Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson
  • Patent number: 10909361
    Abstract: An analysis section for performing a predetermined image analysis processing for each of a first image and a second image generated by a performance of duplex scan by a scanner section and a receipt processing apparatus for determining an image of a front of a receipt on the basis of an analysis result of the analysis section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masumi Yoshino, Yosuke Orisaka, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 10910996
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a first container, a second container accommodated in the first container, a resonator element accommodated in the second container, a temperature sensor accommodated in the second container, a first circuit element that is accommodated in the second container and includes an oscillation circuit that causes the resonator element to oscillate so as to generate an oscillation signal on which temperature compensation is performed based on a detected temperature of the temperature sensor, and a second circuit element which is accommodated in the first container and includes a frequency control circuit that controls a frequency of the oscillation signal. The second container and the second circuit element are spaced from each other and are disposed to overlap each other in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Aoki, Ryuta Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 10906319
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit, a carriage, an optical machine, a liquid receiving unit, and a suction mechanism. The liquid ejecting unit is designed to form an image by ejecting a droplet from a nozzle formed in a nozzle forming surface to a medium. The carriage holds the liquid ejecting unit. The optical machine is held by the carriage. The liquid receiving unit is designed to receive a liquid discharged from the liquid ejecting unit in a discharge operation for maintenance of the liquid ejecting unit. The suction mechanism has a surface provided with a suction opening that allows ambient air on a liquid ejecting unit side to be sucked therefrom during the discharge operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuoka, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10911640
    Abstract: The controller of the image reading apparatus acquires second reference data indicating a reading value of a background plate by causing the reading unit to read the background plate during a non-document-reading period between a document-reading period and a document-reading period, calculates a first difference indicating a difference between a value in a first pixel range corresponding to an element group, among the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, in a range under temperature influence by a given heat generation source and a value in a second pixel range, that is, part of a pixel range which does not fall under the first pixel range with respect to the second reference data, and updates, when the first difference exceeds a first allowable value, the first reference data by correcting a value in the first pixel range of the first reference data based on the first difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Soichi Otomaru
  • Patent number: 10906302
    Abstract: Provided is a recording device that performs recording on a recording medium by repeating a pass operation of discharging ink from a recording head onto the recording medium during a main scanning operation of moving the recording head in a main scanning direction, and a sub-scanning operation of moving the recording medium relative to the recording head in a sub-scanning direction intersecting with the main scanning direction. An electronic controller stops the main scanning unit for a predetermined stop time determined based on a gap that is a distance between a head surface of the recording head and a recording surface of the recording medium supported by a support unit, prior to the pass operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Ohara, Tatsuo Furuta
  • Patent number: 10909062
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a first physical layer circuit to which a first bus with a USB standard is coupled, a second physical layer circuit to which a second bus with the USB standard is coupled, and a bus monitor circuit monitoring the first bus and the second bus, in which the first physical layer circuit includes a first disconnect detection circuit which detects device disconnect in the first bus, the bus monitor circuit includes a first test signal detection circuit which detects whether or not a test signal is output to the first bus, and when detection of the device disconnect by the first disconnect detection circuit is disabled, detection of the test signal by the first test signal detection circuit is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuichi Kagaya
  • Patent number: 10906306
    Abstract: The individual flow path includes a nozzle communicating with an outside, a first flow path, in the middle of which the nozzle is disposed and which extends in a first direction that is an in-plane direction of a nozzle surface of the nozzle plate in which the nozzle opens, a second flow path coupled to the first flow path and extending in a second direction other than the first direction, a third flow path coupled to the second flow path and extending in the third direction other than the second direction, and a pressure chamber which is disposed in the third flow path and in which a pressure change is induced by the energy generating element. A cross-sectional area of the first flow path is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the second flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro Tamai, Kazuaki Uchida, Akinori Taniuchi
  • Patent number: 10908488
    Abstract: An image display device adapted to display an image includes a connection section to which an interface board replaceable is connected, and which communicates with an external device via the interface board, a failure detection section adapted to detect a failure of the interface board connected to the connection section, and a control section adapted to limit power supply to the interface board in a case in which the failure detection section has detected the failure of the interface board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Furihata, Daisuke Kasahara
  • Patent number: 10909360
    Abstract: A control server which includes a control server controller which, on a screen for displaying print text data according to a layout according to which receipt information is printed on a paper, displays a plurality of setting items corresponding to an extraction item as a setting menu and receives selection of the setting item in a state where selection of extraction item related text is received and the extraction item related text is selected, sets the extraction item related text as item value text in a case where an item value setting item is selected, generates an extraction condition for extracting the item value text from print text data based on at least one of a relative position of the item value text in the print text data and an attribute of the item value text, and extracts text matching the generated extraction condition as the item value text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehisa Omiya, Yuichi Sugiyama, Masaru Koda, Cao Le, Toshiki Gonda
  • Patent number: 10908442
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a flexible first wiring substrate and a flexible second wiring substrate, which are respectively coupled to a first terminal region and a second terminal region, extend while overlapping with each other, and a first mold material is provided between the first wiring substrate and the second wiring substrate. The second wiring substrate includes a base film having transmissivity, a wiring line provided at the base film, and a protective layer that covers the wiring line and is less transmissive than the base film. In the second wiring substrate, a light-transmission window in which the wiring line and the protective layer are not present in part is provided in a region thereof overlapping with the first mold material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 10906299
