Patents by Inventor Masanori Ishihara

Masanori Ishihara 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).

  • Publication number: 20200209636
    Abstract: A pointer includes a case housing an LED device and including a light emission hole through which light from the device is emitted to an external space, a first plate between the device and the light emission hole and including a first light passage hole that allows passage of the light from the device, and a second plate between the first plate and the light emission hole and including a second light passage hole that allows passage of the light having passed through the first light passage hole. The light passage holes and the light emission hole are located on a central axis of the device. The device and the first and second plates are disposed such that H/2<S<H, where H denotes a distance between the device and the first plate, and S denotes a distance between the first and second plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hironobu SUZUKI, Masanori ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200171842
    Abstract: A pointer includes an LED device, a case, and a partition. The case houses the LED device. The case includes a light emission hole through which light from the LED device is emitted to an external space. The partition is located between the LED device and the light emission hole in the case. The partition includes a light passage hole through which the light from the LED device passes. The light passage hole and the light emission hole are disposed on a central axis of the LED device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Masanori ISHIHARA, Arata MUKUNOKI, Motokuni KISHITA, Hironobu SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200105223
    Abstract: A display device includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to change a processing level of a screen burn-in inhibition processing based on a first display content displayed on the display. The processor acquires information related to the first display content, and changes the processing level of the screen burn-in inhibition processing based on the acquired information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Masanori ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200091757
    Abstract: Disclosed is a charge protection circuit including: a switch that switches between allowing and not allowing power supply from an external power source to a charging circuit that supplies power for charging a rechargeable battery; a detector that detects at least one of a current flowing from the charging circuit to the rechargeable battery and a voltage between two electrodes of the rechargeable battery; a determiner that determines whether a detection result of the detector is abnormal; and a controller that, in response to the determiner determining that the detection result of the detector is abnormal, causes the switch to switch to an interrupting state so as to interrupt power supply to the charging circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo SUZUKI, Masanori ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 10592097
    Abstract: In order to achieve comfortable operations while appropriately preventing incorrect operations by unintentional touch operations on a touch operation section, when a touch operation performed on the touch operation section such as a selfie pad is a predetermined touch operation such as a double tap operation different from a touch operation such as a single tap or slide operation for giving an instruction to perform a predetermined function, switching is performed between a first state that is a selfie pad restricted state for restricting the predetermined function capable of being performed by the touch operation on the selfie pad and a second state that is a selfie pad restriction released state for releasing the restriction of the predetermined function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20200047521
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feeder that feeds a medium in a feeding direction, a head including a row of nozzles arranged side by side in the feeding direction and movable in a scanning direction, an irradiator that radiates light onto a region longer in the feeding direction than the nozzle row and that is movable in the scanning direction together with the head, and a controller that alternatingly causes the head to move in the scanning direction and concurrently the nozzles to discharge ink while causing the irradiator to radiate the light, and the feeder to feed the medium in the feeding direction. The controller is capable of dividing the nozzle row into an upstream-side nozzle row and a downstream-side nozzle row located on a downstream side in the feeding direction from the upstream-side nozzle row, and individually controlling discharge of ink from the nozzles of each of the upstream-side nozzle row and the downstream-side nozzle row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Masanori ISHIHARA, Yuta FUJISAWA, Toyohisa NAKAO
  • Patent number: 10462373
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The control unit can: make the display unit successively display an entire image taken by the imaging unit as a live-view image, set a cutting region in an imaging range of the imaging unit, displace a position of the cutting region to track movement of a specific subject, fix the position of the cutting region before a first operation, displace the position of the cutting region to track movement of the specific subject after the first operation, and display an image at a region other than the cutting region in an entire image that is successively displayed on the display unit as the live-view image, at least before the first operation, so that the other region image is less prominently displayed in a predetermined display mode than a partial image corresponding to the cutting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Ishihara, Hiroyuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10270977
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for tracking a subject is provided. The An imaging apparatus has an imaging unit which images a subject to obtain an image, an area detecting unit which detects in the image obtained by the imaging unit a light changing area, in which light changes in a time-series manner, a position detecting unit which detects a position of the light changing area detected by the area detecting unit in the image obtained by the imaging unit, a local area searching unit which searches for a local area within a prescribed region defined on the basis of the position of the light changing area detected by the position detecting unit, wherein the local area shows a large feature value in an image processing, and a tracking unit which tracks movement of the local area found by the local area searching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20190075245
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The control unit can: make the display unit successively display an entire image taken by the imaging unit as a live-view image, set a cutting region in an imaging range of the imaging unit, displace a position of the cutting region to track movement of a specific subject, fix the position of the cutting region before a first operation, displace the position of the cutting region to track movement of the specific subject after the first operation, and display an image at a region other than the cutting region in an entire image that is successively displayed on the display unit as the live-view image, at least before the first operation, so that the other region image is less prominently displayed in a predetermined display mode than a partial image corresponding to the cutting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori ISHIHARA, Hiroyuki HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10214030
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen on which a recording medium is placed, an ink head movable in a main scanning direction and able to eject ink onto the recording medium, a cover disposed above and to at least a side of the platen and including an opening located downstream of the ink head in a subscanning direction, a front cover attached to the cover and able to open and close the opening, and an air blower disposed on the front cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironobu Suzuki, Takuro Kamiya, Sachie Muroga, Takayoshi Oguri, Masanori Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20180290461
