Casio Patents Granted

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

  • Patent number: 10977591
    Abstract: A work shift management device includes a first display controller and a counting unit. The first display controller displays, for each user ID, an input form for designating a desired working time slot among a plurality of working time slots. The counting unit counts a number of people who can work in each of the working time slots. The input form is a separate form corresponding to each of the working time slots, and is provided with a plurality of date fields having a predetermined form and being respectively associated with dates. A mark attachment area for attaching a predetermined mark is provided at each date field. The counting unit counts the number of people who can work in each of the time slots associated with each of the date fields by counting a number of the user IDs for which the mark is attached to the mark attachment area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keita Anjo
  • Patent number: 10978034
    Abstract: A musical sound generation device including a blowing pressure sensor which detects a blowing pressure, a key switch which specifies a sound pitch of a musical sound, a first sound source which outputs a first signal corresponding to an exhalation sound, a second sound source which outputs a second signal corresponding to the musical sound having the sound pitch specified by the key switch, and a processor which starts output of the first signal by the first sound source on basis of an operation performed on the key switch, starts output of the second signal by the second sound source on basis of the blowing pressure, and controls a sound volume when the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal is emitted and a sound volume when the musical sound resulting from the second signal is emitted, on basis of the blowing pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10976650
    Abstract: A light source unit includes: a first light emitting element configured to emit a first wavelength band light; a second light emitting element configured to emit a second wavelength band light; a luminescent wheel configured to have a first fluorescent light emitting region irradiated with the second wavelength band light to emit a third wavelength band light, and a second fluorescent light emitting region that emits a fourth wavelength band light including a wavelength band of the first wavelength band light and the third wavelength band light having a wavelength band adjacent to the first wavelength band light being provided in parallel in a circumferential direction; a color wheel configured to have a second transmissive region that transmits the first wavelength band light to the fourth wavelength band light, and a third transmissive region that transmits only the first wavelength band light or transmits only the first wavelength band light and the second wavelength band light being installed in parallel
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Patent number: 10977769
    Abstract: Processor displays avatar to move from a starting coordinate to first movement destination coordinates in accordance with each instruction in first instruction set. Processor records coordinates after movement by instructions in the first instruction set, as first group, in accordance with instruction included in the first instruction set. Processor returns avatar to the before starting movement coordinates and displays avatar. Processor displays avatar to move from the before starting movement coordinates to second movement destination coordinates in accordance with each instruction in second instruction set. Processor records coordinates after movement by instructions in the second instruction set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Miki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10977668
    Abstract: A management assistance device includes a storage and a display controller. The storage stores management data of each of predetermined periods and comment information to be input by a user corresponding to a date. The display controller displays on a screen a chronological change of the management data as a graph. The display controller displays a predetermined mark at a position on the graph, the position corresponding to the date when the comment information is input, and, when the mark is selected by a user, displays on a screen the comment information corresponding to the date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Anjo, Koji Nishitani, Noriyoshi Katsumura, Taro Ejiri
  • Patent number: 10971025
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information display apparatus including a processor, the processor being configured to: designate a character string in a text displayed in a display unit in accordance with a user operation; determine whether a keyword is included in a part of the designated character string; generate, if it is determined that the keyword is included in the part of the designated character string, problem setting data based on the keyword included in the designated character string; and transmit the problem setting data to an external terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kojo
  • Patent number: 10972964
    Abstract: A communication device, including: a communicator that communicates with a terminal that broadcasts an advertisement and broadcasts to a scanner terminal that receives data from the terminal; and a controller that controls the communicator to transmit, to the terminal, data that is included in an advertisement that is scheduled to be broadcast by the terminal and transmission information regarding the advertisement and cause the communicator to broadcast the transmission information that is intended to cause the scanner terminal to receive the advertisement that is broadcast by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki
  • Patent number: 10970892
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10969790
    Abstract: In an autonomous mobile apparatus, a processor acquires map information including positional information of an obstacle, plans, based on the acquired map information, a shape of the autonomous mobile apparatus and a traveling path of the autonomous mobile apparatus to avoid contact between the autonomous mobile apparatus and the obstacle when the autonomous mobile apparatus is traveling along the traveling path, and causes the autonomous mobile apparatus to autonomously travel along the planned traveling path while assuming the planned shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Maki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10960700
