Patents Assigned to Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 8435698Abstract: A fuel container 1 comprises: a container main body 2 in which a liquid fuel 4 is housed and fuel exhausting ports 24 and 31 to exhaust the liquid fuel 4 to the outside is formed; a following auxiliary member 71 which is solid, and situated on an end side of the liquid fuel 4 in the container main body 2, the following auxiliary member 71 moving to the sides of the fuel exhausting ports 24 and 31 as the liquid fuel 4 is exhausted; and a following body 5 situated on the end side of the liquid fuel 4, and packed in a space formed by an inner peripheral surface of the container main body 2 and an outer peripheral surface of the following auxiliary member 71, the following body 5 moving to the fuel exhausting ports 24 and 31 as the liquid fuel 4 is exhausted. Then, at least one of the inner peripheral surface of the container main body 2 and the outer peripheral surface of the following auxiliary member 71, which are faced to each other, is made to be uneven.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignees: Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yugo Matsuda, Yasunari Kabasawa, Toshimi Kamitani, Kiyoshi Fujisawa
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Patent number: 8434875Abstract: A light source unit comprising an optical wheel having a plurality of segment areas and including luminescent light emitting areas where at least two luminescent material layers having different characteristics are provided in a circumferential direction, a wheel motor for driving to rotate the optical wheel, an excitation light source for shining light on to the optical wheel, a light emitting light source and a collective optical system for collecting a light beam from the optical wheel and a light beam from the light emitting light source to the same optical path, wherein the excitation light source is selectively turned on to illuminate the at least two luminescent material layers having different characteristics which are disposed on the luminescent light emitting areas, and wherein the light emitting light source is turned on for a period of time during which the excitation light source does not shine the excitation light.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
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Patent number: 8436972Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates subjected to an aligning treatment in mutually parallel but opposite directions, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, a first electrode bent into a “<” shape, and a second electrode formed via an insulating film with the first electrode. The first electrode comprises one linear section and another linear section that extend in directions that intersect the alignment treatment direction at different angles, a bent section that is provided at each end where the one linear section and the other linear section adjacent to each other and that extends in a direction that intersects the alignment treatment direction at an angle that is greater than each of the intersecting angles of the one linear section and the other linear section and the alignment treatment direction with respect to the alignment treatment directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norihiro Arai, Kunpei Kobayashi, Toshiharu Nishino
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Patent number: 8428531Abstract: A radio wave receiver including an antenna for receiving a radio wave; a tuning unit that can discretely changing a frequency characteristic of the antenna; an oscillation generator that can oscillate the antenna and a circuit portion of the tuning unit; a reception processing section for extracting a signal of a desired wave out of a reception signal received from the antenna; a controller for generating an oscillation signal at the circuit portion by the oscillation generator, and switching a setting of the tuning unit to search a setting state of the tuning unit under which the oscillation signal is extracted by the reception processing section; and a compensator for applying a variation to a frequency characteristic of the oscillation signal or a frequency characteristic associated with signal extraction of the reception processing section when the controller searches the setting state.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaoru Someya
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Patent number: 8428121Abstract: A user friendly image pick-up apparatus is provided, which is capable of reproducing a moving image in various ways. The image pick-up apparatus 100 is provided with a display device 5 and an image processing circuit 2, wherein the display device reproduces a moving image at a reproducing speed based on plural image frames produced by an image pick-up unit 1, and the image processing circuit adds and combines a predetermined number of image frames among the plural image frames produced by the image pick-up unit to successively produce standard frames to be produced at a standard reproducing frame rate and successively produces difference image data between the standard frame and each of the predetermined image frames.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Jun Muraki, Koki Dobashi
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Patent number: 8427737Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged opposite to each other at a predetermined interval; a plurality of pixel electrodes which are aligned on the first substrate; a wiring which is arranged between adjacent pixel electrodes among the pixel electrodes; an opposite electrode which is provided on the second substrate; a partition wall which is provided above the wiring of the first substrate to stand toward the second substrate so as to surround the pixel electrodes; and a solvent which fills up a space surrounded by the partition wall and in which a plurality of particles are dispersed. The partition wall has a rectangular shape including four sides, at least one of which partially has an expanded-width portion wider than other portion of the at least one of the four sides.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motohiko Yoshida, Makoto Sasaki
