Casio Patents Granted

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

  • Patent number: 11084247
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11089277
    Abstract: The present invention aims to make it possible to detect deterioration of a housing of a projection apparatus and to notify a user of the deterioration of the housing. A projection apparatus includes at least one processor and an acceleration sensor which detects an inclination of the projection apparatus, in which the processor performs the processes of acquiring a difference between i) a first detection value which is detected by the acceleration sensor in a case where the projection apparatus is installed on an installation surface and ii) a second value which is detected by the acceleration sensor at a time which comes after the installation of the projection apparatus with the projection apparatus on the installation surface, and in a case where the difference becomes more than a threshold value, controlling to notify a warning at a predetermined timing by functioning as a notification unit or to stop functions of the projection apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Fukano, Hiroshi Saito, Tetsuro Narikawa, Shunsuke Hara
  • Patent number: 11081084
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus in which an illuminance sensor is arranged on the back side of a display unit, and which can perform the appropriate luminance adjustment. The electronic apparatus includes a display unit, an illuminance sensor, a luminance control unit, and an operation judgement unit. The illuminance sensor is disposed on back side of the display surface of the display unit. The luminance control unit controls the luminance of the display unit based on the information related to light detected by the illuminance sensor. The operation judgement unit judges reliability of the information related to light detected by the illuminance sensor. The luminance control unit controls the luminance of the display unit when reliability is judged to be high. The luminance control unit suppresses control of the luminance of the display unit when reliability is judged to be low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Uchida, Keiichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 11077589
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a molded article, including a first step of arranging a primary molded article made of a soft material in a molding die such that an outer peripheral surface of an exposed section of the primary molded article which is exposed to an outside without being embedded in a secondary molded article corresponds to an inner peripheral surface of the molding die, a second step of pressing and deforming an outer peripheral portion of the primary molded article arranged in the molding die by a pressing section so as to bring the outer peripheral surface of the exposed section into close contact with the inner peripheral surface of the molding die, and a third step of molding the secondary molded article by withdrawing the pressing section from inside the molding die while injecting resin to be the secondary molded article into the molding die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Tanabe, Masato Ueno
  • Patent number: 11079835
    Abstract: A device includes a first display, a second display, a battery, a control processor, and a second processor. The second display consumes less power than the first display. The control processor changes a display mode of the device between a first display mode and a second display mode. In the first display mode the first display displays information, and in the second display mode the second display displays information. The control processor switches from the first display mode to the second display mode to give the battery a longer life. The control processor is operated by an “Operating System” (OS), and the second processor is operated by a “Basic Input Output System” (BIOS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kimiyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11071888
    Abstract: A smartphone including a near-field communication circuit capable of performing communication with an electronic terminal; a GPS positioning unit which makes a positional measurement; and a CPU. The electronic terminal includes an acceleration sensor used to count a number of steps and measure an intensity of exercise of a user. The near-field communication circuit receives, from the electronic terminal, an exercise log indicative of the number of steps of the user. The CPU displays, on a touch panel display, a route log positioned by the GPS positioning unit and the exercise log in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Hisada, Hirofumi Nagareda
  • Patent number: 11074757
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a processor. The display panel displays an image. The processor acquires, as a display image, three-dimensional image data including data of a right-eye image and a left-eye image, and controls the display panel to display the right-eye image and the left-eye image. A distance between the right-eye image and the left-eye image displayed shifted on the display panel is substantially half a spacing between eyes of a user viewing the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Tomida
  • Patent number: 11069101
    Abstract: A data processing method includes: outputting output information, the output information including coordinate system setting information to specify a correspondence between each of one or more coordinate axes of a coordinate system and each of attributes each of which is assigned to each of the one or more coordinate axes, thereby enabling an image generation device including a control unit to acquire the output information and to generate an image including a graph drawn in a coordinate system, which is set in accordance with the correspondence specified by the coordinate system setting information of the acquired output information, based on data on the attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Okuma
  • Patent number: 11065838
    Abstract: A shaped object includes a thermally expandable sheet including (i) a base, (ii) a thermal expansion layer disposed on a first surface of the base and including a thermally expandable material, and (iii) a thermal conversion member disposed on at least one of a second surface of the base or the thermal expansion layer, and including a thermal conversion material for conversion of electromagnetic waves into heat. The thermal conversion member further includes thermal conversion layers disposed on an entire region corresponding to an expansion region for expansion of the thermal expansion layer. At least part of one of the thermal conversion layers is disposed at a location separated from an adjacent other thermal conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11067880
