Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • Electronic musical instrument, electronic musical instrument control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10825434
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes a keyboard, a processor and a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes together with associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played at the first and second timings, respectively, wherein if while a digitally synthesized first signing voice corresponding to the first note is being output, a user specifies, via keyboard, a third pitch that is different from the first and second notes prior to the arrival of the second timing, the at least one processor synthesizes a modified first singing voice having the third pitch in accordance with the data of the first lyric part, and causes the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output at the third timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Masaru Setoguchi, Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota
  • DETECTION APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PORTION SATISFYING PREDETERMINED CONDITION FROM IMAGE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PREDETERMINED IMAGE PROCESSING ON IMAGE, DETECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20200344410
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquire unit that acquires an image in which at least one element in a first color space has linear characteristics; and a processor. The processor is configured to adjust a white balance of the image which is acquired by the image acquire unit; control the adjustment content of the white balance, on the basis of a specific color serving as a reference; convert each of a plurality of portions in the image in which the white balance has been controlled by the adjustment content of the white balance, into one element in a second color space; and apply predetermined image processing to the acquired image in which the white balance has not been adjusted, by using the converted information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKAGOSHI
  • SERVER APPARATUS, CLIENT TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20200344065
    Abstract: A server apparatus is capable of communicating with a client terminal. The client terminal transmits first information to a second server, receives a digital signature from the second server, and transmits the digital signature together with the first information to the server apparatus. The second server generates the digital signature based on the first information. The server apparatus includes a controller configured to receive the first information and the digital signature from the client terminal, determine whether or not the first information is valid based on the first information and the digital signature received; and, transmit second information to the client terminal when the first information is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo NIMURA
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200344588
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a processor and a memory configured to store a program for establishing a wireless connection with a terminal device. The processor establishes, in accordance with the program stored in the memory, the wireless connection with the terminal device upon request for the wireless connection from one of the wireless communication device and the terminal device. Upon establishment of the wireless connection with the terminal device, the processor queries the terminal device with which the wireless connection is established to check a state of an application program for causing the wireless communication device to execute a specific function. The processor maintains or cuts off the wireless connection with the terminal device based on a state of a response of the terminal device with respect to the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shota Nakahara
  • Wheel member
    Patent number: 10816882
    Abstract: A wheel member including a wheel plate which transmits or reflects light and which is used in a rotating state, wherein the wheel plate has a center-of-gravity adjuster between flat surfaces of front and back surfaces of the wheel plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Daijiro Fujii
  • Projection apparatus, projection method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10819964
    Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a projection surface information acquisition unit that acquires a surface shape and/or color information of the projection target surface from the projection image acquired by the projection image acquisition unit; and a projection control unit that determines, based on the surface shape and/or the color information of the projection target surface acquired by the projection surface information acquisition unit, a projection range and a projection position where projection is performed, from a projectable range of the projection unit, and performs projection so as to obtain a defined shape on the projection target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Narikawa, Akihide Takasu
  • Sales data processing apparatus, terminal apparatus and recording method
    Patent number: 10817864
    Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus includes a sending control section and a printing control section. The sending control section performs control to send, to a predetermined terminal apparatus, sales data obtained by aggregating predetermined transaction data. The printing control section performs control to print, together with the sales data, sending result information indicating whether or not the sales data has been sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Itakura
  • Display device, electronic timepiece, display method, and computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 10816357
    Abstract: A display device includes a display having a first area and a second area, a counter configured to count a number of steps of a user during walking, and a processor configured to alternately turn on display of the first area and display of the second area in a case where the number of steps of the user during walking is being counted by the counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Miyake, Hayato Hori
  • Display control method of communication device, control method of server, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10817148
    Abstract: A display control method executed by a client terminal, includes: accepting a first and second formulas; displaying a first coordinate system having a first coordinate range corresponding to the first formula, in a first area, and a second coordinate system having a second coordinate range corresponding to the second formula, in a second area, on a display screen of a display; accepting a user operation of moving one area of first and second areas to overlap at least a part of the one area onto the other area of the first and second areas; and in response to the user operation, displaying, on the display screen, an integrated coordinate system having a coordinate range for integration determined based on the first and second coordinate ranges, and drawing first and second graphs representing the first and second formulas, at the integrated coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Akae, Hiroyuki Shibusawa
  • Drawing method for assigning drawing patterns to unit drawing area forming at least part of first surface or at least part of second surface, drawing apparatus, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10818098
