Patents by Inventor Etsuro Furuta

Etsuro Furuta 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).

  • Point of sale control device, control method, and storage medium storing a program for a point of sale device
    Patent number: 9110615
    Abstract: The effort required to develop a device object is reduced. A host computer 10 has objects including a printer CO 21 that provides a POS application program 11 with an interface for each type of device, and a printer SO 22 that provides the printer CO 21 with an interface to each device type and executes a process by device unit. A wrapper SO 30 executes the process instead of the printer SO 22 when at least one of the methods called by the printer CO 21 is called, and then calls a method of the printer SO 22 based on the result of the executed process. When the printer CO 21 calls other methods, the wrapper SO 30 calls the printer SO 22 method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakazawa, Etsuro Furuta, Kei Jintsugawa
  • CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20130033720
    Abstract: The effort required to develop a device object is reduced. A host computer 10 has objects including a printer CO 21 that provides a POS application program 11 with an interface for each type of device, and a printer SO 22 that provides the printer CO 21 with an interface to each device type and executes a process by device unit. A wrapper SO 30 executes the process instead of the printer SO 22 when at least one of the methods called by the printer CO 21 is called, and then calls a method of the printer SO 22 based on the result of the executed process. When the printer CO 21 calls other methods, the wrapper SO 30 calls the printer SO 22 method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakazawa, Etsuro Furuta, Kei Jintsugawa