Patents by Inventor Toshifumi Sakai

Toshifumi Sakai 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: 11537344
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that performs timeline display of a plurality of items corresponding to operation histories in past is provided, the printing apparatus including a receiving section configured to receive reprinting based on a first item selected out of the timeline-displayed plurality of items and a display control section configured to timeline-display a second item corresponding to an operation history of the reprinting based on the first item in a display form having a decided relation between the second item and the first item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220377189
    Abstract: A plurality of icons include a first icon set to a first setting by a hide instruction and a second icon set to a second setting by a hide instruction, and when an edit screen is displayed on an operation panel, the plurality of icons have different display modes between the first icon displayed on the edit screen and the second icon displayed on the edit screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ken IKUMA, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220374175
    Abstract: When first print data and second print data are selected as a target of collective printing and when a first print setting applied to printing of the first print data and a second print setting applied to printing of the second print data are inconsistent with each other, a printing apparatus provides a user with a first procedure for making the first print setting and the second print setting consistent with each other, and when the first print setting and the second print setting are consistent with each other, the printing apparatus performs collective printing of the first print data and the second print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11461056
    Abstract: A printing device that can print a print image at a planned printing position even without a user accurately aligning the printing device with the planned printing position is provided. The printing device automatically adjusts a printing position, based on scanned data obtained by scanning a medium via a medium scanning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11460978
    Abstract: When a page image is to be displayed, a display apparatus changes a display mode in which the page image is displayed on a display section according to both the orientation of the page image and the orientation of the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakanishi, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11455091
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section, a folding support part, and a display controller. The display section includes first and second display areas. The folding support part is configured to cause the display section to switch between a folded position and an unfolded position. The display controller controls the display section so that when the display section is in the unfolded position, the display section displays a first object in the first display area and displays a second object in the second display area, when the display section is in the folded position, the display section displays the first object and the second object in the first display area, and a position of the second object with respect to the first object in the folded position is different from a position of the second object with respect to the first object in the unfolded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakanishi, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220083298
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that performs timeline display of a plurality of items corresponding to operation histories in past is provided, the printing apparatus including a receiving section configured to receive reprinting based on a first item selected out of the timeline-displayed plurality of items and a display control section configured to timeline-display a second item corresponding to an operation history of the reprinting based on the first item in a display form having a decided relation between the second item and the first item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220083299
    Abstract: A printing apparatus including a plurality of operation modes including a copy mode is provided, the printing apparatus displays a main screen including a plurality of items respectively corresponding to the plurality of operation modes and operation histories in the past of the printing apparatus, displays, according to selection of the item corresponding to the copy mode out of the plurality of items displayed on the display section, a setting screen concerning the copy mode including the operation history concerning the copy mode extracted out of the operation histories, and, when the operation history displayed on the setting screen is selected by a user, performs reprinting according to setting included in the selected operation history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11262907
    Abstract: A display device includes a display controller that causes a touch panel to scroll display a plurality of button images, wherein compared with the number of characters displayed in a plurality of button images in a first state being not scrolled, the display controller reduces the number of characters displayed in a plurality of the button images in a second state being scrolled by starting scroll from the first state. Thereby, it is possible to make the scroll speed higher than before.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20210362527
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a battery housing section that houses a battery, a head placement section where a printing head that performs printing on the medium is placed, and a movement measurement section that measures the movement of the printing apparatus relative to the medium, and the battery housing section, the head placement section, and the movement measurement section are arranged in the order of the battery housing section, the head placement section, and the movement measurement section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210362497
    Abstract: A producing method for a print by a printing system including a printing device that is manually moved with respect to a medium to perform printing on the medium, the producing method including prompting a user to designate a print plan size of a print image, printing the print image in the print plan size, and notifying a size of the print image printable in one pass by the printing device to the user before the print plan size is decided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210362510
    Abstract: A producing method for a print by a printing system including a printing device that is manually moved with respect to a medium to perform printing on the medium, the producing method including the printing system determining whether a print plan size of a print image is a one-pass printable size, which is a size printable in one pass by the printing device, and, when it is determined that the print plan size is not the one-pass printable size, the printing device printing the print image in the one pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11182004
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a controller that determines that the button is operated according to the second operation in which the operation tool leaves the button following the first operation in which the operation tool moves to the button being operated, and determines that the button is not operated according to the third operation in which the operation tool leaves the button following the first operation being operated. The controller makes a determination of the second operation and the third operation according to the operation description before the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Yasutaka Shibagaki, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11146698
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a display unit configured to take a plurality of forms including a folded form in which the display unit is bent between a first display region and a second display region and an extended form in which the display unit is not bent between the first display region and the second display region; and a display control unit that controls display performed by the display unit. The display control unit causes a first image corresponding to an obverse side to be displayed in the first display region and causes a second image corresponding to a reverse side to be displayed in the second display region, when the display unit is in the folded form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Kuramoto, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20210311617
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section, a folding support part, and a display controller. The display section includes first and second display areas. The folding support part is configured to cause the display section to switch between a folded position and an unfolded position. The display controller controls the display section so that when the display section is in the unfolded position, the display section displays a first object in the first display area and displays a second object in the second display area, when the display section is in the folded position, the display section displays the first object and the second object in the first display area, and a position of the second object with respect to the first object in the folded position is different from a position of the second object with respect to the first object in the unfolded position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroaki NAKANISHI, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11115555
    Abstract: A method of producing a machine learning model includes collecting, as training data, data including an image of a document and a size of the document or a size of an actually copied output sheet from a copying apparatus that copies the document on the output sheet, and producing a model for determining whether or not a mark included in the image of the document is identifiable by a user on the document or the copied output sheet based on the training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yo Kawano, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11104148
    Abstract: Provided is a printer including an ink tank, a print head, a light source irradiating the ink tank with infrared light, a photoelectric conversion device detecting light incident from the ink tank in a period during which the light source emits light, a processing unit detecting an amount of ink based on an output of the photoelectric conversion device, and a window portion for visually recognizing ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Netsu, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20210240409
    Abstract: A printing device that can print a print image at a planned printing position even without a user accurately aligning the printing device with the planned printing position is provided. The printing device automatically adjusts a printing position, based on scanned data obtained by scanning a medium via a medium scanning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11068142
    Abstract: A display section is configured to be set in a folded position and an unfolded position. When the display section is in the folded position, a display controller causes the display section to display, within a first display area, a plurality of objects and specific images linked to an N number of objects out of the plurality of objects, the specific images being used to receive an operation. When the display section is in the unfolded position, the display section displays the plurality of objects within the first display area and simultaneously to display, within the second display area, specific images linked to an M number of objects out of the plurality of objects, M being larger than N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakanishi, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20210200401
    Abstract: A display device includes a display controller that causes a touch panel to scroll display a plurality of button images, wherein compared with the number of characters displayed in a plurality of button images in a first state being not scrolled, the display controller reduces the number of characters displayed in a plurality of the button images in a second state being scrolled by starting scroll from the first state. Thereby, it is possible to make the scroll speed higher than before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi MINAMI, Toshifumi SAKAI