Casio Patents Granted

Patents granted to Casio by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11316529
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion device which performs integration processing for integrating a difference between an input signal and a first return signal generated based on the input signal, and outputting an integration result, first quantization processing for quantizing the integration result, and outputting a first quantization signal, first return signal output processing for outputting the first return signal by adding to the first quantization signal a correction value delay signal acquired by a correction value signal outputted based on the integration result being delayed, and output processing for outputting output signals including a signal whose pulse width is asymmetrical to center of a processing period, based on the first quantization signal, in which the correction value signal includes a signal indicating a correction value for correcting a difference between a center of the pulse width asymmetrical to the center of the processing period and the center of the processing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Goro Sakata
  • Patent number: 11310556
    Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus which includes an input device having a plurality of video signal terminals including a digital video signal terminal, a display configured to display an input signal which is input from the input device, and a controller configured to set a search time of a digital video signal in accordance with presence or absence of power supply to a power supply terminal of the digital video signal terminal, and a connection status in a case in which the power supply is present, and configured to execute a search of the digital video signal in the search time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoya Makino
  • Patent number: 11307537
    Abstract: A communication system (1) comprises a central (100) and a peripheral (200). The central (100) receives location information and time information from NTP servers (10) and a location server (30). The central (100) creates first offset information of the time measured by its own device and the time information received from the NTP servers (10). The central (100) acquires from map information a time difference corresponding to a location presented by the location information received from the location server (30). The central (100) creates first updated time information based on the time measured by its own device, first offset information, and time difference corresponding to the location presented by the location information received from location server (30) and transmits the first updated time information to the peripheral (200). The peripheral (200) changes the time displayed by its own device based on the received first updated time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamiya, Sadao Nagashima, Satomi Michitsuta, Makoto Nakagawa, Toyokazu Nishio
  • Patent number: 11305433
    Abstract: In a robot, an actuator causes the robot to operate. A processor is configured to acquire, when a holding portion is held by a predetermined target, physical information on a physical function of the predetermined target, and cause, by controlling the actuator depending on the acquired physical information, the robot to perform at least one of an examination operation for examining the physical function of the predetermined target and a training support operation for training the physical function of the predetermined target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Otsuka, Hisao Kumai, Takahiro Tomida
  • Patent number: 11308469
    Abstract: An electronic device of the present invention is an electronic device including a display operation unit in which a display function and an operation function are integrated together, the electronic device including a processor configured to execute processing below, in which the processing, when communication connection is made with a predetermined sales data processing apparatus, includes control processing of substituting either one or both of a display unit and an operation unit arranged on the sales data processing apparatus for at least part of a function of the display operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bungo Murakami
  • Patent number: 11305171
    Abstract: To appropriately determine whether or not a motion of a user is good in an electronic device that detects the motion of the user by a sensor installed on a lower back portion. An analysis system S includes a sensor unit 1 and a processing device 2. The sensor unit 1 is installed on a lower back portion of a user. The processing device 2 includes a swing evaluating section 254. The swing evaluating section 254 extracts a first peak waveform and a second peak waveform in an output result of an angular speed measured by a sensor installed on the lower back portion of the user. The swing evaluating section 254 evaluates the motion of the user on the basis of an extraction result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Nojima, Ryuji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11302296
    Abstract: A method implemented by a processor includes receiving performance data including pitch data; determining, based on the pitch data that is included in the received performance data, a key among a plurality of keys; selecting, based on the determined key and the pitch data, a first-type image from among a plurality of first-type images; and displaying the selected first-type image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kafuku, Hiroko Okuda
  • Patent number: 11295686
    Abstract: A liquid crystal control circuit includes: a first terminal that outputs a rewriting signal for rewriting a plurality of pixels; a second terminal that periodically designates a start timing of the rewriting signal; a third terminal that outputs a polarity signal for designating polarity of AC voltage; a first circuit that identifies a next second inversion timing of any first inversion timing at which the polarity is inverted; a calculator that calculates a first start timing after the first inversion timing based on the start timing; a second circuit that determines whether the second inversion timing is within a period from a predetermined time before the first start timing to the first start timing; and an inversion unit that inverts polarity of the polarity signal after the rewriting signal starting from the first start timing is stopped, when the second inversion timing is within the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Fumiaki Ochiai, Yoshinori Asami, Eiji Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 11291388
