Patents Assigned to Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 8199112Abstract: When a search character string is input via a key input section and a handwriting input section, if a spelling is input, a character is input directly by a key input operation or a recognized character is input by a handwriting input operation. If pinyin is input to input a Chinese character, not only are alphabetic characters input by a key input operation, but also the four tones area input by touching a four-tone input screen displayed on the handwriting input section. Accordingly, not only can ordinary characters be input as usual, of course, but also Chinese-specific four tones can be input easily by a touch operation at the handwriting input section even when a pinyin character is input.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kohei Yoshida
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Patent number: 8197069Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a projection unit which forms a picture corresponding to an input image signal and projects the formed picture onto an object, a specifying unit which specifies a region in the picture projected by the projection unit, and a projection control unit which causes the region of the picture projected by the projection unit to be limited according to the region specified by the specifying unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Atsushi Inoshita
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Patent number: 8199182Abstract: An exposing device which radiates light on a photoconductor drum which rotates, thereby executing exposure, includes a light-emitting element unit including light-emitting element having an emission area which emits light that is generated, the emission area having a rectangular shape with a long side along a direction perpendicular to a rotational direction of the photoconductor drum, and a short side along the rotational direction, a lens unit which focuses the light, which is emitted from the emission area, on a peripheral surface of the photoconductor drum, thereby executing exposure, and forming on the peripheral surface a beam spot, and a driving circuit which causes the light-emitting element to emit light, thereby making a width of the shape of the beam spot in a direction along the rotational direction close to a width of the beam spot in a direction perpendicular to the rotational direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsuoka, Isao Ebisawa, Kenji Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8199207Abstract: An image recording device includes an obtaining module configured to obtain tilt information indicating a tilt direction and a tilt angle of an image with respect to a horizontal direction for a processing unit including frames, a rotational processing module configured to perform, in accordance with the tilt direction and the tilt angle indicated by the tilt information, a rotational process having a same rotational direction and a same rotational amount for correction of tilting with respect to images of the frames, and a storing module configured to store the images of the frames subjected to the rotational process.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
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Patent number: 8195000Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is provided which informs a user of a state of brightness adjusting operation and which has excellent usability for the user. Disclosed is a digital camera including an image adder 5d for synthesizing a plurality of continuously taken image frames to produce a synthesized image, an image processing apparatus 5 for executing image brightness adjusting processing for synthesizing a required synthesis number of image frames and adjusting brightness of the synthesized image at the time of continuous picture-taking of a subject, and a display device for displaying an image which is being synthesized by the image adder in the image brightness adjusting processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi Sakurai, Takaaki Yui
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Patent number: 8193438Abstract: An electronic keyboard musical instrument which is placed on a supporting surface when it is used, includes an instrument main unit which includes a keyboard having a plurality of keys and which generates electrical signals in response to depressions of the keys, a speaker which has a front side and a rear side and which produces sounds corresponding to the electrical signals from the instrument main unit, and an instrument main unit supporting member which is placed on the supporting surface. The instrument main unit supporting member includes an outer surface facing an external space, an internal space surrounded by the outer surface and housing the instrument main unit at a position apart upward from the supporting surface, and an opening formed in the outer surface and communicating the internal space with the external space. The speaker is attached to the outer surface with the front side facing the opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., LtdInventor: Akihisa Hoshino
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Patent number: 8195716Abstract: When an additional search key of an input unit is operated by the user, if a current display on a display screen of a display unit is a list display of respective example sentences, a user input for refining example sentences is received, and example sentences are refined in accordance therewith. When the additional search key is operated by the user, if the current display is a display of explanatory information on the vocabulary entry, the display screen of the display unit is split into two, and a search of the explanatory information is carried out on one split screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takatoshi Abe
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Patent number: 8196057Abstract: When keys are typed on a calculator keyboard displayed on an scientific electronic calculator emulation screen, not only are key data items of the calculator stored sequentially into a key log memory and displayed on a log screen, but also a calculation process corresponding to the key input is executed and displayed on a calculator display. Then, when the “selector” button on the tool bar is input, a calculator function name to be executed on the basis of the key log displayed on the log screen is retrieved from a function corresponding key log memory and is replaced with a display area of the key log. Then, the display area is displayed. Accordingly, with the key logs displayed on the log screen, what processes the series of key logs are supposed to execute can be recognized easily.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8189098Abstract: In order to provide a digital camera which includes a heat dissipating device which can cool sufficiently a solid state image pick-up device and integrated circuits, which has a high rigidity and which affects little the design of the digital camera, there is provided a digital camera comprising a lens unit 15, a solid state image pick-up device 31 and integrated circuits 41, wherein a camera housing is made to have a double housing construction by an outer housing 11 which is formed of a member having a low thermal conductivity and an inner housing 61 which is formed of a member having a high rigidity and a high thermal conductivity, wherein a heat dissipating space is defined between the outer housing 11 and the inner housing 61, the integrated circuits 41 configuring a heat source and the inner housing 61 are connected together by a member having a high thermal conductivity, and wherein the inner housing 61 is made up of a main body side housing which is situated in the vicinity of the solid state image piType: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuhiro Maruyama, Akira Suzuki, Kenji Fukasawa
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Patent number: 8188407Abstract: Disclosed is an temperature control apparatus including: a resistance heater a resistance value of which changes dependently on a temperature thereof; a fixed resistance connected to the resistance heater in series; a signal generator to output a control signal which has two voltage levels of a first voltage and a second voltage; a switching section to flow a current through the resistance heater and the fixed resistance when the voltage level is the first voltage, and not to flow a current through the resistance heater and the fixed resistance when the voltage level is the second voltage; and a first voltage measuring instrument to measure a voltage value across the fixed resistance at the time when the current flows through the fixed resistance, wherein the signal generator controls the temperature of the resistance heater based on the measured voltage by the first voltage measuring instrument.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi Nomura