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Patent number: 8427170Abstract: A drive circuit array substrate allowing for tests without mounting any driver ICs and without using expensive panel contact jigs and production and test methods thereof are provided. A data voltage application circuit, data selection circuit, gate selection circuit, and anode driver connected to a display pixel forming zone are formed on a drive circuit array substrate. The data voltage application circuit, data selection circuit, gate selection circuit, and anode driver allows for lighting test and aging test of the light emitting elements in the display pixel forming zone and measurement of transistor characteristics without mounting any driver ICs and without using expensive panel contract jigs.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Morimoto, Tsuyoshi Ozaki
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Patent number: 8421868Abstract: A difference degree evaluation device includes a signal acquisition unit which acquires at least two signals which are objects of matching, a memory unit which stores one of the two signals, which are acquired by the signal acquisition unit, as a reference signal, and stores the other of the two signals as an object signal, a sample extraction unit which extracts sample points in a predetermined block from the reference signal that is stored in the memory unit, and extracts sample points corresponding to the sample points of the reference signal from the object signal, and an arithmetic process unit which finds absolute difference values between the sample points of the reference signal and the sample points of the object signal, which are extracted by the sample extraction unit, and calculates a maximum value of the absolute difference values as an evaluation value.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Hamada
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Patent number: 8422246Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a front case, a rear case whose peripheral portion is brought into engagement with a peripheral portion of the front case and an electrostatic capacity type sensor portion which is encompassed by the front case and the rear case. A primary conductive portion, which is brought into engagement with the sensor portion for electrical connection, is formed on part of an inner surface of the peripheral portion of one of the cases which extends to the engagement portion. By adopting this configuration, the electronic apparatus can be fabricated easily and the operation of a touch switch provided in the electronic apparatus can be stabilized.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Nimura, Kenzo Ichikawa
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Patent number: 8416312Abstract: An image selection device including: a reception unit that receives a plurality of captured images obtained by rapid shooting one or more people as subjects; a face detection unit that detects human faces included in the captured images received by the reception unit; an eye detection unit that detects eyes in the human faces detected by the face detection unit; a blink detection unit that detects blink degrees of each of the eyes detected by the eye detection unit; an estimation unit that estimates statuses of the human faces based on the blink degrees detected by the blink detection unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one of the captured images to be recorded on a recording medium from among the captured images received by the reception unit, based on the statuses of the human faces estimated by the estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhisa Matsunaga
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Patent number: 8416294Abstract: A positioning device comprising: a movement measurement unit that measures relative position variation; a positioning unit that enables measurement of positional information; and a control unit that starts continuous measurement of position variation by the movement measurement unit and measurement of positional information by the positioning unit at each predetermined timing for at least a specified position, and determines a position determination spot based on positional information of any of the at least two positions in a case that the difference between the amount of position variation and the amount of relative position variation is determined by the determining unit to be within a predetermined range, and calculates positional information of the specified position based on positional information of the position determination spot and information of position variation that has been continuously measured by the movement measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Toda
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Publication number: 20130082871Abstract: A positioning apparatus, positioning method and storage medium are described. According to one implementation, a positioning apparatus includes a first positioning section, a second positioning section, a first calculating section, a control section and a specifying section. The first positioning section performs positioning of the positioning apparatus. The second positioning section performs positioning of displacement of the positioning apparatus. The first calculating section calculates a positioning accuracy of displacement. The control section controls measurement operation of the first and the second positioning sections based on the positioning accuracy calculated by the first calculating section. The specifying section specifies a present position of the positioning apparatus based on a measured result of the first and second positioning sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kouhei WATANABE
