Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • Barcode reading device, imaging method and computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 10565412
    Abstract: A barcode reading device including a scanner which irradiates a target with a light beam and scans a barcode provided on the target so as to read information from the barcode, a camera which captures images of the target, a display which displays the images captured by the camera, and a processor which performs processing operations including an imaging control processing operation for, when the scanner is irradiating the target with the light beam, controlling the camera to perform an imaging operation for acquiring an image for recording, at predetermined imaging timing, and an irradiation control processing operation for temporarily stopping the light beam irradiation by the scanner in synchronization with the imaging timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Ogawa
  • Barcode reading device, control method and computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 10565414
    Abstract: A barcode reading device including a barcode scanner which irradiates a target with a light beam and reads a barcode provided to the target, a camera which captures an image of the target, a display which sequentially displays images captured by the camera, and a processor which performs indicator display control processing of causing an indicator indicating an assumed irradiation position of the light beam to be displayed on the display while being superimposed on the captured image when the barcode is read by the barcode scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teppei Moriyama
  • Thermally expandable sheet and thermally expandable sheet production method
    Patent number: 10562263
    Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a first thermally expansive layer that is formed on one side of a base and contains a first thermally expandable material; and a second thermally expansive layer that is formed on the first thermally expansive layer and contains a second thermally expandable material, wherein the second thermally expandable material further contains white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Yuji Horiuchi
  • Communication apparatus and communication control method
    Patent number: 10567942
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a communication unit and a controller. The controller determines, according to a first reference of received signal strength in one communication apparatus which is either an external communication apparatus or the communication apparatus, a transmitted signal strength for a transmission radio wave from the other communication apparatus as a first reference of transmitted signal strength. The controller determines a second reference of transmitted signal strength between the first reference of transmitted signal strength and a maximum strength of transmitted signal strength from the other communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Okumura, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • RESIN MOLDED SHEET AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF RESIN MOLDED SHEET, AND SHAPED ARTICLE AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF SHAPED ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20200047459
    Abstract: A resin molded sheet includes: a base material made of resin; a first thermal expansion layer including a thermally expandable material and provided on a first surface of the base material; and a second thermal expansion layer including a thermally expandable material and provided on a second surface of the base material, wherein the first thermal expansion layer is provided at least on a first region, where the base material is deformed by the first thermal expansion layer, on the first surface of the base material, and the second thermal expansion layer is provided at least in a second region, where the base material is deformed by the second thermal expansion layer, on the second surface of the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki TAKAHASHI
  • Image shooting apparatus for setting image shooting condition easily and method thereof
    Patent number: 10560625
    Abstract: A shooting apparatus includes a touch panel on a display and performs self-timer shooting. The shooting apparatus includes a CPU configured to detect a dragging manipulation status from a touch start point on a fixed or an arbitrary point on the touch panel to an end of the touch, update one condition selected out of a self-timer time and a continuous shooting number as a first shooting condition, perform a control of updating and displaying the updated first shooting condition on at least one position selected out of a point on the display corresponding to the touch start point, the fixed point on the display, and a point on the display along with the dragging manipulation status whenever the first shooting condition is updated, and set the updated first shooting condition as a shooting condition for performing a shooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuko Tokairin
  • Electronic musical instrument, method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10559290
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a sound source LSI to generate a musical sound using a RAM that retains waveform data that has been selectively read from a plurality of waveforms stored in a large-capacity flash memory, and smoothly executes transfer of additional waveform data from the flash memory to the RAM when the requisite waveform data is not retained in the RAM during the performance. Performance data is generated by a sequencer, a prescribed delay time is applied to the performance data by an event time generator and an event delay buffer so as to provide for sufficient time for the transfer of the additional waveform if such transfer is needed. A musical sound is generated by an event buffer and a sound source driver on the basis of the delayed performance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Hajime Kawashima
  • Motion vector acquiring device, motion vector acquiring method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10560631
    Abstract: By using various information such as GPS information, cartographic information, and atmospheric pressure acquired by a sensor, a CPU of an imaging device calculates a motion vector in a limited MV calculation area acquired by excluding from images an area where radial motion vectors occur which highly possibly give an adverse effect to motion vector calculation, in accordance with the gravity direction with respect to the imaging device, the orientation of the imaging device, and the slope angle of the road where the imaging device is moving forward. After calculating the motion vector, the CPU estimates a blur amount between frames from the calculated motion vector and, based on this blur amount, performs the alignment of a feature point between the frames by image deformation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitsugu Manabe
  • Utilizing function apparatus, recording medium, and method for comparing information before and after connection release with an external device
    Patent number: 10558610
    Abstract: A utilizing function apparatus include at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to, based on an operation, set one of at least one function temporarily unable to be executed, when it is detected that the utilizing function apparatus is connected to an external device after setting the one function temporarily unable to be executed, acquire information about an area of the memory of the utilizing function apparatus, as first information, when it is detected that the connection with the external device is released, acquire the information about the area of the memory, as second information, and when the acquired first information and second information are different, set the one function back able to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Okuma
  • KEY UNIT AND KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20200043445
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes a plurality of key blocks, each including key main bodies, connecting sections, and a supporting section. Each key main body has a top surface that can be pressed by a user to play the keyboard instrument. Each connecting section extends from a key main body and deforms in response to pressing at the top surface of the key main body. The supporting section supports the key main bodies as one key block through the connecting sections. The key blocks are stacked at the supporting section in an instrument case so that a plurality of connecting sections of one key block and a plurality of connecting sections of another key block overlap each other. In at least one key block, each connecting section extends from a top surface side of the corresponding key main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya KUNO, Hirokazu TANIGUCHI, Yuichi NISHIMURA
