Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIA
    Publication number: 20210193114
    Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument that can output stored lyrics of a song in accordance with keyboard operations by a user, a processor determines whether a melody should be advanced or not while multiple keys of a keyboard are pressed by the user using prescribed criteria, if the processor determines that the melody should be advanced, the processor advances the lyric in response to the user's multiple key operation and if the processor determines that the melody should not be advanced, the processor does not advance the lyric in response to the user's multiple key operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • Shock absorbable flying device, method of flying the same, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11042166
    Abstract: A flying device includes a propulsion unit, a restrictor and a releaser. The propulsion unit flies the flying device in air. The restrictor restricts the propulsion unit in an open state from rotating more than a predetermined angle during flight of the flying device, the propulsion unit in the open state being rotated from a closed state by the predetermined angle. The releaser releases a restriction by the restrictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Masanori Ohta
  • Image acquisition device capable of acquiring images regardless of communication state, image acquisition method, recording medium, image acquisition system, imaging device, and imaging
    Patent number: 11039292
    Abstract: The present invention is to surely acquire an image of a part according to an instruction from a video regardless of presence or absence of communication connection and a communication state. A controller unit acquires instruction information (log) as instruction information to acquire an image, where the instruction information corresponds to time information related to time to acquire the image, and acquires an image of a temporal part indicated by the time information corresponding to the instruction information, from each of plural videos recorded continuously in terms of time, synchronized with the time information corresponding to the acquired instruction information, and different in content from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210173556
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a communication unit used for communicating with an external device; an input device having a plurality of keys for accepting an input operation of data used for an arithmetic operation; an output device that outputs information; a memory; and at least one processor that causes the output device to provide notice of first information in the case where numerical data for use in the arithmetic operation is received from the external device via the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi ICHIKAWA
  • Electronic apparatus, notification method, and computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 11030911
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a sensor information acquisition unit, a state calculation unit, and an output control unit. The sensor information acquisition unit successively acquires bio-information relating to a subject. The sensor information acquisition unit acquires activity information relating to activity of the subject. The state calculation unit estimates a physical condition of the subject based on the bio-information acquired and the activity information acquired. The output control unit controls the output unit to perform a notification of information based on the physical condition of the subject estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Kita
  • Display control apparatus, display controlling method and display control program for providing guidance using a generated image
    Patent number: 11029830
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Otsuka, Takahiro Tomida, Natsumi Hamaoka
  • Measuring device, control method
    Patent number: 11020646
    Abstract: Measurement accuracy in sports is improved. A wrist terminal includes a measurement information acquiring unit, a reference atmospheric pressure setting unit, and a state determining unit. The reference atmospheric pressure setting unit sets a reference atmospheric pressure. The state determining unit determines that the wrist terminal is located over water when a difference between the reference atmospheric pressure and a current atmospheric pressure after starting sports is within a predetermined atmospheric pressure range and the wrist terminal is located under water when the difference is outside the predetermined atmospheric pressure range. The measurement information acquiring unit 51 performs predetermined measurement on the basis of the determination result from the state determining unit 54.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Okada
  • HAND DRIVING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC WATCH, HAND DRIVING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210157277
    Abstract: A hand driving device includes first to third stepping motors, a driving circuit, a magnetic sensor, and at least one processor. The first to third stepping motors move hands. The driving circuit drives the first to third stepping motors. The processor controls a magnetic sensor, based on movement of the first to third stepping motors, determines whether or not the driving circuit has rotated the stepping motors while the magnetic sensor does not perform measurement, and, when determining that the motors have not rotated, makes the magnetic sensor start measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuyoshi OMURA, Makoto SAWADA
  • Display control apparatus, display control method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11017570
    Abstract: A display control apparatus having: a processor configured to: read a predetermined command to control a display to draw a specific display object based on first coordinates within a coordinate system, wherein the predetermined command is part of a script of a plurality of commands to be read in order; determine whether the first coordinates satisfy a first condition, a second condition and a third condition; and control a display in response to a determination of whether the first coordinates satisfy the first condition, the second condition and the third condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tanaka
  • Light source device, projection device, and light source control method
    Patent number: 11019312
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light emitting element that emits first wavelength band light; a fluorescence wheel including a fluorescence emission region with which fluorescence excited by the first wavelength band light is emitted as second wavelength band light; a second light emitting element that emits third wavelength band light; a combining unit that combines the first wavelength band light, the second wavelength band light, and the third wavelength band light; a color wheel; and a CPU that controls the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, the fluorescence wheel, and the color wheel, wherein the CPU performs synchronization control on the fluorescence wheel and the color wheel, and performs control to shift a synchronization position of the color wheel with respect to the fluorescence wheel in accordance with an output mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Masahiro Ogawa, Osamu Umamine, Tetsuro Narikawa
