Patents Assigned to Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8681359
    Abstract: A nail printer and printing method for printing on nails of fingers in a short time. Printing of nails starts a predetermined time after a print start command is given by a print switch or a both-hand switch. When nails of thumbs or fingers of both right and left hands are printed with an image, a print switch is operated by one of the hands, the thumbs or fingers of the both hands are fixed at a predetermined printing position within a printed finger receiver and then the nails of both the thumbs or fingers are printed with a design or pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Bitoh
  • Patent number: 8681090
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a partition wall, first electrodes, a second electrode, a dispersant, positively-charged particles, negatively-charged particles, weakly-charged particles, switching thin film transistors, scanning lines, and signal lines. Pixel spaces are surrounded by the partition wall, the first substrate and the second substrate. Two of the first electrodes are formed on the first substrate in each pixel. The second electrode facing the first electrodes is formed on the second substrate. The dispersant with the positively-charged particles, the negatively-charged particles, and weakly-charged particles is contained in the pixel spaces. The switching thin film transistors are connected to the first electrode, and the signal line. The scanning lines supply scanning signals to gate electrodes of the switching thin film transistors. The signal lines input a data signal to the switching thin film transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Miyashita
  • Patent number: 8682134
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a moving image including: an acquiring section which acquires moving image data of an object imaged at a predetermined imaging frame rate; an identifying section which applies a predetermined analysis process to the moving image data and identifies a first frame image among a plurality of first frame images and second frame images constituting the moving image data, wherein the first frame images are to be reproduced in slow motion, and the second frame images are frame images other than the first frame images; and a processor which performs a frame-number reduction process to reduce the number of the second frame images at a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Otani
  • Patent number: 8683376
    Abstract: When having determined that the input event from a client unit is the selection of an object, a server unit requests the client unit to transmit display area information that sets a display screen area on the drawing data. The server unit acquires the display area information transmitted from the client unit in response to the request. The server unit determines whether the area of the object selected on the drawing data fits in the display screen area corresponding to the acquired display area information. If having determined that the area of the object does not fit in the display screen area, the server unit changes the display area information so that the area of the object may fit in the display screen area and transmits the changed display area information to the client unit. The client unit displays the drawing data received from the server unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Naoto Toda
  • Patent number: 8681060
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multiband antenna, comprising: an antenna element section which is fed from a feeding point; and a ground element section which is connected to a ground of the feeding point; wherein the antenna element section includes: a pole element which includes the feeding point, and has a length at which the pole element resonates at a first frequency; an L-shaped folded-back element which is connected to an end of the pole element, and resonates at a second frequency together with the pole element; and an L-shaped added element which is connected to the pole element; wherein a length from the feeding point to an end of the added element is a length at which the added element resonates at the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Kotaka
  • Publication number: 20140081161
    Abstract: A pulse data detecting apparatus, pulse data detecting method, and pulse data detection program are provided capable of suppressing an influence of the condition of the body surface to be measured and obtaining an appropriate measurement result under a wide range of conditions. In the present invention, a blood-flow-suppressing-projection protrusion-control mechanism section causes a blood-flow-suppressing projection to protrude to press or compress the body surface to suppress a blood flow on a downstream side, thereby increasing a blood pressure of a measurement region at the time of measurement. A light-receiving element receives reflected light of light applied from a light-emitting element to a skin surface, and outputs an electrical signal. Increasing the blood pressure of the measurement region enables to obtain an output signal at a sufficient output level from the light-receiving element. A CPU calculates a pulse rate based on the output signal from the light-receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiya KUNO
  • Publication number: 20140078475
    Abstract: A fluorescent substrate includes a base having a reflective surface and a flat bottom surface, and a fluorescent layer disposed on the reflective surface of the base such that the reflective surface of the base directs, outward from the wheel, fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent layer due to its excitation by exciting light. The reflective surface of the base has an array of minute reflective structures formed thereon so as to reflect, outward from the reflective surface, fluorescence emitted substantially parallel to the flat bottom surface of the base from the fluorescent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140081621
    Abstract: The electronic dictionary is equipped with a CPU which performs a control to display a Chinese character string of Chinese language. The CPU performs a control to display a pinyin of the Chinese character string so that the pinyin is correlated to the Chinese character string, and performs a control to detect from the Chinese character string a Chinese character of a certain tone which changes when the Chinese character is combined with a Chinese character of a certain tone, as a tone-change Chinese character, and execute an identifying display of the pinyin which is displayed and corresponds to the tone-change Chinese character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Muneyuki OGAWA
  • Patent number: 8674915
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an auxiliary electrode between adjacent first and second scan signal lines, first and second thin film transistors with gate electrodes connected to the first and second scan signal lines, respectively, first and second pixel electrodes connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the first and second thin film transistors, respectively, a data signal line that is connected to the other of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the first and second thin film transistors, and a common electrode facing the pixel electrodes via a liquid crystal layer. The first and second pixel electrodes are adjacent along the data signal line. A potential difference between the auxiliary and common electrodes is greater than a potential difference between the first pixel electrode and the common electrode and a potential difference between the second pixel electrode and the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yayoi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140071325
    Abstract: FIG. 2C depicts a live view screen when a movement is made in a direction of approaching the camera position at the time of pre-photographing (frontward direction) and also in the right direction in the drawing. When the camera position is changed, the display state of a provisional subject image in the live view screen is changed according to the change. In this case, the display size of the provisional subject image is changed according to the movement distance of the camera position in the frontward direction and the display position of the provisional subject image is changed in the left direction according to the movement distance in the right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma KAWAHARA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Koki NAKAMURA, Kanako NAKANO, Jun MURAKI