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Patent number: 8411057Abstract: A protection-plate-attached electronic member including: a first electronic member including a first transparent substrate; an adhesion layer which overlaps with the first transparent substrate; a protection plate fixed to the first electronic member in a state in which the adhesion layer intervenes between the protection plate and the first transparent substrate; and a peeling auxiliary section which intervenes between the adhesion layer and one of the protection plate and the first electronic member so as to lower bonding strength between the adhesion layer and the one of the protection plate and the first electronic member, wherein the adhesion layer includes an overlapping section which overlaps with the peeling auxiliary section; and a nonoverlapping section which does not overlap with the peeling auxiliary section and which directly contacts with the one of the protection plate and the first electronic member.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 8411158Abstract: An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing unit which sequentially generates still image data, a holding unit which holds a plurality of still image data, a display unit which displays the still image data, a setting unit which sets a predetermined state as the start timing of shooting by the image sensing unit, a determination unit which determines whether the predetermined state has been obtained, a shooting control unit which causes the image sensing unit to start shooting when the determination unit determines that the predetermined state has been obtained, a display control unit which causes the display unit to sequentially display, at a display speed lower than an actual time, the still image data, a selection unit which selects one of a plurality of image data displayed on the display unit, and a recording unit which records the selected image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Miyata
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Patent number: 8411223Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a protective plate to protect the panel, a resin layer to join them, and a support having an opening corresponding to a screen area of the panel. The panel is disposed on one side of the support so that the screen area faces the opening. A peripheral portion of the panel is fixed to the support. The plate has such projecting widths that the peripheral portion thereof is overlapped on the periphery of the opening. The plate is arranged on the other side of the support with the peripheral portion thereof being fixed to the support through spacers provided between the support and plate to surround the opening at intervals. Some spacers are continuously formed extending from the edge of the opening to the edge of the plate. The resin layer is charged into the opening and a region surrounded by the spacers.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Tsuji, Tatsuhito Harada
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Patent number: 8411166Abstract: An image pickup method includes determining a start timing and an end timing of obtaining the speech to have a photographing timing of the still image taken by the image pickup unit therebetween, in accordance with a period in which the speech stored in the temporary speech storing unit satisfies a predetermined condition, and cutting out the speech stored in the temporary speech storing unit for a period from the start timing to the end timing determined, and storing the cut speech in the storing unit in association with the still image taken by the image pickup unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Miyata
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Patent number: 8411911Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises an image capture unit configured to capture an image, a characteristic part detector configured to detect a characteristic part of a face from the image captured by the image capture unit, an outline generator configured to generate a pseudo outline of the face based on positions of the characteristic part detected by the characteristic part detector and a correction unit configured to correct the image based on the pseudo outline generated by the outline generator.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kouichi Nakagomi
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Patent number: 8410482Abstract: Disclosed in a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode of the first transistor are arranged along a first direction and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode of the second transistor are arranged in a reverse order of the first source electrode and the first drain electrode along the first direction, the first source electrode and the second source electrode are connected by a source connecting wiring, the first drain electrode and the second drain electrode are connected by a drain connecting wiring, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode are connected by a gate connecting wiring and the source connecting wiring and the drain connecting wiring are provided at positions except a region overlapped with the first gate electrode, the second gate electrode and the gate connecting wiring.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunihiro Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Yukikazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8411338Abstract: A reference pixel PB is specified for a specified pixel P0 whose (luminance) value is below a threshold, for example, in the RGB data obtained in image pickup. The reference pixel PB should be on a straight line passing through the specified pixel P0 and the center O of the image and spaced from the specified pixel P0 by a distance, dr, depending on a reduction or expansion rate of a blue component (or B) image of the optical image corresponding to an optical zoom magnification in the image pickup. Only when the B value of the specified pixel P0 is greater than that of the reference pixel PB, the B value of the specified pixel P0 is replaced with that of the reference pixel PB. By expanding or reducing the blue component image alone for the original RGB data, image data is obtained in which the magnification chromatism is corrected.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaru Onozawa
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Patent number: 8411997Abstract: An image capture device includes a capture unit configured to capture an image of an object, an object detection unit configured to detect the object in the image captured by the capture unit, an angle detection unit configured to detect an angle of the object detected by the object detection unit, and a control unit configured to perform a predetermined control operation for the image capture device based on the angle of the object detected by the angle detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Iwamoto