Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
  • Time display device, time display method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10591873
    Abstract: A time display device includes a display; an operation receiving unit that receives a selection operation of a city by a user; a memory that stores a time piece image and a map image including a plurality of city locations; and a processor, wherein said processor performs: reading out the time piece image and said map image from the memory; identifying one of the city locations in the map image read from the memory as corresponding to a location of the selected city; generating a display image by overlapping the map image including said identified one of the city locations and the timepiece image that is adjusted to indicate a local time of the selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said identified one of the city locations in the map image; and causing said display image to be displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoaki Misaki, Norihito Hanafusa
  • Keyboard instrument
    Patent number: 10593306
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument including a plurality of keys and a keyboard chassis, in which each key has a shaft or a shaft hole provided on one end side thereof. The keyboard chassis is provided with shafts when the plurality of keys has shaft holes, and is provided with shaft holes when the plurality of keys has shafts. This keyboard chassis supports the plurality of keys by the shafts being arranged in the shaft holes. Also, first spaces and second spaces are formed between an inner surface of the shaft hole and the shaft. The first spaces are positioned in a vertical direction of the key, and the second spaces are positioned in a longitudinal direction of the key. In addition, the second spaces are larger than the first spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Taniguchi, Akihito Akaishi, Akihisa Hoshino
  • Electronic apparatus equipped with a touch operation section
    Patent number: 10592097
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ishihara
  • Imaging apparatus, imaging mode control method and storage medium
    Patent number: 10587803
    Abstract: A still image mode for recording still images or a moving image mode for recording moving images is sequentially judged as to whether or not communication with a remote control device has been disconnected (wireless connection status). When the disconnection of the communication with the remote control device is detected, the current imaging mode is automatically switched to an interval imaging mode with its base imaging mode such as a still image mode or a moving image mode being maintained. During the disconnection period, that is, until the re-establishment of the communication is detected, an operation of recording a still image or a moving image is repeated at predetermined time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Yanagi
  • Light source unit and projector
    Patent number: 10585341
    Abstract: A light source unit according to an embodiment comprises: a support member that supports a heat generator, a heat transfer member connected to the support member, and a heat dissipating member connected to the heat transfer member all of which are provided inside a space formed by a case and a cover. The heat dissipating member is arranged to extend from the inside of the space to an outside of the space via a space sandwiched by the case and the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kikuchi, Toshifumi Kase, Naoto Yoshida
  • Diagnosis assisting device, image processing method in diagnosis assisting device, and non-transitory storage medium having stored therein program
    Patent number: 10586331
    Abstract: Provided are a diagnosis assisting device, an imaging processing method in the diagnosis assisting device, and a non-transitory storage medium having stored therein a program that facilitate a grasp of a difference in an diseased area to perform a highly precise diagnosis assistance. According to an image processing method in a diagnosis assisting device that diagnoses lesions from a picked-up image, a reference image corresponding to a known first picked-up image relating to lesions is registered in a database, and when a diagnosis assistance is performed by comparing a query image corresponding to an unknown second picked-up image relating to lesions with the reference image in the database, a reference image is created from the reference image by geometric transformation, or a query image is created from the query image by geometric transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Matsunaga
  • Electronic device, emotion information obtaining system, storage medium, and emotion information obtaining method
    Patent number: 10580433
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an audio receiver which receives audio of a user and converts the audio into audio information, and a processor. The processor performs first obtaining emotion information on a basis of the audio information converted by the audio receiver and second obtaining user-related information or environment information. In the first obtaining, the emotion information is obtained on a basis of the audio information of a predetermined timing which is decided on a basis of the user-related information or the environment information obtained in the second obtaining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Toshiya Sakurai, Hideo Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Minami, Shuhei Uchida, Shigeki Kitamura, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Takashi Suenaga, Munetaka Seo
  • Robot having communication with human, robot control method, and non-transitory recording medium
    Patent number: 10576618
    Abstract: A robot includes a mover, a determiner, and a controller. The mover moves the robot. The determiner determines a touch type by a predetermined object. The controller controls the mover so as to move the robot close to the predetermined object when the determiner determines that the touch type by the predetermined object is petting, or so as to move the robot apart from the predetermined object when the determiner determines that the touch type by the predetermined object is to hitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Otsuka
  • Keyboard instrument
    Patent number: 10580390
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument including a hammer unit which includes a plurality of hammer members each of which has an effort point provided on one end side, a load point provided on an other end side, and a fulcrum provided between the effort point and the load point, and a hammer holder which rotatably holds the plurality of hammer members, and a keyboard chassis which includes a restriction member for restricting rotations of the plurality of hammer members performed in response to key depression operations within a restriction range and in which the hammer unit is mounted, in which the hammer holder has a plurality of contact points on the effort point side which comes in contact with portions of the plurality of hammer members on the effort point side when the hammer unit is in a vertically inverted state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito Akaishi, Hirokazu Taniguchi
  • Map recording device, computer readable storage medium, and map recording method
    Patent number: 10579639
    Abstract: A map recording device includes: a display which displays information; a storage; and a processor. The processor causes the display to perform a display of an arbitrary region expressed by browsing map information specified by a user's manipulation. The processor further acquires partial map information from the browsing map information. The partial map information is map information other than the browsing map information and expresses a region corresponding to a whole region displayed in the display. The storage stores the partial map information acquired in the acquiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi Imamura
  • Electronic device, selection control system, selection method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10574756