  • Publication number: 20140071152
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first display controller configured to display a first image, a touch area detector configured to detect a touched area of the displayed first image, a first processor configured to change a tone of the touched area of the first image, a storage configured to store touched areas detected by the touch area detector, a second display controller configured to display a second image instead of the first image, and a second processor configured to change tones of the touched areas of the second image which are stored in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kashio, Yoshiharu Houjou, Katsuya Sakamaki
  • Patent number: 8671125
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic calculator, including a display device, a storage having an operator priority table in which an operator operation priority is stored, and a processor that performs causing the display device to display a formula, performing sequentially an operation of each formula element constituting the formula displayed on the display device according to the operator priority table, displaying distinctly the formula element, to which the operation is performed in the formula displayed on the display device, on the display device each time each formula element operation is sequentially performed, and displaying a solution corresponding to the formula element to which the operation is performed on the display device each time each formula element operation is sequentially performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Akiko Muraki
  • Patent number: 8670160
    Abstract: The printing device includes a reading unit, a printing unit, an operation mode setting unit, a personal information determining unit that determines the kind of the personal information, such as an address, a personal name, or a telephone number, from image data read by the reading unit when the operation mode setting unit sets the operation mode to be a reading mode, a printing data setting unit, a concealing-pattern-data generating unit that generates concealing pattern data, and a printing control unit that activates the printing unit to perform printing on the printed object based on the concealing pattern data generated by the concealing-pattern-data generating unit when the operation mode setting unit sets the operation mode to be a printing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Kanno
  • Patent number: 8670819
    Abstract: An optical biological information detecting apparatus includes a light emitting unit which emits observation light of a specific wavelength band to optically observe a desired portion of a tissue of a skin of a human body, and an annular light guide unit which guides the observation light to a desired area of a surface of the skin corresponding to the desired portion of the tissue of the skin, and which annularly irradiates the observation light onto the desired area of the surface of the skin. The apparatus further includes a light receiving unit which is disposed at a position surrounded by the annular light guide unit, and which receives scattered light scattered by the desired portion of the tissue of the skin after the observation light is annularly irradiated onto the desired area of the surface of the skin by the annular light guide unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamiya, Shuji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8670074
    Abstract: A projector includes an input unit which inputs an image signal, a projection unit which projects an achromatic luminance image and a chromatic image on the basis of the image signal input by the input unit, an image processing unit which performs a sharpening processing to emphasize a high-frequency component in the image signal in accordance with a sharpening parameter to the image signal input by the input unit, and a projection control unit which controls a luminance image projection time of the luminance image for the chromatic image projected in the projection unit, a value of the sharpening parameter and the luminance image projection time being associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Takeo Ishizu
  • Patent number: 8670616
    Abstract: A region specification method is provided of specifying a subject region including a subject from a subject existing image in which a background and the subject exist. The region specification method including: calculating an image boundary pixel number of an image boundary of the subject existing image constituting an edge part of each of divided regions into which the subject existing image is divided by a borderline defined on the subject existing image; specifying, from the divided regions, a reference region having a pixel percentage equal to or more than a predetermined percentage, the pixel percentage indicating the calculated image boundary pixel number in a total pixel number of the edge part; and specifying the subject region from the divided regions of the subject existing image by taking the reference region specified in the specifying the reference region as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Hamada
  • Publication number: 20140063512
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit which obtains print target data to be printed; a second print size specifying unit which specifies a print size for printing the obtained print target image on one or more print media; a print medium size specifying unit which specifies a size of the print media on which the print target data is printed; and a division judging unit which judges whether or not the print target data is divided into the plural print media when being printed, on the basis of the specified print size and the specified size of the print media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140060164
    Abstract: A moisture status measuring device includes a moisture sensor, a drainage sensor, and a moisture status acquirer. The moisture sensor outputs an output value according to an amount of moisture contained in soil housed in a container that includes drainage holes. The drainage sensor detects water discharged from the drainage holes. The moisture status acquirer acquires moisture status information expressing the current moisture status of moisture in the soil on the basis of the output value from the moisture sensor at the time when the drainage sensor detected water and the current output value from the moisture sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro TOMIDA
  • Patent number: 8665674
    Abstract: Disclosed is a time code discrimination apparatus that discriminates a time code including one-minute digit and ten-minute digit codes. The time code discrimination apparatus includes: a first code acquiring section to acquire a plurality of sets of one-minute digit codes at a time interval in which the plurality of sets of one-minute digit codes are equal in value of one-minute digit; and a first code discrimination section to execute a process of reducing erroneous discrimination on the plurality of sets of one-minute digit codes acquired by the first code acquiring section, and to discriminate the one-minute digit codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru Someya
  • Patent number: 8664506
    Abstract: An electronic percussion instrument including: a detecting section which is provided in a stick and detects acceleration and angular speed based on movement of the stick; a first timing generating section which generates beat timing based on a predetermined tempo and beat width; a first pre-sound-production movement detecting section which detects a pre-sound-production movement that is performed prior to sound production, based on the acceleration and the angular speed detected by the detecting section; and a sound production instructing section which instructs to produce a sound at the beat timing generated by the first timing generating section, when the first pre-sound-production movement detecting section detects the pre-sound-production movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Morio Yamanouchi