    Abstract: An exercise support device includes a motion sensor that is worn on a user's body and outputs data regarding the motion status of the user's body when the user is performing a moving exercise, and a control section which acquires exercise information regarding the user's exercise status. The control section selects a specific exercise index having relatively strong correlation with a moving speed from exercise indexes acquired from the data outputted when the user moves on a movement section plural times at moving speeds different from each other, acquires a coefficient that is used in an approximate expression which represents the specific exercise index and is a linear function including the moving speed as a variable and the coefficient, and acquires the exercise information based on the specific exercise index and the coefficient when the user moves by the moving exercise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Yamamoto, Tomoaki Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 11295443
    Abstract: An identification apparatus includes a processor and a memory configured to store a program to be executed by the processor. The processor acquires first image data obtained by capturing of an image of an affected area included in a skin or a mucosa by receiving first reception light. The first reception light is reflection light reflected from the affected area irradiated with first irradiation light including white light. The processor further acquires second image data obtained by capturing of an image of the affected area by receiving second reception light. The second reception light is light including light generated by fluorescent reaction in the affected area irradiated with second irradiation light. The second irradiation light includes light that allows the affected area to show fluorescent reaction when the affected area is irradiated with the light. The processor identifies the affected area based on the first image data and the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Matsunaga, Mitsuyasu Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11297254
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory storing a program, and at least one processor that executes the program. The processor sets an exposure condition for video imaging, acquires an image of the video imaged under the exposure condition, and calculates a brightness distribution from the image. The exposure condition includes a first exposure condition for causing the imaging device to capture an image using a first exposure value, and a second exposure condition causing the imaging device to capture an image using an exposure value higher than the first exposure condition and/or causing the imaging device to capture an image using a lower exposure value than the first exposure condition. The processor sets the first exposure condition or sets the first and the second exposure condition, based on the brightness distribution of the image captured under the first exposure condition after the first exposure condition is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohiko Murakami
  • Patent number: 11285606
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor which, when an accessory is fitted onto an apparatus, controls a driver such that the accessory interferes with operation of a movable part of the apparatus, acquires data indicating a position of the movable part at which the accessory interferes with the operation of the movable part, and controls the driver such that the movable part is driven within a movable range which is set based on the acquired data indicating the position of the movable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakayama, Toshiya Kuno
  • Patent number: 11287864
    Abstract: It becomes possible to succeed in restarting a power supply unit. A power supply circuit includes the power supply unit which supplies DC power to a CPU, a switch which operates to cause a short-circuit to occur between a DC power supply and an input terminal of the power supply unit or to open a connection between the DC power supply and the input terminal of the power supply unit, a temperature measurement unit which measures a temperature and a processor which controls the switch to open the connection in a case of deciding that the DC power is not supplied to the CPU even when controlling the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur and controls the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur after a predetermined time elapses after controlling the switch to open the connection. The predetermined time is set on the basis of the temperature that the temperature measurement unit measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Masanori Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11282409
    Abstract: A programming device including a shape indication section which receives at least one first user operation for indicating a shape by specifying two or more portions among a plurality of tangible portions arranged at different positions with each other in a planar direction; and a control section which generates a command list for moving a control target section along the indicated shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nagasaka, Shogo Hashimoto, Tomoharu Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Sekitsuka
  • Patent number: 11281165
    Abstract: In the case where a ticking timing of a clock unit changes, a CPU of an electronic timepiece outputs a synchronization request signal to a CPU of a display module at the next ticking timing after the change so as to request resynchronization. Each time a timer circuit counts a prescribed number of pulses in a clock signal generated by a clock generation circuit on the basis of the ticking timing, the CPU of the display module instructs a liquid crystal driver circuit to invert the polarity of an AC voltage to be applied to a liquid crystal panel. Moreover, upon receiving the synchronization request signal from the CPU of the electronic timepiece, the CPU of the display module sets the timer circuit to start a new count of the clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jyunichi Hirokawa, Tatsuyoshi Omura
