Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10976650
    Abstract: A light source unit includes: a first light emitting element configured to emit a first wavelength band light; a second light emitting element configured to emit a second wavelength band light; a luminescent wheel configured to have a first fluorescent light emitting region irradiated with the second wavelength band light to emit a third wavelength band light, and a second fluorescent light emitting region that emits a fourth wavelength band light including a wavelength band of the first wavelength band light and the third wavelength band light having a wavelength band adjacent to the first wavelength band light being provided in parallel in a circumferential direction; a color wheel configured to have a second transmissive region that transmits the first wavelength band light to the fourth wavelength band light, and a third transmissive region that transmits only the first wavelength band light or transmits only the first wavelength band light and the second wavelength band light being installed in parallel
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Patent number: 10977769
    Abstract: Processor displays avatar to move from a starting coordinate to first movement destination coordinates in accordance with each instruction in first instruction set. Processor records coordinates after movement by instructions in the first instruction set, as first group, in accordance with instruction included in the first instruction set. Processor returns avatar to the before starting movement coordinates and displays avatar. Processor displays avatar to move from the before starting movement coordinates to second movement destination coordinates in accordance with each instruction in second instruction set. Processor records coordinates after movement by instructions in the second instruction set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Miki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10978034
    Abstract: A musical sound generation device including a blowing pressure sensor which detects a blowing pressure, a key switch which specifies a sound pitch of a musical sound, a first sound source which outputs a first signal corresponding to an exhalation sound, a second sound source which outputs a second signal corresponding to the musical sound having the sound pitch specified by the key switch, and a processor which starts output of the first signal by the first sound source on basis of an operation performed on the key switch, starts output of the second signal by the second sound source on basis of the blowing pressure, and controls a sound volume when the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal is emitted and a sound volume when the musical sound resulting from the second signal is emitted, on basis of the blowing pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10977591
    Abstract: A work shift management device includes a first display controller and a counting unit. The first display controller displays, for each user ID, an input form for designating a desired working time slot among a plurality of working time slots. The counting unit counts a number of people who can work in each of the working time slots. The input form is a separate form corresponding to each of the working time slots, and is provided with a plurality of date fields having a predetermined form and being respectively associated with dates. A mark attachment area for attaching a predetermined mark is provided at each date field. The counting unit counts the number of people who can work in each of the time slots associated with each of the date fields by counting a number of the user IDs for which the mark is attached to the mark attachment area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keita Anjo
  • Patent number: 10971025
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information display apparatus including a processor, the processor being configured to: designate a character string in a text displayed in a display unit in accordance with a user operation; determine whether a keyword is included in a part of the designated character string; generate, if it is determined that the keyword is included in the part of the designated character string, problem setting data based on the keyword included in the designated character string; and transmit the problem setting data to an external terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kojo
  • Patent number: 10972964
    Abstract: A communication device, including: a communicator that communicates with a terminal that broadcasts an advertisement and broadcasts to a scanner terminal that receives data from the terminal; and a controller that controls the communicator to transmit, to the terminal, data that is included in an advertisement that is scheduled to be broadcast by the terminal and transmission information regarding the advertisement and cause the communicator to broadcast the transmission information that is intended to cause the scanner terminal to receive the advertisement that is broadcast by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki
  • Patent number: 10969790
    Abstract: In an autonomous mobile apparatus, a processor acquires map information including positional information of an obstacle, plans, based on the acquired map information, a shape of the autonomous mobile apparatus and a traveling path of the autonomous mobile apparatus to avoid contact between the autonomous mobile apparatus and the obstacle when the autonomous mobile apparatus is traveling along the traveling path, and causes the autonomous mobile apparatus to autonomously travel along the planned traveling path while assuming the planned shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Maki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10970892
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory, a display, and a processor. The processor obtains an instruction on a figure-related process. If a type of a figure indicated by the instruction is a type unable to be drawn with function data stored in the memory, the processor: sends relevant data to at least one server; receives, from the server, drawing data generated by the server executing, based on the relevant data, an arithmetic operation required for the figure-related process; and performs the process on the display in accordance with the drawing data. If the type is a type able to be drawn with the function data, the processor executes an arithmetic operation required for the figure-related process using the function data without requesting the server to execute the arithmetic operation, and performs the process on the display in accordance with drawing data generated as a result of the arithmetic operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10960700
    Abstract: In a setting apparatus including a control unit, the control unit is configured to: set, by a user operation, an irradiation condition of a laser beam for a thermally expandable sheet, a surface of the thermally expandable sheet being heated and expanded by being irradiated with the laser beam; and control an output and a scanning speed of the laser beam in accordance with the set irradiation condition, and in the setting, (i) a surface state of the thermally expandable sheet after expansion is selectable from a plurality of mutually different surface states, and (ii) the irradiation condition is set by the user operation according to the surface state selected from among the plurality of surface states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Horiuchi, Kenji Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20210085241
    Abstract: A cyclic alternative pattern (CAP) detection device includes a memory storing a program, and at least one processor configured to execute the program stored in the memory, in which the processor is configured to: acquire pulse wave data of a subject; derive a baseline of the pulse wave data and an envelope of the baseline; identify a local maximum point of the envelope and determine, as CAP candidate points each indicating a cyclic alternative pattern, a first local maximum point of the baseline before the local maximum point of the envelope and a second local maximum point of the baseline after the local maximum point of the envelope on a time axis; and identify, for each of the identified CAP candidate points, a third local maximum point of the baseline before the CAP candidate point and a local minimum point of the baseline between the CAP candidate point and the third local maximum point and detect the CAP candidate point as a CAP based on an evaluation value obtained from a difference between the CAP can