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen on which a recording medium is placed, an ink head movable in a main scanning direction and able to eject ink onto the recording medium, a cover disposed above and to at least a side of the platen and including an opening located downstream of the ink head in a subscanning direction, a front cover attached to the cover and able to open and close the opening, and an air blower disposed on the front cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Hironobu SUZUKI, Takuro KAMIYA, Sachie MUROGA, Takayoshi OGURI, Masanori ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 10095919
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a storage medium are shown. According to one implementation, the image processing apparatus includes the following. A detecting unit detects a subject in a moving image. A clipping unit clips a region corresponding to the subject detected by the detecting unit from each frame image composing the moving image. A setting unit sets a planned clipping region to be newly clipped by the clipping unit based on at least one of a position and a size of a region corresponding to the subject already clipped by the clipping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Ishihara, Kei Ideguchi
  • Patent number: 10065436
    Abstract: A printer includes a first controller to cause a primer discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, primer onto a recording medium and then cause a first ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the primer, thus forming a first primer layer on the recording medium; a second controller to cause the primer discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, the primer onto the first primer layer and the recording medium and then cause a second ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the primer, thus forming a second primer layer on the first primer layer and the recording medium; and a third controller to cause an ink discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, image-forming ink onto the second primer layer and then cause the first ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the image-forming ink, thus forming an ink layer on the second primer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takasugi, Takeshi Yagi, Mitsuhiro Kato, Masanori Ishihara
  • Patent number: 9936120
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus that performs interval shooting to acquire a plurality of captured images photographed with a predetermined photographing interval includes: an image capture unit; an image capture condition determination unit; and an interval shooting processing unit. The image capture unit is configured so as to be able to control focus. The image capture condition determination unit determines a photographing condition of an apparatus. The interval shooting processing unit controls focus of the image capture unit so as to change a focus control method for each photography in the interval shooting according to a photographing condition of the apparatus determined by the image capture condition determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ishihara
  • Patent number: 9934582
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus capable of identifying desired time points without using a special device is provided. The image capture apparatus 1 includes a moving image acquiring unit 53, a calculating unit 56, and an identification area analyzing unit 57. The moving image acquiring unit 53 acquires a plurality of images captured consecutively. The calculating unit 56 calculates variation values of pixel values along a time series of the plurality of images acquired by the moving image acquiring unit 53, within a predetermined region common to the plurality of images. The identification area analyzing unit 57 identifies two time points according to a predetermined standard from among a plurality of time points in the time series, on the basis of the variation values of the pixel values calculated by the calculating unit 56.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20180065381
    Abstract: A printer includes a first controller to cause a primer discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, primer onto a recording medium and then cause a first ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the primer, thus forming a first primer layer on the recording medium; a second controller to cause the primer discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, the primer onto the first primer layer and the recording medium and then cause a second ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the primer, thus forming a second primer layer on the first primer layer and the recording medium; and a third controller to cause an ink discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, image-forming ink onto the second primer layer and then cause the first ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the image-forming ink, thus forming an ink layer on the second primer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKASUGI, Takeshi YAGI, Mitsuhiro KATO, Masanori ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 9900507
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an interval shooting processing unit and an operation management control unit. It controls interval shooting to repeatedly execute photography processing that is set at a photographing interval that is set. The operation management control unit causes the contents of the power savings processing operation to change depending on the time required in photography processing, or the time required in recovery to a photography capable state. The image capture apparatus can thereby perform proper power savings control irrespective of the photography method of interval shooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20170272660
    Abstract: An imaging device to control a region of imaging, includes: an imaging unit; a display unit; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to: set a first region of a predetermined size at a predetermined position in an imaging range of the imaging unit; make the display unit display an image in the first region as live-view image; fix a position of the first region in the imaging range before a first operation is performed; after the first operation is performed, displace the position of the first region in the imaging range so as to track movement of a specific subject in the imaging range; and when a second operation is performed, following the first operation, record a partial image corresponding to the first region in an entire image taken by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori ISHIHARA, Hiroyuki HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20170147194
    Abstract: When a touch operation is performed on a selfie pad, the slide amount of the touch operation is measured, and whether the touch operation is valid as a slide operation is judged in accordance with a function selected as an execution target from among a plurality of functions and the measured slide amount of the touch operation. Then, the selected function is controlled when the touch operation is valid as a slide operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 9560270
    Abstract: In the present invention, in interval photographing, a CPU performs still image photographing based on a capture interval and a capture length set for each scene in advance. Then, for each captured still image, the CPU calculates a difference between images, writes a judgment flag indicating whether the difference is exceeding a capture threshold in EXIF information, and stores all captured images. When the interval photographing is ended, the CPU reads out the captured images, performs time-lapse moving image generation processing by using images having a positive judgment flag in the EXIF information, and stores the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ishihara