Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
  • Publication number: 20160269599
    Abstract: According an embodiment, a display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display video corresponding to a video signal which is input, by using light which a light source emits; a determination unit configured to determine, from the video signal, presence/absence of necessity of light emission by the light source at every given time period; and a controller configured to vary and set the time period which is determined by the determination unit, in accordance with a determination result by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihide TAKASU, Tetsuro NARIKAWA, Yoshihiko SHINOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160267314
    Abstract: A biometric authentication device has a structure member which is wearable to a user, and a biological information acquisition unit that acquires biological information of the user, and a biometric authentication unit that performs authentication of the user. The biological information acquisition unit is provided in a position where a finger of the user in contact when the structure member is worn/removed to/from the user, acquires first biological information with the finger of the user in contact with the biological information acquisition unit and second biological information which is at least one of a finger direction and action data, the finger direction is a direction of the finger in contact with the biological information acquisition unit and the action data is a data corresponding to spatial movement of the biometric authentication device when the structure member is worn/removed to/from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko OHTSUKA, Takahiro TOMIDA, Akira KASHIO
  • Publication number: 20160266214
    Abstract: An electronic device equipped with a magnetic sensor which detects a magnetic field around the electronic device, a connector connection section to connect to a magnetic connector including a magnet which is positioned on one end side of a connection cable, and a CPU, in which the CPU controls to stop a measuring operation in the magnetic sensor when judged that the connector connection section is connected to the magnetic connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20160266553
    Abstract: The analog electronic timepiece includes rotatable plural hands, a current position acquisition unit, a processor and a counting unit. The current position acquisition unit acquires a current position and stores local time settings therein. The local time settings include time zones and daylight saving time implementation information in each area. The processor rotates the plural hands, reads and acquires a local time setting corresponding to the acquired current position from the current position acquisition unit, and selects and sets a time zone. The counting unit counts the local time, based on a later action which the processor performs either the acquired local time setting or the set time zone. The processor controls at least one of the plural hands to display a local time determination result as to whether the counted local time is based on the acquired local time setting in correspondence to the current position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 9443493
    Abstract: A graph display control apparatus includes a figure display control unit, a graph figure change unit, a coordinate value calculation unit and a figure prominent display control unit. The figure display control unit sets a coordinate system to a display unit and displays (i) a first graph figure and (ii) a coordinate axis or a second graph figure in the system. The graph figure change unit moves or transforms the first graph figure in the system in response to a user operation to change the first graph figure. The coordinate value calculation unit detects an intersection point of (i) the changed first graph figure and (ii) the coordinate axis or the second graph figure and calculates a coordinate value of the intersection point. The figure prominent display control unit prominently displays the changed first graph figure when the coordinate value is an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 9445444
    Abstract: The accuracy of a connection is improved by avoiding unnecessary communication. A peripheral obtains an address from a central and saves the address. The peripheral transmits an advertisement including an address of a central which is a connection target. The central stores a history of its own addresses. The central receives the advertisement transmitted from the peripheral. The central determines whether the received advertisement includes any address in the history. If the central determines that the advertisement includes any address in the history, the central transmits to the peripheral a connection request signal for making a connection request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Okumura, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9443323
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining member to obtain an image; a copying member to copy the image obtained by the obtaining member; a detecting member to detect a face area from the copied image or the obtained image; a correcting member to perform correction to adjust a brightness and a color shade of a whole of the obtained or copied image from which the face area is detected by the detecting member so that a flesh color component of the face area detected by the detecting member is corrected to become a predetermined status; and a synthesizing member to make a transparency of the face area detected by the detecting member different from another area and to synthesize the image corrected by the correcting member and the obtained or copied image from which the face are is not detected by the detecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Sato
  • Patent number: 9445004
    Abstract: A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an image composition unit, and a display control unit. The image capturing unit captures frames at predetermined time intervals. The image composition unit sequentially combines at least a part of image data from image data of a plurality of frames sequentially captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals. The display control unit performs control to sequentially display image data combined by the image composition unit while the image data of the frames are captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naotomo Miyamoto, Kosuke Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Matsunaga, Nobuyoshi Nishizaka
  • Patent number: 9443499
    Abstract: A musical sound control apparatus (1) includes a slider (17a), a CPU (11) and a recording ring buffer (13a). The slider (17a) enables scratching in both directions. The CPU (11) plays back musical sound data being sequentially supplied. The recording ring buffer (13a) rapidly stores, in response to emit a sound of the musical sound data being supplied, the musical sound data. The CPU (11), in a case of a scratch operation being performed on the slider (17a), controls so as to read out and playback the musical sound data stored in the recording ring buffer (13a) in place of the musical sound data being supplied, based on a direction and operation speed of the scratch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9445066
    Abstract: A CPU controls an attitude adjustment unit to change the lengths of legs of an electric leg part independently of each other so that a roll angle is changed to roll a projected image, and controls an image converter to correct the projected image to be a rectangular image on a projection target based on the changed roll angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20160259543