    Abstract: According one embodiment, there is provided a drawing method, that comprises: when at least part of a first surface and at least part of a second surface are practically congruent to each other in a three-dimensional coordinate system, assigning each of a first drawing pattern related to the first surface and a second drawing pattern related to the second surface to any one of more than one unit drawing area forming the at least part of the first surface or the at least part of the second surface, drawing the more than one unit drawing area by using the first drawing pattern and the second drawing pattern each assigned to any one of the more than one unit drawing area, and thereby drawing the at least part of the first surface or the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Light source unit and projector
    Patent number: 10816886
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a blue light source configured to output light in a blue wavelength range, an excitation light source configured to emit excitation light having a shorter wavelength than a wavelength of the light in the blue wavelength range outputted from the blue light source, and a luminescent wheel including a luminescent light emitting area on to which the excitation light is shined to thereby emit luminescent light and a light guiding area configured to transmit or reflect the light in the blue wavelength range, and the excitation light is shined on to the luminescent light emitting area from a first surface side of the luminescent wheel, and the light in the blue wavelength range is shined on to the light guiding area from a second surface side of the luminescent wheel that is opposite to the first surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masakuni Iwanaga
  • Drawing device, drawing method and storage medium
    Patent number: 10813431
    Abstract: A drawing device, including: a drawing head which performs drawing on a drawing target; a head mover which moves the drawing head in a first direction and in a second direction which intersects with the first direction; a cap which protects the drawing head; and a processor which controls the drawing head and the head mover. Within a range where the drawing head is moved by the head mover, a drawing area where the drawing target is placed and the drawing by the drawing head is performed and a stand-by area where the cap is disposed are provided. The drawing head performs the drawing on the drawing target while the processor controls the head mover to move the drawing head in the first direction. The drawing head is protected with the cap by the processor controlling the head mover to move the drawing head to the stand-by area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Shimizu
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PAUSE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200333473
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device capable of suitably determining whether a user is moving or stationary. The electronic device includes a speed acquisition unit that acquires a user's moving speed and a processor that determines whether the user is in a moving state or in a pause state. In the moving state, the processor determines that a transition from the moving state to the pause state has occurred in the case where the moving speed acquired by the speed acquisition unit is less than the pause speed threshold. In the pause state, the processor determines that a transition from the pause state to the moving state has occurred in the case where the moving speed acquired by the speed acquisition unit is equal to or more than the moving speed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi IMAMURA
  • FORMABLE RESIN SHEET, SHAPED ARTICLE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHAPED ARTICLE, AND PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20200331177
    Abstract: A formable resin sheet includes a base and a thermally expansive layer that contains a thermally expandable material and is formed on one surface of the base. When the thermally expansive layer is expanded, the base is deformed with expansion of the thermally expansive layer, such that the base is deformed in an embossed shape, and a deformation amount of the base is greater than an expansion height of the thermally expansive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki TAKAHASHI, Yuji HORIUCHI, Yoshimune MOTOYANAGI, Satoshi MITSUI
  • Electronic device and waterproof case
    Patent number: 10809769
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first case provided with an opening portion; a second case that has one end portion provided with a fulcrum portion engaged with the first case and rotates about the fulcrum portion to close the opening portion in an openable manner, and a packing portion that is provided to be inclined to be more on an inner side of the second case at a portion closer to the fulcrum portion of the second case, and comes into pressure contact with an edge portion of the opening portion when the second case closes the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Yasunori Usui, Gu Dong
  • Electronic musical instrument, electronic musical instrument control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10810981
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of at least a portion of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model, and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Drawing apparatus, drawing method, and recording medium storing program
    Patent number: 10806231
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a processor generating data for drawing according to a type of a target on which drawing is performed. The target is placed in a drawable area. The drawing apparatus further includes a drawing head drawing on the target placed in the drawable area on a basis of the data for drawing generated by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ken Sato
  • Time display device, electronic timepiece, time display control method and storage medium
    Patent number: 10802446
    Abstract: A time display device, including: an indication display unit which displays a content according to an indicating operation, and a processor, wherein in a case where a remaining time with respect to a reference set time of an elapsed time from a measuring start timing is greater than a predetermined reference remaining time, the processor makes the indication display unit display a ratio of the remaining time with respect to the reference set time, and in a case where the remaining time is equal to or less than the predetermined reference remaining time, the processor makes the indication display unit display the remaining time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kojima, Hirohisa Maruyama, Kosuke Hasegawa
  • Information processing device, information processing method, storage medium, and electronic musical instrument
    Patent number: 10803844
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kafuku, Nobuyuki Mochinaga, Atsushi Shibutani, Toshihiko Otsuka, Atsushi Inoshita, Hiroko Okuda, Takashi Umemura
  • Image processing device, image processing method and storage medium correcting distortion in wide angle imaging
    Patent number: 10805557
    Abstract: An object is to clarify a relation between a partial area on an image and a voice corresponding to the area when providing them to a user. A control section acquires an image such as a fisheye moving image stored in a storage section and a voice corresponding to this image from the storage section, specifies a partial area on a plane of the entire area of the acquired image, acquires a voice from a direction corresponding to the specified partial area among all acquired voices and outputs this voice from a loudspeaker section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Kitamura