  • Patent number: 11280915
    Abstract: A satellite radio wave receiving device including: one or more processors configured to: cause a receiver to start a receiving operation of receiving radio waves from positioning satellites; perform a current position calculation to calculate a current position based on the radio waves received; calculate a positioning accuracy of the current position; decide whether or not to adopt the current position based on a number of positioning satellites from which the receiver has received radio waves and the positioning accuracy; in response to deciding to adopt the current position, cause the receiver to stop the receiving operation; and in response to deciding to not adopt the current position, cause the receiver to continue the receiving operation of receiving radio waves from the positioning satellites and repeat performance of the current position calculation to calculate current positions based on the radio waves received during the continued receiving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Matsue
  • Patent number: 11275297
    Abstract: A light source unit of the present invention includes a first light source and a second light source that are configure to emit light in a first wavelength range, a luminescent plate configured to be excited by the light in a first wavelength range to emit light in a second wavelength range, and a dichroic filter provided on one surface side of the luminescent plate and configured to transmit the light in a second wavelength, and the light in a first wavelength range emitted from the first light source is incident on the dichroic filter at an angle within a first incident angle range, and the light in a first wavelength range emitted from the second light source is incident on the dichroic filter at an angle within a second incident angle range that is greater than the first incident angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chihaya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11273626
    Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet in which a thermally expansive layer that contains a thermally expandable material is formed on one side of a base, and where the thermally expansive layer is distended, the base deforms following distension of the thermally expansive layer and the base deforms into an embossed shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Horiuchi, Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Hideki Takahashi, Satoshi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 11276318
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a processor and a storage storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, control the processor to perform acquiring a command list, determining a position and/or a locus in a coordinate system set based on all of one or more commands of the acquired command list, determining first determination information indicating whether the determined position in the coordinate system matches with a specific position in the coordinate system and/or second determination information indicating whether the determined locus in the coordinate system intersects with a specific region in the coordinate system, determining whether the command list is correct, and outputting at least any of the determined first determination information, the determined second determination information, and correct/incorrect determination information indicating the determination result of whether the command list is correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11276390
    Abstract: An audio interval detection apparatus has a processor and a storage storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, control the processor to: detect, from a target audio signal, a specified audio interval including a specified audio signal representing a state of a phoneme of a same consonant produced continuously over a period longer than a specified time, and, by eliminating, from the target audio signal at least the detected specified audio interval, detect from the target audio signal an utterance audio interval that includes a speech utterance signal representing a speech utterance uttered by a speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Tomita
  • Patent number: 11275298
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a first device emitting light in a first wavelength range, a luminescent wheel comprising a luminescent light emitting area emitting luminescent light as light in a second wavelength range, a second device emitting light in a third wavelength range distributed on a longer wavelength side than the light in the second wavelength range, a device combining the light in the second and third wavelength ranges to the same light axis, a color wheel comprising a plurality of areas, one of them constituting an area for selecting the light in the third wavelength range and partial light on a long wavelength side of the light in the second wavelength range combined by the combining device as light in a fourth wavelength range, and a control unit controlling the elements described above to time-sharing control the light in the second and fourth wavelength ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chihaya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11272095
    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 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 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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 11269296