    Abstract: A light source according to the present invention includes an excitation light source configured to emit excitation light, and a luminescent wheel including a base material, a fluorescent light emitting zone formed on one surface of the base material and configured to emit fluorescent light having a wavelength in a wavelength range which differs from that of the excitation light and a reflection zone disposed so as to be aligned with the fluorescent light emitting zone on the one side surface of the base material and configured to reflect the excitation light, and a shining position of the excitation light on the fluorescent light emitting zone and a shining position of the excitation light on the reflection zone differ from each other in relation to a radial direction of the luminescent wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Takeshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11068039
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus provided with a touch screen, the electronic apparatus comprising: a first sensor that detects approach of a finger to the touch screen; and a controller that switches, in an inactive state of the touch screen, in a case where the first sensor detects the approach of the finger to the touch screen, an operating state of the touch screen from the inactive state to an active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Kitamura, Tsuyoshi Minami, Takashi Suenaga, Munetaka Seo
  • Patent number: 11061560
    Abstract: A non-volatile recording medium has recorded thereon a program for causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to, when displaying a virtual electronic apparatus on a first display, display a first display area and a second display area on the first display, the first display area and the second display area each respectively capable of displaying at least part of contents stored as a display target in a virtual memory of the virtual electronic apparatus, the first display area being displayed on the first display as a virtual display of the virtual electronic apparatus, and the second display area being capable of displaying, within one screen in the second display area, more contents than a maximum amount displayable within one screen in the first display area from among the stored contents of the display target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manato Ono
  • Patent number: 11057477
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manato Ono
  • Patent number: 11054837
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile apparatus includes a controller, an image acquirer, an inertia measurer, a distance measurer, and a storage. The controller updates environment map information stored in the storage. The controller estimates a height from a reference surface, based on an image obtained by the image acquirer. The inertia measurer detects an amount of fluctuation of the height. The distance measurer detects whether or not the bottom portion of the autonomous mobile apparatus is in contact with an object. The controller, if having detected a change in height equal to or larger than a reference from information obtained from the image acquirer, the inertia measurer, or the distance measurer, stops updating the environment map information or deletes the environment map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Hamada
  • Patent number: 11052676
    Abstract: A printing device 1 includes a platen roller 7 which feeds a thermal tape 42, a thermal head 8 which performs printing on the thermal tape 42, and a control circuit 12. The control circuit 12 rotates the platen roller 7 backward to feed the thermal tape 42 backward in order to make a printing start area PT of the thermal tape 42 reach a backward feed position more away from an outlet 2b than a normal position NP of the thermal head 8. After that, the control circuit 12 rotates the platen roller 7 forward to perform printing using the thermal head 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeo Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11048109
    Abstract: A display module, display device, and method for controlling same which can suppress power consumption of an electronic device while providing a user with various types of information by various display methods. The display device is configured with two processors with different processing capacities and, with the processors cooperating mutually, image data is written in a driver circuit of a display section via separate interfaces in accordance with an operation mode. A driver circuit writes pixel data based on the image data in each pixel of a display panel which is a memory characteristic liquid crystal panel for retention, thereby controlling the display form of an image in the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kimiyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11048322
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first processor, a second processor, and a positioning processor. The second processor consumes a reduced amount of power compared to the first processor during an operation. The positioning processor receives radio waves from positioning satellites and converts the radio waves into positioning data. The second processor controls the positioning processor. The second processor stores the positioning data received from the positioning processor. The second processor transfers the stored positioning data to the first processor at a timing determined in accordance with an operating condition of the first processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minami, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Hideo Suzuki, Takashi Suenaga, Keiichi Nomura, Shuhei Uchida, Shigeki Kitamura, Munetaka Seo, Toshiya Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11050891
    Abstract: A data processing system includes a unit which executes predetermined data processing by linking first and second apparatuses, a communication control unit which establishes and maintains a communication connection between the apparatuses even if the connection is not in a predetermined operation state capable of executing data processing, a pairing unit which causes the apparatuses to transition to a pairing state, and a control unit which, if the apparatuses' transition to the pairing state is not in a predetermined operation state, causes transition to the operation state by transmitting predetermined signals between the apparatuses via the communication control unit. The execution unit causes the apparatuses to transition to a pairing state, and then executes data processing by linking them. The communication control unit judges whether to establish a communication connection between the apparatuses by referencing pairing states between them, and of a combination with another first or second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Otani, Jun Hosoda, Kazuya Nara, Yuji Kuriyama, Yoshinori Tomidokoro, Toshiya Kiso, Takuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11042166
