Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 11228894
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes (i) a wireless communicator capable of broadcasting an extended advertising packet having a large transmittable capacity and a compatible advertising packet having a transmittable capacity smaller than the extended advertising packet, and (ii) a processor. The wireless communicator periodically broadcasts the extended advertising packet based on a command from the processor. The processor sets offset information for acquiring of a time at which the extended advertising packet is receivable in an offset notification packet that is the compatible advertising packet, and broadcasts the offset notification packet via the wireless communicator. The offset information is set based on a transmission timing of the offset notification packet and a transmission timing of the extended advertising packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuho Kyou, Sadao Nagashima, Hiroshi Iwamiya, Tsutomu Terazaki, Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida
  • Accompaniment control device, electronic musical instrument, control method and storage medium
    Patent number: 11227572
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument having an accompaniment function which detects the sound volume of inputted melody sounds for each sound range, and controls the sound volume of accompaniment sounds for each sound range in accordance with the detected sound volume of the melody sounds for each sound range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Yoshino
  • Electronic terminal, electronic watch, security setting method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11222332
    Abstract: An electronic terminal capable of using a function of payment includes a wearing detector, a communicator, and a processor. The wearing detector detects whether the electronic terminal is worn by a user. The communicator communicates with a wireless communication apparatus via near field communication. The processor changes, based on information that is obtained by the wearing detector and the communicator, whether to enable or disable use of the function of payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuho Kyou, Sadao Nagashima, Hiroshi Iwamiya, Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Ryo Okumura
  • SHAPING SYSTEM, SHAPED OBJECT FORMATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20220001595
    Abstract: A shaping system includes: a printing device that prints an image using predetermined ink on a thermal expansion sheet having a thermal expansion layer on one side; and an expansion device that performs: a drying process of heating the thermal expansion sheet to an extent that allows the thermal expansion layer to maintain a non-expansion state, to dry the image printed by the printing device using the predetermined ink; and an expansion process of, after the drying process, heating the thermal expansion sheet to an extent that allows the thermal expansion layer to expand, to expand the thermal expansion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minoru SAITO
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20220005575
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquirer that acquires exercise data related to exercise of a user from a detector that detects the exercise data, and a determiner that, based on data that is included in the exercise data acquired by the acquired and that indicates acceleration in a specific direction, determines the presence or absence of noise caused by a collision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi UEDA
  • Charge protection circuit, charger, electronic device, and charge protection method
    Patent number: 11218015
    Abstract: Disclosed is a charge protection circuit including: a switch that switches between allowing and not allowing power supply from an external power source to a charging circuit that supplies power for charging a rechargeable battery; a detector that detects at least one of a current flowing from the charging circuit to the rechargeable battery and a voltage between two electrodes of the rechargeable battery; a determiner that determines whether a detection result of the detector is abnormal; and a controller that, in response to the determiner determining that the detection result of the detector is abnormal, causes the switch to switch to an interrupting state so as to interrupt power supply to the charging circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Masanori Ishihara
  • PUSH BUTTON DEVICE AND TIMEPIECE
    Publication number: 20210405593
    Abstract: A push button device including a supporting member which is provided with a through hole and in which a recess section is provided outside the through hole, an operation member which includes a shaft section that is slidably inserted into the through hole, and a head section that is provided on an outer end of the shaft section and slidably fitted into the recess section, a first filter which is provided in the recess section and arranged at a position surrounded by an annular first groove section into which an outer circumferential convex section of the head section is fitted and the outer circumferential convex section, and a second filter which is provided in the head section and arranged at a position surrounded by an annular second groove section into which an inner circumferential convex section of the recess section is fitted and the inner circumferential convex section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takumi YASUDA
  • ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, SOUND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210407474
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data; a sound source that produces musical sounds; and a processor configured to perform the following: when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements satisfies a prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a first timbre and a sound of a second timbre, both corresponding to a pitch data specified by the user performance; and when the user performance of the plurality of performance elements does not satisfy the prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the first timbre corresponding to the pitch data specified by the user performance and not instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the second timbre.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki SATO, Hajime KAWASHIMA
  • ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, SOUND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210407480
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data; a sound source that produces musical sounds; and a processor configured to perform the following: when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements satisfies a prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce automatic arpeggio playing sounds corresponding to pitch data specified by the user performance; and when the user performance of the plurality of performance elements does not satisfy the prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a pitch data specified by the user performance without producing the automatic arpeggio playing sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki SATO, Hajime KAWASHIMA
  • MUSICAL PERFORMANCE SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20210407475
