Patents Assigned to Casio Computer
  • Patent number: 10308359
    Abstract: A moving device includes an imaging unit, an acquiring unit, a determining unit and an imaging control unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire a state at a time when the moving device is released from a user. The determining unit is configured to determine an imaging manner to control the imaging unit after the time of being released, based on the state acquired by the acquiring unit. The imaging control unit is configured to control the imaging unit in the imaging manner determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamada, Takahiro Mizushina, Hideaki Matsuda, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10310787
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an item list display controller, an item selector, a sheet determiner and an item display controller. The item list display controller displays a list of items included in sheets on a display. The item selector allows a user to select a desired item from the list of the items. The sheet determiner determines a sheet which includes the selected item. The item display controller displays a sheet image of a part corresponding to the selected item of the determined sheet on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Minami
  • Patent number: 10310561
    Abstract: A portable device includes a device case, and an inner case arranged in the device case. The inner case includes a first frame arranged in the device case, a second frame arranged in parallel with the first frame in the device case, a coupling part configured to couple the first frame and the second frame, and a buffer member provided at the coupling part and configured to buffer shock to be applied to the first frame and the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromasu Meguro, Yasunori Chiba, Shinya Okumura
  • Publication number: 20190164529
    Abstract: For example, provided is an information processing device with which the entire performance can be felt really visually. The information processing device TB according to the present invention includes a processor performing a reception process of receiving input of performance information including pitch information, a first image output process of outputting a first image according to the received performance information, a performance determination process of determining at least any of tonality, a chord type, and a pitch name on the basis of the received performance information, and second image output process of outputting a second image according to a result determined in the performance determination process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru KAFUKU, Nobuyuki MOCHINAGA, Atsushi SHIBUTANI, Toshihiko OTSUKA, Atsushi INOSHITA, Hiroko OKUDA, Takashi UMEMURA
  • Patent number: 10304413
    Abstract: A central control unit of a display control apparatus performs control for displaying an image in which one or more persons are included, in a first display area R1, designates a person part of the image to be displayed in the first display area R1, the person part including at least one person therein, according to a manipulation of a user, which is different from directly designating the at least one person, specifies the at least one person included in the designated person part of the image, acquires information relating to the specified at least one person, and performs control for displaying the acquired information relating to the at least one person in a second display area, the second display area being different from the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Okumura, Hiroyuki Kato, Hiroyoshi Ogawa, Shogo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10304433
    Abstract: A reaction force generator includes a hollow elastic member made of an elastically deformable material and a protrusion protruding from an outer surface of the hollow elastic member, the protrusion being tiltable in at least a first direction and a second direction, the first and second direction being symmetric with each other about a neutral position of the protrusion, wherein at least one of physical dimensions and material properties of the hollow elastic member is asymmetric with respect to the neutral position of the protrusion along the first direction and the second direction such that a first reaction force that would be generated by the protrusion when tilted in the first direction and a second reaction force that would be generated by the protrusion when tilted in the second direction are asymmetric with respect to the neutral position of the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiya Kuno
  • Patent number: 10304436
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of keys respectively specifying different pitches when operated; a memory; and a sound processor. In response to a current operation of a current key, which is one of the plurality of keys, the sound processor retrieves the information stored in the memory for a previous operation, if any, of a previous key, which is a same as the current key or is another one of the plurality of keys, and performs a prescribed processing on a beginning part of the waveform data generated for the current operation of the current key in accordance with the retrieved information stored in the memory for the previous operation of the previous key so as to generate processed waveform data in response to the current operation of the current key. The resulting processed waveform data can be configured to better mimic artists' performance of an original instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Tajika
  • Patent number: 10305993
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal control system including: a first terminal; a second terminal connected to the first terminal by short-distance wireless communication; and a server on a network connected to the second terminal via a communication link, in which the server includes: a storage unit which stores predetermined information to be detected by the first terminal and a sequence of processing commands to be executed by the second terminal in a manner such that the information and the processing commands are related to each other; and a terminal control unit sends the sequence of processing commands to the second terminal with reference to the storage unit so as to allow the second terminal to execute the processing commands in response to receiving the predetermined information from the first terminal via the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10304439
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a controller and a display. The controller adds an expression to a displayed face image in accordance with an audio when the audio is output. Further, the controller generates an animation in which a mouth contained in the face image with the expression moves in sync with the audio. The display displays the generated animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Okaniwa, Hiroaki Negishi, Shigekatsu Moriya, Hirokazu Kanda
  • Patent number: 10300717
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printer that performs printing on a printing medium; and a sensor that outputs a detection signal while the printing apparatus moves relative to the printing medium. The printing apparatus determines whether the sensor is above a first surface or above a second surface of the printing medium, based on the detection signal output from the sensor, the first surface being a surface on which a moving amount of the printing apparatus with respect to the printing medium is acquired, and the second surface being a surface on which the moving amount is not acquired, and if the sensor is determined to be above the second surface, controls printing on the printing medium by the printer according to an estimated value of the moving amount with respect to the printing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shota Nakahara
  • Patent number: 10304171