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a storage that stores specific-region DST application rule information and local time information that includes, in association with each other, DST application rules for each region and standard-wave transmitting station information indicating each station transmitting standard waves receivable in the region; a processor that controls clock time to be kept by a clock circuit and displays time to be displayed on a display; and a standard wave receiver that receives standard waves and obtains time information. The processor calibrates the clock time based on the time information indicated by the standard waves received by the standard wave receiver, and controls the display time based on whether the specific-region DST application rule information and the DST application rule information associated with the standard-wave transmitting station information indicating a station transmitting the received standard waves satisfy a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuto Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11267121
    Abstract: First information is acquired that is information of at least one of information about a user of a robot or situation information that is information about a situation around the robot. Conversation data is generated on the basis of the first information that is acquired. The conversation data creates an impression on the user that the robot and a predetermined target are having a conversation that corresponds to at least the first information. An outputter is controlled so as to output information based on the generated conversation data, thereby creating an impression on the user that the robot and the predetermined target are having the conversation that corresponds to at least the first information. The robot does not include a function that executes a conversation of a level greater than or equal to a level of the conversation based on the conversation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11265463
    Abstract: A low-resolution/high-framerate camera performs steady-basis imaging, and a server detects an area of a person, based on frame data from the low-resolution/high-framerate camera, and generates and outputs to a high-resolution/low-framerate camera imaging condition data. The high-resolution/low-framerate camera starts imaging based on the imaging condition data and outputs frame data to the server. The server performs trimming processing to extract from the frame data output from the high-resolution/low-framerate camera an area of a face of the person, recording of image data of the facial area, and sending of the image data to an external recognition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Nakai, Takehito Morimatsu
  • Patent number: 11258292
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a rechargeable battery, a first battery charger that charges the rechargeable battery by power supplied from an external power supply, a second battery charger that charges the rechargeable battery by a solar panel, and a processor that charges the rechargeable battery to a first voltage by the first battery charger, and charges the rechargeable battery to a second voltage lower than the first voltage by the second battery charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eiji Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 11256843
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Iwamoto, Masato Mochizuki, Junichi Ono, Katsunori Suzuki, Yuji Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11252387
    Abstract: There is provided a projection apparatus which includes a projection unit configured to project an image, an acquisition device configured to acquire a distance between an apparatus main body and a projection target, a ranging device including a ranging axis which is substantially parallel to a projection optical axis of the projection unit, and a controller configured to control a projection operation, based on a result of ranging of the ranging device with reference to the distance acquired by the acquisition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kosuke Sugama
  • Patent number: 11249445
    Abstract: An electronic device is communicatively connected to an electronic terminal configured to display an output value of a sensor. The electronic device includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit is stores a first city to be set in the electronic terminal. The processor fixes or changes a display-unit of the output value of the sensor to be displayed on the electronic terminal, based on the first city and a display language set in an OS of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuho Kyou
  • Patent number: 11250120
    Abstract: An authentication method for authenticating an electronic ticket stored in a portable information device by an authentication apparatus, including a step of acquiring, by the portable information device, shared information that is sharable with the authentication apparatus when authentication of the electronic ticket is performed, a step of generating, by the portable information device, a bar code based on the acquired shared information and the electronic ticket, a step of displaying the bar code by the portable information device, a step of reading, by the authentication apparatus, the electronic ticket and the shared information from the bar code displayed on the portable information device, and a step of performing, by the authentication apparatus, the authentication of the electronic ticket by making a comparison between contents of the shared information read from the bar code together with the electronic ticket and shared information in the authentication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Okabe
  • Patent number: 11250295
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Teshima
  • Patent number: 11237526
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a parasitic antenna which is a metal member used as a windshield fixing frame of a wristwatch type electronic device, and a feed antenna which is a conductor. The parasitic antenna has an annular shape, and is disposed close to the feed antenna, and is electromagnetically or capacitively coupled with the feed antenna, and acts as a parasitic antenna to which power is fed from the feed antenna in a non-contact manner, and thereby the feed antenna and the parasitic antenna act in cooperation with each other as a circular polarized antenna for receiving radar waves which are circularly polarized waves having a predetermined wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kita, Hiroshi Katsuda, Hiroaki Otsubo
  • Patent number: 11238629