    Abstract: A flying device includes a propulsion unit, a restrictor and a releaser. The propulsion unit flies the flying device in air. The restrictor restricts the propulsion unit in an open state from rotating more than a predetermined angle during flight of the flying device, the propulsion unit in the open state being rotated from a closed state by the predetermined angle. The releaser releases a restriction by the restrictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Masanori Ohta
  • Patent number: 11039292
    Abstract: The present invention is to surely acquire an image of a part according to an instruction from a video regardless of presence or absence of communication connection and a communication state. A controller unit acquires instruction information (log) as instruction information to acquire an image, where the instruction information corresponds to time information related to time to acquire the image, and acquires an image of a temporal part indicated by the time information corresponding to the instruction information, from each of plural videos recorded continuously in terms of time, synchronized with the time information corresponding to the acquired instruction information, and different in content from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 11029830
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display and a processor, in which the processor performs processing of acquiring an image of an object, displaying an auxiliary substitute image in which auxiliary information is added to a substitute image on the display, switching between i) a first display mode in which the object's image which is acquired is displayed on the display as a first image and the auxiliary substitute image is displayed on the display as a second image and ii) a second display mode in which the object's image which is acquired is displayed on the display as the second image and the auxiliary substitute image is displayed on the display as the first image, and displaying the object's image and the auxiliary substitute image on the display unit in the display mode which is switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Otsuka, Takahiro Tomida, Natsumi Hamaoka
  • Patent number: 11030911
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a sensor information acquisition unit, a state calculation unit, and an output control unit. The sensor information acquisition unit successively acquires bio-information relating to a subject. The sensor information acquisition unit acquires activity information relating to activity of the subject. The state calculation unit estimates a physical condition of the subject based on the bio-information acquired and the activity information acquired. The output control unit controls the output unit to perform a notification of information based on the physical condition of the subject estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Kita
  • Patent number: 11020646
    Abstract: Measurement accuracy in sports is improved. A wrist terminal includes a measurement information acquiring unit, a reference atmospheric pressure setting unit, and a state determining unit. The reference atmospheric pressure setting unit sets a reference atmospheric pressure. The state determining unit determines that the wrist terminal is located over water when a difference between the reference atmospheric pressure and a current atmospheric pressure after starting sports is within a predetermined atmospheric pressure range and the wrist terminal is located under water when the difference is outside the predetermined atmospheric pressure range. The measurement information acquiring unit 51 performs predetermined measurement on the basis of the determination result from the state determining unit 54.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Okada
  • Patent number: 11016444
    Abstract: A pointer including a pointer body constituted by a plate member, an engraved section provided in at least one of front and back surfaces of the pointer body excluding an edge of the pointer body, and a reinforcing section provided at the edge of the pointer body by the engraved section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Masao Amano
  • Patent number: 11017457
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a local server and a cloud server. The cloud server includes the following. A receiver receives input of temporary input data. A transmitter transmits the temporary input data based on a transmitting request from the local server. The local server includes the following. A monitoring unit monitors whether the temporary input data is received in the cloud server. A transmitting request unit requests the temporary input data when the monitoring unit determines that the temporary input data is received. A receiver receives the temporary input data. A reflecting unit reflects the temporary input data on a data input form. A registering unit registers data input on the data input form in a database of the local server when data input on the data input form is finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11019312
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light emitting element that emits first wavelength band light; a fluorescence wheel including a fluorescence emission region with which fluorescence excited by the first wavelength band light is emitted as second wavelength band light; a second light emitting element that emits third wavelength band light; a combining unit that combines the first wavelength band light, the second wavelength band light, and the third wavelength band light; a color wheel; and a CPU that controls the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, the fluorescence wheel, and the color wheel, wherein the CPU performs synchronization control on the fluorescence wheel and the color wheel, and performs control to shift a synchronization position of the color wheel with respect to the fluorescence wheel in accordance with an output mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Masahiro Ogawa, Osamu Umamine, Tetsuro Narikawa
  • Patent number: 11017570
    Abstract: A display control apparatus having: a processor configured to: read a predetermined command to control a display to draw a specific display object based on first coordinates within a coordinate system, wherein the predetermined command is part of a script of a plurality of commands to be read in order; determine whether the first coordinates satisfy a first condition, a second condition and a third condition; and control a display in response to a determination of whether the first coordinates satisfy the first condition, the second condition and the third condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11009832
    Abstract: A pointer including a thick section formed on a pointer body in a manner to be thicker than a thickness of the pointer body, an accommodation section provided in the thick section in a manner to penetrate through a front and back of the thick section, and a luminous member provided in the accommodation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Masao Amano