    Abstract: In order to achieve comfortable operations while appropriately preventing incorrect operations by unintentional touch operations on a touch operation section, when a touch operation performed on the touch operation section such as a selfie pad is a predetermined touch operation such as a double tap operation different from a touch operation such as a single tap or slide operation for giving an instruction to perform a predetermined function, switching is performed between a first state that is a selfie pad restricted state for restricting the predetermined function capable of being performed by the touch operation on the selfie pad and a second state that is a selfie pad restriction released state for releasing the restriction of the predetermined function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20160262002
    Abstract: In CE4, a communication terminal transmits data including a latency_off value “1”. After receiving the data, an environment information measuring apparatus transmits data since a latency counter value is “0”. The latency counter value becomes “2” and a latency_off counter value becomes “1”. In CE5, the communication terminal transmits data including a latency_off value “0”. Since each of the latency counter value and the latency_off counter value is not “0”, the environment information measuring apparatus does not receive the data from the communication terminal. The latency counter value becomes “1” and the latency_off counter value becomes “0”. In CE6, since the latency_off counter value is “0”, the environment information measuring apparatus receives the data from the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro TOMIDA, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Tsutomu TERAZAKI, Ryo OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20160257109
    Abstract: A CPU reads out image data from a frame memory line by line, performs logical addition of each bit of readout original image data corresponding to one line and a corresponding bit of each image data acquired by shifting the original image data by one to four bits, and thereby generates image data whose width has been enlarged by four bits. When writing the image data enlarged in the leftward and rightward directions in a ring buffer, the CPU generates image data on a transfer base material which has been enlarged in the upward and downward directions by copying or logical addition. A transfer base material transfer control section outputs the image data on the transfer base material written in the ring buffer for each line to a print head control section under the control of the CPU at predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun KOJIMA, Tsutomu KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160257100
    Abstract: Two laminating films are placed on an upper paper feeding cassette and a manual feed tray, respectively, and a medium to be laminated is placed on a lower paper feeding cassette. These two laminating films are once stopped by coming in contact with a standby conveyance roller pair in a stopped state and the lamination target medium is stopped by being interposed between the two laminating films. Then, the two laminating films and the lamination target medium are integrally conveyed to a fuser by the standby conveyance roller pair and subjected to lamination processing by being heated and pressurized by the fuser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seiji TACHIBANA
  • Publication number: 20160259967
    Abstract: A content output apparatus includes: a detector for detecting a user; an extractor for extracting a feature of the user detected by the detector; and a controller for controlling a reproduction speed of content to be output to a display, based on the feature extracted by the extractor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi KAWASHIMO
  • Publication number: 20160261802
    Abstract: In a display device including a camera section and a monitor, imaging range information indicating an imaging range for the imaging device is acquired. Subsequently, a display target area corresponding to the imaging range indicated by the imaging range information is set in an image captured by the camera section. Then, a partial image in the display target area in the image captured by the camera section is displayed on the monitor. As a result, live view display can be achieved without causing the imaging device to capture a photographic subject at a predetermined frame rate and transmit the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoya OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160259395
    Abstract: A level shifter included in a device includes: an external interface power unit configured to supply a power voltage corresponding to electrical input-output characteristics of an interface circuit of an external device; an internal interface power unit configured to supply a power voltage corresponding to electrical input-output characteristics of an internal interface circuit in the device; a power switch unit configured to control power supply to the external interface power unit according to an electrical signal from the external device; and a selector unit configured to control conduction between the interface circuit of the external device and the internal interface circuit, wherein the selector unit is configured to transition to an operable state when the external interface power unit is supplied with power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi KATO
  • Patent number: 9437187
    Abstract: A search string acquiring unit acquires a search string. A converting unit converts the search string into a phoneme sequence. A time length deriving unit derives the spoken time length of the voice corresponding to the search string. A zone designating unit designates a likelihood acquisition zone in a target voice signal. A likelihood acquiring device acquires a likelihood indicating how likely the likelihood acquisition interval is an interval in which voice corresponding to the search string is spoken. A repeating unit changes the likelihood acquisition zone designated by the zone designating unit, and repeats the process of the zone designating unit and the likelihood acquiring device. An identifying unit identifies, from the target voice signal, estimated intervals for which the voice corresponding to the search string is estimated to be spoken, on the basis of the likelihoods acquired for each of the likelihood acquisition zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Ide
  • Patent number: 9437026
    Abstract: An image creating device includes: an acquiring unit, a component creation unit, an extraction unit, a specifying unit, and an image creation unit. The acquiring unit acquires an image. The component creation unit creates a face component image related to main components of a face included in the image acquired by the acquiring unit. The extraction unit extracts feature information from the face included in the image acquired by the acquiring unit. The specifying unit specifies a hair style image, which corresponds to the feature information extracted by the extraction unit, from hair style images which show outlines of hair and are associated with feature information of faces, the feature information being recorded in a recording section. The image creation unit creates a portrait image by using the hair style image specified by the specifying unit and the face component image created by the component creation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kafuku, Keisuke Shimada, Hirokiyo Kasahara, Hiroyasu Koshimizu, Takuma Funahashi, Naoya Tokuda
  • Patent number: 9436164
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio-controlled timepiece. The radio-controlled timepiece includes an oscillating unit, a display unit, a display driving unit, an error storage unit, a radio wave receiving unit, and a frequency setting unit. The display driving unit drives the display unit with a driving signal of a predetermined driving waveform frequency generated by the clock signal output by the oscillating unit. The error storage unit stores error data of an oscillating frequency. The radio wave receiving unit tunes to a receiving frequency of a radio wave including time information, and receives the radio wave. The frequency setting unit sets the driving waveform frequency based on the error data so that the receiving frequency does not overlap with a higher order harmonic wave of the driving waveform frequency during a period that the radio wave is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Sano