Patents Assigned to Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12656972
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: set a grace period for image deletion in response to transferring one or more images from a first storage area to a second storage area different from the first storage area, according to a user's instruction; and give an instruction to delete, from the first storage area, an image corresponding to the transferred image, in response to a lapse of the grace period starting from the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 12659397
    Abstract: An information terminal includes: a processor: in response to information of a first category being acquired, stores the first category as display target information; in response to information of a category to which second notification information being acquired at a timing after the information of the first category is acquired, and if the category is the first category, stores the first category as the display target information; and in response to information of the category being acquired, and if the category is a second category different from the first category, stores the second category as the display target information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Inoue, Takeshi Hanada, Takanori Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 12656117
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device, a calibration method, and a program, which can suppress the power consumed by calibration of a geomagnetic sensor while maintaining high convenience. The electronic device operable in a plurality of types of usage modes including an activity mode associated with a predetermined activity, includes: a geomagnetic sensor that detects geomagnetic data; one or more processors; and one or more memories storing a program to be executed by the one or more processors. The program causes the one or more processors to perform the following: starting calibration of the geomagnetic sensor when it is determined that the electronic device is operating in the usage mode of the activity mode associated with the predetermined activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuyoshi Omura
  • Patent number: 12656126
    Abstract: An information processing device includes at least one processor. The processor acquires statistic information corresponding to a position or area obtained by an activity involving movement, acquires a feature quantity of the position or area obtained based on the statistic information, and associates description information corresponding to the feature quantity with a representative point that is a point representing the position or area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12656739
    Abstract: A push button device including a supporting member provided with a through hole, an operation member having a shaft slidably inserted into the through hole, and a head provided on an outer end of the shaft, and an elastic member which is contracted to be arranged between the head and the supporting member, and further contracted in response to a movement of the operation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12656743
    Abstract: Time is appropriately corrected without needlessly consuming power. In step S101 and step S102, a CPU of an electronic timepiece determines whether to correct a time measured by a timekeeping circuit. Then, when a determination is made to correct the time measured by the timekeeping circuit, in step S111 and step S112, the time measured by the timekeeping circuit is corrected on the basis of time information held by a wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuho Kyou
  • Patent number: 12656741
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes an obtaining circuit, a first processor and a second processor. The obtaining circuit obtains information on current time from outside. The first processor measures time. The second processor is connected to the obtaining circuit. The first processor obtains a synchronization signal corresponding to the current time, obtains the current time, which the second processor obtains from the obtaining circuit, and based on the current time and the synchronization signal, corrects the measuring time, which the first processor is measuring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki Oshita, Chiharu Shiratori
  • Publication number: 20260162635
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor which performs: detecting an operation on a second operation element after a set time has elapsed from a detection of an operation on a first operation element, detecting a number of an operation element that is in ongoing operation at a timing when the operation on the second operation element is detected, and controlling whether or not to advance a syllable to be sounded from a first syllable to a second syllable, which is a next syllable, based only on the number of the operation element that is in ongoing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 12649239
    Abstract: A controller of a robot executes processing of determining whether an apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact and, when determination is made that the apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact in a case where a movable part is in a first state in which the movable part is able to cause the apparatus to execute a physical operation, transferring the movable part from the first state to a second state for suppressing an impact exerted on the movable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hasegawa, Wataru Nimura, Erina Ichikawa, Tomio Higo
  • Patent number: 12649098
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing method executed by an information processing device including a memory in which a program is stored and at least one processor that executes the program, the method including specifying, by the processor, a characteristic of a voice that induces a change in a state value based on correspondence information in which the change in the state value before and after each transmission timing of multiple voices transmitted to a target person in action is associated with a characteristic of each of the multiple voices, the state value representing an action state of the target person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12645184
    Abstract: A case including a first case which has a retaining portion provided on an outer circumference thereof, an exterior member which has an engaging portion with which the retaining portion engaged, and covers the outer circumference of the first case, a second case which is arranged on upper parts of the first case and the exterior member, and a fastening member which attaches the second case to the first case by fastening the second case to the exterior member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nakatsuka, Takao Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12645244
    Abstract: A button device includes a substrate with a hole; a button cap arranged above the substrate in a position corresponding to the holes in the substrate; and a projecting portion protruding toward the button cap through the hole in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokatsu Katoh
  • Patent number: 12645186
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an electronic timepiece are described. The electronic timepiece can include a first processor that controls a clocking operation and a second processor that has an arithmetic processing capacity higher than an arithmetic processing capacity of the first processor. The electronic timepiece can further include an information acquisition circuit that is controlled by the second processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuuki Oshita
  • Publication number: 20260150138
    Abstract: An electronic device includes one or more processors to, in a case where a communication connection by BLE is to be established: execute first operation of repeating transmission of an advertising packet and scanning for an advertising packet at a set cycle; acquire first information by a first method that enables a value different for each device to be acquired; and change the cycle of the first operation, based on the first information during execution of the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyohei TAKISHIMA, Naoya OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20260149169
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes, a substrate; an antenna provided on the substrate; a metal plate-shaped member; and a case that includes a metal sidewall facing an end face of the plate-shaped member and that stores the substrate and the plate-shaped member. The plate-shaped member is electrically connected to the side wall of the case. A gap is provided between a portion of the plate-shaped member and the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi MATSUE, Nobuharu ASO, Kazu HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 12638757
    Abstract: There is provided electronic equipment including a first case, a second case provided with an internal part disposed between the first case and the second case, and a side panel provided individually in side spaces defined between the first case and the second case, wherein the side panel has a guide provided to be oriented towards the internal part and opened to penetrate in an alignment direction in which the first case, the internal part, and the second case are aligned, wherein the first case has a first boss extending in the alignment direction and configured to be inserted to pass through the guide, and wherein the first boss is fixed to the second case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyosuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12641734
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes a plurality of operation parts arranged from a first-end side to a second-end side of a housing and each including a keytop member having an operation surface. The keytop member corresponding to a first operation part, which is one of the operation parts arranged on the first-end side, has a lower-end-to-operation-surface height greater than that of the keytop member corresponding to a second operation part, which is one of the operation parts arranged on the second-end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kanako Kimura
  • Publication number: 20260138283
    Abstract: A display control method performed by one or more processors, the method including: displaying, on a display, a state image and information pertaining to a target in a predetermined arrangement based on state information pertaining to a state of the target, wherein the state image includes an animated video of the target and the information pertaining to the target is the information that differs from the state image and that is updated according to history of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2025
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki ISHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA, Kanako NISHIZAWA, Kunihiro MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20260141587
    Abstract: A display control method is performed by one or more processors and includes, based on history information on a history of a state of an object, identifying a change timing at which the state of the object changed from a certain state to a predetermined state, and causing a display to display a coordinate axis that represents passage of time and an indicator that is disposed at a position corresponding to the change timing on the coordinate axis and indicates that the state of the object changed to the predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2025
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki ITO, Kayoko ONODA, Kanako NISHIZAWA, Kunihiro MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: RE50910
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an image shooting apparatus includes an imaging unit, a transmission unit, and a processor that is configured to acquire an image captured by the imaging unit to generate a shot image and control the transmission unit to transmit, to an information acquiring apparatus, (i) the shot image, and (ii) instruction information for instructing the information acquiring apparatus to acquire supplementary information, with a shooting instruction. The supplementary information is information which is acquired by a sensor of the information acquiring apparatus and which is to be added to the transmitted shot image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hoshino, Yuji Kuriyama