Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10747311
    Abstract: A sound collecting device including: a line-of-sight detector configured to detect line-of-sight information of user's eyes; a microphone; a processor configured to control the microphone so as to achieve sensitivity in the line-of-sight direction of the eyes higher than in other directions on the basis of the line-of-sight information detected by the line-of-sight detector; and an attachment portion for attaching the line-of-sight detector and the microphone on a head portion or an ear portion, wherein the microphone is provided on each of the two positions of the attachment portion, and the processor controls a plurality of the microphones on the basis of the line-of-sight information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Ura, Futoshi Yamamoto, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10747294
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a main CPU, a main power supply control unit which conducts power supply to the main CPU and conducts supply control of the power, a sub power supply control unit which conducts power supply to the main power supply control unit, and a first switch which switches on and off power supply from the sub power supply control unit to the main power supply control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minami, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Hideo Suzuki, Takashi Suenaga, Keiichi Nomura, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Patent number: 10748470
    Abstract: A level shifter included in a device includes an external interface power circuit configured to supply a power voltage corresponding to electrical input-output characteristics of an interface circuit of an external device, an internal interface power circuit configured to supply a power voltage corresponding to electrical input-output characteristics of an internal interface circuit in the device, a power switch configured to control power supply to the external interface power unit according to an electrical signal from the external device, and a selector configured to control conduction between the interface circuit of the external device and the internal interface circuit. The selector is configured to transition to an operable state when the external interface power unit is supplied with power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Kato
  • Patent number: 10744789
    Abstract: A printing device, includes a printer that prints onto a printing medium that is conveyed along a reference direction by a conveyer; and a controller that controls the printer to print a print pattern onto the printing medium along the reference direction. The controller controls to forbid the printer to execute printing when a temperature of the printer is projected to become equal to or higher than a set temperature if the printer prints onto the printing medium using a printing length of the print pattern along the reference direction, the printing length being a length of at least a portion of the print pattern along the reference direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Uematsu
  • Patent number: 10747180
    Abstract: A case includes a case main body, an exterior cover formed of a synthetic resin and mounted on an upper portion and an outer circumferential portion of the case main body to cover the upper portion and the outer circumferential portion, and a reinforcement member formed of a synthetic resin harder than the exterior cover and embedded in an inner surface of the exterior cover to prevent an inner circumferential side of the exterior cover from being bent back relative to the case main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsumi Ichimura
  • Patent number: 10747092
    Abstract: An electronic device according to embodiments of the invention include a fixing target member, a fixing portion having formed thereon a frame portion that is erected around a circumference of the fixing target member, a packing having a groove and disposed between the frame portion and the fixing target member, a core member disposed in the groove, and a pressing member that presses the core member towards the packing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventors: Osamu Jobi, Tomoyuki Ueda
  • Patent number: 10747096
    Abstract: A light source unit of the present invention includes a light emitting device emitting light having a characteristic in which emitted light travels in a predetermined direction in which a uniformity in intensity distribution relative to an axis of the emitted light is high and an unstable direction in which a uniformity in intensity distribution relative to the axis of the emitted light is lower than that in the predetermined direction, the unstable direction being at right angles to the predetermined direction, an intensity transforming lens formed to control the intensity distribution in the predetermined direction and on which the light emitted from the light emitting device is incident, and a superposition transforming optical device formed to control the intensity distribution in the unstable direction by dividing the intensity distribution into a plurality of directions and superposing divided intensity distributions one on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10739732
    Abstract: An antenna device including an antenna which is made of metal and receives radio wave, a substrate on which a first electrode and a second electrode are arranged such that one of the first electrode and the second electrode is plurally arranged, and are positioned on circumference of a circle centering on center of the antenna, and a connection section which connects a connection target first electrode to the antenna and connects a connection target second electrode to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideo Tasaka
  • Patent number: 10736400
    Abstract: A nail printing device includes a printing head, a memory and a processor. The printing head performs printing with respect to a nail surface. Based on a program stored in the memory, the processor determines whether a printing operation of the printing head satisfies a preset condition. If the processor determines that the printing operation of the printing head satisfies the preset condition, the processor continuously performs the printing operation. If the processor determines that the printing operation of the printing head does not satisfy the preset condition, the processor performs error handling processing which is different from the printing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nagao
  • Patent number: 10741214
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an image acquisition unit, a feature-amount-calculation unit, a score compensation unit, and an image selection unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of images. The image acquisition unit acquires information relating to image capture timing of the plurality of images. The feature-amount-calculation unit and the score compensation unit evaluate the plurality of images based on the information relating to the image capture timing. The image selection unit selects a predetermined number of images from the plurality of images based on an evaluation result by the feature-amount-calculation unit and the score compensation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Onozawa
