Patents by Inventor Gou KAWAKAMI
Gou KAWAKAMI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230333733Abstract: A soft keyboard display method performed by a processor of a server having a communication function with a first information terminal that is used by a first user, the soft keyboard display method includes a processor performing obtaining first user information about the first user, and adjusting an aspect of a soft keyboard to be displayed on the first information terminal, based on the first user information about the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Gou KAWAKAMI
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Patent number: 11409913Abstract: In a communication method, a processor activates an application program; acquires identification information of an external wireless device from the external wireless device; reads, from a memory, function restriction information indicative of presence/absence of restriction of a function of the application program associated with the acquired identification information; and sets an executable function of the application program in accordance with the read function restriction information.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Gou Kawakami
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Publication number: 20190303598Abstract: In a communication method, a processor activates an application program; acquires identification information of an external wireless device from the external wireless device; reads, from a memory, function restriction information indicative of presence/absence of restriction of a function of the application program associated with the acquired identification information; and sets an executable function of the application program in accordance with the read function restriction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Gou KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20180082334Abstract: According to one embodiment, with respect to each of content data Cn (or an output form thereof) which is output, audience information for use in output control of the content data Cn, a condition of external information for executing the output control, and a content of the output control which is executed when the condition is satisfied, are set up, and are set in an output control information definition file 20D. From photography data including an audience photographed by an image photography unit, and from external information such as a distance to a subject, which is measured by a range finder, the external information of a kind corresponding to each content Cn that is output is acquired. By judging whether the condition of the external information is satisfied or not, the content of the output control is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Hiroaki Shimoda, Toshihiko Yoshida, Yoichi Murayama, Gou Kawakami, Kazuma Kawahara, Takashi Kawashimo
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Publication number: 20170372367Abstract: A content output device includes: a display that outputs content; a communication unit that transmits at least one piece of beacon information correlated to the content which is being output by the display; and a CPU that makes responsive period information or unresponsive period information for a communication device based on the content which is being output by the display, and causes the communication unit to transmit the beacon information containing the responsive period information or the unresponsive period information, wherein the responsive period information or the unresponsive period information indicates a period which the communication device executes or does not execute an action corresponding to the received beacon information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Gou KAWAKAMI, Takashi KAWASHIMO, Yoichi MURAYAMA, Kazuma KAWAHARA, Hiroaki SHIMODA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20170277269Abstract: The display control device includes: a distance acquirer acquiring a distance between a display surface on which an item is displayed and an operator operating the item; and a display controller displaying on the display surface an item belonging to a hierarchy level corresponding to the distance acquired by the distance acquirer from an item group including multiple hierarchized items.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma KAWAHARA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Yoichi MURAYAMA, Gou KAWAKAMI, Takashi KAWASHIMO, Hiroaki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20170277428Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a shape detector detecting a shape of a detection object, an output controller performing a control to select a virtual input device to be displayed based on the detected shape of the detection object, and to display the selected virtual input device, and a display displaying the selected virtual input device based on the control given by the output controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoichi MURAYAMA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Gou KAWAKAMI, Kazuma KAWAHARA, Takashi KAWASHIMO, Hiroaki SHIMODA
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Patent number: 9762337Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a Bluetooth (trademark) controller which is wirelessly connected to a mobile information terminal, and a CPU configured to acquire a radio-wave intensity of wireless connection to the wirelessly connected mobile information terminal, to selectively read an application program from a program memory, based on the acquired radio-wave intensity, and to execute the application program.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Gou Kawakami, Yoichi Murayama, Toshihiko Yoshida, Kazuma Kawahara, Asami Aso, Takashi Kawashimo
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Patent number: 9681379Abstract: A communication device includes a reception unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The reception unit receives broadcast information broadcasted through first communication of a first communication system. The detection unit detects a radio field intensity of the received broadcast information. The control unit controls second communication of a second communication system based on the detected radio field intensity, thereby activating or deactivating the second communication.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Kawahara, Toshihiko Yoshida, Yoichi Murayama, Gou Kawakami, Asami Aso, Takashi Kawashimo
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Patent number: 9628856Abstract: An information output apparatus for displaying information such as advertisements increases viewers' attention. A plurality of advertisement videos (id=1, 2, . . . ) stored in an advertisement video storage area 22b are projected onto a display unit 12 from a projection device 13 and reproduced, according to the definition of advertisement video reproduction order stored in an advertisement video reproduction definition storage area 22c. Upon switching the reproduction of each advertisement video, from among a plurality of switching effect images EP . . . (ID=1, 2, . . . ) that are assigned ID numbers in descending order of noticeability against the surrounding environment, i.e. in descending order of the complementary color ratio, and stored in a switching effect image storage area 22e, an image ID associated with higher noticeability is set when the non-operation time (the time during which no person is detected around the apparatus body) from the advertisement video reproduction start is longer.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kawashimo, Gou Kawakami, Asami Aso
