Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH OPERATING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170177067
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a state determination unit. The state determination unit switches between first execution processing that executes a function of the information processing device by way of an operating system, and second execution processing that stops operation of the operating system during operation, and executes a specific function of the information processing device by way of a specific program without turning ON a power source of the information processing device. The second execution processing is not performed during execution of the first execution processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi OKADA, Hiroyuki KATO, Keiichi IMAMURA, Kayo OKADA, Masaru SAKATA, Kousuke ISHIZAKI
  • INPUT APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170178838
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an input apparatus comprising a key that is displaceable along a direction; a first detecting circuit that comprises an electrostatic capacitance sensor that detects a variation of an electrostatic capacitance caused by a contact or a proximity of a pressing body with the key; and a second detecting circuit that comprises a first electrode, the second detecting circuit detecting an electric connection of the first electrode to a second electrode that is displaced along the direction as the key is displaced, wherein the input apparatus switches a detecting status thereof exclusively between a first detecting status and a second detecting status to each other in accordance with a displacement variation of the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki OHIRA, Yoshihisa MATSUMOTO
  • AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170178331
    Abstract: To increase the frequency of executing a loop closing process, and to reduce an accumulated error in a local device position, and the like. A rotational image picker of an autonomous movement device picks up an image while performing a rotational action. An image memory stores information on the picked-up image. A map memory stores a created map. A position estimator estimates the local device position. A similar image searcher searches, from the image memory, the image that has a similarity level of equal to or greater than a predetermined similarity level. A map corrector corrects the map stored in the map memory when the similar image searcher founds the image that has the similarity level of equal to or greater than the predetermined similarity level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuro NARIKAWA
  • INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS, INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170180776
    Abstract: An information acquisition apparatus including a detection section which detects a movement of the information acquisition apparatus, a reception section which receives identification information transmitted from an external apparatus and indicating output information that is being outputted to the external apparatus, a reception control section which controls the reception section to receive the identification information when the detection section detects a predetermined movement; and an information reception section which receives information related to the output information that is being outputted to the external apparatus and indicated by the identification information, when the reception section receives the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fuminobu NAKAMURA
  • TIME DISPLAY DEVICE, TIME DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170176952
    Abstract: A smartphone includes: a touch panel display that performs display and receives an operation by a user; flash memory; a CPU; and a time display program that is stored in the flash memory and is configured so as to be executed by the CPU. This time display program includes: a command for causing the touch panel display to receive a selection operation of a specified city by the user; and a command for causing the touch panel display to display a center of a local time display of the specified city so as to be superimposed on a display location of the specified city in a map showing the specified city.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoaki MISAKI, Norihito HANAFUSA
  • AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170176997
    Abstract: To quickly recover from a status in which a local device position estimation is unavailable. A movement processor of an autonomous movement device executes a drive process for a driver so as to move autonomously. A position estimator estimates the local device position. An estimation determiner determines whether or not the estimation result of the local device position by the position estimator is uniquely defined. A movement process controller controls the movement processor so as to move to a position where the estimation result of the local device position by the position estimator is uniquely defined when the estimation determiner determines that the estimation result is not defined uniquely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuro NARIKAWA
  • BAND AND TIMEPIECE
    Publication number: 20170164698
    Abstract: The present invention is a band including a band main body and a band coupling member which is attached to an end portion of the band main body and a band attachment section of an attachment target member corresponding to the end portion of the band main body, in which the band coupling member has a structure where a plurality of component pieces are arranged in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the band main body and fixed to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miho NAGAHARA, Junichi SATO
  • AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170168498
    Abstract: A determination on whether or not a local device position and a map contain an error is made. A position measurer of an autonomous movement device measures a local device position. A map memory stores the created map. A position estimator estimates the local device position. A determiner determines whether or not a difference between the measured position by the position measurer and the estimated position by the position estimator is within a predetermined error range. A map editor edits the stored map in the map memory when the determiner determines that the difference is out of the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA
  • ROBOT-HUMAN INTERACTIVE DEVICE, ROBOT, INTERACTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20170169203
    Abstract: An authenticator of an interactive device authenticates a user. A speech urger urges the user to speak when the authenticator unsuccessfully authenticates the user. An interaction controller performs interaction according to the authenticated user when the authenticator successfully authenticates the user by voice of the user urged to speak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka ONODERA
  • AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF AUDIO PROCESSING, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20170169807
    Abstract: A delay time counter in a DSP cyclically counts a sampling clock from zero to a delay time sampling count and issues a delay time interrupt to a CPU each time the sampling clock count reaches the delay time sampling count. The CPU measures a time difference between each time the DSP issues the delay time interrupt and each time sequence clock interrupts occur a number of times corresponding to the delay time. Then, in order to reduce this time difference, the CPU increases or decreases a maximum count that is set to the sequence clock counter. Therefore, in the next delay process, the shift between the time by which the automatic performance is advanced by the CPU (which is equal to the delay time) and the timing of the delay process executed by the DSP (which is also equal in length to the delay time) will be corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki SATO
  • Display control apparatus displaying image
    Patent number: 9679383