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Takashi YAMAYA, Yasushi MAENO
  • Publication number: 20210090740
    Abstract: A state estimation apparatus includes: at least one processor; and a memory configured to store a program executable by the at least one processor; wherein the at least one processor is configured to: acquire a biological signal of a subject, in a certain period in which the biological signal is being acquired, set as a plurality of extraction time windows a plurality of time windows having mutually different time lengths, extract a feature value of the biological signal in each of the plurality time windows, and estimate a state of the subject based on the extracted feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi NAKAGOME, Yasushi MAENO, Takashi YAMAYA, Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA, Kazuhisa MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20210085253
    Abstract: A bioinformation acquiring apparatus includes at least one processor; and a memory configured to store a program to be executed in the processor. The processor acquires bioinformation in a chronological order; derives outlier level parameters, the outlier level parameter indicating a level of inclusion of outliers of the bioinformation in pieces of bioinformation acquired within a first duration; derives correction terms based on the bioinformation after removal of the outliers of the bioinformation from pieces of bioinformation acquired within a second duration that is longer than the first duration; selects one or both of a first correction procedure and a second correction procedure based on the outlier level parameters, as a correction procedure, the first correction procedure using the correction terms, the second correction procedure involving interpolation irrelevant to the correction terms; and corrects the outliers of the bioinformation within the first duration by the selected correction procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Takashi YAMAYA, Yasushi MAENO, Akira HAMADA, Shinichi MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20210090534
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument includes a tonguing sensor which detects tonguing, a breath sensor which detects a breath value, a loudspeaker which outputs a musical sound and a processor which controls the musical sound, in which the processor acquires a tonguing value which depends on a tonguing time which is the time which has elapsed after start of the tonguing which is detected by the tongue sensor, decides a silencing effect value which indicates a degree of volume reduction depending on the tonguing value, acquires the breath value which depends on a magnitude of a breath sensor signal which indicates a result of detection by the breath sensor and makes the loudspeaker emit the musical sound whose volume which depends on the breath value is reduced depending on the silencing effect value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji TABATA
  • Publication number: 20210090458
    Abstract: A recommend apparatus includes: a communication device; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: receive performance information generated based on a performance of a first user, through the communication device; determine a second user from a plurality of other users based on the received performance information of the first user, the second user being at least one of other users similar to the first user in music use tendencies, other users similar to the first user in function use tendencies shown during playing, and other users similar to the first user in music mastering characteristics determined from distributions of scores each of which is calculated for each play; determine recommendation information to be provided to the first user, based on performance information of the determined second user; and send the determined recommendation information from the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi MINAMITAKA, Hiroki KANNO, Mitsuhiro YONEZAWA, Kenya NOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210090539
    Abstract: According to one aspect, there is an electronic musical instrument including operators which includes a first operator corresponding to a first pitch and a second operator corresponding to a second pitch, and a sound source configured to generate a first output signal from a first close loop and a second output signal from a second close loop, to generate an integration signal, and return a subtraction signal, the subtraction signal being obtained by subtracting a signal circulating through the first close loop from the integration signal, to the first close loop, and then output a musical sound signal including signal components corresponding to the second pitch as a musical sound signal corresponding to the first pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Goro SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20210085217
    Abstract: A bioinformation acquiring apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory configured to store a program to be executed in the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Takashi YAMAYA, Yasushi MAENO, Akira HAMADA, Shinichi MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20210092274
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory storing a program, and at least one processor that executes the program. The processor sets an exposure condition for video imaging, acquires an image of the video imaged under the exposure condition, and calculates a brightness distribution from the image. The exposure condition includes a first exposure condition for causing the imaging device to capture an image using a first exposure value, and a second exposure condition causing the imaging device to capture an image using an exposure value higher than the first exposure condition and/or causing the imaging device to capture an image using a lower exposure value than the first exposure condition. The processor sets the first exposure condition or sets the first and the second exposure condition, based on the brightness distribution of the image captured under the first exposure condition after the first exposure condition is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohiko Murakami
  • Publication number: 20210085193
    Abstract: A biological information detection device includes a sensor fixed in a main body, brought into contact with a portion for detection of a tragus of a wearer on an ear canal side, and configured to detect biological information on a blood flow of the wearer; and a pressing portion and engagement portion provided in the main body and configured to press the sensor against the portion for detection by exerting, on the main body, a reaction force of at least one of an anthelix and a cavum conchae of an ear of the wearer generated by contact with at least one of the anthelix and the cavum conchae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro IEGAKI, Masahiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210089072
    Abstract: To prevent an erroneous operation and improve operability, a button device and a timepiece including the button device are provided. The button device includes: a cylindrical first guide protector 11 protruding from the lateral face of a wristwatch case 1; and a first button 12 disposed in the first guide protector 11 to be slidable inward and outward of the wristwatch case 1. The first button 12 includes a first button head 13 disposed in the first guide protector 11, and a first button shaft 15 passing through a first through hole 14 of the wristwatch case 1. The first button head 13 is inclined obliquely upward relative to the lateral face of the wristwatch case 1. The first guide protector 11 protects the outer periphery of the first button head 13, and this prevents accidental and erroneous operation of the first button 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keishirou YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210085188
    Abstract: A detection device of the present invention includes a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of an eardrum of a human, a supporting member including a columnar portion, to a distal end of which the temperature sensor is attached, a cover that covers the temperature sensor, and a heat shrinkable tube that adheres tightly to a peripheral wall of the cover and a side surface of the columnar portion in a state in which the heat shrinkable tube is shrunk after being heated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya KUNO, Masaru SATO