Patents by Inventor Yuichi Yoshigi

Yuichi Yoshigi 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).

  • Publication number: 20230322001
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a user-setting-value acquiring unit configured to acquire a user setting value indicating a remaining amount of paper on a paper roll, the user setting value being set by a user; a first detection unit configured to detect that a physical quantity correlated with a remaining amount of paper on the paper roll has become equal to a first threshold value; a second detection unit configured to detect that the remaining amount of paper on the paper roll has become equal to a second threshold value; a post-detection length acquiring unit configured to acquire a post-detection length being a length of paper used from the paper roll from a time when it is detected that the physical quantity has become equal to the first threshold value until the remaining amount of paper on the paper roll becomes equal to the second threshold value; and a notification unit configured to notify that, when a new paper roll is used and a length of paper used from the new paper roll from a time when it is d
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke YOSHIDA, Yuichi Yoshigi, Hiroaki Kondo, Yoshio Kitamura, Koichi Hatakeyama, Koki Yoshida, Ryota Naka
  • Patent number: 11656813
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a conveyance controller configured to control a conveyor, the conveyor being configured to convey paper having a printing surface in which label portions are formed at predetermined intervals; a sensor configured to irradiate light on the paper conveyed by the conveyor to detect reflected light of the irradiated light; a detector configured to detect an output of the sensor; a moving average calculator configured to calculate moving averages of voltage values based on the output of the sensor detected by the detector; and a determiner configured to determine that a portion between an adjacent pair of the label portions has been detected based on the moving averages of the voltage values calculated by the moving average calculator, and the output of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Yoshigi
  • Patent number: 11420448
    Abstract: A thermal head control device includes: a printing rate calculation range determination unit configured to determine, as a printing rate calculation range, a range from a left-end energization dot to a right-end energization dot among energization dots present in printing data corresponding to heating elements to be controlled among a plurality of heating elements included in a thermal head; a printing rate calculation unit configured to calculate a printing rate of the printing rate calculation range determined by the printing rate calculation range determination unit; an energizing time calculation unit configured to calculate an energizing time for which a current is caused to flow through the heating elements based on the printing rate calculated by the printing rate calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output a control signal for driving the heating elements to be controlled of the thermal head, based on the calculated energizing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yoshigi, Daisuke Yoshida, Yohei Ishidoya, Hiroaki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20220222018
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a conveyance controller configured to control a conveyor, the conveyor being configured to convey paper having a printing surface in which label portions are formed at predetermined intervals; a sensor configured to irradiate light on the paper conveyed by the conveyor to detect reflected light of the irradiated light; a detector configured to detect an output of the sensor; a moving average calculator configured to calculate moving averages of voltage values based on the output of the sensor detected by the detector; and a determiner configured to determine that a portion between an adjacent pair of the label portions has been detected based on the moving averages of the voltage values calculated by the moving average calculator, and the output of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: Yuichi YOSHIGI
  • Publication number: 20210268807
    Abstract: A thermal head control device includes: a printing rate calculation range determination unit configured to determine, as a printing rate calculation range, a range from a left-end energization dot to a right-end energization dot among energization dots present in printing data corresponding to heating elements to be controlled among a plurality of heating elements included in a thermal head; a printing rate calculation unit configured to calculate a printing rate of the printing rate calculation range determined by the printing rate calculation range determination unit; an energizing time calculation unit configured to calculate an energizing time for which a current is caused to flow through the heating elements based on the printing rate calculated by the printing rate calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output a control signal for driving the heating elements to be controlled of the thermal head, based on the calculated energizing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichi YOSHIGI, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Yohei ISHIDOYA, Hiroaki KONDO
  • Patent number: 10949721
    Abstract: A printer system includes an information processing device; a printer; and a display apparatus, the information processing device being configured to control the printer and the display apparatus. A topology of the information processing device and the display apparatus includes a first topology in which the display apparatus is directly connected to the information processing device and a second topology in which the display apparatus is connected to the information processing device via the printer. The information processing device includes a processor configured to transmit to the display apparatus instruction data for the display apparatus without adding header information to the instruction data in the first topology; and transmit to the printer instruction data for the display apparatus by adding header information to the instruction data in the second topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Yoshio Kitamura, Tomoki Ogura, Yuichi Yoshigi
  • Patent number: 10904609
    Abstract: A display control device includes a storage configured to store invariant image data serving as a source of displaying an invariant portion of a display image to be displayed on a display; a data receiver configured to receive format designation data for designating a format of the display image and original data for generating variable image data serving as a source of displaying a variable portion of the display image; a variable image data generator configured to generate the variable image data from the original data; a buffer configured to store the invariant image data and the variable image data; an image data storage configured to select the invariant image data from the storage based on the format designation data to store the invariant image data in the buffer, and store, in the buffer, the variable image data generated by the variable image data generator; and a display controller configured to execute display processing for causing the display to display the display image based on the invariant im
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kitamura, Tomoki Ogura, Daisuke Yoshida, Yuichi Yoshigi
  • Publication number: 20200186868
    Abstract: A display control device includes a storage configured to store invariant image data serving as a source of displaying an invariant portion of a display image to be displayed on a display; a data receiver configured to receive format designation data for designating a format of the display image and original data for generating variable image data serving as a source of displaying a variable portion of the display image; a variable image data generator configured to generate the variable image data from the original data; a buffer configured to store the invariant image data and the variable image data; an image data storage configured to select the invariant image data from the storage based on the format designation data to store the invariant image data in the buffer, and store, in the buffer, the variable image data generated by the variable image data generator; and a display controller configured to execute display processing for causing the display to display the display image based on the invariant im
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshio Kitamura, Tomoki Ogura, Daisuke Yoshida, Yuichi Yoshigi
  • Publication number: 20200134406
    Abstract: A printer system includes an information processing device; a printer; and a display apparatus, the information processing device being configured to control the printer and the display apparatus. A topology of the information processing device and the display apparatus includes a first topology in which the display apparatus is directly connected to the information processing device and a second topology in which the display apparatus is connected to the information processing device via the printer. The information processing device includes a processor configured to transmit to the display apparatus instruction data for the display apparatus without adding header information to the instruction data in the first topology; and transmit to the printer instruction data for the display apparatus by adding header information to the instruction data in the second topology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Yoshio Kitamura, Tomoki Ogura, Yuichi Yoshigi