Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6501487
    Abstract: The display size of a window as an object can be arbitrarily changed by simple operation without dragging a mouse. When an object on the display screen is designated by pressing a mouse button of an input device, a CPU changes the size of the designated object by gradually enlarging or reducing its size in accordance with the duration of time for which the mouse button is held down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20020196036
    Abstract: A reading apparatus has a sensor unit which is arranged on a substrate to read an object to be detected, a driver circuit unit which is arranged on the substrate to supply a drive signal for driving the sensor unit, and a static electricity protection portion, which is formed to cover at least a portion of the upper surface of the driver circuit unit, and at least a portion of which has electrical conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Toyoshima, Shigeru Morikawa, Yasushi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 6498613
    Abstract: In a menu display apparatus, when a user selects a desirable item from a large number of items displayed in a drawing unit image on a display screen, the user can have such a feeling that the user actually uses a storage cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuka Wajima
  • Publication number: 20020190229
    Abstract: A photosensor system includes a photosensor array constituted by two-dimensionally arraying a plurality of photosensors, an image reading section which reads a subject image at a predetermined image reading sensitivity by using the photosensor array, a sensitivity adjustment image reading section which reads a sensitivity adjustment subject image while the image reading sensitivity in the photosensor array is changed to a plurality of stages, an optimal image reading sensitivity deriving section which derives an image reading sensitivity optimal for reading operation of the subject image, on the basis of a pixel data group relating to an image pattern of the subject image read by the sensitivity adjustment image reading section, and an image reading sensitivity setting section-which sets the optimal image reading sensitivity as the image reading sensitivity in the image reading section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakamura, Yasushi Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20020191102
    Abstract: A camera comprises a lens and an LED array at its front. The LED array is composed of red, green and blue LEDs, which are individually turned on and off for light emitting purposes, as well as changeable in their quantities of red, green and blue lights to be emitted under control of an MPU. Thus, the LED array is capable of emitting light having any color having a different brightness by controlling the respective quantities of red, green and blue lights to be emitted by the corresponding LEDs. That is, the camera is capable of irradiating an object with light having a desired color for image pickup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Yuyama, Kaoru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20020191100
    Abstract: When a shutter key is pressed, the first image (in-focus image) is picked up and temporarily stored. The focus position is changed to a near- or far-focus position. The second image (out-of-focus image) is picked up and synthesized with the first image. The synthesized image is a soft-focus image in which a background around the contour of a main object is blurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Matsunaga, Tetsuya Hayashi, Masaru Onozawa
  • Patent number: 6496852
    Abstract: There are stored a plurality of electronic mails each for use in an absence notice, composed of those of an ordinary notice and the other clearly indicating an emergency contact place. If an electronic mail is received, it is determined whether or not the electronic mail is of emergency. If the electronic mail is of emergency, an electronic mail clearly indicating an emergency contact place is transmitted and when not of emergency, a response electronic mail of an ordinary notice which notices the absence is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshito Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6493743
    Abstract: In the network terminal device (200), the computer main body (202) transmits a download request containing user identification data to the host device (300) via a network (100) at the time of starting the terminal device (200). In the host device (300), of various types of files corresponding to the user identification data, a designated file which is set by the user table in advance, is selected from the user management file which stores various types of files corresponding to each and individual user, in reply to the download request, and the designated file is transferred to the network terminal device (200) which made the request. The designated file is a recently used data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020181121
    Abstract: A photographing lens system includes an aperture stop, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group, in this order from the object. The first lens group includes a positive first lens element, and a negative second lens element which is cemented to or separate from the positive first lens element. The second lens group only includes a positive third lens element having an aspherical surface formed on at least one refractive surface thereof. The third lens group only includes a negative fourth lens element having an aspherical surface formed on at least one refractive surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Etsuro Kawakami
  • Patent number: 6486972
    Abstract: Video data of yellow (Y), magenta (M), cyan (C) and black (K), stored in a DRAM, are transferred to an SRAM via a DMAC. The video data of yellow stored in the SRAM is transferred to a color printer engine by a DMAC for yellow. The video data of magenta stored in the SRAM is transferred to the color printer engine by a DMAC for magenta. The video data of cyan stored in the SRAM is transferred to the color printer engine by a DMAC for cyan. The video data of black stored in the SRAM is transferred to the color printer engine by a DMAC for black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignees: Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Casio Electronics Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 6487597
    Abstract: An information transmission apparatus is provided which has a connection unit for connection with a personal digital assistant in a wired, wireless or optical manner for transmitting information. When a portion of data displayed by an active one of programs is specified and a transmission command is given, the transmission apparatus transmits the specified portion of the data as a new file to the personal digital assistant, which receives the transmitted file, stores the same in a data area depending on the kind of the file, and displays the file in a display form depending on the kind of the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Horie, Masaaki Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 6487557