    Abstract: In a setting apparatus including a control unit, the control unit is configured to: set, by a user operation, an irradiation condition of a laser beam for a thermally expandable sheet, a surface of the thermally expandable sheet being heated and expanded by being irradiated with the laser beam; and control an output and a scanning speed of the laser beam in accordance with the set irradiation condition, and in the setting, (i) a surface state of the thermally expandable sheet after expansion is selectable from a plurality of mutually different surface states, and (ii) the irradiation condition is set by the user operation according to the surface state selected from among the plurality of surface states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Horiuchi, Kenji Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10953650
    Abstract: An applicator device includes a print head that applies droplets to a target, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a value relating to a contact of the applicator device against the target, detect movement of the applicator device on the target, and control, when the value is within a set range, the print head to apply droplets on the target based on the detected movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Itaru Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10959187
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communicator and a controller. The wireless communicator is configured to wirelessly communicate with other wireless communication apparatuses. The controller is configured to control the wireless communicator to broadcast transmission information, and when the wireless communicator receives a request corresponding on the transmission information from at least one of the other wireless communication apparatuses having received the transmission information during the broadcasting of the transmission information, control the wireless communicator to change transmission power of the transmission information to the other wireless communication apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki
  • Patent number: 10953670
    Abstract: When the length of a label created by cutting a print medium with print data printed thereon is insufficient, a printing device is prevented from omitting cutting processing. A printing device 1 includes a printing unit 106 which prints out print data on a tape 42 as a print medium, a cutting unit 107 which cuts the tape 42 with the print data printed thereon, a determination unit 108 which determines whether the length of a label to be cut by the cutting unit 107 is e more than a threshold value, and a control unit 101 which, when the determination unit 108 determines that the length is less than or equal to the threshold value, adjusts the length of the label so that the length of the tape 42 will be a length more than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hajime Katou
  • Patent number: 10958883
    Abstract: A projection control apparatus includes a CPU configured to perform control to successively project a plurality of images for correction onto a projection target, each of the images for correction being configured such that a marker image is arranged at a preset position in the image, to acquire information of a plurality of photographed images including the images for correction projected onto the projection target, to detect a difference between the respective photographed images, based on positions of the marker images, and to set a correction condition for projecting an image, based on the information of the photographed images, in accordance with the detected difference of a projection image range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Narikawa
  • Patent number: 10949185
    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: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotake Honda
  • Patent number: 10951313
    Abstract: A remaining battery capacity measuring device within a control device of a mobile apparatus measures a remaining battery capacity level of a battery. The light-emission control device, in a period separate from a transmission period for transmitting an ID, in accordance with the remaining charge amount of the battery, performs changing of a hue of light emitted by an LED, and setting no-data and a no-data period. Alternatively, the light-emission control device, in the period separate from the transmission period for transmitting the ID, in reaction to the remaining battery capacity level of the battery, changes a luminosity of the light emitted by the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kikuchi, Taichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10948812
    Abstract: A light source unit of the invention includes a light source device including first and second light sources held by a holding member, each light source being configured to emit light in a predetermined polarizing direction, a first reflection device on which light from the first light source is incident, a second reflection device on which reflection light from the first reflection device and light from the second light source are incident, and a light source control device configured to selectively drive the first and second light sources in response to an input signal, and the first reflection device reflects light in the polarizing direction incident thereon from the first light source, while the second reflection device transmits light in the polarizing direction reflected by the first reflection device for incidence thereon and reflects light in the polarizing direction from the second light source for incidence thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Shimamura
  • Patent number: 10949699
    Abstract: An input apparatus performs character recognition on trajectory data that is input by handwriting, determines whether or not an order of recognized characters complies with a rule on mathematical representations, and if it is determined that the recognized characters, except for a first character at any position in a sequence of the characters, comply with the rule, replaces the first character with a second character that complies with the rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tohru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10945506