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a memory; and a processor connected to the memory and configured to receive signals from a plurality of sensors that detect an activity state of a user wearing, or having in its vicinity, the electronic device, wherein the processor reads out a program stored in the memory to perform the following processes: receiving the signals from the plurality of sensors; determining the activity state of the user based on the received signals; selecting one or more of sensors from the plurality of sensors on the basis of the determined activity state; deriving, on the basis of the determined activity state, information to be communicated to the user, the information to be communicated to the user being derived from the signals from the selected one or more of the sensors; and causing the derived information to be communicated to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Nakamura
  • Motion analyzing apparatus, motion analyzing method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10569136
    Abstract: A motion analyzing apparatus 1 includes a data acquiring unit 51, a top detecting unit 52, an address detecting unit 53, a finish detecting unit 54, an axis correcting unit 55, a half detecting unit 56, and an impact detecting unit 57. The data acquiring unit 51 acquires motion information including an operation direction in a series of operations of a target object measured by a sensor unit. The top detecting unit 52 acquires a specific time point at which the operation direction of a target object is reversed in the motion information acquired by the data acquiring unit 51. The address detecting unit 53 or the finish detecting unit 54 specifies a start time point or an end time point of a series of operations by using a specific time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nagasaka
  • Printer, printing method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10569552
    Abstract: A printer includes a print head and a processor. The processor controls operation of the head. In an area where the head is movable, (i) a drawing region where a finger or a toe is placed, and the head performs drawing on a nail of the finger or the toe, (ii) a standby region where the head is positioned during a no-drawing period, and (iii) a suspension region where the head can stop temporarily are provided such that a moving distance of the head from the suspension region to the drawing region is shorter than a moving distance of the head from the standby region to the drawing region. If nails are successively subjected to the drawing, the processor causes the head to stop temporarily in the suspension region between drawing operations on the nails without causing the head to move to the standby region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nagao
  • Electronic apparatus, position specifying system, position specifying method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10571282
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor executes a program stored in the memory to perform operations including: acquiring position information of a user; specifying a movement state of the user; and determining appropriateness/inappropriateness of the acquired position information using a determination program according to the movement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi Imamura
  • Electronic musical instrument, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 10573284
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument is provided. The electronic musical instrument comprises performance operational elements including a first operational element and a second operational element. In response to a user operation of the first operational element during reproduction of the song data, the instrument receives first performance information including event information indicating an event other than a note event and event timing information indicating a timing of the user operation of the first operational element, and stores the first performance in a first region of the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomomi Konishi
  • Printing apparatus, printing control method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10572780
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises: a processor configured to create print data for printing at least one printable character so as to arrange the printable character along a widthwise direction of the print medium based on input data input by a user; and a printhead configured to print on the print medium in accordance with the print data, wherein the processor compares an overall print length of overall data obtained by adding margins to a front end and a rear end of the printable character with a first length of an elongated print medium in the widthwise direction, and, the processor creates the print data including a mark indicating an end portion of the overall data when the overall print length is shorter than the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Ogawa
  • Three-dimensional printer, print data creation device, method of creating print data, and computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 10569589
    Abstract: A print data creation device creates, from two-dimensional image data, three-dimensional print data to be printed on a thermally distensible sheet. The device includes a processor programmed to receive the two-dimensional image data of prescribed gradations; divide the two-dimensional image data of prescribed gradations into a plurality of density layers that expand to different respective expansion heights when printed on the thermally distensible sheet; create, from the plurality of density layers, an expansion data set having a plurality of layer images to be printed on the thermally distensible sheet; and causes the expansion data set to be output to a printing unit that prints on the thermally distensible sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fukushima, Satoshi Kurosawa
  • Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method
    Patent number: 10575340
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus performing radio communication based on either role, a master or a slave, includes a role change receiver receiving a role change request from a slave to a master when the radio communication apparatus has a role of slave and has established connection to another radio communication apparatus operating as a master, and a receiver awaiting identification information transmitted by the other radio communication apparatus by receiving multiple channels including a given channel in a given pattern when the role change receiver receives the change request. The receiver receives the multiple channels in the given pattern such that the time or number of times of awaiting the identification information on the given channel is longer or higher than a given comparison criterion for when the role change receiver does not receive the change request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Terazaki, Toshihiro Takahashi, Ryo Okumura, Takahiro Tomida
  • Object holding member and drawing apparatus
    Patent number: 10561219
    Abstract: An object holding member, which is to be disposed in an external apparatus, includes an object insertion tool, and a connector. The object insertion tool has a space, into which an object which is a finger or a toe having a nail is inserted. The connector is configured to couple with the external apparatus and suppress a change in a position of the object holding member within the external apparatus in a case where the object holding member is disposed in the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Hori
  • Barcode reading device, imaging method and computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 10565412
    Abstract: A barcode reading device including a scanner which irradiates a target with a light beam and scans a barcode provided on the target so as to read information from the barcode, a camera which captures images of the target, a display which displays the images captured by the camera, and a processor which performs processing operations including an imaging control processing operation for, when the scanner is irradiating the target with the light beam, controlling the camera to perform an imaging operation for acquiring an image for recording, at predetermined imaging timing, and an irradiation control processing operation for temporarily stopping the light beam irradiation by the scanner in synchronization with the imaging timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Ogawa