Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
  • Publication number: 20190392413
    Abstract: An electronic device of the present invention is an electronic device including a display operation unit in which a display function and an operation function are integrated together, the electronic device including a processor configured to execute processing below, in which the processing, when communication connection is made with a predetermined sales data processing apparatus, includes control processing of substituting either one or both of a display unit and an operation unit arranged on the sales data processing apparatus for at least part of a function of the display operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bungo MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10515618
    Abstract: A waveform data structure includes a plurality of types of frames having different data sizes. Each of the plurality of types of frames includes an auxiliary information area and a data area. The auxiliary information area includes an area for storing common effective-bit length data for a section of waveform samples, and an area for storing an identifier for identifying one of the plurality of types of frames. The data area is an area for storing extracted waveform samples which are extracted from the waveform samples based on the common effective-bit length. The number of the extracted waveform samples is determined based on the common effective-bit length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Goro Sakata
  • Patent number: 10516805
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a system that expands the front side of a thermally expandable sheet formed by laminating a thermally expanding layer on a base material and forms irregularities in a desired area, the system includes a print data density adjusting unit that adjusts, in print data for printing, on the back side of the thermally expandable sheet, a grayscale image for expanding the thermally expandable sheet to a surface height according to a density, the density of an outline part obtained by setting a region from a boundary between adjacent two regions having different densities in the grayscale image to a predetermined distance as the outline part in at least either of the two regions having different densities such that steep steps are formed on the front side of the thermally expandable sheet at the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hitomi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 10515247
    Abstract: A portable terminal including a grip section provided as one end of a terminal main body and structured to be gripped by one hand in a gripping style where a user places a thumb of the one hand on a first surface of the terminal main body and holds a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface by at least an index finger and a middle finger extended from a side of the terminal main body, a raised portion provided on the second surface of the grip section such that a vertex portion is positioned between the index finger and the middle finger in the gripping style, and a switch section provided such that a pressing target portion is exposed in a sloped surface area of the raised portion where the index finger is positioned in the gripping style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Satoshi Ogasawara, Shinya Okumura, Yoshiaki Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20190385284
    Abstract: A correction process is realized by a simpler method. An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51, a template storage unit 62, an adaptive position specifying unit 53, and a distortion correction processing unit 55. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires an image including a predetermined subject. The template storage unit 62 stores a template including correction degrees of respective positions in a shape corresponding to a correction target region of the predetermined subject, the correction degrees being different at the respective positions. The adaptive position specifying unit 53 specifies coordinates adapting to a template in the image. The distortion correction processing unit 55 corrects the image on the basis of coordinates specified by the adaptive position specifying unit 53 and the correction degree included in the template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shintaro IMAI
  • Publication number: 20190384151
    Abstract: A light source unit of the present invention includes a light emitting device emitting light having a characteristic in which emitted light travels in a predetermined direction in which a uniformity in intensity distribution relative to an axis of the emitted light is high and an unstable direction in which a uniformity in intensity distribution relative to the axis of the emitted light is lower than that in the predetermined direction, the unstable direction being at right angles to the predetermined direction, an intensity transforming lens formed to control the intensity distribution in the predetermined direction and on which the light emitted from the light emitting device is incident, and a superposition transforming optical device formed to control the intensity distribution in the unstable direction by dividing the intensity distribution into a plurality of directions and superposing divided intensity distributions one on the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10511248
    Abstract: A stepping motor includes a rotor, a stator and three coils. The rotor is two-pole magnetized in a radius direction. The stator is provided with a rotor receiving section for receiving the rotor. The three coils are magnetically connected with the stator. At least one of the three coils is an integrated coil which is integrally formed with the stator by winding a coil around a part of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Saito
  • Patent number: 10511949
    Abstract: The electronic watch of an embodiment includes a receiver that receives data from a smart phone, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the electronic watch, a memory that stores rewriting target data, and a processor. The processor determines whether the rewriting target data stored in the memory is rewritable with data expected to be received from the smartphone based on the temperature of the electronic watch detected by the temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuho Kyou
  • Patent number: 10509544
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes the following. A first display controller controls a display to display a schedule in which predetermined date information or time span information is corresponded with each of a plurality of schedule frames in a schedule template in which the plurality of schedule frames are provided in a predetermined format. A second display controller controls the display to display a predetermined operation button so that the first display controller displays a plurality of schedules in an aligned state. When the first display controller displays the plurality of schedules in the aligned state according to operation of the predetermined operation button, a portion of each schedule is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Anjo, Takehiko Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 10511398
    Abstract: An electronic device 10 that are wirelessly connected to other electronic devices within a range of a limited communication distance, and the device has a controller CNT that configured to determine at least one of whether or not there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within a predetermined range and whether or not a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, and to transmit, if it is determined that there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within the predetermined range, or that a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, a request to the plurality of electronic devices to generate rhythm signals at a same tempo to encourage improvement in cooperation among the plurality of members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10507651
