Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, PROJECTION DEVICE, AND LIGHT SOURCE CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20200314394
    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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki MASUDA, Masahiro OGAWA, Osamu UMAMINE, Tetsuro NARIKAWA
  • ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE AND NOTIFICATION CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20200310360
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a display, a communicator, and a processor. The communicator communicates with an external device. The processor causes the display to display, as multiple kinds of information obtained by the communicator from the external device, an icon corresponding to a category to which each of the multiple kinds of information belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke HASEGAWA
  • SOLAR PANEL, DISPLAY, AND TIMEPIECE
    Publication number: 20200310355
    Abstract: There is provided a solar panel including: solar cells each of which is formed in a belt-shape extending in a predetermined direction on a plate-shaped surface and which are disposed in rows in a cell-width direction; a partition area that divides the solar cells from each other; and a connecting part that connects adjoining solar cells among the solar cells electrically in series at respective ends in the extending direction. The solar cells have, across at least two of the solar cells, a transparent power generation area in which a power generation area and a transparent area are alternately disposed in the extending direction. The transparent power generation area extends over an entire cell width of at least one of the solar cells, and the connecting part is disposed at each of opposite ends in the extending direction of the at least one solar cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta SAITO
  • Audio extraction apparatus, machine learning apparatus and audio reproduction apparatus
    Patent number: 10789921
    Abstract: A processor in an audio extraction apparatus performs a preprocessing operation to determine, for a stereo audio source including first channel audio data including an accompaniment sound and a vocal sound for a first channel and second channel audio data including an accompaniment sound and a vocal sound for a second channel, a difference between the first channel audio data and the second channel audio data to generate center cut audio data, and an audio extraction operation to input the first channel audio data, the second channel audio data and the center cut audio data to a trained machine learning model to extract any one of the accompaniment sound and the vocal sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daiki Higurashi
  • Electronic musical instrument, electronic musical instrument control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10789922
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes; a plurality of operation elements to be performed by a user for respectively specifying different pitches; a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least a first note with a first pitch and an associated first lyric part that are to be played at a first timing; and at least one processor, wherein if the user does not operate any of the plurality of operation elements in accordance with the first timing, the at least one processor digitally synthesizes a default first singing voice that includes the first lyric part and that has the first pitch in accordance with data of the first note stored in the memory, and causes the digitally synthesized default first singing voice to be audibly output at the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Data transmission method, display system, and server
    Patent number: 10791117
    Abstract: An embodiment of a data transmission method is executed by a server that includes a memory that stores first unique number data presenting a first unique number and second unique number data presenting a second unique number, in association with each other, and includes receiving a first unique number data presenting a first unique number from a first electronic device in the first unique number reception step. Whether the first unique number presented by the first unique number data received in the first unique number reception step matches the first unique number presented by the first unique number data stored in the memory is determined in the determination step. The second unique number data stored in association with the first unique number data stored in the memory is transmitted to the first electronic device when determined in the determination step that they match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hanada, Toyokazu Nishio
  • IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200304716
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes a housing and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether a state of movement of the housing relative to an observation target is either a first state or a second state, and perform a control based on the state of the movement of the housing to cause change in electric energy for drive of the image capturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shota NAKAHARA
  • WEARABLE DEVICE, ELECTRONIC WATCH, MAGNETIC SENSOR CALIBRATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200300929
    Abstract: Power consumption due to failed automatic calibration is suppressed. An electronic watch is provided with a magnetic sensor, a processor for performing calibration of the magnetic sensor and controlling two or more function modes, and an acceleration sensor for sensing movement of a user. The processor determines whether a state of movement sensed by the acceleration sensor is a calibratable state in which calibration of the magnetic sensor can be performed, performs discrimination of a function mode being executed among the two or more function modes, and performs the calibration of the magnetic sensor when (i) the state of movement sensed by the acceleration sensor is the calibratable state and (ii) the function mode is not a non-default mode, the non-default mode being a function mode executed in accordance with an operation by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuyoshi OMURA, Susumu YAMAZAKI, Mitsuaki MATSUO
  • MEDIUM INCLUDING THERMALLY EXPANSIVE LAYER AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR MEDIUM INCLUDING THERMALLY EXPANSIVE LAYER
    Publication number: 20200298606
    Abstract: A medium includes a base; and a thermally expansive layer provided on the base, the thermally expansive layer including thermally expandable material, wherein the thermally expansive layer further includes a porous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi MITSUI
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20200301580
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an input device configured to receive an operation, and a processor which performs a function according to the operation input via the input device. The processor is configured to: in response to an input of a first operation indicative of a function to perform via the input device, perform the function specified based on the first operation; and in response to an input of a predetermined trigger operation via the input device in conjunction with the first operation, generate first information corresponding to the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa MATSUMOTO
  • DOT MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE AND TIME DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200302886