  • THERMAL PRINTER AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200039237
    Abstract: A thermal printer includes a thermal head in which a plurality of heating elements are arranged in a line, and a processor that executes a printing process of energizing the thermal head successively a predetermined number of times so at to print a printing data by causing a predetermined voltage to be applied to the thermal head the predetermined number of times in accordance with and in synchronization with strobe pulses in a strobe signal, a strobe width of each strobe pulse in the strobe signal defining a duration during which the thermal head is being applied with the predetermined voltage, wherein among the strobe pulses for the predetermined number of times of energizing the thermal head, a strobe width of at least one predetermined strobe pulse is set to be always shorter than a strobe width of another predetermined one of the strobe pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shumpei Tominaga, Katsuhiko Motoike
  • AUTONOMOUS MOBILE APPARATUS, AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200042010
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile apparatus creates an environment map and estimates a position using images captured by an imaging device. The autonomous mobile apparatus includes a controller and a storage unit. The controller creates environment maps in accordance with changes in the surrounding environment, normalizes the created environment maps to enable unified handling and saves the normalized environment maps in the storage unit, and estimates the position using the normalized environment maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA
  • THERMALLY EXPANDABLE SHEET AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT
    Publication number: 20200039198
    Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet including two or more thermally expandable layers that are laminated, the thermally expandable layers each expanding upon being heated to or above a predetermined expansion start temperature, wherein the thermally expandable layers include two adjacent layers different from each other in the expansion start temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji IWAMOTO, Yuji HORIUCHI, Yoshimune MOTOYANAGI, Satoshi MITSUI, Hiroshi MOROKUMA
  • KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20200043446
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument including a hammer unit which includes a plurality of hammer members each of which has an effort point provided on one end side, a load point provided on an other end side, and a fulcrum provided between the effort point and the load point, and a hammer holder which rotatably holds the plurality of hammer members, and a keyboard chassis which includes a restriction member for restricting rotations of the plurality of hammer members performed in response to key depression operations within a restriction range and in which the hammer unit is mounted, in which the hammer holder has a plurality of contact points on the effort point side which comes in contact with portions of the plurality of hammer members on the effort point side when the hammer unit is in a vertically inverted state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito AKAISHI, Hirokazu TANIGUCHI
  • Nail printer and method of nail printing
    Patent number: 10548383
    Abstract: A nail printer includes a print head, a placement table, a fingerprint sensor, a memory, a placement table shifter and a processor. The fingerprint sensor acquires reference information including a reference fingerprint image and reference positional information on a position of the reference fingerprint image in the placement table from an object placed at a reference position which is a position suitable for printing on a nail of the object on the placement table with the print head. The processor compares positional information on a fingerprint image of the object currently placed on the placement table with the reference positional information preliminarily stored in the memory, and controls the placement table shifter to shift the object based on a result of the comparing such that the position of the object on the placement table substantially agrees with the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Futawatari
  • THERMALLY EXPANDABLE SHEET AND SHAPED OBJECT
    Publication number: 20200031094
    Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes a base, an intermediate layer provided on a first surface of the base, the intermediate layer including a thermally expandable material, and a thermally expansive layer provided on the intermediate layer. The peeling strength between the intermediate layer and the base is less than the peeling strength between the thermally expansive layer and the intermediate layer, and the intermediate layer and the thermally expansive layer are peelable from the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki TAKAHASHI
  • MICROCAPSULE, SHEET MATERIAL, CIRCUIT BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CIRCUIT BOARD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200037444
    Abstract: A microcapsule includes a shell including a conducting component; and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have a conducting state with the other capsule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji IWAMOTO, Satoshi KUROSAWA
  • THERMALLY EXPANDABLE MATERIAL, SHEET MATERIAL, CIRCUIT BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CIRCUIT BOARD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND STRUCTURE TO ANALYZE HEAT-GENERATION POSITION
    Publication number: 20200037445
    Abstract: A thermally expandable material includes microcapsules and a binder having a conducting property, each microcapsule including a shell having an insulating property, and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have an insulating state with the other capsule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji IWAMOTO, Satoshi KUROSAWA
  • COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD OF FORMING ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
    Publication number: 20200034505
    Abstract: There is provided a computer readable storage medium storing a program executable by a computer, and the program causes the computer to execute functions including: forming a first image in accordance with an electronic circuit diagram, in which a resistance value of a wiring portion is defined, to form the wiring portion by printing with a conductive ink; and correcting the first image in accordance with a second image, which is formed with a photothermal conversion material, when the first image is formed at least partially overlapping the second image, wherein the second image is an image for expanding a thermally expandable layer that thermally expands with heat and, when the image is irradiated with light, expanding the thermally expandable layer by converting the light into heat with the photothermal conversion material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji IWAMOTO, Masato MOCHIZUKI, Junichi ONO, Katsunori SUZUKI, Yuji HORIUCHI
  • CALCULATING DEVICE, CALCULATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200034329
    Abstract: A print controller includes a processor and a memory. When an instruction to execute a specific calculation function is received, the processor obtains a calculation result related to the specific calculation function. When an instruction to print is received, if the instruction to execute the specific calculation function has been received a plurality of times without printing the calculation result related to the specific calculation function, which was obtained when the instruction to execute the calculation function was received one or more times before the instruction received at a last time of the plurality of times, the processor causes a printing device to print the calculation result related to the specific calculation function, which was obtained when the instruction to execute the specific calculation function was received at the last time of the plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki YOSHIZAWA, Hironori YOSHIKAWA