    Abstract: A printing device includes a print head that prints on a print medium image data of a print target and a decorative image and a processor that controls the print head to print image data of the decorative image on the print medium while the printing device that is held by a user moves on the print medium in a first movement, wherein the processor causes the print head to print the image data of the print target in a range that is indicated by the printed decorative image while the held printing device moves on the print medium in a second movement after the image data of the decorative image is printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
  • Patent number: 10509371
    Abstract: A smartphone includes a receiver, a log acquirer, a determiner, an information notifier, and a display. The receiver is in wireless communication with a time display device. The log acquirer acquires log data from the time display device by the receiver. The determiner determines the usage status of the time display device on the basis of the log data acquired by the log acquirer. The information notifier provides, via the display, notification of information corresponding to the usage status determined by the determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hanada, Katsuhiko Obata, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Hirofumi Nagareda, Tadashi Kojima, Oh Takahashi, Toyokazu Nishio
  • Patent number: 10512110
    Abstract: In a pairing establishment process, a controller (220) of a central (200) notifies a peripheral of the application identification information on the central (200). The controller (220) of the central (200) stores the device identification information on the peripheral received therefrom in a ROM (240). The application identification information is information to identify an application (that is, software) owned by the central (200). The application is to perform various communications with the peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuho Kyou
  • Patent number: 10511734
    Abstract: A portable terminal including a battery accommodating section having an opening for battery insertion and removal which is provided at a position shifted to one end of a terminal main body on a predetermined surface of the terminal main body, a battery cover for covering the opening, and a switch section provided closer to an other end of the terminal main body than the battery accommodating section, on the predetermined surface of the terminal main body, in which the battery cover is provided extending from the one end to a position beyond the switch section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Satoshi Ogasawara, Shinya Okumura, Yoshiaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10509562
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch sensor that, by operating in a predetermined operation direction, inputs a predetermined instruction to the electronic device, and a frame-like member that is provided so as to surround the touch sensor. A predetermined first processing is carried out on a first region of the frame-like member corresponding to the predetermined operation direction, and second processing, which is different from the first processing, is carried out on a second region, which is a region of the frame-like member other than the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kachi, Shigeru Hanagata, Keiichi Imamura, Takeshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20190377481
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display and a processor, in which the processor performs processing of acquiring an image of an object, displaying an auxiliary substitute image in which auxiliary information is added to a substitute image on the display, switching between i) a first display mode in which the object's image which is acquired is displayed on the display as a first image and the auxiliary substitute image is displayed on the display as a second image and ii) a second display mode in which the object's image which is acquired is displayed on the display as the second image and the auxiliary substitute image is displayed on the display as the first image, and displaying the object's image and the auxiliary substitute image on the display unit in the display mode which is switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko OTSUKA, Takahiro TOMIDA, Natsumi HAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 10503123
    Abstract: An analog electronic timepiece, including: a hand which is provided to be rotatable; and a processor which makes the hand perform at least one of an acceleration operation and a deceleration operation as a speed change operation when the hand is made to perform a fast forward movement, the acceleration operation being an operation of gradually increasing a fast forward speed of the hand from a stopped state when the fast forward movement is started, and the deceleration operation being an operation of gradually decreasing the fast forward speed until the hand comes into the stopped state when the fast forward movement is ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20190372588
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion device which performs integration processing for integrating a difference between an input signal and a first return signal generated based on the input signal, and outputting an integration result, first quantization processing for quantizing the integration result, and outputting a first quantization signal, first return signal output processing for outputting the first return signal by adding to the first quantization signal a correction value delay signal acquired by a correction value signal outputted based on the integration result being delayed, and output processing for outputting output signals including a signal whose pulse width is asymmetrical to center of a processing period, based on the first quantization signal, in which the correction value signal includes a signal indicating a correction value for correcting a difference between a center of the pulse width asymmetrical to the center of the processing period and the center of the processing period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Goro SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20190369471
    Abstract: An optical wheel device according to the present invention includes a first wheel on one side of which a luminescent material layer is disposed, a second wheel disposed on the other side of the first wheel, a first opening portion provided on the first wheel or the second wheel to be situated near a center of rotation, a second opening portion provided further radially outwards than the first opening portion, a communication passage formed between the first wheel and the second wheel to establish a communication between the first opening portion and the second opening portion, a motor configured to rotationally drive the first wheel and the second wheel, and a drive control device configured to control driving of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidehiko MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190371020
    Abstract: Among twelve lines indicating a 3D space (Ad) (X-axis direction lines (Xa)(Xb)(Xc)(Xd), Y-axis direction lines (Ya)(Yb)(Yc)(Yd), Z-axis direction lines (Za)(Zb)(Zc)(Zd)), display colors of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) are allocated to three lines (three-dimensional directions), i.e. an X-axis direction line (Xa), a Y-axis direction line (Ya) and a Z-axis direction line (Za), which have, as starting points, a 3D space minimum point (M) at which each of an X value, a Y value and a Z value becomes minimum, and red gradation display (Rgr), green gradation display (Ggr) and blue gradation display (Bgr) (first origin direction distinct display) are executed such that the colors become darker toward an origin (O) of the 3D space (Ad) and become lighter away from the origin (O).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu TANAKA