  • Information processing system and information processing method of information processing system
    Patent number: 11017457
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a local server and a cloud server. The cloud server includes the following. A receiver receives input of temporary input data. A transmitter transmits the temporary input data based on a transmitting request from the local server. The local server includes the following. A monitoring unit monitors whether the temporary input data is received in the cloud server. A transmitting request unit requests the temporary input data when the monitoring unit determines that the temporary input data is received. A receiver receives the temporary input data. A reflecting unit reflects the temporary input data on a data input form. A registering unit registers data input on the data input form in a database of the local server when data input on the data input form is finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Pointer and timepiece
    Patent number: 11016444
    Abstract: A pointer including a pointer body constituted by a plate member, an engraved section provided in at least one of front and back surfaces of the pointer body excluding an edge of the pointer body, and a reinforcing section provided at the edge of the pointer body by the engraved section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Masao Amano
  • POINTER DEVICE, ELECTRONIC WATCH, CONTROL METHOD FOR POINTER DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210149344
    Abstract: An electronic watch includes a pointer; a stepping motor including a coil and configured to drive the pointer; a driving circuit configured to drive the stepping motor; an A/D converter configured to detect electromotive force generated in the coil due to an impact; and a CPU configured to control driving of the driving circuit. The CPU determines a direction in which the pointer is likely to be shifted, based on the electromotive force detected by the A/D converter, determines whether the pointer is shifted due to the impact, and upon determining that the pointer is shifted, corrects a position of the pointer in accordance with the direction in which the pointer is likely to be shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta SAITO, Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Fumiaki OCHIAI
  • Ledger document processing device, ledger document processing method and storage medium
    Patent number: 11010603
    Abstract: A ledger document processing device including a display section which displays a live view image captured by an imaging section while waiting for a ledger document to be captured, and a processor which actualizes functions including judging whether a pixel-count size of an area corresponding to the ledger document in an image to be captured and stored in response to an imaging instruction is equal to or larger than a reference pixel-count size while waiting for the ledger document to be captured, notifying a user of a judgment result, and storing in a storage section the image captured by the imaging section in response to the imaging instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Shimizu, Ryo Oe
  • Electronic device, measurement mode setting method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11010329
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication device and a processor. The processor receives sensor kind information via the communication device from one of at least one sensor or an electronic measurement instrument to which the at least one sensor is connected, transmits the received sensor kind information to a database storing a combination of a sensor kind and a measurement mode in which measurement contents are defined, acquires, from the database, the measurement mode in accordance with the transmitted sensor kind information, and sets the acquired measurement mode corresponding to one of the at least one sensor or the at least one sensor connected to the electronic measurement instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Hatayama
  • Electronic device, audio device, electronic device control method and storage medium
    Patent number: 11010497
    Abstract: An electronic device equipped with a processor, wherein the processor, when an audio device is connected which has a sound emission section which outputs a sound and a sound reception section in which a sound is inputted, instructs the audio device to acquire unique authentication information, and wherein the processor performs personal authentication of a user wearing the audio device based on the authentication information from the audio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kurosawa
  • Printer and printing method
    Patent number: 11007776
    Abstract: A printer includes a print head and a processor. The print head ejects ink from nozzles to a printing medium while moving in a first direction, and also moves in a second direction intersecting with the first direction by a moving amount that is a dimension in the second direction of each of blocks into which the nozzles are divided in the second direction. Based on a position of the printing medium and the dimension, the processor determines whether to perform printing in a first mode or a second mode. A printing start position in the second direction of the print head is set such that a position in the second direction of one of boundaries between mutually adjacent blocks coincides, in the first mode, with a position of a back end of a printing region, and in the second mode, with a position of a front end of the printing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Yamasaki
  • Pointer and timepiece
    Patent number: 11009832
    Abstract: A pointer including a thick section formed on a pointer body in a manner to be thicker than a thickness of the pointer body, an accommodation section provided in the thick section in a manner to penetrate through a front and back of the thick section, and a luminous member provided in the accommodation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Masao Amano
  • Identification apparatus, identification method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 11004227
    Abstract: An identification apparatus includes a first one-vs.-rest identifier, a second one-vs.-rest identifier, and a corrector. The first one-vs.-rest identifier identifies a first class among a plurality of classes. The second one-vs.-rest identifier identifies a second class different from the first class among the plurality of classes. The corrector corrects an identification result provided by the first one-vs.-rest identifier using the identification result provided by the second one-vs.-rest identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Matsunaga
  • More endearing robot, method of controlling the same, and non-transitory recording medium
    Patent number: 11000952
    Abstract: A more endearing robot includes an operation unit that causes the robot to operate, a viewing direction determiner that determines whether a viewing direction of a predetermined target is toward the robot or not, and an operation controller that controls the operation unit based on a result of determination by the viewing direction determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Takashi Yamaya, Keisuke Shimada