Patents by Inventor Satoru Moriyama
Satoru Moriyama 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).
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Patent number: 10093089Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printed matter producing device including a unique information acquiring portion, an identifier determining portion, a bar-coding portion, and a control portion. The unique information acquiring portion is configured to acquire unique information uniquely retained by the printed matter producing device. The identifier determining portion is configured to read a template so as to determine whether a predetermined collection identifier exists or not in the read template. The bar-coding portion is configured to generate and expand print data to a printing buffer in the case that the collection identifier is present, the print data having the unique information acquired and assigned to contents of the bar-code object included in the template. The control portion is configured to, by using the print data expanded to the printing buffer, to produce the printed matter having a bar-code print portion corresponding to the bar-code object.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Publication number: 20170253027Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printed matter producing device including a unique information acquiring portion, an identifier determining portion, a bar-coding portion, and a control portion. The unique information acquiring portion is configured to acquire unique information uniquely retained by the printed matter producing device. The identifier determining portion is configured to read a template so as to determine whether a predetermined collection identifier exists or not in the read template. The bar-coding portion is configured to generate and expand print data to a printing buffer in the case that the collection identifier is present, the print data having the unique information acquired and assigned to contents of the bar-code object included in the template. The control portion is configured to, by using the print data expanded to the printing buffer, to produce the printed matter having a bar-code print portion corresponding to the bar-code object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Patent number: 9710732Abstract: A communication portion receives object data corresponding to an object. A processor receives a record including single object data and object names from an external device. The processor first stores the record and object names and first selects the object name having a predetermined configuration. The processor second selects, as at least two selected object data, at least two of the single object data, from the plurality of single object data included in the record, based on the configuration of the object name selected by the first selecting. The processor generates the combined object data that includes the at least two selected object data selected by the second selecting, as at least two setting object data. The processor second stores the generated combined object data. The processor prints a print image on the print medium, using the printing mechanism, based on the combined object data.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Patent number: 9409418Abstract: A reverse surface of a print tape includes a reference portion and a reference portion. The reference portion is configured to identify a position of a print area. The non-reference portion includes a plurality of through holes. The reference portion includes a barcode that includes a first mark and a second mark. The non-reference portion includes at least one first area and a second area. The at least one first area and the second area are provided to obtain a color arrangement in which the non-reference portion does not include the barcode in the lengthwise direction, where it is assumed that each of the plurality of through holes is a portion indicating both a first color and a second color.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoru Moriyama
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Patent number: 9393815Abstract: A printer comprises a feeder, a printing head, and a detecting device. The feeder feeds a print-receiving tape having multiple print-receiving portions, each of the print-receiving portions having a detected element. The printing head forms desired printing on the print-receiving tape. The detecting device detects the detected element, provided on an upstream side of the printing head by a predetermined distance X. A first positioning reference is generated when the detecting device detects the detected element of a first print-receiving portion. The printing head may be controlled, when the detecting device detects the detected element of the first print-receiving portion, to perform print formation on a second print-receiving portion preceding the first print-receiving portion and facing the printing head, using the first positioning reference.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Patent number: 9389815Abstract: A control device that includes a connection device that connects via USB to a communication terminal that is able to perform communication based on a specific communication system, an acquisition portion that acquires configuration information, via USB, from the communication terminal connected to the connection device, the configuration information being information that is necessary for the communication terminal to perform communication based on the specific communication system and being set for the communication terminal, a reception portion that receives an instruction transmitted from the communication terminal, by performing communication with the communication terminal based on the specific communication system using the configuration information acquired by the acquisition portion, and a control portion that performs control in accordance with the instruction when the reception portion receives the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoru Moriyama
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Patent number: 9373232Abstract: A print data generation apparatus generating print data to print texts on a print medium, includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields and associating the records with operation keys, template data in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed on a print medium are set, link information associating the arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, and generating, when it is detected that one of the operation keys has been operated, print data such that the texts that are respectively set, in the database, for the fields of the record that corresponds to the operated operation key are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Kanda, Minako Ishida
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Patent number: 9373231Abstract: A print data generation apparatus generating print data includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields, template data which is associated with one of operation keys and in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed are set, link information associating arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions instructing the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, selecting, from among the plurality of records of the database, the record to be used for printing, and generating print data such that the texts that are respectively set for the fields of the selected record are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields by link information, by using the template data corresponding to the operated operation key.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Kanda, Minako Ishida
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Publication number: 20150347877Abstract: A communication portion receives object data corresponds to an object. A processor receives a record including single object data and object names from an external device. The processor first stores the record and object names and first selects the object name having a predetermined configuration. The processor second selects, as at least two selected object data, at least two of the single object data, from the plurality of single object data included in the record, based on the configuration of the object name selected by the first selecting. The processor generates the combined object data that includes the at least two selected object data selected by the second selecting, as at least two setting object data. The processor second stores the generated combined object data. The processor prints a print image on the print medium, using the printing mechanism, based on the combined object data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Patent number: 9162481Abstract: A print medium includes a plurality of print areas and a plurality of identification markers. The plurality of print areas are set along a longitudinal direction on a printing surface. The plurality of print areas are a plurality of areas on which printing is to be performed. The plurality of identification markers are intermittently printed along the longitudinal direction on the print medium. Each of the plurality of identification markers includes a set of leading edge information and identification information and is printed in correspondence with a single print area group. The leading edge information is information for setting a leading edge position of the print area in the feed direction. The identification information is information for identifying a type of the print medium. The print area group is formed of a plurality of mutually adjacent print areas among the plurality of print areas.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Kanda
