Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
  • Publication number: 20190240537
    Abstract: A smartphone includes: a near-field communication unit capable of performing communication with an electronic terminal including an acceleration sensor used to count the number of steps and measure the intensity of exercise of a user; a GPS positioning unit which makes a positional measurement; and a CPU. The electronic terminal includes the acceleration sensor used to count the number of steps and measure the intensity of exercise of the user. The near-field communication unit receives, from the electronic terminal, an exercise log indicative of the number of steps of the user. The CPU displays, on a touch panel display, a route log positioned by the GPS positioning unit and the exercise log in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki HISADA, Hirofumi NAGAREDA
  • Patent number: 10372084
    Abstract: An analog electronic watch includes a hand and a control unit. The hand is configured to be rotatable. The control unit fast-forwards the hand to perform a fast-forward operation in different ways according to whether a type of a display object after switching is a time type or a period type, in a case where display contents are switched by using the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hiroshi Morohoshi
  • Patent number: 10372227
    Abstract: An information display device including a device body; a display configured to display information; a motion detection sensor provided in the device body; and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a plurality of types of information; detect a predetermined action of a user from output data of the motion detection sensor; and selectively display, on the display, one of the acquired plurality of types of information based on a set display order, each time the processor detects the same predetermined action of the user. The display order is set by an operation which is performed at an external device, and which is not performed at the information display device itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Kita
  • Patent number: 10372024
    Abstract: An electronic unit is provided including a heat dissipating device having a projecting heat transfer portion, a substrate on one surface side of which the heat dissipating device is disposed and in which an opening portion where the heat transfer portion is inserted is formed, an electronic part disposed on the other surface side of the substrate so that a heat dissipating surface is positioned in the opening portion and connected to the substrate via a frame-shaped connecting portion disposed with a gap between the substrate and itself, and a heat conductive member provided between the heat transfer portion and the heat dissipating surface and between an outer circumference of the heat transfer portion and an inner circumference of the connecting portion, wherein an end portion of the heat conductive member is positioned closer to the heat dissipating device than the gap between the connecting portion and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kase, Hirofumi Fujikura
  • Patent number: 10372666
    Abstract: A calculator includes a display, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to perform processes including: receiving a selection operation of a calculation function type; receiving an input operation of calculation object data according to the selected calculation function type; displaying calculation result data obtained by a calculation based on the input calculation object data on the display; converting at least one of the calculation object data and the calculation result data into a two-dimensional code according to (i) the selected calculation function type and (ii) both of an input state of the calculation object data and a display state of the calculation result data during an output operation for outputting external data; and outputting, as the external data, an image of the two-dimensional code on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manato Ono, Saburo Kamitani, Hiroaki Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Uejima
  • Patent number: 10372087
    Abstract: A satellite radio wave receiving device includes: a receiver that receives a satellite radio wave to identify a reception signal; and a processor that acquires primary date and time information from the identified reception signal and outputs a date and time notifying signal indicating date and time based on the primary date and time information to an outside of the satellite radio wave receiving device. The date and time notifying signal includes at least a timing notifying signal indicating a predetermined timing. The processor determines the predetermined timing without consideration of a timing of a second synchronization point which is a leading edge of every second in the date and time based on the primary date and time information, and outputs the timing notifying signal at the predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sekitsuka, Takeshi Matsue, Yuki Oshita
  • Patent number: 10369812
    Abstract: A computer 10 generates image data of a density image to be printed on a print medium M including an expansion layer M1 that expands by heating. First density image data for printing on one surface FS of the print medium M to expand the expansion layer M1 is prepared first. The first density image data is then converted so that the density of a part of a target region having the same density included in a first density image P1 represented by the first density image data is higher than the density of the other part of the target region, to generate third density image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsunori Suzuki, Hitomi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 10373595
    Abstract: A musical sound generation device including a first memory having a plurality of waveform data, a second memory which stores waveform data read out from the first memory, and a control processor which controls such that, when a sound emission instruction is provided and specified waveform data is in the second memory, the waveform data is read out by the sound source processor, or controls such that, when a sound emission instruction is provided and specified waveform data is not in the second memory, the specified waveform data is transferred from the first memory to the second memory and read out by the sound source processor, in which the control processor controls such that waveform data satisfying a set condition is not subjected to a waveform data change by the transfer and waveform data not satisfying the set condition is subjected to the waveform data change by the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Hajime Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10372955
    Abstract: A reading device includes a reading unit configured to illuminate a light beam towards an object to be read, to receive reflected light thereof and to read information of the object to be read, and an imaging unit configured to capture the object to be read, as an image, wherein an illumination direction of the light beam from the reading unit and an imaging direction of the imaging unit are set to be same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromasu Meguro, Yasunori Chiba, Shinya Okumura
  • Publication number: 20190232650
    Abstract: The application device comprises a sensor that detects movement of the application device on an application target, a camera that obtains a captured image that is an image of a surface of the application target and is captured during the movement of the application device, a head that applies ink, and a processor, wherein the processor specifies an ink application area based on the captured image of the surface of the application target that is captured by the camera in accordance with the movement that is detected by the sensor, and controls the head to apply ink to the ink application area in accordance with the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUKENORI, Shota NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 10367581