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Publication number: 20170078033Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a Bluetooth (trademark) controller which is wirelessly connected to a mobile information terminal, and a CPU configured to acquire a radio-wave intensity of wireless connection to the wirelessly connected mobile information terminal, to selectively read an application program from a program memory, based on the acquired radio-wave intensity, and to execute the application program.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Gou KAWAKAMI, Yoichi MURAYAMA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Kazuma KAWAHARA, Asami ASO, Takashi KAWASHIMO
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Publication number: 20160366715Abstract: A processor of an information transmission device generates pairing information being divided into multiple pieces according to a predetermined data structure and for starting bidirectional communication between a portable terminal and the information transmission device. The processor transmits generated pairing information being divided into multiple pieces. The processor receives a pairing request signal transmitted by the portable terminal that receives the pairing information. The processor performs a pairing operation with the portable terminal in response to the pairing request signal received.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventors: Yoichi Murayama, Asami Aso, Toshihiko Yoshida, Gou Kawakami, Kazuma Kawahara, Takashi Kawashimo
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Publication number: 20160278012Abstract: A communication device includes a reception unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The reception unit receives broadcast information broadcasted through first communication of a first communication system. The detection unit detects a radio field intensity of the received broadcast information. The control unit controls second communication of a second communication system based on the detected radio field intensity, thereby activating or deactivating the second communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma KAWAHARA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Yoichi MURAYAMA, Gou KAWAKAMI, Asami ASO, Takashi KAWASHIMO
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Publication number: 20160125770Abstract: A display apparatus includes a screen, a setting unit and a processor. The setting unit is for setting a product and is provided at the screen. The processor controls display on the screen on a basis of the product which is set at the setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke HARA, Takeo ISHIZU, Yuji ABE, Yoichi MURAYAMA, Atsushi SHIBUTANI, Gou KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20160088349Abstract: An information output apparatus for displaying information such as advertisements increases viewers' attention. A plurality of advertisement videos (id=1, 2, . . . ) stored in an advertisement video storage area 22b are projected onto a display unit 12 from a projection device 13 and reproduced, according to the definition of advertisement video reproduction order stored in an advertisement video reproduction definition storage area 22c. Upon switching the reproduction of each advertisement video, from among a plurality of switching effect images EP . . . (ID=1, 2, . . . ) that are assigned ID numbers in descending order of noticeability against the surrounding environment, i.e. in descending order of the complementary color ratio, and stored in a switching effect image storage area 22e, an image ID associated with higher noticeability is set when the non-operation time (the time during which no person is detected around the apparatus body) from the advertisement video reproduction start is longer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Takashi KAWASHIMO, Gou Kawakami, Asami Aso
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Publication number: 20150348115Abstract: A content output system for outputting content to digital signage makes customers continuously feel interactivity with content to maintain their interest. A content output system 1 includes: an NFC communication unit 31 that wirelessly communicates with a communication terminal 2; a communication number count unit 32 that counts the number of communications with the communication terminal 2 on a predetermined period basis; a content selection unit 33 that selects content corresponding to the number of communications counted by the communication number count unit 32; and a content output unit 34 that displays the content selected by the content selection unit 33 on a screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Takashi KAWASHIMO, Gou KAWAKAMI, Asami ASO, Yoshinari MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 8614761Abstract: An image capturing apparatus including a location information acquiring unit 31, an image capturing unit 13, a storage control unit 32, a predictable location calculation unit 37 that predicts, in a case of failure to acquire location information at a time of image capturing, a range of locations predictable at the time of image capturing based on the location information acquired earlier than the time of image capturing, a display control unit 33 that displays a predictable range of locations on a display unit based on the acquired earlier location information and the range of locations thus predicted, a designation reception unit 34 that receives a location designated by a user from within the predictable range of locations, and a captured location setting unit 38 that sets location information of the received location as the location information at the time of image capturing.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Gou Kawakami
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Publication number: 20120081574Abstract: An image capturing apparatus including a location information acquiring unit 31, an image capturing unit 13, a storage control unit 32, a predictable location calculation unit 37 that predicts, in a case of failure to acquire location information at a time of image capturing, a range of locations predictable at the time of image capturing based on the location information acquired earlier than the time of image capturing, a display control unit 33 that displays a predictable range of locations on a display unit based on the acquired earlier location information and the range of locations thus predicted, a designation reception unit 34 that receives a location designated by a user from within the predictable range of locations, and a captured location setting unit 38 that sets location information of the received location as the location information at the time of image capturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Gou KAWAKAMI