Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
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Patent number: 10618320Abstract: An irradiation device for causing distension of a thermally distensible sheet that distends due to heat, comprising: a temperature sensor; a humidity sensor; an irradiation unit that irradiates the thermally distensible sheet with electromagnetic waves; and a controller configured to: estimate an amount of moisture contained in the thermally distensible sheet on the basis of values of measurements from the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor, set a relative speed between the irradiation unit and the thermally distensible sheet in accordance with the estimated amount of moisture in the thermally distensible sheet, and cause the irradiation unit or the thermally distensible sheet to move relative to each other at the relative speed that has been set while irradiating the thermally distensible sheet with the electromagnetic waves.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Fusao Nishiura
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Patent number: 10621754Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes a skin map generation processing unit and an image composition unit. The skin map generation processing unit detects a skin color area in an image. The skin map generation processing unit detects a saturated area of high value and low saturation in the image. The image composition unit executes processing of correcting the skin color area detected by the skin map generation processing unit by using the saturated area detected by the skin map generation processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Sato
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Patent number: 10620588Abstract: A stepping motor includes: a rotor; and a stator including an opening accommodating the rotor, a first side yoke extending from the opening in a first direction, a second side yoke extending from the opening in a second direction that is a direction opposite to the first direction, and one or a plurality of coils magnetically coupled to the first side yoke or the second side yoke. Assuming a direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction is defined as a third direction, a first recess is formed in an outer circumference of the stator at a position rotated from the third direction toward the second direction by a prescribed first angle and a second recess that determines a stable resting position of the rotor is formed at a position rotated from the second direction toward the third direction by a prescribed second angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuta Saito
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Publication number: 20200110370Abstract: A push button device including a supporting member which is provided with a through hole and in which a recess section is provided outside the through hole, an operation member which includes a shaft section that is slidably inserted into the through hole, and a head section that is provided on an outer end of the shaft section and slidably fitted into the recess section, a first filter which is provided in the recess section and arranged at a position surrounded by an annular first groove section into which an outer circumferential convex section of the head section is fitted and the outer circumferential convex section, and a second filter which is provided in the head section and arranged at a position surrounded by an annular second groove section into which an inner circumferential convex section of the recess section is fitted and the inner circumferential convex section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Takumi YASUDA
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Publication number: 20200108502Abstract: A control device includes a processor configured to determine whether or not an accessory fitted onto an apparatus interferes with operation of a movable part of the apparatus; set a movable range of the movable part to a range within which operation of the movable part is not interfered by the attachment, when a determination is made that the accessory interferes with operation of the movable part; and control a driver that drives the movable part such that the movable part is driven within the set movable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji NAKAYAMA, Toshiya KUNO
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Publication number: 20200110968Abstract: An identification device has a processor configured to carry out plural identification processing by which an individual is identified based on plural acquired data different from each other indicating the individual and, when the identification of the individual by one or more identification processing of the plural identification processing fails and the identification of the individual by one or more other identification processing of the plural identification processing succeeds, learn the at least one identification processing by which the identification of the individual fails.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yutaka ONODERA
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Publication number: 20200110371Abstract: An electronic device includes a sensor unit, a first cumulative value management unit, and a second cumulative value management unit. The sensor unit acquires cumulative information. The first cumulative value management unit functions in a first CPU, and manages the cumulative information. The second cumulative value management unit functions in a second CPU, and manages the cumulative information. One management unit of the first cumulative value management unit and the second cumulative value management unit outputs the cumulative information managed by the one management unit to the other management unit according to switching of an operating state of the first CPU, and the other management unit continues management of the cumulative information on the basis of the cumulative information output from the one management unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Karen SUZUKI, Keiichi IMAMURA, Naotaka HIKOSAKA, Tadahiro TAKEGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200111467Abstract: An electronic musical interface performs the following: displaying a chord function progression of a first segment of a musical piece that is to be played by a user in a first region of a display via identifiers specifying respective chord functions; playing back an automatic accompaniment of the first segment; receiving user performance data as the user plays the musical note input device along with the playback of the automatic accompaniment; analyzing each chord contained in the obtained user performance data to determine the chord function of each chord the user played; and displaying, in a second region of the display alongside the first region, an identifier that identifies the determined chord function of the chord the user plays so that the user can determine whether the chord function of each chord the user played matches the chord function of the chord displayed in the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroki HOFUKU
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Publication number: 20200110364Abstract: A case includes a main case body and an exterior member. The exterior member is welded to the main case body with laser light. The laser light is irradiated onto an irradiation surface. A welding part of the main case body and the exterior member is formed on the inner periphery surface extending along a height direction of the case and is formed such that the irradiation surface is perpendicular to the incident laser light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro MARUYAMA, Masakuni IWANAGA
