Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
  • AUTONOMOUS MOBILE APPARATUS RETURNING TO CHARGER TO BE CHARGED, AUTONOMOUS MOVING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180275666
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile apparatus that returns to a charger to be charged, the apparatus comprises a determiner that determines whether the apparatus is able to return to the charger, a location obtainer that obtains a predetermined location, an action planner that sets a destination, and sets a route to the destination, and a movement controller that controls a drive so that the apparatus is moved along the route that is set by the action planner, wherein, when the determiner determines that the apparatus is not able to return to the charger, the action planner sets the predetermined location obtained by the location obtainer as the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA
  • ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE
    Publication number: 20180275614
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes indicators, an operation receiving unit, a timing unit and a processor. The operation receiving unit receives an operation performed by a user. The timing unit counts a date and time at present. The processor carries out operation control of the indicators and obtains a local time setting based on a time difference between a predetermined standard time and a local time at a target position. The processor makes at least apart of the indicators display the local time in accordance with the operation received by the operation receiving unit and obtains the local time setting based on a difference between the displayed local time and the date and time counted by the timing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaomi YONEKURA, Tadashi KOJIMA, Takayasu AKAGI, Shinji SAITO, Hirofumi NAGAREDA, Hirohisa MARUYAMA, Junichi IZUMI
  • INK, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SHAPED OBJECT, AND THERMAL EXPANSION SHEET
    Publication number: 20180274087
    Abstract: An ink for forming a photothermal conversion layer used to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermal expansion sheet to swell. The ink includes an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of the infrared light spectrum than in the visible light spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki TAKAHASHI, Yuji HORIUCHI, Yoshimune MOTOYANAGI, Satoshi MITSUI
  • INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180277008
    Abstract: According one embodiment, there is provided an information display apparatus including a processor, the processing being configured to display a character string including a plurality of keywords on a display; to detect a kind of an association operation when the processor accepts designation by a user operation of any one of the keywords displayed on the display, and accepts the association operation of related information corresponding to the designated keyword; and to set a problem-setting method with respect to the designated keyword, the problem-setting method corresponding to the detected kind of the association operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi KOJO
  • MOVEMENT ANALYZER, MOVEMENT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180274938
    Abstract: A movement analyzer includes a position information acquiring device, a memory, and a processor. The processor executes a program to perform operations including acquiring position information of the movement analyzer with the position information acquiring device, determining whether or not a moving state of the movement analyzer is a specific moving state, and recording the position information corresponding to the specific moving state in the memory as a path of the specific moving state when a determination result indicates that the moving state of the movement analyzer is the specific moving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi OKADA
  • DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20180275774
    Abstract: Display operation of a display device is controlled in association with a pointer device. A display control system that includes: a display device for displaying information on a display surface; a control device for controlling the display of the display device; and an image acquisition device for acquiring an image of the display device including a light beam from a pointer device capable of emitting a light beam is proposed. The control device includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring the image from the image acquisition device; a feature identification unit for identifying a feature of the light beam included in the image; and a display control unit for performing display operation of the display device based on the feature and state of the light beam. A corresponding display control method and display control program are proposed, too.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsunori TSUTSUMI
  • DRAWING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRAWING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180272751
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head drawing a pattern on the surface of a target nail of a hand or foot; and a processor. The processor controls the drawing head to scan a plurality of times across an area on the surface of the nail and to draw the pattern on the area during each of the plurality of scanning operations of the drawing head based on a curvature of the nail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi YAMASAKI
  • OPERATION PROCESSING DEVICE, REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPERATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20180275952
    Abstract: An operation processing device comprises: an operator which is capable of operating of changing a designation position and outputs an operation value corresponding to the designation position; and a processor which determines each of a plurality of execution conditions corresponding to each of a plurality of processes according to the operation value output by the operator and controls execution of the plurality of processes on the basis of a correspondence relation between the operation value and the execution condition which is defined to be individually different in each process and controls performing of the plurality of processes on the basis of the respective determined execution conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki AIMI
  • AUTONOMOUS MOBILE APPARATUS ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE IN HEIGHT, AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180275677
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile apparatus includes a controller, an image acquirer, an inertia measurer, a distance measurer, and a storage. The controller updates environment map information stored in the storage. The controller estimates a height from a reference surface, based on an image obtained by the image acquirer. The inertia measurer detects an amount of fluctuation of the height. The distance measurer detects whether or not the bottom portion of the autonomous mobile apparatus is in contact with an object. The controller, if having detected a change in height equal to or larger than a reference from information obtained from the image acquirer, the inertia measurer, or the distance measurer, stops updating the environment map information or deletes the environment map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira HAMADA
  • EXPANSION DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, METHOD OF EXPANDING THERMALLY EXPANDABLE SHEET, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180272777
    Abstract: An expansion device, including: an installation unit in which a thermally expandable sheet is disposed; an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the thermally expandable sheet placed on the installation unit with light; and a control unit configured to perform processes described below, wherein after an expansion process to expand the thermally expandable sheet by irradiating the thermally expandable sheet placed on the installation unit with light by the irradiation unit, a cooling process to cool the thermally expandable sheet by a predetermined cooling unit while maintaining the state in which the thermally expandable sheet is placed on the installation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youichi USHIGOME, Minoru SAITO
