Patents Assigned to Casio Computers Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10459408
    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: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Hasegawa, Yohei Kawaguchi, Katsuhiko Obata, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Shimpei Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10459409
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a clock circuit, a receiver that receives radio waves from positioning satellites, an operation receiving unit, and a control unit constituted by a CPU and a module controller. The control unit makes the receiver perform either one of a date and time reception process that attempts to obtain date and time information and a positioning reception process that attempt to obtain information needed to obtain the current location; and, when a prescribed input operation that affects the current region setting is received, the control unit makes the receiver perform the positioning reception process at least once in the reception operations that are performed after receiving the prescribed input operation before a prescribed location updating event that determines a current location of the electronic timepiece occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10460528
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a control method of a figure drawing apparatus including a processor, the control method performed by the processor including a process in which, when drawing one or more arbitrary shapes formed by connecting a plurality of points included in a plane to be drawn and thereby drawing the plane to be drawn within a drawing area of a display screen of a display device, if a predetermined first combination of two or more points of the plurality of points of one arbitrary shape among the one or more arbitrary shapes is not located within the drawing area, the one arbitrary shape is not drawn within the drawing area of the display screen by the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tanaka, Kentaro Okuma
  • Publication number: 20190323114
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface. The method includes: a heating step of heating the titanium or titanium alloy base material of the member to a predetermined temperature under an inert gas atmosphere; a hardening step of introducing (i) a mixed gas including an inert gas, and (ii) oxygen gas as a hardening treatment gas, to perform hardening treatment of the surface of the base material; and a cooling step of cooling the base material down to room temperature under the inert gas atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi SATO, Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Shouta NAGASAWA, Kenichi INOUE, Chinfu LIU, Wuchien LIU, Tienchai LIN, Weipin KAO
  • Publication number: 20190320028
    Abstract: A method includes creating information indicating a first content in response to an operation on a first client terminal, assigning a unique first address on a network to the first content, permitting access to the first address from a second client terminal, which is anonymous, and on which an authentication process with an ID is not performed, editing the first content assigned with the first address, in response to an operation on the second client terminal, storing, in a storage, information on a second content corresponding to the second client terminal as and obtained based on the edited first content, and creating a unique second address on the network to the second content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manato ONO
  • Publication number: 20190318516
    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: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190318517
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory, a display, and a processor. If a display style when a point is specified in an image is a first display style, the processor obtains coordinates of the point in the first display style based on first drawing data stored in the memory without requesting a server to calculate the coordinates, and displays the coordinates on the display. If the display style is a second display style, the processor sends, to the server, relevant data including the coordinates of the point and information indicating that the display style is the second display style; receives second-display-style coordinate data which is (a) second drawing data including the coordinates in the second display style generated by the server based on the relevant data or (b) data including an address of the second drawing data; and displays, on the display, the coordinates based on the second-display-style coordinate data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190317981
    Abstract: An information processing method includes causing an electronic apparatus to display an arithmetic setting frame in a screen of a display of the electronic apparatus. The method further includes causing the electronic apparatus to send, to outside of the electronic apparatus, mathematical expression data on a mathematical expression formed in the arithmetic setting frame by at least a part of coordinate icons being selected by a user operation. The method further includes executing an arithmetic operation based on the mathematical expression data sent from the electronic apparatus, and sending, to the electronic apparatus, arithmetic result data of the mathematical expression as a result of the arithmetic operation. The method further includes causing the electronic apparatus to display an arithmetic result of the mathematical expression based on the arithmetic result data in the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manato ONO
  • Publication number: 20190318518
    Abstract: A method executed by a graph drawing system includes specifying minimum and maximum values of a drawing area in a first axis and a display pixel width along the first axis, determining a step width of a numerical value of the first axis based on a coordinate width along the first axis and the specified display pixel width, the coordinate width being obtained based on the specified minimum and maximum values, changing the minimum or maximum value based on the determined step width and the minimum or maximum value, and determining, based on at least the changed minimum or maximum value, the determined step width and a mathematical expression, coordinates of plot points of the graph, the coordinates including numerical values of variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki AKAE
  • Publication number: 20190318715
    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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190313764