    Abstract: A dot matrix display device includes a pixel redraw control unit and a decoder unit. The pixel redraw control unit generates a gate selection signal identifying an address in one direction, a source selection signal identifying an address in another direction intersecting the one direction, and image data which correspond to a pixel electrode part based on a serial signal including an address signal identifying an address of the pixel electrode part and an image signal supplied to the pixel electrode part. The decoder unit supplies a gate signal which activates a gate signal line corresponding to the pixel electrode part based on the gate selection signal, generates a source signal which activates a source signal line corresponding to the pixel electrode part based on the source selection signal, and supplies the image data to the pixel electrode part corresponding to the activated source signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicants: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., KYOCERA Display Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo KASUO, Eiji YAMAKAWA, Takanobu SUZUKI
  • SHAPED OBJECT PRODUCTION METHOD AND EXPANSION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200298546
    Abstract: A method of producing a shaped object includes preparing a formation sheet that includes a base and a thermally expansive layer that is laminated on a first main surface of the base, the thermally expansive layer containing a binder and a thermal expansion material; laminating, onto a second main surface on a side opposite to the first main surface of the base or onto the thermally expansive layer, a thermal conversion layer in predetermined pattern, the thermal conversion layer converting first electromagnetic waves into heat; and causing the thermally expansive layer to expand in a pattern that corresponds to the predetermined pattern by irradiating the formation sheet on which the thermal conversion layer is laminated with the first electromagnetic waves and second electromagnetic waves that cause the binder to become cross-linked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi KUROSAWA, Toshihiro OGAWA
  • PRINTING DEVICE, METHOD OF PRINTING, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200302756
    Abstract: A printing device includes a memory; and a processor that executes a memory control process of sequentially storing input data that are input by a user sequentially via an input unit in the memory as printing data for a form in the order the input data are input; and a printing control process of selectively starting, in accordance with an amount of free space in the memory, one of a print-from-beginning printing in which the printing data are printed in a same order as the order the input data are input such that a feed-out direction of the printing paper becomes an upwards direction of the form and a print-from-end printing in which the printing data are printed in a reversed order relative to the order the input data are input such that the feed-out direction of the printing paper becomes a downwards direction of the form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki ITAKURA
  • Drawing apparatus, method of drawing, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10780711
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a processor determining the aspect ratio of the surface area of a target nail of a finger or a toe, and entering a first fitting mode to modify the aspect ratio of at least one nail design in accordance with the surface area of the target nail and to fit the at least one nail design to the surface area of the nail. The rate of modification of the aspect ratio of the at least one nail design is within a modification threshold of the at least one nail design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Yamasaki
  • Drawing apparatus, method of drawing, and recording medium
    Patent number: 10780712
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head drawing a pattern on the surface of a target nail of a hand or foot; and a processor. The processor controls the drawing head to scan a plurality of times across an area on the surface of the nail and to draw the pattern on the area during each of the plurality of scanning operations of the drawing head based on a curvature of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Yamasaki
  • Liquid crystal control circuit, electronic timepiece, and liquid crystal control method
    Patent number: 10783845
    Abstract: A liquid crystal control circuit is provided for driving a MIP liquid crystal panel. The MIP liquid crystal panel has a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a memory element and a display element. The memory element holds electric potential depending on an image signal. The display element is applied voltage depending on the electric potential which the memory element holds. The liquid crystal control circuit includes an inversion unit that inverts polarity of AC voltage in a first mode in which an enable signal is output. The AC voltage being is applied to the display element in synchronization with outputting of the enable signal. The enable signal activates the image signal output to the MIP liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Fumiaki Ochiai, Yoshinori Asami, Eiji Yamakawa
  • Printing unit, printing device, and capping device
    Patent number: 10780700
    Abstract: A printing unit includes a printing device including a metal component, and a print head that prints a print-target image onto a print medium; and a capping device including a cap covering the print head, an elastic member that urges the cap toward the print head, and a magnet that attracts the metal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumihiro Osakabe
  • Information processing apparatus
    Patent number: 10783376
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor which executes: a video data acquisition process of acquiring data on a video of at least one moving object as video data; a measurement information data acquisition process of acquiring data representing measurement information on the object as measurement information data; an object specifying process of specifying the object corresponding to the measurement information data included in the video, as an analysis target; a color specifying process of specifying a color of the analysis target as an object color; and a determination process of determining the object color specified by the color specifying process as a display color to be displayed when the measurement information data is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Futoshi Yamamoto
  • KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT AND METHOD PERFORMED BY COMPUTER OF KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20200294485
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes at least one processor that determines a first pattern of intonation to be applied to a first time segment of a voice data on the basis of a first user operation on a first operation element, causes a first singing voice for the first time segment to be digitally synthesized from the first segment data in accordance with the determined first pattern of intonation, determines a second pattern of intonation to be applied to the second time segment of the voice data on the basis of a second user operation on a second operation element, and causes a second singing voice for the second time segment to be digitally synthesized from the second segment data in accordance with the determined second pattern of intonation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki TACHIBANA
  • Printing apparatus, printing control terminal, printing apparatus controlling method, printing control terminal controlling method, and recording media
    Patent number: 10773528
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing head that prints printing data on a printing medium by electric power supplied from a battery, and a processor. The processor is operable to estimate, on the basis of first printing data indicating information on a first printing content to be printed on the printing medium and a remaining battery level of the battery, a first printing executable range which is a range in the first printing content that can be printed on the printing medium, and transmit information indicating the first printing executable range to an external terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshihisa Kawahara