  • Patent number: 11010497
    Abstract: An electronic device equipped with a processor, wherein the processor, when an audio device is connected which has a sound emission section which outputs a sound and a sound reception section in which a sound is inputted, instructs the audio device to acquire unique authentication information, and wherein the processor performs personal authentication of a user wearing the audio device based on the authentication information from the audio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 11010329
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication device and a processor. The processor receives sensor kind information via the communication device from one of at least one sensor or an electronic measurement instrument to which the at least one sensor is connected, transmits the received sensor kind information to a database storing a combination of a sensor kind and a measurement mode in which measurement contents are defined, acquires, from the database, the measurement mode in accordance with the transmitted sensor kind information, and sets the acquired measurement mode corresponding to one of the at least one sensor or the at least one sensor connected to the electronic measurement instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Hatayama
  • Patent number: 11007776
    Abstract: A printer includes a print head and a processor. The print head ejects ink from nozzles to a printing medium while moving in a first direction, and also moves in a second direction intersecting with the first direction by a moving amount that is a dimension in the second direction of each of blocks into which the nozzles are divided in the second direction. Based on a position of the printing medium and the dimension, the processor determines whether to perform printing in a first mode or a second mode. A printing start position in the second direction of the print head is set such that a position in the second direction of one of boundaries between mutually adjacent blocks coincides, in the first mode, with a position of a back end of a printing region, and in the second mode, with a position of a front end of the printing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11010603
    Abstract: A ledger document processing device including a display section which displays a live view image captured by an imaging section while waiting for a ledger document to be captured, and a processor which actualizes functions including judging whether a pixel-count size of an area corresponding to the ledger document in an image to be captured and stored in response to an imaging instruction is equal to or larger than a reference pixel-count size while waiting for the ledger document to be captured, notifying a user of a judgment result, and storing in a storage section the image captured by the imaging section in response to the imaging instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Shimizu, Ryo Oe
  • Patent number: 11004227
    Abstract: An identification apparatus includes a first one-vs.-rest identifier, a second one-vs.-rest identifier, and a corrector. The first one-vs.-rest identifier identifies a first class among a plurality of classes. The second one-vs.-rest identifier identifies a second class different from the first class among the plurality of classes. The corrector corrects an identification result provided by the first one-vs.-rest identifier using the identification result provided by the second one-vs.-rest identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11001079
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shumpei Tominaga, Katsuhiko Motoike
  • Patent number: 11003063
    Abstract: A heat generating device includes a heat generating portion, a first cover configured to cover at least part of the heat generating portion and including a first opening portion formed on one side and a second opening portion formed on the other side lying opposite to the one side, and a second cover disposed on an outer side of the first cover and forming a flow path leading from the first opening portion to the second opening portion, and in the heat generating device, a height from a lower end of the first cover to an opening center of the first opening portion is greater than a height from the lower end of the first cover to an opening center of the second opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyohiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 11000952
    Abstract: A more endearing robot includes an operation unit that causes the robot to operate, a viewing direction determiner that determines whether a viewing direction of a predetermined target is toward the robot or not, and an operation controller that controls the operation unit based on a result of determination by the viewing direction determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Takashi Yamaya, Keisuke Shimada
  • Patent number: 10997567
    Abstract: A work support device includes a first display control unit and a registration unit. The first display control unit performs control to display a label image having a message to a second user designated by a first user on a display screen relevant to the message. The registration unit takes the message as a task, and correlates and registers task information on the task with (i) display screen identification information to identify the display screen on which the label image is displayed and (ii) user identification information to identify the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventors: Keita Anjo, Koji Nishitani, Noriyoshi Katsumura, Taro Ejiri
  • Patent number: 10997979
    Abstract: A voice recognition device provided with a processor configured to determine a breathing period immediately before uttering which is a period in which a lip of a target person has moved with breathing immediately before uttering based on a captured image of the lip of the target person, to detect a voice period which is a period in which the target person is uttering without including the breathing period immediately before uttering determined above based on the captured image of the lip of the target person captured, to acquire a voice of the target person, and to recognize the voice of the target person based on the voice of the target person acquired above within the voice period detected above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Keisuke Shimada
  • Patent number: 10998151