  • Patent number: 10739731
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Hasegawa, Yohei Kawaguchi, Katsuhiko Obata, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Shimpei Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10739465
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a circuit board, a communicator disposed on the circuit board, and a casing accommodating the circuit board and the communicator. The casing has a through-hole in a side face. An antenna element is disposed on the exterior of the casing. A feeder extends through the through-hole in the casing and feeds electrical power from the communicator to the antenna element at a predetermined feeding position. A ground terminal extends through the through-hole in the casing and electrically connects the circuit board to the antenna element at a ground position of the antenna element at a predetermined distance from the feeding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katsuda, Akira Suzuki, Akihisa Ohmura, Hiroki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10742883
    Abstract: A data acquisition device including a processor which performs processing of eliminating some of a plurality of position data indicating mutually different positions of a moving object, in accordance with a mode signal from an information processing device, and a communication circuit which transmits the position data subjected to elimination processing by the processor to the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kurosawa
  • Publication number: 20200249763
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a sensor that acquires sensing data and a processor. The processor (i) determines, based on first sensing data acquired by the sensor, whether the electronic device is in a first posture state or not, (ii) specifies a level of a second posture state of the electronic device among a plurality of levels, based on second sensing data that is acquired by the sensor after the processor determines whether the electronic device is in the first posture state, and (iii) outputs a control signal based on the specified level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi MORITANI
  • Publication number: 20200250361
    Abstract: A simulation method includes setting a density of a conversion layer which is formed in a medium which has a thermal expansion layer which expands with heat and converts electromagnetic waves into heat, deriving a temperature of the conversion layer which is obtained in a case where the conversion layer which has the set density is irradiated with the electromagnetic waves, executing a simulation relating to heat conduction which takes place in a direction along a surface of the medium in the medium on the basis of a condition which is defined in accordance with the medium and correcting the derived temperature on the basis of a result of execution of the simulation, and deriving an expansion height up to which the medium expands in a case where the medium is heated at the corrected temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao SEMBA, Junji HOBO
  • Publication number: 20200250791
    Abstract: A display device includes a display, a first processor including a first interface that receives data from an external apparatus, and a second processor including a second interface that receives data from an external apparatus. The first processor transfers, to the display, data corresponding to first content to be displayed on the display, and the second processor transfers, to the display, data corresponding to second content to be displayed on the display. A processing power of the second processor is lower than a processing power of the first processor, and a data transfer rate of the first interface is faster than a data transfer rate of the second interface. The first processor and the second processor control a status of an image corresponding to the first and second content on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kimiyasu MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10734746
    Abstract: A terminal structure in which a groove extending in a predetermined direction is provided in a contact target section with which a tip portion of a contact pin comes in contact, and the tip portion slides on an edge of the groove along the groove by a pressing force occurred when the tip portion is butted against the contact target section so as to come in contact with the contact target section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ogasawara, Takahiro Nozaki
  • Patent number: 10732830
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a touch panel that is configured to be touched by a user, a display unit, and a processor that is configured to measure a sliding amount of a user's slide operation while the slide operation is performed, the slide operation being started from a position on the touch panel, and continuously control a switching amount of switching an image displayed on the display unit to another image while the slide operation is performed, the switching amount of switching being variable according to the measured sliding amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Hideaki Matsuda, Jun Muraki
  • Patent number: 10732956
    Abstract: An information processing device, including: an operator for a user to perform a specification operation of specifying an arbitrary mode from among a plurality of modes; and a processor which starts, at a predetermined timing, update processing of obtaining update data for updating a predetermined program or execution data of the program from a predetermined external terminal and updating the program or the execution data based on the obtained update data when a predetermined mode is specified in accordance with a specification operation of the mode performed to the operator by the user, wherein when a specification operation of specifying another mode instead of the predetermined mode is performed to the operator by the user during the update processing, the processor switches to the another mode after the update processing is finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Itakura
  • Publication number: 20200242404
    Abstract: An image searching apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to attach, to an image with a first correct label attached thereto, a second correct label, the first correct label being a correct label attached to each image included in an image dataset for training for use in supervised training, the second correct label being a correct label based on a degree of similarity from a predetermined standpoint; execute main training processing to train a classifier by using the images and one of the first correct label and the second correct label, fine-tune a training state of the classifier; trained by the main training processing, by using the images and the other one of the first correct label and the second correct label; and search, by using the classifier that is fine-tuned, for images similar to a query image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro TESHIMA