    Abstract: There is provided a print head discharging a liquid from a nozzle, including: a memory circuit that stores individual information of the print head and individual activation information based on the individual information; a communication control circuit that controls communication between the print head and an outside; a discharge control circuit that controls discharge of the liquid; and a limiting circuit that limits liquid discharge control by the discharge control circuit, in which when a signal according to the individual activation information is input from the outside, the limiting circuit changes a limitation of liquid discharge control by the discharge control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shuichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10909922
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes one unit circuit provided corresponding to an intersection between one scanning line and one data line, another unit circuit provided corresponding to an intersection between the one scanning line and another data line or an intersection between another scanning line and the one data line or an intersection between another scanning line and another data line, and an electro-optical element configured to be driven by using the one unit circuit or the another unit circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robina Atsuchi, Tsuyoshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 10906314
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head including a plurality of nozzles for discharging liquid and a supply passage through which the liquid to be supplied to the plurality of nozzles flows. The nozzles are arranged in a line; one of the nozzles at a first end of the line being a first end nozzle, whereas one of the nozzles at a second end of the line being a second end nozzle. A height of the first end nozzle is set to be greater than a height of the second end nozzle. The liquid flows through the supply passage in a direction from the first end nozzle to the second end nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Yamagishi, Shigeki Suzuki, Shuji Funada
  • Patent number: 10910995
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a first container, a second container accommodated in the first container, a resonator element accommodated in the second container, a temperature sensor accommodated in the second container, a first circuit element that is accommodated in the second container and includes an oscillation circuit that causes the resonator element to oscillate so as to generate an oscillation signal on which temperature compensation is performed based on a detected temperature of the temperature sensor, and a second circuit element that is accommodated in the first container and includes a frequency control circuit that controls a frequency of the oscillation signal. The second container and the second circuit element are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Aoki, Ryuta Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 10906338
    Abstract: An auxiliary member is an auxiliary member that assists in mounting a roll body, which is formed by winding a sheet into a roll shape on a core tube, onto a shaft of a printing apparatus. The auxiliary member includes a cylindrical main body insertable into the core tube, a laser irradiation unit that irradiates laser light from a leading end surface of the main body, and a switch that switches between irradiation and stopping of the laser light from the laser irradiation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Fujioka, Hiroshi Asawa
  • Patent number: 10906311
    Abstract: A flow path formation substrate to which a nozzle plate is mounted includes a pressure chamber per nozzle, an individual supply path leading to the pressure chamber, an individual recovery path communicating with a flow channel near the nozzle. A conduction unit electrically coupled through a lead electrode to a pressure generator causing a pressure of the pressure chamber to vary is located at a position where the conduction unit overlaps with a flow path area of at least one individual flow path of the individual supply path or the individual recovery path in a plan view from a lamination direction in which the nozzle plate and the flow path formation substrate are laminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuma Fukuzawa, Motoki Takabe, Shunsuke Watanabe, Akira Miyagishi, Shunya Fukuda, Junichi Sano
  • Patent number: 10909947
    Abstract: A display device includes a generation unit that generates image data according to a position of a pointer, a communication unit that communicates with an information processing device that generates image data according to the position of the pointer, and a control unit that causes the communication unit to perform a transmission operation of transmitting image information corresponding to an image including an image indicated by the image data generated by the generation unit in a first state in which the generation unit generates the image data according to the position of the pointer, to the information processing device, when a state is switched from the first state to a second state in which the information processing device generates the image data according to the position of the pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kyosuke Itahana
  • Patent number: 10911728
    Abstract: A control device configured to communicate with a first projector which projects a first image in a first projection area, and a second projector which projects a second image in a second projection area having a first overlap area overlapping the first projection area to make the first projector and the second projector perform an edge blending process includes a reception section for receiving input of designation information including a direction in which an overlap width, a generation section for generating first overlap information including information representing first side in the first overlap area and information representing the overlap width of the first overlap area, and second overlap information including information representing second side in the first overlap area and the information, and a transmission section for transmitting the first overlap information to the first projector, and the second overlap information to the second projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Ota, Yusuke Kudo
  • Patent number: 10909404
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a read image generated by reading a receipt or a bill and including a special character having a size different from a basic size of a character, a conversion unit that performs conversion processing on the size of the special character included in the read image into a size close to the basic size, and a character recognition unit that performs character recognition processing on the conversion-processed read image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuhisa Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 10911630
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a discharging unit that discharges an original document read by a reading unit to a stacker, in which a controller of the image reading apparatus discharges a first original document at a first transporting speed caused when the original document specified from an original document length measured by the measuring unit is the first original document and discharges a second original document at a second transporting speed slower than the first transporting speed caused when the original document is the second original document longer than the first original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoshikaie, Kazuhiko Arimori