| FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED Patent applications |
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| 20120104015 | PAPER SHEET RECEIVING/DISPENSING APPARATUS - A paper sheet receiving/dispensing apparatus includes strip films at least one of which is affixed, on at least one of front and back sides, with marks at intervals of a predetermined pattern in a predetermined shape and in a color different from a color of the strip films, a detection sensor for detecting the marks, and a storage device for storing a table that indicates an association between a roll outer diameter of the strip films wound around a winding drum and driving pulses of a stepping motor. The apparatus calculates the roll outer diameter based on the number of rotations of the winding drum, which is calculated based on detection pulses of the marks, and thicknesses of the strip films and a paper sheet, and controls rotations of the motor with driving pulses read from the table. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20110315776 | Radio tag and method for manufacturing radio tag - A radio tag is disclosed that includes an inlet having a base member, an antenna pattern, and a circuit chip for performing radio communications, the antenna pattern and the circuit chip being provided in the base member and includes a spacer on which the inlet is provided. The spacer has a length in a longitudinal direction thereof twice or more as great as a length of the inlet in the longitudinal direction. The spacer has a flection part at which the spacer is foldable in such a manner as to form an attached surface to be attached to an attached subject of the radio tag. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315774 | WIRELESS TAG AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - A wireless tag includes a tag-inlet including an antenna pattern formed on a base and an IC chip connected to the antenna pattern on the base, and a flexible member configured to seal the tag-inlet inside the flexible member. In the wireless tag, the tag-inlet is sealed in the flexible member with folded, and the folded tag-inlet has a dielectric spacer formed of the flexible member between the folded tag-inlet. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110304788 | NONVOLATILE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR NONVOLATILE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A nonvolatile liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel including a scanning signal line group, a data signal line group intersecting the scanning signal line group, and a plurality of pixel circuits arranged at positions where the signal line groups intersect with each other, and containing a nonvolatile liquid crystal compound as a liquid crystal layer; a scanning signal line driving unit sequentially driving the scanning signal line group; and a controlling unit supplying a selected voltage and a non-selected voltage to the scanning signal line driving unit. In the nonvolatile liquid crystal display device, the controlling unit supplies the non-selected voltage, for a predetermined duration before and after the selected voltage is supplied, respectively to all of scanning signal lines configuring the scanning signal line group. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304603 | NON-VOLATILE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR NON-VOLATILE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A non-volatile liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel which is provided with a plurality of liquid crystal display panels having a scanning signal line group, a data signal line group crossing the scanning signal line group, and a plurality of pixel circuits arranged where these signal line groups cross each other, and includes a non-volatile liquid crystal compound as a liquid crystal layer; a drive unit; a power supply unit; video memory for temporarily storing image data; and a control unit for sequentially transferring the image data stored in the video memory to the liquid crystal display panel. When the control unit receives an image refresh signal for drawing new image data during the transfer, the transfer is canceled with the power supply maintained to the drive unit, and the new image data is stored in the video memory. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110284643 | RFID Tag And Manufacturing Method Thereof - An RFID tag having a tag antenna and an LSI chip, comprising: a power-supply pattern on which the LSI chip is mounted; a patch antenna that functions as the tag antenna; and a high-frequency connection section that makes a high-frequency connection between the power-supply pattern and the patch antenna. The high-frequency connection section is formed, for example, by forming a slot in the patch antenna, layering one end of a small dipole antenna that functions as the power-supply pattern over the slot so that it crosses over the slot, and supplying power from the smalI dipole antenna to the patch antenna. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284636 | MAGNETIC CARD READER - A conductive fixed static elimination member is provided in a before-magnetic head travel portion which guides a magnetic card to a magnetic card reader unit provided with a magnetic head, such that a protuberance portion thereof protrudes into a card travel groove through an opening formed in one of side walls, and has a conductive cleaning pad affixed to a surface thereof. The magnetic card inserted in the before-magnetic head travel portion is cleaned by the cleaning pad, and if the magnetic card has static electricity, it is possible to eliminate the static electricity by discharging the static electricity to the ground via the cleaning pad having conductivity, the fixed static elimination member, and a magnetic card reader fixing bracket. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110278359 | MAGNETIC CARD READER - A magnetic head is held by a side wall through a head fixing fitting so as to freely advance into and retreat from a card sliding groove. First and second head urging levers are swingably supported through a pin. In a standby state, the magnetic head is away from the card travel groove, and card engaging sections of the first and second head urging levers are staying in the card travel groove. When a magnetic card slides in a card sliding direction, the magnetic card makes contact with a card contact section to push the card contact section away from the card travel groove. This causes the first head urging lever to push out the magnetic head into the card travel groove so that the magnetic head makes contact with the magnetic card. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110274318 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM - In an authentication apparatus, an input section acquires a living body image which an image capture apparatus generates by capturing an image of a living body that is an object of authentication, and outputs the living body image to an operation section. When the operation section acquires the living body image from the input section, the operation section calculates, on the basis of the living body image acquired and a registered image stored in a registered image storage section, the difference between the relative position of the living body with respect to the image capture apparatus at the time of acquiring the living body image and the relative position of the living body with respect to the image capture apparatus at the time of acquiring the registered image. The output section outputs guidance information for prompting a reduction in the difference in the relative position calculated by the operation section. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110272470 | RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAG - A radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag includes: a plate-shaped sealing piece made of an elastic material. An inlet is enclosed within the sealing piece. The inlet includes an electronic component and an antenna connected to the electronic component. A pair of reinforcing pieces are located respectively on the front and back surfaces of the sealing piece so as to sandwich the electronic component. The reinforcing pieces are made of a first material harder than the elastic material. A joint piece configured to couple the reinforcing pieces to each other. The joint piece is made of a second material harder than the elastic material. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110229037 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD - An objective is to eliminate dotted lines in a character box in image data to increase the character recognition rate. There are some cases in which a dotted line candidate cannot be extracted due to many overlapping parts of dotted lines and characters or due to a blurry part in a dotted line. In such cases, the position of a dotted line candidate is estimated referring to features such as the interval, length, width, etc. of a dotted line candidate in the same character box (or in a character box for another relevant item), and image data of the estimated position and image data of a previously extracted dotted line (or a reference dotted line) are compared to determine whether or not they are an identical dotted line. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110210172 | MAGNETIC CARD READER APPARATUS - A magnetic card reader apparatus includes a magnetic data reading unit configured to read magnetic data of a magnetic card, an insertion detecting unit configured to detect an insertion of the magnetic card, and an interval increase/decrease driving unit configured to increase/decrease an interval between the magnetic data reading unit and the magnetic card when the insertion detecting unit detects the insertion of the magnetic card. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110185697 | CABLE RETAINER - A cable retainer which has a plurality of link members coupled to each other in a bendable manner for retaining a plurality of cables therein. When vertically moving a beam member along slits formed in opposite side plates of a cable retainer body, the beam member is positioned and fixed by causing engagement lugs of leg portions of the beam member to be engaged with serrated surfaces of side plates. Therefore, it is possible to adjust the fixing position of the beam member according to the wiring volume of cables to be retained, whereby it is possible to make the wiring capacity of link members variable. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110156335 | CONVEYING DIRECTION-SWITCHING DEVICE FOR PAPER LEAVES, CONVEYING DIRECTION CONTROL METHOD, AND PAPER LEAVES PROCESSOR - A conveying direction-switching device is formed by direction-changing drums each having the same hollow cylindrical shape having a length corresponding to a lateral width of paper money bills to be conveyed. The direction-changing drum has first to fourth openings arranged in the outer periphery thereof, in a manner spaced from each other by a rotational angle of 90 degrees, and the rotational angle position thereof is controlled to be a predetermined phase angle. Inside the direction-changing drum, the first opening and the fourth opening are connected by a paper money guide forming a first curved passage, the second opening and the fourth opening are connected by a paper money guide forming a straight passage, and the third opening and the fourth opening are connected by a paper money guide forming a second curved passage. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110115145 | BANKNOTE DEPOSITING UNIT AND INSERT/RETURN UNIT ATTACHABLE TO AND DETACHABLE FROM BANKNOTE DEPOSITING UNIT - A banknote depositing unit can be made with a smaller width than those made previously. The unit includes: a first conveying section for conveying banknotes or a bundle of banknotes deposited into a temporary holding section from an inlet through a first route; a second conveying section for conveying each banknote from the bundle of banknotes held in the temporary holding section to a return outlet through a second route; and a third conveying section for conveying each bundle of banknotes held in the temporary holding section to a cassette section where the banknotes are to be stored in each bundle through a third route. The second route and the third route commonly have the temporary holding section as a starting point and three-dimensionally intersect each other. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110106700 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION AND INPUTTING OPERATION INSTRUCTION ON THE BASIS OF BIOMETRIC INFORMATION INCLUDING POSTURE INFORMATION - A method includes obtaining an image to be compared at the time of use which is intended for comparing biometric information at the time of use of a user, obtaining posture information at the time of use which indicates a posture when biometric information at the time of use of the user is shot, performing personal authentication for the user by comparing the image to be compared at the time of use with a preregistered image to be compared at the time of registration of the user, and inputting an operation instruction corresponding to operation information preregistered in association with posture information at the time of registration which is determined to match, by comparing the posture information at the time of use with a plurality of pieces of preregistered posture information at the time of registration of the user. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110068904 | RFID TAG - An RFID tag includes: a tabular dielectric member | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110032100 | WIRELESS TAG AND METHOD OF PRODUCING WIRELESS TAG - According to an aspect of the invention, a wireless tag includes a base member that is flexible and on a surface of which a wiring pattern is formed, a wireless circuit chip that is mounted on the base member and connected to the wiring pattern; protective members that cover the base member and the wireless circuit chip and are lower in hardness than the base member, and a plurality of spherical projections that are arranged on the surfaces of the protective members, higher in hardness than the base member, and so arranged as to interfere with other adjacent spherical projections when at least the protective members are bent beyond a predetermined angle. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110006120 | RFID TAG AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RFID TAG - An RFID tag includes: a tag main body having a communication antenna, a circuit chip electrically connected to the antenna to perform wireless communication via the antenna, and a tabular sealing member in which the antenna and the circuit chip are enclosed; a print layer formed on a first surface of the tag main body by printing; and a protective film that covers the print layer. The print layer is formed only in a central area of the first surface surrounded by a marginal area of the first surface extending along the outer edge of the first surface. The protective film includes a covering portion that covers the print layer and an adhering portion that lies off the print layer while surrounding the outer edge of the print layer and adheres to the first surface. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110001608 | RFID TAG - An RFID tag includes a semiconductor package, a substrate and an antenna pattern. The semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip encapsulated therein and a plurality of connection terminals thereon. The plurality of connection terminals includes signal terminals and dummy terminals. The semiconductor package is mounted on the substrate. The antenna pattern is formed on the substrate and is electrically connected to the signal terminals. The antenna pattern is extended so as to overlap with at least a part of a bottom region of the semiconductor package. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100302374 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND AUTHENTICATION SERVER - The proposed authentication device includes: a reading unit for reading a card ID of a card inserted in the device; a photographing unit for photographing the entirety of the card from the front; an device information transmission unit for transmitting an device ID and the read card ID to an external authentication server; a retrieving unit for retrieving a region designated by endpoint coordinates corresponding to a required security level received from the authentication server from card image data obtained by the photographing unit; and an authentication range transmission unit for transmitting the device ID, the read card ID, and image data of the retrieved region to the authentication server. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100274685 | RECEIPT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A receipt management system receives receipt data including biometric data which is issued when a product is purchased at a store, and judges whether or not biometric data that coincides with an employee's biometric data is registered in an employee management table of a company. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100270381 | RFID TAG - An RFID tag includes an inlet, an inlet attachment portion, and a ring-shaped mount portion. The inlet includes a substrate, an antenna formed on the substrate, and a circuit chip connected to the antenna. The inlet is attached to the inlet attachment portion. The ring-shaped mount portion is connected to the inlet attachment portion and is mounted on an object. The inlet is off-centered with respect to the inlet attachment portion so as to locate an upper edge of the inlet above an upper end of the ring-shaped mount portion. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100214188 | ANTENNA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - An antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a ground electrode provided on a first surface of the dielectric substrate, a first antenna element and a second antenna elements provided to a second surface of the dielectric substrate, the first and second antenna elements having an identical resonance frequency and an identical Q value, a transmission line connecting the first and second antenna elements, and a feed part provided in the transmission line. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100214101 | RFID TAG - An RFID tag has an IC chip and an antenna connected to the IC chip, the RFID tag including: a spacer that has elasticity; a first locking section that is formed around the IC chip; a second locking section that is arranged in a position apart from the first locking section across the spacer, is displaced toward the first locking section and locked on the first locking section by pressing force with which the spacer is pressed, and applies reactive force against the pressing force around the IC chip via the first locking section when the pressing force is removed; and a destruction section that destroys the IC chip or the antenna with the reactive force from the second locking section. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100208123 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A photographing device to photograph an object includes a displaying unit to display an image acquired from the object, an image recording unit to record the image, an enlarged image generating unit to extract a portion or whole of the image displayed on the displaying unit to generate an enlarged image from the image, and a display control unit to display the enlarged image instead of the image on the displaying unit or in an overlapped manner with the image before capturing the image into the image recording unit. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100194794 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING DISPLAY ELEMENT OF DOT MATRIX TYPE AND A DRIVE METHOD OF THE SAME - A display device includes a matrix-type display element, a drive circuit, a control circuit, and a temperature sensor, the control circuit controls the drive circuit so that an initialization pulse to initialize a pixel to be rewritten is applied to bring about an initial gradation state and then a gradation pulse is applied to the initialized pixel to bring about a gradation state, the cumulative time during which the gradation pulse is applied is related to the value of the gradation state, the control circuit fixes the pulse voltage of the initialization pulse and varies the pulse width of the initialization pulse in accordance with the temperature detected by the temperature sensor, and varies the pulse width of the gradation pulse when the temperature is low and varies the pulse voltage of the gradation pulse when the temperature detected is high. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100194736 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING DISPLAY ELEMENT OF SIMPLE MATRIX TYPE, DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME AND SIMPLE MATRIX DRIVER - A display device includes: a matrix-type display element; a row driver that drives a scan electrode of the display element; and a column driver that drives a data electrode of the display element, in which the column driver includes a matrix driver in a segment mode, the row driver includes a matrix driver being switched between the segment mode and a common mode, and the writing of image data to the display element is performed by: invalidating the output of the row driver and the column driver; setting the row driver to the segment mode; and validating the output of the row driver and the column driver after writing selected line specification data to the row driver and writing image data to the column driver, and then setting the row driver to the common driver. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100134293 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND POWER CONTROL METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a first RF tag which performs communication using electromagnetic waves in a first frequency band; a second RF tag which performs communication using electromagnetic waves in a second frequency band different from those in the first frequency band; a storage unit having a shared area accessible from the respective RF tags; and a power controller which generates power for driving the first RF tag and the storage unit using the first frequency band electromagnetic waves and supplies the generated power to the first RF tag and the storage unit, and which generates power for driving the second RF tag and the storage unit using the second frequency band electromagnetic waves and supplies the generated power to the second RF tag and the storage unit. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100133350 | RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION UNIT - A radio-frequency identification (RFID) unit includes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag configured to receive radio signals having a wavelength λ. A block has the top surface on which the radio-frequency identification tag is set. The block is made of a metallic material. The height of the block is set equal to or larger than one sixteenth the wavelength λ. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100123586 | RFID TAG AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF RFID TAG - The present invention relates to a RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tag for exchanging information with an external device in a non-contact manner, and aims to provide a RFID tag having an external shape of a belt, which fits articles made of various kinds of materials. The RFID tag includes: an inlay having an antenna and a circuit chip incorporating a communication circuit for wireless communications via the antenna, an enclosure that encloses the inlay, a flexible belt that surrounds an article to attach the enclosure to the article, and a spacer fixed to a surface of the enclosure on the article side, deforming in response to deformation of the belt to maintain a spacing between the article and the enclosure. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100123011 | RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAG - A radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag includes: a plate-shaped sealing piece made of an elastic material. An inlet is enclosed within the sealing piece. The inlet includes an electronic component and an antenna connected to the electronic component. A pair of reinforcing pieces are located respectively on the front and back surfaces of the sealing piece so as to sandwich the electronic component. The reinforcing pieces are made of a first material harder than the elastic material. A joint piece configured to couple the reinforcing pieces to each other. The joint piece is made of a second material harder than the elastic material. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100109874 | Tag Patch Antenna And RFID Tag Using Tag Patch Antenna - A tag patch antenna includes: a slit formed in the vicinity of an edge of an antenna pattern along a part of the edge; and a feeding point to which a tag LSI is connected and which is formed by cutting an intermediate portion of the part of the edge separated by the slit from a body of the antenna pattern by a width of the slit. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100103154 | DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING PASSIVE MATRIX DISPLAY ELEMENT - A display apparatus includes a passive matrix display element and can support full-color display. The apparatus includes a passive matrix display element | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100097362 | DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING PASSIVE MATRIX DISPLAY ELEMENT - A display having a passive matrix display element and capable of supporting full-color display includes a passive matrix display element | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100097314 | DRAWING CONTROL APPARATUS AND DRAWING CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRONIC PAPER - When a user inputs an instruction to display a subsequent screen from an operation unit | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100096801 | PAPER SHEET EJECTING/COLLECTING APPARATUS - Bills are aligned, ejected and collected in a storage tray without being bent. A bill conveyed to the storage tray is given curve habits in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the bill. The front edge of the bill immediately after being ejected from the last conveying part lifts up holding levers by pressing their lower surfaces. The holding levers impose a load on the bill, and strengthen the curve habits of the bill. Then, the bill is conveyed in an obliquely upward conveyance direction immediately after passing through the last conveying part. And the bill continues to be conveyed to the storage tray. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100079826 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR READING INFORMATION - A liquid crystal panel includes an iris unit for limiting the incident range of light from an object to be shot, and a filter unit for assigning a exposure energy distribution varying with the position to incident light whose incident range is limited by the iris unit. The control unit controls the ON time and the OFF time of each pixel of the liquid crystal panel, and then a low pass filter operation on the captured image as an image processing can be optically replaced. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100079825 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR READING INFORMATION - A position Z of an image sensor is moved to an initial position A (image forming position) in a Z axis direction. An exposing operation is performed at a position A, and it is determined whether or not an exposing time counted by a timer has reached ta. If the exposing time has reached ta, an image sensor | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100079657 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR READING INFORMATION - The optical path of the light having spread at each point of an object to be shot is limited by an iris unit of a density filter. Since the density filter unit has a desired transmittance characteristic, the amount of the light passing through the density filter unit continuously changes from the center of the luminous flux toward the periphery. After the luminous flux forms an image on the image forming surface, it spreads toward the light-receptive surface of an image sensor, and becomes an image spreading on the light-receptive surface in a predetermined range. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100078487 | RFID TAG MANUFACTURING METHOD AND RFID TAG - A method of manufacturing RFID tags. A base sheet member is formed by fixedly attaching unit base substrates to a belt-like first sheet member at predetermined space intervals. Each unit base substrate is formed with an antenna pattern and has a non-contact communication-type IC chip mounted thereon. An upper-layer sheet member is formed by arranging reinforcing members between elastic, belt-like second and third sheet members, and is laminated on a surface of the first sheet member toward the unit base substrates such that each IC chip and each reinforcing member overlap each other in plan view. Regions each containing one unit base substrate are sequentially cut out from a laminate of the upper-layer sheet member and the base sheet member, thereby making RFID units. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100008578 | FORM RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD, DATABASE GENERATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - One system to which the present invention is applied obtains the digitized form image of a form, recognizes a character string existing in the obtained form image, extracts a headline wording being a predetermined character string from the recognized character strings, determines a table structure existing in the form image, on the basis of the extracted headline wording and the arrangement of headline wordings in the form image and specifies a correspondence relationship between a headline wording and a character string other than the headline wording that is recognized, using the determination result. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100000837 | POS SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POS SYSTEM, AND CHANGE DISPENSER - When a goods registration process is executed in a POS terminal and money is jammed in a deposited-money conveying device after a deposit is received through an input port of a coin/bill dispenser, the coin/bill dispenser transmits an error notification to the POS terminal. When receiving the error notification, the POS terminal sets a deposit-amount fixing mode to a manual input mode, calculates, when a deposit amount is input and a total key is pressed by an operator, a change amount by using an input deposit amount and a sales amount totalized during the goods registration process, and transmits change information including the change amount to the coin/bill dispenser. The coin/bill dispenser causes a storage device to dispense change therefrom based on the change amount and ejects the change through an ejection port. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090308916 | POS TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POS TERMINAL APPARATUS - In a POS terminal apparatus, a specific commodity is selected as a reserved commodity from advertised commodities displayed on a display with touch panel for customers during execution of commodity registration processing by a commodity-registration processing section Then, the commodity-registration processing section causes the display with touch panel for customers and a display with touch panel for salesclerks to additionally display details information of the reserved commodity in details spaces of commodity lists displayed on respective screens of the displays. When a subtotal key is depressed, a deposit processing section calculates an amount of a deposit and causes the display with touch panel for customers to display the amount of the deposit. When a total key is depressed, a change calculating section calculates a change amount. A receipt printing section causes a printing device to print account settlement contents of purchased commodities and the reserved commodity and reservation indication on a receipt sheet, | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090245914 | PRINTER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CUTTING POSITION OF BOARDING PASS - A proposed printer device drives a conveyance unit to forward the end position of a medium by an amount of feed corresponding to a first boarding pass length from a cutting position, moves a cutter up and down to attempt a cutting operation. When the cutting operation is successfully performed, the boarding pass length of one boarding pass of a series of boarding passes to be processed is set as the first boarding pass length. When the cutting operation is unsuccessfully performed, the conveyance unit is driven to forward the end position of the medium by an amount of feed corresponding to the difference between the first boarding pass length and a second boarding pass length longer than the first boarding pass length, and the cutting operation is attempted again by moving a cutter up and down in the cutting position. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090245627 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION DEVICE - The present invention firstly roughly classifies an analysis range specified by the operator in the color image data of a form into background, a character frame and a character, precisely specifies a character frame on the basis of the classification result, eliminates the character from the color image data from which the background is eliminated and recognizes the remaining character. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090245593 | PATTERN ALIGNING METHOD, VERIFYING METHOD, AND VERIFYING DEVICE - A pattern alignment method performs alignment of the comparison source pattern or the comparison target pattern that has been subjected to the angle-scale conversion with the comparison source pattern. Angular deviations and scale factors between the comparison source pattern and the comparison target pattern are computed separately, after angle and scale conversion, the measured template matching is performed. Therefore, parallel-displacement alignment can be made faster and precise alignment is possible. Template matching processing can be minimized, and aligning can be performed precisely and rapidly. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090245585 | BODY PART GUIDANCE CONTROL METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT BIOMETRICS AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND NON-CONTACT BIOMETRICS AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - A body part guidance control is performed in a non-contact biometrics authentication device which performs individual authentication utilizing characteristics of a body part which is a portion of a human body, for guiding the body part so as to capture images without contact. The future position at the time of message display is predicted by using body part positions of n times in the past and the guidance message can be selected according to this predicted position to output an appropriate message. Hence the time for guidance into an appropriate image capture region can be shortened, the output of messages for movement in the direction opposite the body part movement can be prevented, and inducement of confusion in the user can be prevented, so that the speed of authentication can be improved. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090242632 | MERCHANDISE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS AND MERCHANDISE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION MISREADING PREVENTION PROGRAM MEDIUM - A barcode scanner that is capable of automatically preventing misreading in scanning the barcodes of the same item for checkout at a cahier register using a stationary-type barcode scanner is provided, by including a merchandise identification information reading unit optically reading merchandise identification information for identifying an item, a merchandise identification information registration unit registering merchandise identification information read in a point-of-sale information management apparatus; and a control unit controlling the merchandise identification information registration unit such that when a number of an item is input by an item number input unit for inputting a number of the item and several pieces of the same merchandise identification information are consecutively read, registration of the consecutively read merchandise identification is not performed for a number of times, the number of times being obtained by subtracting 1 from the number of the item. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090219153 | CHECKOUT SYSTEM, CHECKOUT SYSTEM CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CHECKOUT SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - A checkout system performs checkout of articles. The checkout system includes an LCD touch screen | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090202236 | ILLUMINATION CONTROLLER, ILLUMINATION CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An illumination controller for controlling an illumination device that irradiates an object to be photographed with illumination light. The illumination controller includes an introducing unit that introduces ambient light emitted to the object from a light source other than the illumination device; a processing unit that processes the ambient light introduced by the introducing unit to have a same characteristic as that of the illumination light; and an irradiation controlling unit that controls the ambient light processed by the processing unit so as to irradiate the object therewith as illumination, from a same path as the irradiation path of the illumination light. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090199448 | NON-CONTACT STORAGE MEDIUM FIXING STRUCTURE AND NON-CONTACT STORAGE MEDIUM HOLDER FIXING STRUCTURE - A non-contact storage medium fixing structure includes a non-contact storage medium that has a memory unit which stores predetermined information of an object to be controlled, a pair of wire connection guide members respectively provided at at least two positions on a body of the non-contact storage medium, and a wire connection member that fixes the non-contact storage medium at a predetermined position of the object to be controlled, by way of the pair of wire connection guide members. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090091455 | RFID TAG - An RFID tag includes: a tag member in which a communication antenna is wired on a predetermined base and a circuit chip which carries out radio communication through the antenna is electrically connected to the antenna, a covering body which covers the tag member and encloses the tag member therein, a reflection plate which reflects radio communication radio wave and which extends along the base, and a spacer sandwiched between the covering body and the reflection plate. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090085747 | RFID TAG AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An RFID tag includes an inlay which has a base, an antenna formed on the base, and an IC chip. The IC chip is enclosed in a surface mount package and soldered to the antenna and carries out radio communication through the antenna. The RFID tag further includes underfill that fills a gap between the base and the surface mount package, and a sheath protecting material enclosing the entire inlay. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090006649 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus, a display control program and a display control method can prevent re-controlling of a CGI from taking place as a result of updating a web browser. The display control apparatus includes a CGI processing section that executes a CGI process and outputs the outcome of the CGI process in response to a CGI request received from the client, an address shifting section that connects the apparatus to a link address different from the address connected by the client to issue the CGI request according to the CGI request and an output section that outputs display information for displaying predetermined information according to the outcome of the CGI process output from the CGI processing section to the client for whom the address to be connected is shifted by the address shifting section. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20080297351 | RFID TAG AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RFID TAG - An RFID tag includes: a tag main body having a communication antenna, a circuit chip electrically connected to the antenna to perform wireless communication via the antenna, and a tabular sealing member in which the antenna and the circuit chip are enclosed; a print layer formed on a first surface of the tag main body by printing; and a protective film that covers the print layer. The print layer is formed only in a central area of the first surface surrounded by a marginal area of the first surface extending along the outer edge of the first surface. The protective film includes a covering portion that covers the print layer and an adhering portion that lies off the print layer while surrounding the outer edge of the print layer and adheres to the first surface. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080256350 | MOTHERBOARD, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, SETTING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH SETTING PROGRAM IS STORED - A motherboard can be installed commonly in each of a plurality of electronic devices of various types different in configuration without modifying the BIOS setting by comprising a setting information retaining section retaining setting information for a setting process for each electronic device; a specification information obtaining section obtaining specification information for specifying the type of each electronic device; a modifying information retaining section retaining modification information for modifying the setting information according to the type of each electronic device; a setting information modifying section modifying, on the basis of the specification information and the modification information retained, the setting information according to the type of the device in which the motherboard is installed; and a setting process performing section for performing the setting process for the device on the basis of the modified setting information. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080237360 | POS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POS SYSTEM - A receipt-and-payment-information transmitting unit of a change dispenser transmits receipt and payment information of receipt and payment processing, which is started according to reception of a start instruction for independent operation, to a POS terminal. An icon display/deleting unit of the POS terminal causes a display device to display an icon indicating that receipt and payment information is received on a display screen. An alternation-processing prohibiting/releasing unit prohibits execution of operator alternation processing. A receipt-and-payment-information registering unit registers, in a storing unit, receipt and payment information including a receipt and payment type input from a receipt-and-payment-type input screen displayed according to an execution instruction for the icon. When receipt and payment types corresponding to all pieces of receipt and payment information are registered, the icon display/deleting unit deletes the icon from the display screen. The alternation-processing prohibiting/releasing unit 23 releases the prohibition of execution of the operator alternation processing. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080234011 | Charging communication-adaptor for mobile device - A charging communication-adaptor has such an arrangement that, when a mobile device is attached, communication terminals of the mobile device and the charging communication-adaptor make a contact first, and then the charging terminals of the mobile device and the charging communication-adaptor make a contact. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080230681 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - An image capture device, which illuminates a subject and receives light reflected from the subject to capture an image of the subject, is provided to achieve a small-size configuration and easy assembly. A plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted in positions on the periphery of an image sensor, and a light-guiding member guides light from the plurality of light-emitting elements to the image capture range for illumination. And protrusions of the light-guiding member are pressed by the lower end of a hood which blocks light from outside the image capture range, and the hood upper end is pressed by a filter. Slits are provided in the hood lower end. Even in assembly where a visible light filter is installed on the hood and fixed to an outer case, the occurrence of gaps between the hood and the visible light filter can be prevented through the spring action of the slits. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080224950 | Computer program and apparatus for display control - A computer program and apparatus for display control, which are capable of allowing a user to easily know the positional relationships among a plurality of display devices in the case where he/she uses the plurality of display devices to display content. An area information memory stores information on the display areas of display devices. An identification information memory stores a plurality of identification information. When information including the number of display devices to be used and content to be displayed is entered, a creating unit creates display data so as to match an entire usable display area. A dividing unit divides the display data into a plurality of partial display data according to the display areas of the display devices, and adds identification information to sides that are adjacent to other partial display data, out of the sides of the plurality of partial display data. An output unit outputs the obtained partial display data to the display devices. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080214239 | Computer-readable medium storing display control program and mobile terminal - A medium storing a program for display control. When the program is executed by a computer realized in a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal operates as follows. An area-information storing unit stores information on a first display area of an external display device and a second display area of a built-in display. A screen-data production unit acquires content to be displayed, and produces screen data corresponding to the first display area. An entire-image display unit divides the screen data into partial areas each corresponding to the second display area, adds to the entire screen data area-display data indicating the extent of each partial area and a corresponding identifier, and displays the screen data on the external display device. On receipt of an identifier, a partial-image display unit extracts a portion of the screen data for a partial area corresponding to the identifier, and displays the portion on the built-in display. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080204250 | RFID tag - A RFID tag includes a base that extends in a predetermined longitudinal direction; an antenna for communication that is wired on the base; a circuit chip that is electrically connected to the antenna and conducts radio communication via the antenna; and a sealant that covers a top of the circuit chip and seals the circuit chip in cooperation with the base. A portion of the antenna that is exposed without being covered with the sealant extends in the width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. | 08-28-2008 |