    Abstract: A notification device that gives notification of predetermined information can be used more conveniently. A notification device includes a state detecting section, a guidance notifying section, a determining section, and a notification control section. The state detecting section sequentially detects a face state of a subject on the basis of images which are sequentially input. The guidance notifying section gives notification of face guidance information. The determining section determines whether or not the face state sequentially detected by the guidance notifying section satisfies a state corresponding to the notified face guidance information. In a case in which the determining section determines that the state corresponding to the notified face guidance information is satisfied, the notification control section controls the guidance notifying section such that another face guidance information different from the notified face guidance information is notified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11231772
    Abstract: A control device includes at least one processor, and a memory configured to store a program to be executed by the processor. The processor is configured to acquire an external stimulation applied from an outside to an apparatus, learn an emotion change parameter for changing a simulated emotion of the apparatus in accordance with the acquired external stimulation, acquire the learned emotion change parameter in accordance with the acquired external stimulation, set an emotion parameter indicating the simulated emotion of the apparatus in accordance with the acquired emotion change parameter, and control a behavior of the apparatus in accordance with the set emotion parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Atsumi
  • Patent number: 11227572
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument having an accompaniment function which detects the sound volume of inputted melody sounds for each sound range, and controls the sound volume of accompaniment sounds for each sound range in accordance with the detected sound volume of the melody sounds for each sound range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11228894
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes (i) a wireless communicator capable of broadcasting an extended advertising packet having a large transmittable capacity and a compatible advertising packet having a transmittable capacity smaller than the extended advertising packet, and (ii) a processor. The wireless communicator periodically broadcasts the extended advertising packet based on a command from the processor. The processor sets offset information for acquiring of a time at which the extended advertising packet is receivable in an offset notification packet that is the compatible advertising packet, and broadcasts the offset notification packet via the wireless communicator. The offset information is set based on a transmission timing of the offset notification packet and a transmission timing of the extended advertising packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuho Kyou, Sadao Nagashima, Hiroshi Iwamiya, Tsutomu Terazaki, Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida
  • Patent number: 11222332
    Abstract: An electronic terminal capable of using a function of payment includes a wearing detector, a communicator, and a processor. The wearing detector detects whether the electronic terminal is worn by a user. The communicator communicates with a wireless communication apparatus via near field communication. The processor changes, based on information that is obtained by the wearing detector and the communicator, whether to enable or disable use of the function of payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuho Kyou, Sadao Nagashima, Hiroshi Iwamiya, Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Ryo Okumura
  • Patent number: 11218015
    Abstract: Disclosed is a charge protection circuit including: a switch that switches between allowing and not allowing power supply from an external power source to a charging circuit that supplies power for charging a rechargeable battery; a detector that detects at least one of a current flowing from the charging circuit to the rechargeable battery and a voltage between two electrodes of the rechargeable battery; a determiner that determines whether a detection result of the detector is abnormal; and a controller that, in response to the determiner determining that the detection result of the detector is abnormal, causes the switch to switch to an interrupting state so as to interrupt power supply to the charging circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Masanori Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11209721
    Abstract: An imaging device having an imaging lens system includes: an outermost cover member of the imaging lens system; a light source arranged inside the cover member; and a heat dissipation member is configured to dissipate heat of the light source to the cover member, thereby defogging the cover member by heat of the heat dissipation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Houjou, Jumpei Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 11210822
    Abstract: Among twelve lines indicating a 3D space (Ad) (X-axis direction lines (Xa)(Xb)(Xc)(Xd), Y-axis direction lines (Ya)(Yb)(Yc)(Yd), Z-axis direction lines (Za)(Zb)(Zc)(Zd)), display colors of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) are allocated to three lines (three-dimensional directions), i.e. an X-axis direction line (Xa), a Y-axis direction line (Ya) and a Z-axis direction line (Za), which have, as starting points, a 3D space minimum point (M) at which each of an X value, a Y value and a Z value becomes minimum, and red gradation display (Rgr), green gradation display (Ggr) and blue gradation display (Bgr) (first origin direction distinct display) are executed such that the colors become darker toward an origin (O) of the 3D space (Ad) and become lighter away from the origin (O).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11209777
