Patents Assigned to Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7761001
    Abstract: When an auxiliary emission auto focus has been set by operation and through image display is started, a CPU 9 starts an operation of acquiring a single frame among those sequentially picked up at a predetermined interval. Next, the CPU 9 calculates an EV value, judges whether a LED 16 state. If the LED 16 is in the ON state, the CPU 9 judges the calculated EV value. If the EV value is equal to or more than EV5, the CPU 9 images a single frame after temporarily turning OFF the LED 16, and then turns the LED 16 ON to judge whether the shooting scene is really dark. Next, the CPU 9 calculates the EV value. When judged that the EV value is not equal to or less than EV3, the CPU 9 judges that the shooting scene is not dark and turns OFF the LED 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Yuyama
  • Patent number: 7760967
    Abstract: When a first DMA unit and a second DMA unit transfer image data in a memory to be divided into units composed of a plurality of lines, a transfer number of lines for an enlargement section is controlled for each unit on the basis of a magnification of an image which has been set. Even if any magnification is set, the number of output lines of a second reduction section can always be made coincident with a number of lines specified in a JPEG encoder. In addition, there is no need for providing an additional circuit configuration such as a buffer memory in the second reduction section in order to match number of lines each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Muraki
  • Patent number: 7760173
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus has a light source for emitting a white spotlight, a color wheel on which a plurality of transmission areas having different light transmission characteristics are arranged in the circumferential direction, a modulation unit which modulates the spotlight based on image data in a mixed-color period in which, along with the rotation of the color wheel, the spotlight from the light source passes through the color wheel at the boundary between a first transmission area and a second transmission area adjoining each other and having different transmission characteristics, and a timing change unit which changes the timing at which image data based on which the spotlight is modulated is switched to another one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakuni Iwanaga
  • Publication number: 20100177602
    Abstract: A time information obtaining apparatus, comprises: an input waveform data generating section for sampling a received signal including a time code at a predetermined sampling period to obtain sampling points every one unit time length, and generating input waveform data having one or more unit time lengths based on data having at least one unit time length including the obtained sampling points; a predicted waveform data generating section for generating a plurality of pieces of predicted waveform data with respect to each class of a standard time radio wave; a correlation value calculating section for calculating correlation values between the input waveform data and the plurality of pieces of predicted waveform data of each of the classes; a correlation value comparing section for comparing the correlation values to calculate optimum values; and a judging section for judging the class of the standard time wave based on the optimum values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Abe
  • Publication number: 20100177853
    Abstract: A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; a determining section for determining rising and falling points of a demodulated signal; a first calculator for calculating first differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the rising points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a rising dispersion amount; a second calculator for calculating second differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the falling points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a falling dispersion amount; a comparison section for comparing the rising dispersion amount and the falling dispersion amount; and a judger for judging a code type of the received time code on the basis of a comparison result of the comparison section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi NOMURA, Hideo Abe
  • Publication number: 20100178594
    Abstract: A fuel package includes a vessel wherein the interior space is separated, and has a flow-out opening and a flow-in opening that lead to the interior space, a liquid fuel filled in the region at the side of the flow-out opening in the vessel, and a follower that separates the liquid fuel and the region at the side of the flow-in opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunari KABASAWA
  • Publication number: 20100175466
    Abstract: A fuel package includes a vessel wherein the interior space is separated, and has a flow-out opening and a flow-in opening that lead to the interior space, a liquid fuel filled in the region at the side of the flow-out opening in the vessel, and a follower that separates the liquid fuel and the region at the side of the flow-in opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunari KABASAWA
  • Publication number: 20100178888
    Abstract: A radio wave receiving apparatus is provided with a tuning circuit for bringing a receiving frequency of an antenna tuned in to a frequency of a desired wave, a frequency converting circuit for mixing a local oscillation signal with the signal received through the antenna, thereby converting the received signal into an intermediate frequency signal, a feed back loop including at least a portion of the tuning circuit for feeding back the received signal, a controller for detecting a level of the intermediate frequency signal to change a frequency characteristic of the tuning circuit, thereby obtaining a tuning point corresponding to the desired wave, wherein, the controller brings the feed back loop in operation, thereby changing the frequency characteristic of the tuning circuit, and when two peaks of a level of the received signal are detected while the frequency characteristic of the tuning circuit is changed, the controller selects as a tuning point corresponding to the desired wave a tuning point at which
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Kaoru Someya
  • Publication number: 20100177854
    Abstract: A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; an analyzer for analyzing the time code from a demodulated signal obtained by demodulating the standard radio wave; a time-shift adder for executing an addition processing of adding a pulse waveform of the demodulated signal and a pulse waveform of a signal obtained by shifting the demodulated signal by a predetermined time; and a judger for judging a code type of the time code contained in the received standard radio wave on the basis of a addition result of the time-shift adder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi NOMURA, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 7754161
    Abstract: A reactor to reform fuel includes a low temperature reaction unit, a high temperature reaction unit provided separately from the low temperature reaction unit, and a communicating tube via which the low temperature reaction unit and the high temperature reaction unit communicate with each other. At least one of the low temperature reaction unit and the high temperature reaction unit has a first surface, and the other of the low temperature reaction unit and the high temperature reaction unit has a second surface which is opposed to the first surface. The first surface includes a concave surface and a projecting surface which projects towards the second surface, wherein a length between the concave surface and the second surface is longer than a length between the projecting surface and the second surface. And the communicating tube is provided between the concave surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7756948