    Abstract: In a network-access management system, addresses of pages which at least one client terminal has accessed in the past are stored in a history table in association with user ID information. When a connection request from the client terminal is detected, display data according to the access frequency and type of the addresses stored in the history table and the performance of the client terminal is created, anchors for the addresses (or object images having an anchoring function) are pasted into the display data, and the display data thus created is sent to the client terminal. The client terminal displays the display data. When a user select the anchors, the client terminal is connected to the information associated to the anchor through the network-access management system and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 6483540
    Abstract: A digital camera comprises a pick-up image data memory for storing pick-up image data by a couple charged device (CCD), a title message table for storing a plurality of title message data to be superimposed over the pick-up image data and a plate table for storing a plurality of plate image data to be overwritten the title message data and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU overwrites the title message data stored in the title message table on the plate image data stored in the plate table and superimposed the title message data with the plate image data over the pick-up image data stored in the pick-up data memory. Further, the CPU stored the superimposed pick-up image data in the pick-up image memory so that the superimposed image data can be reproduced following the original pick-up image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Akasawa, Akira Miyata, Kazuto Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6479756
    Abstract: Predetermined wiring of copper is formed on the upper surface of an elongated base film in a wiring forming area as a width-directional central portion of the base film. Further, band-shaped first reinforcing layers of copper are formed on width-directional opposite portions of the upper surface of the base film. As a result, even if the base film has a relatively thin thickness, portions of the base film near sprocket holes can be made to have a substantially desired strength. To keep the first reinforcing layers out of contact with the pins of a transfer pin roller, opening slightly larger than the sprocket holes are formed in the first reinforcing layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Saito
  • Patent number: 6473966
    Abstract: A printer head substrate having a silicon substrate on which heat generating elements and partitions are formed and an orifice plate which adhered to the partitions is placed on a stage of a helicon-wave dry etching system. Helicon-wave dry etching is performed while cooling the printer head substrate by allowing a coolant gas to be intervened between the substrate and the stage. This allows multiple orifices of a desired and adequate shape to be simultaneously and quickly bored in the orifice plate even if a thin film sheet having adhesive layers adhered to both sides thereof is used as the orifice plate, thereby improving the working efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Kohno, Junji Shiota, Hideki Kamada, Satoshi Kanemitsu, Yoshihiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 6477548
    Abstract: In a client/server network system, an updated database content is automatically notified from the server computer to all of client computers which have once accessed this database content. In the server computer, an access history record for recording access requests issued from certain client computers is saved in a merchandise information database. When the record of this merchandise information database is changed, the server computer extracts such a client computer which has accessed this database in the past based up on the access history. Then, the server computer notifies a change notification to all of the relevant client computers, so that all of these relevant client computers can recognize the changed database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nihei
  • Patent number: 6476982
    Abstract: A photographing lens system includes an aperture stop, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group, in this order from the object. The first lens group includes a positive first lens element, and a negative second lens element which is cemented to or separate from the positive first lens element. The second lens group only includes a positive third lens element having an aspherical surface formed on at least one refractive surface thereof. The third lens group only includes a negative fourth lens element having an aspherical surface formed on at least one refractive surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Etsuro Kawakami
  • Patent number: 6477383
    Abstract: When a recall mode is selected as the operation mode of a PHS terminal, recall data is generated. The recall data specifies another PHS terminal, a state wherein the other terminal enters a specific service area, and a message, for example, that “the other party has arrived (in the specific service area)” which is to be received from a server or the other terminal when the other terminal is set in the designated state. The recall data is set in the subaddress of a call set-up message and registered in the server or the PHS terminal. When the other terminal enters the specific service area, the server or the other terminal transmits the message to the PHS terminal in the recall mode. The PHS terminal displays the transmitted message on a display device. The user of the PHS terminal can thus know that the user of the other terminal has arrived in the specific service area and that communication with the other terminal is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Jyogataki, Shinjiro Ishida
  • Patent number: 6472305
    Abstract: The bonding conditions for bonding a semiconductor chip to a film substrate are controlled to allow an adhesive positioned right under the junction between the first connection terminal of the film substrate and the bump electrode of a semiconductor chip to be pushed out to form an opening in the adhesive layer. As a result, the junction between the first connection terminal and the bump electrode floats from the upper surface of the adhesive layer and supports the semiconductor chip in the floating state. It follows that is possible to prevent crack occurrence derived from the difference in thermal expansion coefficient in the junction between the first connection terminal and the bump electrode, thereby ensuring a good electrical connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiro Ozaki, Kenji Edazawa, Kazuhiro Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 6472249
    Abstract: A sealing film is formed by a screen printing method. In this case, the temperature of the printing table is set at about 30 to 50° C. by the heat generation from a planar heater arranged within the printing table. A liquid sealing resin having a relatively high viscosity of about 500,000 to 1,500,000 cPS is used for forming the sealing film. However, the liquid sealing film is warmed by the printing table to about 30 to 50° C. As a result, the viscosity of the liquid sealing resin is lowered to about 50,000 to 200,000 cPS. After the curing, the viscosity of the sealing film is brought back to the original value of about 500,000 to 1,500,000 cPS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Kuwabara