公开(公告)号：US20170310845A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-26

申请号：US15648601

申请日：2017-07-13

Applicant: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Koji MIURA

IPC: H04N1/32 ,  H04N1/00 ,  B41J29/38

CPC classification number: H04N1/32133 ,  B41J29/00 ,  B41J29/38 ,  G06F3/1204 ,  G06F3/1207 ,  G06F3/1229 ,  G06F3/1292 ,  H04N1/00307 ,  H04N1/00408 ,  H04N1/00477 ,  H04N1/00832 ,  H04N1/00973 ,  H04N2201/0072 ,  H04N2201/0082

Abstract: Information on printer maintenance or an updating of software is notified without giving uncomfortable feeling to a user by an unintentional change of screen displays. The invention comprises an application activating unit which issues an application binding command in response to a print instruction of a data generated by an application executed by a mobile, an additional information acquiring unit which acquires an additional information according to a predetermined information acquiring command included in the application binding command when a print result information is acquired from the printer, and an information providing unit which provides the mobile with the additional information in addition to the print result information. A user is notified of necessary information on printer maintenance or an updating of software in addition to the print result information upon completion of printing intentionally instructed by the user.

公开(公告)号：US20170147911A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-25

申请号：US15425019

申请日：2017-02-06

Applicant: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Shota OISHI ,  Shinichiro SUZUKI ,  Koji MIURA

IPC: G06K15/02 ,  H04N1/00 ,  B41J5/30

CPC classification number: G06K15/1802 ,  B41J5/30 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/22 ,  G06K15/181 ,  H04N1/00233

Abstract: The present invention enables successful printing whether printing data contains a character code of either code page or Unicode without an addition of an apparatus for code conversion and without expansion of printer memory for storing Unicode font set. Upon receipt of the input of printing data containing the character code of the code page, a first print control unit is selected to control printing of a string represented by the code page with a font available for the code page. Upon receipt of the input of printing data containing the character code of Unicode, a second print control unit is selected to convert the character code of Unicode to the character code of the code page and to control printing of a string represented by the Unicode with a font available for the code page on the basis of the code page after conversion.

公开(公告)号：US20170322752A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-09

申请号：US15648586

申请日：2017-07-13

Applicant: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Koji MIURA

IPC: G06F3/12 ,  B41J29/38 ,  G06F9/445 ,  H04N1/00

CPC classification number: G06F3/123 ,  B41J29/00 ,  B41J29/38 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06F3/1203 ,  G06F3/1284 ,  G06F8/65 ,  H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/0097 ,  H04N2201/0082

Abstract: The invention facilitates a setting state updating operation of the printer. An updating system of a setting state of a printer comprises an application activating unit which issues an application binding command upon detection of a predetermined operation when an application is executed by a mobile. The application binding command designates a printing application and a predetermined setting state updating command. The updating system further comprises a setting state updating unit which executes an updating of the setting state of the printer in the printing application activated by the application activating unit according to the predetermined setting state updating command included in the application binding command. A predetermined operation in the application triggers activation of the printing application for an automatic updating of the printer setting state.