    Abstract: Disclosed is a push button including: a module that has a fixed contact part which is able to contact and separate from a movable contact part; an elastically deformable dynamic contact member that is supported in a cantilever state with a base part fixed to the module, and that has the movable contact part electrically contactable with the fixed contact part; and an operation receiving member that makes the movable contact part contact the fixed contact part by having one end acting on an acting portion. The movable contact part is arranged out of (i) a line connecting the acting portion and the base part and (ii) an extended line thereof, the dynamic contact member has a first movable part and a second movable part, the acting portion is arranged in the first movable part, and the movable contact part is arranged in the second movable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inaba
  • Patent number: 10996636
    Abstract: The communication device includes a receiver, a counter, an operation member and a processor. The receiver receives an external time from an external device. The counter clocks time. The operation member receives a time correction operation to correct the time clocked by the counter. The processor corrects the time clocked by the counter to the received external time. The processor sets a frequency at which the time correction process is performed after the operation member receives the time correction operation, higher than a frequency at which the time correction process is performed before the operation member receives the time correction operation, until a predetermined time elapses. In the time correction process, when the difference between the time clocked by the counter and the external time received by the receiver is within a predetermined range, the processor corrects the time clocked by the counter to the external time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Morohoshi
  • Patent number: 10994454
    Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a thermally expansive layer formed on a one surface of a base; a first ink receiving layer that is provided on the thermally expansive layer for receiving ink; a film provided on the first ink receiving layer; and a second ink receiving layer that is provided on the film for receiving ink; wherein the first ink receiving layer is formed of a material that provides a texture a different from a texture of the second ink receiving layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Yuji Horiuchi, Satoshi Mitsui, Hideki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10991328
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first display, a second display stacked on a visible side of the first display and having power consumption lower than that of the first display, a first processor controls the first display, and a second processor controls the first display and the second display and having power consumption lower than that of the first processor. In a state in which operation of the first processor is halted, the second processor causes the second display to display second information and simultaneously causes the first display to display first information having a lighter processing load than information that the first processor causes to be displayed by the first display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuhei Uchida
  • Patent number: 10987943
    Abstract: An expansion device includes: a thermal distension unit configured to thermally distend a thermally-expandable sheet by irradiating the thermally-expandable sheet with predetermined energy; a reading unit configured to read identifiers provided at predetermined positions of the thermally-expandable sheet; and a setting unit configured to set an amount of energy per unit area to be emitted on the thermally-expandable sheet by the thermal distension unit depending on whether (i) a second identifier as well as a first identifier has been read, or (ii) whether a predetermined part of the first identifier has been read but another part has not been read, as a result of reading the identifiers by the reading unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Numao, Takao Semba, Koji Tamura, Junji Hobo, Takayuki Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10984671
    Abstract: According one embodiment, there is provided an information display apparatus including a processor, the processing being configured to display a character string including a plurality of keywords on a display; to detect a kind of an association operation when the processor accepts designation by a user operation of any one of the keywords displayed on the display, and accepts the association operation of related information corresponding to the designated keyword; and to set a problem-setting method with respect to the designated keyword, the problem-setting method corresponding to the detected kind of the association operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kojo
  • Patent number: 10983222
    Abstract: A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver acquires and receives radiowaves from a positioning satellite. The processor performing a positioning operation based on the radiowaves received by the receiver to obtain a current position of the satellite radiowave receiving device. The processor causes the receiver to stop an acquiring operation of radiowaves from a new positioning satellite under a predetermined condition while radiowaves are being acquired from a required number of positioning satellite for the positioning operation. If an error range of the obtained current position no longer satisfies a predetermined accuracy standard during a stop of the acquiring operation, the processor causes the receiver to resume the acquiring operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsue, Tatsuya Sekitsuka, Ryuji Shingyoji
  • Patent number: 10983776
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which transmits data to setup predetermined software in a terminal includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform the following processing operation, a receiving process which receives registration of user information, a first generating process which generates an installer to install the data including user identification information to identify a user according to the user information received in the receiving process, a setting process which sets the installer generated in the first generating process to be downloadable, and a first transmitting control process which transmits to a terminal in which the installer is started the data corresponding to the user information when the installer is downloaded and started, and the terminal in which the installer is started is connected to the information processing apparatus through a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotake Honda
  • Patent number: D922882
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Amikura, Takao Matsuda
  • Patent number: D923491
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keishiro Yamamoto, Iichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D924076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Iichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D924077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takafumi Suzuki, Takayasu Akagi, Hideki Watanabe, Rei Morisawa