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Publication number: 20200111463Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a playing operator, and a sound source which performs processing of receiving, in response to a user operation on the playing operator, a sound generation instruction according to playing operation information including the pitch information indicating the certain pitch and sound volume information indicating a certain volume, and generating sound according to the certain pitch and the certain volume, based on excitation data generated by multiplying partial data by a window function, the partial data being included in excitation signal waveform data generated based on a plurality of waveform data items which are respectively different from each other in sound intensity in the certain pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Publication number: 20200110973Abstract: An applicator device includes a camera, a print head, and a driver. The camera captures an image of an application surface of an application target. The print head applies a material to the application surface. The driver causes the print head to move between a first position where the print head does not block a field of view of the capturing, by the camera, of the image of the application surface and a second position where the print head blocks the field of view of the capturing, by the camera, of the image of the application surface. The print head applies the material to the application surface when the print head is at the second position, based on the image of the application surface captured by the camera when the print head is at the first position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Fumihiro OSAKABE
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Publication number: 20200110366Abstract: A case includes a main case body and an exterior member. The exterior member is welded to the main case body with laser light. The laser light is irradiated onto a welding part of the main case body and the exterior member and reflected at an irradiation surface, and a reflected-light receiving part is formed at a position where the reflected laser light is irradiated according to an incidence angle of the laser light to the irradiation surface. The exterior member includes a flange part which is disposed on an upper side of the main case body and which protrudes toward an inner side of the main case body. A lower surface of the flange part includes a module receiving surface which receives a module to be disposed inside the main case body, and the reflected-light receiving part is formed at a part of the module receiving surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro MARUYAMA
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Publication number: 20200110365Abstract: A push button capable of improving shock resistance and a timepiece equipped therewith are provided. This push button includes an operation member having a shaft section inserted into a through hole of a case and a head section provided on the outer end of the shaft section, and an elastic member which presses the head section toward the outside of the case or is elastically deformed, and this elastic member includes a buffer section that buffers a pressure externally applied to the head section which is greater than a predetermined pressure. Accordingly, when a pressure greater than the predetermined pressure is applied to the head section, the head section comes in contact with the buffer section while elastically deforming the elastic member so as to buffer the pressure. By this structure, shock resistance is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Shin HITSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20200112924Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communicator and a controller. The wireless communicator is configured to wirelessly communicate with other wireless communication apparatuses. The controller is configured to control the wireless communicator to broadcast transmission information, and when the wireless communicator receives a request corresponding on the transmission information from at least one of the other wireless communication apparatuses having received the transmission information during the broadcasting of the transmission information, control the wireless communicator to change transmission power of the transmission information to the other wireless communication apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Takahiro TOMIDA, Tsutomu TERAZAKI
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Patent number: 10611141Abstract: A printing device includes a print head that prints an image on a print medium while moving relatively to the print medium, a sensor that detects an amount of movement and a moving direction of a body of the printing device that are relative to the print medium, and a processor, wherein the processor causes the print head to execute printing of a first image according to the amount of movement when the moving direction that is detected by the sensor is a first direction, determines whether the body is separated from the print medium based on a detection result of the sensor after printing of the first image is finished, and causes the print head to execute printing of a second image according to the amount of movement when, after separation is determined, the sensor detects movement in a second direction that is a direction different from the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Sumito Shinohara
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Patent number: 10616479Abstract: A image recording apparatus includes a processor. The processor recognizes a predetermined action by a user when an image is recorded by capturing. The processor adds additional information corresponding to the recognized predetermined action to the captured image obtained by the capturing. The processor controls recording of the captured image with the additional information added.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuaki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 10614203Abstract: An interactive device includes an authenticator for authenticating a user, a speech urger which urges the user to speak when the authenticator unsuccessfully authenticates the user, and an interaction controller which performs interaction according to the authenticated user when the authenticator successfully authenticates the user by a voice of the user having been urged to speak.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yutaka Onodera
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Patent number: 10616688Abstract: A speaker box for accommodating a speaker, including an outlet port provided avoiding an area corresponding to a center portion of the speaker, in a first side surface section of the speaker box which is parallel to a center axis of the speaker, and an inlet port provided avoiding an area corresponding to the center portion of the speaker, in a second side surface section of the speaker box which is opposed to the first side surface section via the speaker.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryo Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10613317Abstract: There is provided a phosphor wheel which can reduce or prevent misalignment and clipping of a diffuser plate. A phosphor wheel includes a wheel plate which has an opening extending from one surface to the other surface and is to be used in a rotating state, and a transmissive member which is disposed inside the opening. The transmissive member is in contact with an edge of the opening of the wheel plate at a plurality of points including two points of an outer periphery part on an outer side in a rotation radius direction of the wheel plate to be supported. Accordingly, as compared to the case where the outer periphery part of the transmissive member is in contact with the edge of the opening at one point, the transmissive member is held more stably, and misalignment and clipping can be reduced or prevented.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Daijiro Fujii
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Publication number: 20200107179Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes (i) a wireless communicator capable of broadcasting an extended advertising packet having a large transmittable capacity and a compatible advertising packet having a transmittable capacity smaller than the extended advertising packet, and (ii) a processor. The wireless communicator periodically broadcasts the extended advertising packet based on a command from the processor. The processor sets offset information for acquiring of a time at which the extended advertising packet is receivable in an offset notification packet that is the compatible advertising packet, and broadcasts the offset notification packet via the wireless communicator. The offset information is set based on a transmission timing of the offset notification packet and a transmission timing of the extended advertising packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuho KYOU, Sadao NAGASHIMA, Hiroshi IWAMIYA, Tsutomu TERAZAKI, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Takahiro TOMIDA