    Abstract: A musical performance system includes an instrument and a term1nal. Terminal includes a processor. Processor executes outputting first track data or first pattern data obtained by arbitrarily combining pieces of track data. Processor executes automatically outputting second track data or second pattern data obtained by arbitrarily combining pieces of track data. Instrument includes a processor. Processor executes acquiring first track/pattern data from terminal. Processor executes generating a sound of a music composition in accordance with first track/pattern data. Processor executes acquiring second track/pattern data from terminal. Processor executes generating a sound of a music composition in accordance with second track/pattern data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru KAFUKU, Takeshi IMAI
  • ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, ACCOMPANIMENT SOUND INSTRUCTION METHOD AND ACCOMPANIMENT SOUND AUTOMATIC GENERATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210407481
    Abstract: The present invention aims to change contents of an automatic accompaniment in accordance with a pitch range of a key that a user plays. The electronic musical instrument includes operated keys and a processor. The processor acquires the number of operated keys for each pitch range in accordance with the operation of the keyboard and instructs to switch an automatic accompaniment pattern accompaniment sounds to be emitted in accordance with the acquired number of operated keys for each pitch range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun YOSHINO, Toshiyuki TACHIBANA
  • Electronic device, control method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11209895
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display; a second display for which power consumption is lower than that of the first display; a first communicator; a second communicator for which power consumption is lower than that of the first communicator; a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than that of the first processor; and an operation acquirer to, when an operation from a user is acquired, send a wake-up signal that causes the first processor to recover from a sleep state in which power consumption is suppressed to a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Minami, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Imaging device and optical unit
    Patent number: 11209721
    Abstract: An imaging device having an imaging lens system includes: an outermost cover member of the imaging lens system; a light source arranged inside the cover member; and a heat dissipation member is configured to dissipate heat of the light source to the cover member, thereby defogging the cover member by heat of the heat dissipation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Houjou, Jumpei Ishibashi
  • Display apparatus, display method, and storage medium for displaying distinct display of relative position of specific point to three-dimensional range in three dimensional coordinate system
    Patent number: 11210822
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Electronic device capable of appropriately using various time displays
    Patent number: 11209781
    Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second processors, and first and second display units. While the first and second processors cooperate with each other and perform a display operation including a time display, the first processor can be set to a normal mode, a low power mode in which a power consumption is lower than a power consumption in the normal mode, or a pause mode in which a power consumption is lower than the power consumption in the low power mode, and the first processor is stopped. In the normal or low power modes, the first processor controls such that the first display unit displays a time, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit does not display a time. In the pause mode, the first display unit is turned off, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit displays a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minami, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Hideo Suzuki, Takashi Suenaga, Keiichi Nomura, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Electronic timepiece and method of reporting state of electronic timepiece
    Patent number: 11209777
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes: a main unit having a reporting unit that reports information to a user; a crown that can be pulled out from and pushed back into a main unit by the user; a sensor that detects a state of the electronic timepiece; and a processor, wherein the processor detects a state of the crown and the state detected by the sensor and switches between a plurality of modes in accordance with the state of the crown, and wherein upon detecting that the crown has been pulled out or pushed back in, the processor causes the electronic timepiece to operate in a state reporting mode in which the reporting unit reports the state detected by the sensor to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mototaka Minakuchi, Chiharu Shiratori
  • ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210397775
    Abstract: An information processing method includes displaying a graph on a display screen of a display, in response to a user operation of specifying at least part of the graph, displaying an icon corresponding to a numerical value which is associated with the at least part of the graph on the display screen, in response to a user operation of selecting the icon, as at least part of a mathematical expression to execute calculation using the numerical value which is associated with the icon selected, displaying the numerical value or a variable indicating the numerical value which is associated with the icon on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manato Ono
  • Electronic device, operation method and recording medium
    Patent number: 11203209
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a moving body, first and second sensors, and a processor. The first sensor detects the moving body passing a reference position while moving along a first axis. The second sensor outputs a second phase signal of a second phase according to the moving body moving along the first axis, wherein the second phase is shifted from a first phase. In a setting mode, the processor stores information data indicating a level of the second phase signal at a time when the first sensor detects the reference position. In an operation control mode, the processor sets, as a position pertaining to an origin on the first axis, a position of an earliest edge of the first phase after the second phase signal switches from a level identical with the level stored in the setting mode to a different level after the first sensor detects the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nagao
  • Conversation apparatus, robot, conversation apparatus control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 11205424
    Abstract: A conversation apparatus includes an audio speaker and a processor. The audio speaker makes an utterance to users. The processor acquires a feature of each of the users, selects, based on the acquired feature of each of the users, a target user to tune to or to not tune to from among the users, and executes utterance control that controls the audio speaker so as to make an utterance that corresponds to the selected target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Nakamura
  • Ink, printing apparatus, printing method, manufacturing method for shaped object, and thermal expansion sheet
    Patent number: 11203220
    Abstract: An ink for forming a photothermal conversion layer used to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermal expansion sheet to swell. The ink includes an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of the infrared light spectrum than in the visible light spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Takahashi, Yuji Horiuchi, Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Satoshi Mitsui