device display a printing position when the print error was detected by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama
  • Publication number: 20200097781
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism, a display device, a print controller configured to control the printing mechanism to print an image on a print medium, and a display controller configured to make the display device display a preview image in which the image to be printed on the print medium and a processing position where processing is performed on the print medium after the printing are superimposed with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200097226
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism configured to print images on a print medium, a print controller configured to execute a job group including a plurality of print jobs configured to print the images to make the printing mechanism print the images in the respective print jobs in sequence to thereby form a single printing result, a detector configured to detect a print error of the printing mechanism, a display device, and a display controller configured to make the display device display a printing position when the print error was detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200097235
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism, a display device, a print controller configured to control the printing mechanism to print an image on a print medium, and a display controller configured to make the display device display a preview image in which the image to be printed on the print medium and a processing position where processing is performed on the print medium after the printing are superimposed with each other, wherein the print controller makes the printing mechanism print the image and a processing position image representing the processing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichiro NIIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9925786
    Abstract: A remaining amount of ink display apparatus includes a printing executing section which executes printing by discharging ink that is retained in a retaining section, a consumption amount acquiring section which acquires an amount of ink consumption used in printing executed by the printing executing section based on a print job, a remaining amount acquiring section which acquires a remaining amount of ink in the retaining section, a display section which displays information, and a display control section which displays the amount of ink consumption and the remaining amount of ink on the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Niiyama