    Abstract: A contour detection apparatus includes a processor. The processor learns to detect a nail contour being a detection target by setting an initial shape including feature points based on learning data each being image data on a finger including a learning target nail, and setting, as a reference point, a feature point among the feature points corresponding to a reference position, thereby obtaining contour detection information. The processor arranges, in treatment target data being image data on a finger including a treatment target nail, an initial position of the shape such that a point corresponding to the reference position in a contour of the finger including the treatment target nail is superposed on the reference point, and fits the shape to the treatment target nail from the initial position, thereby detecting the nail contour of the treatment target nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaaki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10942545
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes: a terminal main body part configured to execute predetermined processing; a first button for performing an operation input to the terminal main body part; and a wearable member configured to support the terminal main body part and the first button, and capable of being worn on a finger of a wearer. The first button is arranged on the wearable member such that, when the wearable member is worn, the first button is positioned on a nail side around a thumb of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Mochizuki, Ryo Oe
  • Patent number: 10935665
    Abstract: A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver receives radiowaves from a positioning satellite. The processor performs a positioning operation based on the radiowaves received by the receiver to obtain a current position. The processor calculates an error range at the current position based on a positioning accuracy and a deviation. The positioning accuracy is obtained by combining each position of a plurality of positioning satellites and receiving state of radiowaves from each of the plurality of positioning satellites, and the deviation is a deviation of the current position and a predicted position calculated in accordance with a travelling state of the satellite radiowave receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsue, Tatsuya Sekitsuka, Ryuji Shingyoji
  • Patent number: 10935391
    Abstract: Altitude detection by an electronic device includes: obtaining altitude information at a location of the electronic device by satellite positioning; obtaining altitude information at said location on the basis of atmospheric pressure data detected at said location; obtaining error in the satellite positioning; and, on the basis of the error obtained, causing the altitude information obtained by the satellite positioning and the altitude information obtained on the basis of the detected atmospheric pressure data to be selectively output to a user or a component of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto Toda
  • Patent number: 10937110
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tax calculator displays a first tax-included amount, responding to a first input operation relating to a first tax rate, for a first numerical value indicating a tax-excluded amount; displays a second tax-included amount, responding to a second input operation relating to a second tax rate, for a second numerical value indicating a tax-excluded amount; displays a tax-included grand total amount calculated by totaling a first tax-included total amount indicating a total of the first tax-included amount, and a second tax-included total amount indicating a total of the second tax-included amount; and displays the first tax-included total amount responding to the first input operation after the tax-included grand total amount was displayed, or the second tax-included total amount responding to the second input operation after the tax-included grand total amount was displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Toshibumi Takashima
  • Patent number: 10937404
    Abstract: An electronic keyboard instrument includes: a keyboard including a plurality of keys; a plurality of switches that are provided for each key and include a first switch and a second switch that are sequentially turned on by pressing of the key; and a processor. The processor instructs that a noise sound corresponding to a selected musical instrument sound be produced in accordance with a prescribed first envelope upon detecting turning on of the first switch by pressing of the key, and instructs that a main musical sound corresponding to the selected musical instrument sound be produced after detecting turning on of the second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Hajime Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10936836
    Abstract: A portable terminal includes a device body, a grip section located closer to a first end than to a second end of the device body, and a projecting section located closer to the second end than to the first end of the device body. An operation switch is provided between the projection section and the first end of the device body. The operation switch includes a pressing surface that is at an angle with respect to a thickness direction of the device body to face outward from the device body and in a direction toward the second end of the device body. The grip section includes a sloped surface provided between the operation switch and the first end of the device body. And the sloped surface faces away from a direction faced by the pressing surface of the operation switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Satoshi Ogasawara, Shinya Okumura, Yoshiaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10929624