    Abstract: A collected data providing apparatus and a portable data collecting terminal capable of collecting valuable effective data from object of data collection. When a server receives a data-collection request from a data collection requester's terminal, the server examines whether or not there is a data collector with a terminal in the vicinity of a place of data collection included in the request. If there is, the server sends a data collection request to the portable terminal, which receives the request, collects data on the place at the request, and then sends the server the collected data. The server then delivers this collected data to the data collection requester's terminal (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Murata
  • Patent number: 7753534
    Abstract: There is disclosed a projection device which includes a light source constituted of a reflector and a light source lamp, a projection system including a projection encoder for forming a light image based on an input image signal to project it by use of light from the light source, a micromirror element and a projection lens, a photographing system including a photographing lens for photographing the projected image, a CCD and a process circuit, and a control section detecting a luminance distribution from the photographed image and correcting a luminance distribution of the light image formed by the micromirror element in accordance with the detected luminance distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiya Kuno
  • Patent number: 7755271
    Abstract: An electron emission film having a pattern of diamond in X-ray diffraction and formed of a plurality of diamond fine grains having a grain diameter of 5 nm to 10 nm is formed on a substrate. The electron emission film can restrict the field intensity to a low level when it causes an emission current to flow, and has a uniform electron emission characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignees: Kochi Industrial Promotion Center, Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Nishimura, Hideki Sasaoka
  • Publication number: 20100173455
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of wiring lines which are provided on an upper side of a semiconductor substrate and which have connection pad portions, and columnar electrodes are provided on the connection pad portions of the wiring lines. A first sealing film is provided around the columnar electrodes on the upper side of the semiconductor substrate and on the wiring lines. A second sealing film is provided on the first sealing film. The first sealing film is made of a resin in which fillers are not mixed, and the second sealing film is made of a material in which fillers are mixed in a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Shiota
  • Publication number: 20100172641
    Abstract: A photographing apparatus, including: a photographing section for generating photographed image data by performing a continuous shooting, and a controller for causing the photographing section to perform the continuous shooting with a continuous shooting speed thereof being slowed down in stages to correspond to a plurality of different continuous shooting speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Kazuhisa Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 7751092
    Abstract: A document camera includes a stand and a digital camera attached thereto to be freely detachable, and ensures an electrical connection therebetween at an attaching time. The digital camera is structured to be usable as a single unit. Moreover, a charging circuit is provided in the stand to make it possible to charge the attached digital camera by an external power source. An image obtained by the digital camera or data of the recorded image is transferred to a PC via the stand, and the obtained (recorded) image is projected on a screen by a projector. Moreover, a mode change key, a shutter key, and the like are provided in the stand, making it possible to perform an operation for changing an operation mode, a still image shooting operation and the like in the digital camera and allow an operation from the PC via the stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Sambongi, Junichi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100165797
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece comprises a drive module configured to drive a hand, an electricity generation module, first and second capacitor modules, the second capacitor module having smaller capacitance than the first capacitor module, and an auxiliary drive control module which causes the drive module to perform the auxiliary driving when the charge level of the second capacitor module exceeds a third level indicating an amount of electricity which enables the auxiliary driving, and waits until the charge level of the second capacitor module exceeds the third level after performing the auxiliary driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Asami, Tomoo Kasuo
  • Patent number: 7744225
    Abstract: In a light source apparatus, a reflector has an inner reflective surface complementary to a part of the outer surface of an ellipsoid with a pair of focal points. The surface part has a first one of the pair of focal points therewithin. An array of light emitting elements is disposed at the position of the first focal point within the reflective surface. Thus, light rays emitted by the array of light emitting elements are reflected by the inner surface of the reflector so as to be focused at the other of the pair of focal points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7746405
    Abstract: There is provided an illumination apparatus used for imaging a moving picture made up of a plurality of frames, and for irradiating an auxiliary light from a light source constituted by one or a plurality of LEDs onto a photo-object. The one or plurality of LEDs are duty-driven by a duty ratio smaller than 100% during an imaging period (during a period for exposing a CCD) of a frame period. The heat releasing effect and the light emitting efficiency can be improved as compared to a case where the LEDs are successively turned on during an imaging period. As a result, the light emitting intensity at the time the light emitting diodes are turned on can be heightened with the amount of consumed electricity unchanged, and the light emitting efficiency of the light emitting diodes can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Yuyama, Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20100157085
    Abstract: When a displacement between a reference flame of a plurality of images acquired by continuous image pickup and a target flame is less than a first threshold indicating that such a flame is not likely to be affected by occlusion, smoothing is performed on an object area through a morphological operation with a normal process amount. Conversely, when a displacement between the reference flame of the plurality of images acquired by continuous image pickup and a target flame is larger than or equal to the first threshold, smoothing is performed with the process amount of morphological operation being increased than a normal process amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki SASAKI