  • LEDGER DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, LEDGER DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180276461
    Abstract: A ledger document processing device including a display section which displays a live view image captured by an imaging section while waiting for a ledger document to be captured, and a processor which actualizes functions including judging whether a pixel-count size of an area corresponding to the ledger document in an image to be captured and stored in response to an imaging instruction is equal to or larger than a reference pixel-count size while waiting for the ledger document to be captured, notifying a user of a judgment result, and storing in a storage section the image captured by the imaging section in response to the imaging instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro SHIMAZU, Ryo OE
  • INK, THERMAL EXPANSION SHEET, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SHAPED OBJECT, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING METHOD
    Publication number: 20180272781
    Abstract: An ink is used for forming a photothermal conversion layer used for causing expansion of at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermal expansion sheet. The ink includes (i) an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of an infrared light spectrum than in a visible light spectrum, and (ii) a base that is transparent to visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Takahashi, Yuji Horiuchi, Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Satoshi Mitsui
  • ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180277075
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes; a plurality of keys, each of the plurality of keys specifying a pitch; a memory storing musical piece data representing a musical piece; and a processor, wherein the processor executes the following: retrieving the musical piece data of a musical piece from the memory and determining whether the musical piece data contains data of a lyric; and when the musical piece data contains the data of the lyric, and if a note specified by an operation of a key by a user is accompanied by a part of the lyric in the musical piece, causing data of a singing voice sound having the pitch specified by said operated key to be generated in accordance with the part of the lyric in response to the operation of the key, and causing the singing voice sound to be audibly output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • EXPANSION DEVICE AND MOLDING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180272578
    Abstract: An expansion device, including: an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the thermally expandable sheet placed on a placing unit with light; a conveyance unit configured to reciprocably convey the irradiation unit between a first position and a second position; an exhaust fan fixed to a housing and configured to discharge air from the housing; and an air supply fan which is movable with the irradiation unit and configured to supply outside air into the housing, wherein the exhaust fan is provided at a position where air can be discharged from the second position side when the irradiation unit is returned from the first position to the second position after being moved from the second position toward the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youichi USHIGOME, Minoru SAITO
  • INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY TERMINAL, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION DISPLAY TERMINAL, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180277009
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information display apparatus including a processor, the processor being configured to: designate a character string in a text displayed in a display unit in accordance with a user operation; determine whether a keyword is included in a part of the designated character string; generate, if it is determined that the keyword is included in the part of the designated character string, problem setting data based on the keyword included in the designated character string; and transmit the problem setting data to an external terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi KOJO
  • PRINTER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180272748
    Abstract: A printer includes a processor; a thermal head driver circuit that drives a thermal head for printing on a printing medium; a motor driver circuit that drives a motor configured to convey the printing medium; and a power supply circuit that includes a capacitor and a first switching circuit to charge the capacitor, the power supply circuit supplying electrical power to the thermal head driver circuit and the motor driver circuit via the capacitor, wherein the processor, when stopping operation of the printer, performs a control process of discharging the capacitor via the motor driver circuit and the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Toshiaki KANAMURA, Yoshimasa YOKOYAMA, Yasushi MURAI
  • ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS SYSTEM, GRAPHING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180276180
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to an embodiment comprises: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions. The instructions are executed by the at least one processor to perform: identifying at least one scientific theoretical formula relating to one or more scientific characteristics of which data is measured, setting a coordinate system that includes a coordinate axis to which at least a part of the identified at least one scientific theoretical formula is assigned, and plotting the measured data of the one or more scientific characteristics on the set coordinate system to display a first graph on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi HATAYAMA
  • KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180277080
    Abstract: A keyboard musical instrument, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that improve operability are provided. An electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard including plural white keys each of which is allocated with plural characters and plural black keys, and a controller. The controller executes, in a musical sound producing mode that is set, accepting a sound producing instruction of a musical sound in response to an operation of the keyboard, and, in a symbol input mode that is set, according to both a white key designated from the plural white keys and a black key designated from the plural black keys, accepting an input of a character among the plural characters allocated to the white key designated from the plural white keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180273230
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print head, a first cutter and a processor. The print head performs printing on a printing medium. The first cutter cuts the printing medium on which the print head has performed the printing. The first cutter trims away a corner at an end in a width direction of the printing medium. The processor controls the print head and the first cutter based on cutting information on an area to be trimmed by the first cutter so that a printing area of the printing medium is not cut by the first cutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Toshiaki KANAMURA, Yoshimasa YOKOYAMA, Yasushi MURAI
  • ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180277077
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument allows a player to operate operators as least number of times as possible to play music, and the player can play music easily and agreeably, using the instrument. Every measure decided by plural beats counted based on a designated meter a prior tone is determined from among automatic playing music data. The prior tone is a musical tone which is made note-on for example at a timing of a downbeat in the measure. If a candidate for the prior tone is one of chord composing tones, and the one of chord composing tones can compose a melody, then such musical tone is decided as the prior tone. The prior tones successively decided from the beginning of the automatic playing music data are indicated to the player as lighted up keys. The player operates the lighted up keys successively to perform the automatic playing music data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi NAKAMURA