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head and a control device. If a drawing target surface has a first region acclivitous and declivitous respectively in first and second directions different from one another, the drawing head draws first pixels to be drawn on the first region while performing first and second scans in which the drawing head moves respectively in the first and second directions. The control device controls a ratio of a drawing amount of a first scan drawing pixel to be drawn in a line of the first region during the first scan to a drawing amount required for pixels in the line among the first pixels to be higher than a ratio of a drawing amount of a second scan drawing pixel to be drawn in the line during the second scan to the drawing amount required for the pixels in the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190317664
    Abstract: A display control apparatus, including a processor and a storage storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, controls the processor to determine whether input of one or more first operations which are correlated to any position within a screen of a display is accepted, in a case where it is determined that the input of one or more first operations is accepted, specify one first position corresponding to the any position within the screen of the display, newly create one first-kind display area according to the one or more first operations, and display the newly created one first-kind display area on the specified one first position within the screen of the display, determine whether input of one or more second operations which are correlated to the displayed one first-kind display area is accepted, and in a case where it is determined that the input of the one or more second operations is accepted, specify one second position within the screen of the display, newly create one second-kind displa
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki AKAE, Takayuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190317764
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium records a program that causes a computer to execute a process of causing a display to display, in response to one or more input operations accepted via an input device, one first mathematical expression display area including one first mathematical expression, one first graph display area associated with the one first mathematical expression display area, one first slider display area associated with the one first graph display area, one second mathematical expression display area including one second mathematical expression, one second graph display area which is associated with the one second mathematical expression display area and is an area different from the one first graph display area, and one second slider display area which is associated with the one second graph display area and is an area different from the one first slider display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190318712
    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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA
  • Patent number: 10447935
    Abstract: In an image generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, the reference image selecting unit selects an image as a reference image. The image extracting unit extracts at least one related image related to the reference image. The image generating unit generates a new composite image by using the reference image and the at least one related image according to a layout including a definition of at least one kind of information selected from a group including a background image, the number of images to be used, a size of each image to be used, and positional relation among images to be used. The basic control unit issues an instruction to make the reference image selecting unit select an image being displayed as the reference image and make the image generating unit generate the new composite image based on the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10440168
    Abstract: A communication device transmits a plurality of types of data to an external device, and the communication device includes: a wireless communication unit 15 configured to communicate with the external device; a near field communication unit 16 configured to communicate with the external device and consuming less power; and a CPU 11 configured to set priority to a plurality of types of data and let the near field communication unit 16 with reduced power consumption transmit the data having predetermined priority to the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norio Endo
  • Patent number: 10440307
    Abstract: A control unit 21 of a main device 20 is configured to recognize a predetermined subject (face of person) included in a wide-angle image taken by an imaging device 10 and to correct distortion of an image (face image of the person) of a part of the subject, and to associate a part of the wide-angle image with the corrected image of the part of the subject, e.g., to display a part of the wide-angle image with the corrected image of the part of the subject on a reproduction screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Takayama
  • Patent number: 10437426
    Abstract: A selection display apparatus includes a display controller which makes a window area in which an item key(s) for selecting an item is(are) displayed according to categories, a window selection key area in which window selection keys for selecting a category of items to be displayed in the window area are displayed, and a specific category selecting key for selecting a specific category among the categories be displayed in a display; a first key controller which, when one window selection key among window selection keys displayed in the window selection key area is operated, makes the item key corresponding to a category indicated be displayed by the window selection key in the window area; and a second key controller which, when the specific category selecting key is operated, makes the item key corresponding to the category indicated by the specific category selecting key be displayed in the window area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Toma
  • Patent number: 10437139
    Abstract: A projector apparatus includes a projection unit that projects an image, a projection direction variable unit configured to mechanically change a direction of the image to be projected by the projection unit, an acquiring unit that acquires the image projected by the projection unit onto a target of projection, and a control unit that determines a direction of projection to be changed by the projection direction variable unit, based on information on a plurality of projection images acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20190304399
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a display; a light sensor located on an opposite side of a display surface of the display, and detects intensity of ambient light; and a control unit, in a first state in which luminous intensity of the display is not less than a first threshold, in the case where the intensity of ambient light detected by the light sensor is less than predetermined intensity of light, outputs, to the display, a signal to reduce the luminous intensity of the display to a second state that is not more than a second threshold that is less than the first threshold, and in the second state, outputs a signal to detect the intensity of ambient light to the light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi SUENAGA