    Abstract: A projection control device includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor acquires a feature of a projection surface. The hardware processor determines a first area in which a first projection image corrected based on the acquired feature of the projection surface is projected and a second area that is other than the first area and in which a second projection image corrected based on the feature of the projection surface is projected, within a projection area projectable, by a projection device, on the projection surface. Then, the hardware processor controls the projection device to project the first projection image in the first area and project the second projection image in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakagawa, Tetsuro Narikawa, Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 10304432
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a keyboard, a sound-producing system, and a control unit. A panning value indicating a left-right balance of sound outputted from a left speaker and a right speaker in stereo sound production is assigned to each key of the keyboard such that the left-right balance of soundboard resonant sound waveform data for certain higher-pitch keys is shifted towards the left-speaker as compared with the left-right balance of soundboard resonant sound waveform data for certain lower-pitch keys that are located to the left of the higher-pitch keys so as to produce realistic piano sound mimicking an actual piano.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Tajika
  • Patent number: 10300710
    Abstract: A system for forming a structure on a print medium 1 includes: a print unit (print device) 10 for printing an electromagnetic wave-heat conversion layer for converting electromagnetic waves into heat, on a medium including an expansion layer that expands by heating; an expansion unit (expansion device) 20 aligned laterally with the print unit 10, for expanding the expansion layer by irradiating the medium with electromagnetic waves; and a top plate 30 covering the print unit 10 and the expansion unit 20 from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youichi Ushigome, Satoshi Kurosawa, Junichi Ono
  • Patent number: 10304430
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes; a plurality of keys, each of the plurality of keys specifying a pitch; a memory storing musical piece data representing a musical piece; and a processor, wherein the processor executes the following: retrieving the musical piece data of a musical piece from the memory and determining whether the musical piece data contains data of a lyric; and when the musical piece data contains the data of the lyric, and if a note specified by an operation of a key by a user is accompanied by a part of the lyric in the musical piece, causing data of a singing voice sound having the pitch specified by said operated key to be generated in accordance with the part of the lyric in response to the operation of the key, and causing the singing voice sound to be audibly output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10300714
    Abstract: A first pattern P1 is formed with a first material for converting electromagnetic wave energy into heat energy, on a first surface BS of a print medium M including an expansion layer M2 that expands by heating. A second pattern P2 for expanding the expansion layer M2 to complement expansion of the expansion layer M2 by the first pattern P1 is formed with a second material for converting electromagnetic wave energy into heat energy, on a second surface FS which is an opposite surface of the print medium M to the first surface BS and is closer to the expansion layer M2 than the first surface BS. The first material forming the first pattern P1 is irradiated with electromagnetic waves from the first surface BS. The second material forming the second pattern P2 is irradiated with electromagnetic waves from the second surface FS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kunio Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20190151737
    Abstract: To appropriately determine whether or not a motion of a user is good in an electronic device that detects the motion of the user by a sensor installed on a lower back portion. An analysis system S includes a sensor unit 1 and a processing device 2. The sensor unit 1 is installed on a lower back portion of a user. The processing device 2 includes a swing evaluating section 254. The swing evaluating section 254 extracts a first peak waveform and a second peak waveform in an output result of an angular speed measured by a sensor installed on the lower back portion of the user. The swing evaluating section 254 evaluates the motion of the user on the basis of an extraction result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu NOJIMA, Ryuji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10297239
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument is provided with a processor (CPU 5) and plural touch sensors (a detecting unit 12s and detecting units 13s) disposed along a first direction. A first output variable da/dt is obtained, representing a variation per unit time of an output value from a first sensor (detecting unit 12s) in the plural touch sensors disposed on the side close to first end (tip side) in the first direction. A second output variable dS/dt is obtained, representing a variation per unit time of a sum of output values from second sensors (detecting units 13s) disposed between a second end (heel side) and the first sensor in the first direction. The processor judges based on the first output variable da/dt and the second output variable dS/dt whether a tonging process should be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Kasuga, Hideo Hamanaka, Eiichi Harada, Chihiro Toyama
  • Patent number: 10293621
    Abstract: A printing device includes: a thermal head including heater elements arrayed into a line along an array direction intersecting a conveying direction of a printing medium; and controller that causes the thermal head to print onto the printing medium based on multiple line print data, each of the multiple line print data being data into which print data is divided along the array direction. The controller performs either of a first energization control to energize the heater elements in one line cycle for printing based on a single line print data among the multiple line print data and a second energization control to energize the heater elements so that a non-energization period in which the heater elements are not energized is included in the one line cycle, depending on a temperature of the thermal head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeo Ozawa, Masaki Ito
  • Patent number: 10296002
    Abstract: The movement direction-and-speed determiner of an autonomous movement device determines the direction and speed for an autonomous movement based on information on the plurality of picked-up images by an image picker. A feature point obtainer obtains a feature point from the picked-up image by the image picker. A map memory stores the position of the obtained feature point by the feature point obtainer. A corresponding feature-point number obtainer obtains the number of correspondences between the obtained feature point by the feature point obtainer and the feature point having the position stored in the map memory. When the obtained number of corresponding feature points by the corresponding feature-point number obtainer is equal to or smaller than a threshold, in order to increase the number of corresponding feature points, a moving direction-and-speed changer changes the moving direction and speed to those determined by the movement direction-and-speed determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Maeno
  • Patent number: 10292477
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus that enables visual check when placing a nail on a movable section and accurately positions the nail in a drawing area in the apparatus is provided. The drawing apparatus includes: a finger insertion section in which a finger is inserted from an insertion opening; and a movable section that is provided in the insertion section, is biased toward a first position near the insertion opening, and moves the finger from the first position to a second position by pushing, against the bias, the finger inserted in the insertion opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Hori