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Patent number: 8189864Abstract: A plurality of items of shot image data obtained by temporally continuous shooting are analyzed. Marking data indicating that replaced graphic data is to be combined is added to image data corresponding to an actor and the resulting data is displayed. When a preset gesture (motion) is detected, marking data indicating that replaced graphic data u is to be combined is added to image data corresponding to another actor and the resulting data is displayed. After shooting, the individual items of image data to which marking data have been added are replaced with respective replaced graphic data. Replaced graphic data are created as moving images which capture the motions of the actors.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Kojo
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Patent number: 8189056Abstract: In a digital camera 1, a storing means stores feature quantities of a subject area in an image, and a search point setting means sets a plurality of search points in the subject area. Next, an updating means updates coordinates of the set plurality of search points using random numbers. Then, a weight setting means compares feature quantities of the updated search points with the stored feature quantities, and sets a weight for each search point based on similarity. Next, a sorting means sorts the search points depend on those weight, and a variance acquiring means calculates the variance of the sorted search points. Then, an angle-of-view adjusting means determines the amount of adjustment for the angle-of-view based on the calculated variance.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Teshima, Kouichi Nakagomi
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Patent number: 8188916Abstract: The number of GPS satellites from which radio waves are received and the intensities of radio waves received from the GPS satellites are acquired. In a first state in which radio waves of a first signal intensity are received from four GPS satellites in a first predetermined time, orbit/time information are acquired from the respective GPS satellites. The time information indicates a radio-wave emission GMT clock time at the satellite when the radio waves were emitted from the satellite. In a second state in which radio waves of a second signal intensity lower than the first intensity are received from one or more GPS satellites within a second time longer than the first predetermined time, the time information is acquired from the respective GPS satellites. In the first state, a current time and a current position of the GPS timepiece is calculated based on the time/orbit information. In the second state, a current time is calculated based on the time information.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryuji Shingyoji
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Publication number: 20120129477Abstract: A radio wave receiving apparatus includes: an antenna to receive a radio wave; a tuning member to allow a reception frequency of the antenna to be tuned to an intended frequency, in which tuning member a frequency characteristic is variable; a receiving member to receive a reception signal from the antenna to demodulate a modulation wave; a positive feedback member to perform a positive feedback in a signal path including the tuning member; and a switching member to turn on/off a feedback operation of the positive feedback member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2012Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaoru SOMEYA
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Publication number: 20120128196Abstract: In an electronic device, a speaker attaching section 17 which is vertically open with respect to a circuit board 10 and into which a speaker 16 is press-fitted is integrally formed on a contact sheet 13 arranged on the circuit board 10 provided inside an upper case 8. Therefore, the speaker 16 can be easily attached in a manner that sound therefrom does not leak, simply by the speaker 16 being press-fitted into the speaker attaching section 17 of the contact sheet 13. Accordingly, in the present invention, the structure of the speaker section 6 is simple and the number of its components is small, whereby the thickness of the speaker section 6 can be reduced. In addition, sound generated by the speaker can be favorably and reliably emitted from the speaker attaching section 17 to the outside of the upper case 8, without chattering noise being generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi WATANABE, Maki MAEDA
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Patent number: 8178772Abstract: Resonators generate resonance sound data of given resonant frequencies based on sound signal data corresponding to a pitch of a key. Each resonator includes a delay circuit which delays an input based on delay time data, a second adder which adds an output from the delay circuit to input sound signal data, and a low-pass filter which performs filtering depending on a filter control signal on the output from the second adder. An output from the low-pass filter is input to the delay circuit, and a first adder adds outputs from the resonators. A storage device stores a coefficient table containing items of delay time data to be provided to the resonators, and the items of the delay time data do not match with frequencies corresponding to pitches of keys.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Iwase
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Patent number: 8178828Abstract: A photo-sensing device is disclosed, comprising a photoelectric conversion semiconductor thin film, thin films for ohmic contacts to be provided to form an incident light window on one face of the photoelectric conversion semiconductor thin film, first and second ohmic electrodes installed on the thin films for the ohmic contacts, a connection wiring for short-circuiting the first and the second ohmic electrodes, an insulating film provided on the other face of the photoelectric conversion semiconductor thin film, and a first electrode provided on the face of the insulating film that does not contact the photoelectric conversion semiconductor thin film.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ikuhiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8177869Abstract: Disclosed is a reaction device that includes a reaction device main body that includes a first reaction unit and a second reaction unit, a container to house the reaction device main body and a first region that corresponds to at least the first reaction unit and a second region that corresponds to the second reaction unit, the first and second regions being provided to the container or internal side of the container. The first reaction unit is set to a temperature higher than that of the second reaction unit, and the first region has a higher reflectivity than that of the second region, with respect to a heat ray that is radiated from the reaction device main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Nakamura, Masatoshi Nomura
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Publication number: 20120111176Abstract: The present invention includes a keyboard chassis 1; keys 2 which are arranged on the keyboard chassis 1 and rotate in an up and down direction by bending a bendable section 22 positioned in the rear; and a key rotation holding section 30 for holding the rotation fulcrum of a key 2 stable when it rotates in the up and down direction. Accordingly, the rotation fulcrum of the key 2 is kept stable by a first supporting section 31 and a second supporting section 32 of the key rotation holding section 30 when the key 2 is depressed and the bendable section 22 bends in the up and down direction, whereby the key 2 is stably rotated. Therefore, regardless of whether the front portion of the key 2 is being depressed or the rear portion thereof is being depressed, the rotation movement of the key 2 will always remain stable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20120111179Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Morio YAMANOUCHI