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US 2016/0110139 A1Published application
Device Control System, a Printer, and a Control Method of the Device Control System
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKazuhiro Takasu, Koichiro Tsutsumi, Shigeo Ikeda
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Abstract
A device control system has a terminal 3 with a web browser 31, and a printer 5 that controls a connected device. The terminal 3 calls an object that controls a device and is instantiated by the device API 33 to support the device, and sends a request to the printer 5, by the web application 32; and the printer 5 executes a device control script 502 that controls the device, receives requests sent through the device API 33, and controls the device.
Claims14
A printer comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with a first computing device that has access to a target-device application programming interface (API) that initiates a control object configured to control a target device;
- a connector configured to connect to the target device;
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- a controller configured as a command interface between the first computing device and the target device connected to the connector.
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