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Patent number: 9001169Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a storage device, a feeder, a printing head, an instruction input portion, a first control portion, a detection determining portion, and a second control portion. The printing head performs desired printing on the print-receiving medium fed in a forward direction along a transport direction by a feeder. The instruction input portion inputs an operation instruction for starting print processing. The first control portion controls the feeder so as to start feeding of the print-receiving medium in the forward direction. The detection determining portion determines whether or not a detecting device detects the identifier after feeding in the forward direction was started. The second control portion controls the feeder so as to feed the print-receiving medium in a reverse direction, and to position a position of the print-receiving medium in a predetermined first initial position.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Publication number: 20150034715Abstract: A reverse surface of a print tape includes a reference portion and a reference portion. The reference portion is configured to identify a position of a print area. The non-reference portion includes a plurality of through holes. The reference portion includes a barcode that includes a first mark and a second mark. The non-reference portion includes at least one first area and a second area. The at least one first area and the second area are provided to obtain a color arrangement in which the non-reference portion does not include the barcode in the lengthwise direction, where it is assumed that each of the plurality of through holes is a portion indicating both a first color and a second color.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoru Moriyama
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Publication number: 20140227017Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprises a feeder, a printing head, a detecting de The feeder feeds a print-receiving tape comprising a plurality of print-receiving porti wherein each of the print-receiving portions comprises a detected element, for each of a plur of printed matter. The printing head forms a desired print on the print-receiving tape. detecting device detects the detected element, provided on an upstream side than the prin head by a predetermined distance X. A first reference generating portion generates a positioning reference when the detecting device detects the detected element of a print-receiving portion. A first print control portion controls the printing head when the detec device detects the detected element of the first print-receiving portion, and perform the formation on a second print-receiving portion preceding the first print-receiving portion facing the printing head, using the first positioning reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Publication number: 20140225972Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a storage device, a feeder, a printing head, an instruction input portion, a first control portion, a detection determining portion, and a second control portion. The printing head performs desired printing on the print-receiving medium fed in a forward direction along a transport direction by a feeder. The instruction input portion inputs an operation instruction for starting print processing. The first control portion controls the feeder so as to start feeding of the print-receiving medium in the forward direction. The detection determining portion determines whether or not a detecting device detects the identifier after feeding in the forward direction was started. The second control portion controls the feeder so as to feed the print-receiving medium in a reverse direction, and to position a position of the print-receiving medium in a predetermined first initial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuhiro KANDA, Satoru MORIYAMA
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Patent number: 8780405Abstract: A printer includes a printing device, a transport device that transports the printing medium, an optical sensor that outputs a specified output value, based on light that is reflected from the reverse face of the printing medium, a first determination portion that determines whether a first detection object color has been detected, based on the output value, a second declaration portion that declares that the mark has been detected in a case where, after a first declaration portion that, in a case where the number of times that the first determination portion has consecutively determined that the first detection object color has been detected, declares that the first detection object color is continuous over a specified width, the number of times that a second determination portion has consecutively determined that the second detection object color has been detected, based on the output value.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiko Sugimura, Satoru Moriyama
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Publication number: 20140152753Abstract: A print medium includes a plurality of print areas and a plurality of identification markers. The plurality of print areas are set along a longitudinal direction on a printing surface. The plurality of print areas are a plurality of areas on which printing is to be performed. The plurality of identification markers are intermittently printed along the longitudinal direction on the print medium. Each of the plurality of identification markers includes a set of leading edge information and identification information and is printed in correspondence with a single print area group. The leading edge information is information for setting a leading edge position of the print area in the feed direction. The identification information is information for identifying a type of the print medium. The print area group is formed of a plurality of mutually adjacent print areas among the plurality of print areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru MORIYAMA, Mitsuhiro KANDA
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Publication number: 20140139867Abstract: A print data generation apparatus generating print data includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields, template data which is associated with one of operation keys and in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed are set, link information associating arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions instructing the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, selecting, from among the plurality of records of the database, the record to be used for printing, and generating print data such that the texts that are respectively set for the fields of the selected record are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields by link information, by using the template data corresponding to the operated operation key.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru MORIYAMA, Mitsuhiro KANDA, Minako ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20140139881Abstract: A print data generation apparatus generating print data to print texts on a print medium, includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields and associating the records with operation keys, template data in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed on a print medium are set, link information associating the arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, and generating, when it is detected that one of the operation keys has been operated, print data such that the texts that are respectively set, in the database, for the fields of the record that corresponds to the operated operation key are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru MORIYAMA, Mitsuhiro KANDA, Minako ISHIDA
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Patent number: 8594279Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises: a disaster information receiving section connected to a communication line for receiving disaster information therefrom; a microphone; a speech recognizing section for recognizing speeches input from the microphone; a communication section; and a control section. When the disaster information receiving section receives disaster information from the communication line, the speech recognizing section starts recognizing speeches from the microphone. When the speech recognizing section recognizes the presence of the speeches from the microphone, the control section controls the communication section to make a call to a predetermined destination of communication.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Takuno, Satoru Moriyama
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Publication number: 20130258356Abstract: A printer includes a printing device, a transport device that transports the printing medium, an optical sensor that outputs a specified output value, based on light that is reflected from the reverse face of the printing medium, a first determination portion that determines whether a first detection object color has been detected, based on the output value, a second declaration portion that declares that the mark has been detected in a case where, after a first declaration portion that, in a case where the number of times that the first determination portion has consecutively determined that the first detection object color has been detected, declares that the first detection object color is continuous over a specified width, the number of times that a second determination portion has consecutively determined that the second detection object color has been detected, based on the output value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko SUGIMURA, Satoru MORIYAMA