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes: a main unit having a reporting unit that reports information to a user; a crown that can be pulled out from and pushed back into a main unit by the user; a sensor that detects a state of the electronic timepiece; and a processor, wherein the processor detects a state of the crown and the state detected by the sensor and switches between a plurality of modes in accordance with the state of the crown, and wherein upon detecting that the crown has been pulled out or pushed back in, the processor causes the electronic timepiece to operate in a state reporting mode in which the reporting unit reports the state detected by the sensor to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mototaka Minakuchi, Chiharu Shiratori
  • Patent number: 11209895
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display; a second display for which power consumption is lower than that of the first display; a first communicator; a second communicator for which power consumption is lower than that of the first communicator; a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than that of the first processor; and an operation acquirer to, when an operation from a user is acquired, send a wake-up signal that causes the first processor to recover from a sleep state in which power consumption is suppressed to a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Minami, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Patent number: 11209781
    Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second processors, and first and second display units. While the first and second processors cooperate with each other and perform a display operation including a time display, the first processor can be set to a normal mode, a low power mode in which a power consumption is lower than a power consumption in the normal mode, or a pause mode in which a power consumption is lower than the power consumption in the low power mode, and the first processor is stopped. In the normal or low power modes, the first processor controls such that the first display unit displays a time, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit does not display a time. In the pause mode, the first display unit is turned off, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit displays a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minami, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Hideo Suzuki, Takashi Suenaga, Keiichi Nomura, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Patent number: 11203209
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a moving body, first and second sensors, and a processor. The first sensor detects the moving body passing a reference position while moving along a first axis. The second sensor outputs a second phase signal of a second phase according to the moving body moving along the first axis, wherein the second phase is shifted from a first phase. In a setting mode, the processor stores information data indicating a level of the second phase signal at a time when the first sensor detects the reference position. In an operation control mode, the processor sets, as a position pertaining to an origin on the first axis, a position of an earliest edge of the first phase after the second phase signal switches from a level identical with the level stored in the setting mode to a different level after the first sensor detects the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nagao
  • Patent number: 11203220
    Abstract: An ink for forming a photothermal conversion layer used to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermal expansion sheet to swell. The ink includes an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of the infrared light spectrum than in the visible light spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Takahashi, Yuji Horiuchi, Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Satoshi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 11205424
    Abstract: A conversation apparatus includes an audio speaker and a processor. The audio speaker makes an utterance to users. The processor acquires a feature of each of the users, selects, based on the acquired feature of each of the users, a target user to tune to or to not tune to from among the users, and executes utterance control that controls the audio speaker so as to make an utterance that corresponds to the selected target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11199816
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes an exterior case, one or more circuits housed in the exterior case, wherein the one or more circuits are configured to process a signal in a radio wave having a predetermined frequency, and a bezel disposed on an outer side of the exterior case, wherein the bezel comprises a metal portion configured to resonate with the radio wave, and wherein the metal portion of the bezel is electrically connected to the one or more circuits to transmit the signal in the radio wave received by the metal portion of the bezel to the one or more circuits. A method for assembling the electronic timepiece is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Sano, Daisuke Uematsu, Yohei Kawaguchi, Tatsumi Ichimura, Takumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11199817
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic timepiece includes a cylindrical exterior case, a bezel and a windshield member. In the exterior case, a circuit board is housed. The bezel is formed of a metal material to be ring-shaped, includes an inward flange part that projects from an inner side surface toward a center of the ring-shaped bezel, is arranged on an outer upper side of the exterior case and is electrically connected with the circuit board. The windshield member is formed of a transparent dielectric substance, arranged in the bezel and supported by the inward flange part. The bezel is configured to resonate with a radio wave having a desired frequency by adjustment of at least one of (i) a relative permittivity of the dielectric substance and (ii) an area of an overlap region where the inward flange part and the windshield member overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Uematsu, Takashi Sano, Yohei Kawaguchi, Tatsumi Ichimura, Takumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: D938417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keishiro Yamamoto, Iichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D945611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ogino, Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Kyohei Ishii