US 12,067,320 B2
Image processing device for wireless communication with a terminal device
Kota Nishida, Shiojiri (JP); Hiroyuki Kuramoto, Shiojiri (JP); and Yui Imamura, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/455,091.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-133913 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0069841 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1292 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1203 (2013.01); G06F 3/1221 (2013.01); G06F 3/1236 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing device communicatively connected to a terminal device, the image processing device comprising:
an operation panel that accepts an operation from a user;
a communication unit that has a plurality of antennas and is used to communicate with the terminal device; and
a controller that performs control according to direction information representing a direction of the terminal device in relation to the image processing device, acquired based on a radio wave transmitted between the terminal device and the communication unit,
the communication unit being provided within a range corresponding to the operation panel, in a direction of width of the operation panel as viewed from a front face side where the operation panel can be operated, of side faces of the image processing device.