US 12,073,270 B2
Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus for changing printing condition
Eishin Yoshikawa, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/820,378.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-133901 (JP), filed on Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0056603 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 15/02 (2006.01); B41J 29/19 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 15/025 (2013.01) [B41J 29/19 (2013.01); B41J 29/393 (2013.01); G06K 15/005 (2013.01); B41J 2203/01 (2020.08)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus, comprising:
a printing unit including a print head and configured to perform printing on a recording target;
a projection unit configured to project a printing sample image onto the recording target;
a detection unit configured to detect image including a part of a body of a user, who uses the printing apparatus, in an area between the projection unit and the recording target; and
a control unit including a processor that is configured to control the printing unit based on a printing condition,
the control unit being further configured to determine, based on the image detected by the detection unit, a gesture of the user, and change the printing condition based on the gesture of the user, wherein
the projection unit is configured to project the printing sample image corresponding to print data when printing is performed by the printing unit on the recording target, and
in a case in which a detection image detected by the detection unit includes the printing sample image, when the detection image does not include at least a part of the printing sample image in a range of the recording target, the control unit causes the projection unit to project alert information.