    Abstract: A portable terminal detects a color change region corresponding to a marker in frames, and determines whether the brightness and/or hue change with time in the color change region matches a search rule. Subsequently, when the brightness and/or hue change with time in the color change region matches a search rule, the portable terminal restores information by decoding and determines whether the information is the content of predetermined information corresponding to the search rule determined to match. Furthermore, when the restored information is the content of predetermined information corresponding to the search rule determined to match, the portable terminal displays the information in association with the color change region to provide notice that the corresponding flying object is an appropriate flying object performing optical communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Iizuka, Masaaki Kikuchi, Keiichi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10365106
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a magnetic sensor which acquires a status of a magnetic field around the electronic apparatus, an angular velocity sensor, and a processor. The processor controls whether the detection of an angular velocity of a spatial movement of the electronic apparatus is performed by the angular velocity sensor or a magnetic gyro sensor composed of the magnetic sensor, based on the status of the magnetic field acquired by the magnetic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Ishihama
  • Patent number: 10367988
    Abstract: A data processing system (S) is configured so as mutually register transmission destinations between devices performing communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Otani, Jun Hosoda, Kazuya Nara, Yuji Kuriyama, Yoshinori Tomidokoro, Toshiya Kiso, Takuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 10365108
    Abstract: There is provided an information acquisition method of a wireless communication device including a receiver configured to perform wireless communication with another wireless communication device to acquire information. The information acquisition method includes acquiring operation time information indicative of time at which the other wireless communication device receives an information acquisition instruction by an operation, acquiring position information indicative of a user position at time based on the acquired operation time information, and acquiring map information for indicating, on a map, the acquired position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hanada, Tadashi Kojima, Oh Takahashi, Toyokazu Nishio
  • Publication number: 20190224999
    Abstract: A structure forming apparatus includes a printing unit which prints a photo-thermal conversion material, a white material, and a coloring material in order on an expanding layer in an overlapping manner, where the expanding layer is expanded when heated with thermal energy of light. The apparatus also includes a heating unit which irradiates light on the expanding layer from a side of the coloring material to expand the expanding layer, and a controlling unit which sets a printing density of the photo-thermal conversion material lower by a level corresponding to a quantity of heat conducted from the coloring material than the printing density of the photo-thermal conversion material to be printed when the coloring material has no photo-thermal conversion characteristic in the case in which the coloring material has photo-thermal conversion characteristic, and prints the photo-thermal conversion material of the set printing density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fusao NISHIURA, Hideaki TERADA
  • Publication number: 20190227180
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a GPS unit, a GPS information acquisition unit, a sensor information acquisition unit, and a reception condition determination unit. The GPS unit receives a radio wave from at least one of a plurality of positioning satellites. The GPS information acquisition unit acquires ephemeris information by the GPS unit and acquires satellite arrangement information of each of the plurality of positioning satellites acquiring the ephemeris information. The sensor information acquisition unit acquires geographical condition information of a current location at which the electronic device is present. The reception condition determination unit identifies the number of positioning satellites that the receiving unit can capture at the current location among the plurality of positioning satellites acquiring the ephemeris information based on the geographical condition information of the current location and the satellite arrangement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto Toda
  • Patent number: 10360884
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of performance keys for specifying pitches, a breath sensor which detects at least a breath input operation, and a controller (CPU), wherein the controller (CPU) selectively switches between a first mode of outputting first sound waveform data generated on the basis of the breath input operation and operation of at least one performance key from among the plurality of performance keys, and a second mode of, when the breath input operation is detected, outputting second sound waveform data based on musical piece data regardless of whether operation of the at least one performance key is detected or is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroko Okuda, Ryutaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10362620
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit section which intermittently executes connection with another electronic device by wireless communication, a sensor section which outputs sensor data related to the movement of the electronic device, and a control section. When the electronic device is making a periodic movement, the control section acquires the cycle of the periodic movement of the electronic device based on the sensor data, and causes the wireless communication circuit section to set connection timing for connecting the electronic device with the another electronic device by the wireless communication to periodic timing based on the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20190217156
    Abstract: A training support system supports a user in performing physical training, wherein the physical training includes first training performed using a training machine and second training performed without using the training machine, the system consisting of a sensor attached on the user to obtain information of the user, a second-training information collecting unit for collecting from the sensor exercise information indicating an exercise volume of the second training, and a first-training menu notifying unit for preparing a menu of the first training reflecting the exercise information of the second training collected by the sensor and notifying the prepared menu of the first training to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20190220254
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a programming support device. The programming support device includes a display that displays a script input according to an operation and a processor that performs a process according to the script. When a line in which a first control script is displayed as the script is inserted in a screen displayed on the display, the processor performs a fetch process for at least one script, without a user's operation, between a line into which the first control script is inserted and a nearest blank line that is positioned on a line below the line into which the first control script is inserted, is a blank line in the same layer as the first control script, and is nearest to the line into which the first control script is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi IWASAKI, Akiko MURAKI, Toshiaki TANAKA, Saki TASHIRO