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus 1 is equipped with: a CPU 11 that acquires a plurality of images; a normalization unit 54 that performs normalization such that an area of at least one of a plurality of acquired images satisfies a predetermined criterion; and a display control unit 56 that performs control such that a plurality of images including the images normalized by the normalization unit 54 are displayed in an output unit 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Yoshihiro Kawamura, Tomohiko Murakami, Yuichi Onumata
  • Luminescent wheel, light source unit having luminescent wheel device including same luminescent wheel, and projector
    Patent number: 9681110
    Abstract: There is provided a luminescent wheel including a reflecting plate on which a diffuse plate and a luminescent material layer are provided in an end-to-end relationship with each other in a circumferential direction, a first supporting plate which is provided on one surface of the reflecting plate to support part of the diffuse plate, and a second supporting plate which is provided on the other surface of the reflecting plate to support part of the diffuse plate, and the luminescent material layer is formed on the reflecting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Miyazaki
  • Drawing apparatus and control method of drawing apparatus
    Patent number: 9675159
    Abstract: According to one implementation, there is provided a drawing apparatus including a carriage, a cap member, and a holding/separating mechanism. The carriage holds a drawing tool including a tip. The cap member includes a tip receiving unit which covers and seals the tip. The holding/separating mechanism holds the tip of the drawing tool in a sealing state with the tip receiving unit when the drawing tool is placed in a standby position, and separates the tip of the drawing tool and the cap member from each other before starting the drawing. The holding/separating mechanism includes a move prevention member which is fixed to a certain position. The move prevention member comes into contact with the drawing tool so that the move prevention member prevents the drawing tool from moving in a direction that separates the tip from the cap member in the sealing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Bitoh
  • Antenna device
    Patent number: 9680204
    Abstract: An antenna device of the present invention includes an antenna element which transmits or receives an electromagnetic wave having a specific frequency by being supplied with electric power, a conductive element which is formed of a conductive material, arranged so as to be spaced apart from and face the antenna element, and serves as a parasitic element, and a housing having a sealed space therein. The antenna element is provided inside the housing, and the conductive element is provided on outer surface of the housing, or in inner part of the housing, or in a mount member by which the housing is worn on a human body, or in a holding member for holding the housing; the conductive element is electromagnetically coupled to the antenna element, resonates with the specific frequency; and transmits or receives the electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Aoki, Shigeru Yagi, Kaoru Yoshida
  • Image processing device capable of segmenting an image into plural areas
    Patent number: 9679386
    Abstract: An image processing device of the present invention determines the pixel values of background pixels based on a pixel value histogram of a target image to be segmented into a foreground and a background, determines pixels of the target image having pixel values equivalent to the pixel values of these background pixels, as a portion of the background pixels, and determines other background pixels and foreground pixels in the target image by use of the pixel value of each pixel in the target image and the positional information of this portion of the background pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsunori Ishii
  • Light source unit including laser diodes as light sources and microlens array and projector
    Patent number: 9678417
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit comprising a microlens array having a first area and a second area having a wider interval than that of the first area, a first light source configured to emit light to be incident on the first area, and a second light source configured to emit light to be incident on the first area and the second area, wherein the microlens array diffuses the lights emitted from the first light source and the second light source by microlenses thereof, a collective lens collecting diffuse lights diffused by the microlens array, a display device on which the diffuse lights collected by the collective lens are shone to produce projected light, a projection optical system guiding the projected light produced by the display device, and a control unit controlling the display device and the light source unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kurosaki
  • Apparatus, system, method for designating displayed items and for controlling operation by detecting movement
    Patent number: 9678568
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a displaying unit for displaying plural items, the items prepared for giving instructions of performing different operations respectively, a detecting unit for detecting movement, and a controlling unit for, when an item is designated from among the plural items, performing an operation corresponding to the designated item. Further, on the assumption that any of the plural items is designated on the displaying unit and the detecting unit detects movement, the controlling unit changes an indication of the designated item or an indication relating to designated item, displayed on the displaying unit, and on the assumption that other item is designated on the displaying unit and the detecting unit detects movement, changes an indication of the designated other item or an indication relating to designated other item, displayed on the displaying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Kakegawa
  • Communication device for controlling communication through second communication system based on field intensity of received information of communication through first communication system and storage medium
    Patent number: 9681379
    Abstract: A communication device includes a reception unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The reception unit receives broadcast information broadcasted through first communication of a first communication system. The detection unit detects a radio field intensity of the received broadcast information. The control unit controls second communication of a second communication system based on the detected radio field intensity, thereby activating or deactivating the second communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Kawahara, Toshihiko Yoshida, Yoichi Murayama, Gou Kawakami, Asami Aso, Takashi Kawashimo
  • Radio communication apparatus, radio communication method, computer-readable medium, slave device, and master device
    Patent number: 9681258
    Abstract: When executing a predetermined application in which radio communication with a slave device is necessary, a master device scans an advertisement from the slave device by using previously-set one channel among three channels for advertising. When transmitting the advertisement to the master device executing the predetermined application, the slave device transmits the advertisement by using previously-set one channel among three channels for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Ryo Okumura
  • Playback speed adjustable apparatus for playback of moving picture
    Patent number: 9679604
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for playback of a moving picture, which compares an action speed of a specific action of an object in a moving picture played back and displayed by a playback unit with an action speed of a separately acquired specific action which is a comparison target, controls a playback speed during the playback of the specific action by the playback unit based on the comparison result, and displays comparison information relating to the comparison result during the playback of the specific action by the playback unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Yoshida, Katsunori Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki Kato, Jun Muraki