Information processing apparatus and peripheral device used by the same

• US 10,061,372 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2015
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Katsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Prifti, Aurel
• Application Number:
  US14/930,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20160195915A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• Field of Search: 320109, 320108, 320106, 713300, 307104, 700297
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3212 Monitoring battery levels, e.g. power saving mode being initiated when battery voltage goes below a certain level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3218 of display devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

An information processing apparatus comprises a communication control module, an input module and a notification module. The communication control module controls the communication with a peripheral device which is associated with the information processing apparatus. The input module receives the input of the charging state information, output from the peripheral device, which indicates the state of non-contact power supply to the peripheral device with a non-contact manner in which no mechanical connection is taken with the peripheral device. The notification module notifies, if the input module receives the input of the charging state information, the state of the non-contact power supply for the peripheral device.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

control communication with a code scanner which is associated with the information processing apparatus,

receive an input of a charging state information, output from the code scanner, which indicates the state of non-contact power supply to the code scanner with a non-contact manner in which no mechanical connection is taken with the code scanner;

notify that a quantity of electric power received by the code scanner in a non-contact manner in each unit time is below a threshold value, if it is determined, based on the received charging state information, that the quantity of electric power is below the threshold value, and

output monitoring request information for requesting to monitor whether the quantity of the electric power is below the threshold value if sales registration processing using the code scanner is ended, and output monitoring stop information for requesting to stop monitoring whether the quantity of the electric power is below the threshold value, if the sales registration processing using the code scanner is started.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display, wherein the circuitry is configured to notify the quantity of the electric power is below the threshold value, by displaying on the display.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the charging state information includes charging state information indicating the quantity of the electric power, and the circuitry is configured to change content of the notification according to the quantity of the electric power.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the charging state information includes identification information capable of identifying the code scanner which outputs the charging state information and the circuitry is further configured to notify the identification information.

5. A system comprising:

an information processing apparatus; and

a code scanner which is used by the information processing apparatus, the code scanner comprising;

a power reception circuit configured to receive electric power transmitted in non-contact manner in which no mechanical connection is taken; and

circuitry configured to

monitor whether a quantity of the electric power received by the power reception circuit is below a threshold value, and

output charging state information which indicates that the quantity of the electric power is below the threshold value, to the information processing apparatus,

the information processing apparatus comprising circuitry configured to

control communication with a code scanner which is associated with the information processing apparatus,

receive an input of a charging state information, output from the code scanner, which indicates a state of non-contact power supply to the code scanner with a non-contact manner in which no mechanical connection is taken with the code scanner;

notify that a quantity of electric power received by the code scanner in a non-contact manner in each unit time is below a threshold value, if it is determined, based on the received charging state information, that the quantity of electric power is below the threshold value, and

output monitoring request information for requesting to monitor whether the quantity of the electric power is below the threshold value if sales registration processing using the code scanner is ended, and output monitoring stop information for requesting to stop monitoring whether the quantity of the electric power is below the threshold value, if the sales registration processing using the code scanner is started.