    Abstract: A portable terminal including a grip section provided as one end of a terminal main body and capable of being gripped by one hand of a user in a gripping style where the user places the thumb on a first surface of the terminal main body and holds a second surface on the rear side thereof by the index and middle fingers, in which the second surface has a first raised portion provided such that a first vertex portion is positioned between the index and middle fingers, and a second raised portion having a second vertex portion such that the index finger is interposed between the first and second vertex portions, and in which a switch section is provided such that a pressing target portion is exposed to a sloped surface area of the second raised portion on a side opposite to a side where the index finger is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Satoshi Ogasawara, Shinya Okumura, Yoshiaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10928781
    Abstract: A case including a case body, and an exterior member which is arranged on an outer periphery of the case body in a manner to be deformable in a circumferential direction and which is provided with a separation section for separating at least a part of the case body in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shouta Nagasawa, Junichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10926578
    Abstract: A three-dimensionally shaped object forming sheet includes: a thermally expansive layer distending at a predetermined temperature or higher; a base laminated on one side thereof with the thermally expansive layer; and a photothermal conversion layer for converting absorbed light to heat, formed on at least one side, wherein the base includes a first base and a second base that are laminated; and the first base has an elasticity that is greater than an elasticity of the second base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Horiuchi, Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Satoshi Mitsui, Hideki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10929791
    Abstract: A task management apparatus includes a display controller and a retriever. The display controller displays a check sheet for checking whether a task on a certain date and time has been completed with respect to each predetermined date and time. The check sheet is displayed individually with respect to each type of the task. The retriever retrieves a completion notification that indicates completion of the task. The completion notification includes date and time information on a date and a time of the completion of the task. The check sheet includes a mark pasting area for pasting a predetermined mark with respect to each predetermined date and time. When the retriever retrieves the completion notification, the display controller changes a display manner of the mark pasting area of a date and time corresponding to the completion notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keita Anjo
  • Patent number: 10921702
    Abstract: An abnormality detection unit according to the invention includes a processor, and a light source device configured to emit light for each of segment periods that are time divided within a frame, and the processor obtains an illuminance value of light emitted into the frame from the light source device after a predetermined delay time has elapsed, whereupon a segment period results where a highest illuminance value is obtained, from a timing of receiving a trigger signal that is in synchronism with the frame, and detects that the light source device is in an abnormal state, when the illuminance value is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Tomoya Makino, Koichi Kato
  • Patent number: 10922839
    Abstract: A server detects first light sources and the like within each image captured by cameras, and obtains a relative spatial location and shooting direction between the cameras using an algorithm in accordance with a detection count of the first light sources. Further, the server reads location information occurring in a space for the first light sources and the like stored in a memory, finds a spatial location and a shooting direction within the space for the cameras, and further finds a conversion matrix capable of converting a combination of image positions of the first light sources imaged by the camera and image positions of the first light sources imaged by the camera into installation locations of the first light sources and the like within the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naotomo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10915301
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a programming support device. The programming support device includes a display that displays a script input according to an operation and a processor that performs a process according to the script. When a line in which a first control script is displayed as the script is inserted in a screen displayed on the display, the processor performs a fetch process for at least one script, without a user's operation, between a line into which the first control script is inserted and a nearest blank line that is positioned on a line below the line into which the first control script is inserted, is a blank line in the same layer as the first control script, and is nearest to the line into which the first control script is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Iwasaki, Akiko Muraki, Toshiaki Tanaka, Saki Tashiro
  • Patent number: 10915071
    Abstract: A device having: one or more processors for determining an elapsed time since a correction of a calculated date and time; estimate a degree of deviation included in the calculated date and time, based on the elapsed time; and in response to estimating the degree of deviation to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined range, execute a method by which the one or more processors: generate an expected code sequence of a code sequence to be received from a satellite; control a satellite radio wave receiver to receive the code sequence; determine whether there is a match between the expected code sequence and the code sequence; in response to determining that there is a match, obtain a present date and time information represented by the expected code sequence; and correct the calculated date and time, based on the present date and time information obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Oshita, Akihiro Kuroha
  • Patent number: 10915617
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image analysis unit, a biometric information measurement unit, and a determination selection unit. The image analysis unit detects a plurality of part images of a subject from the image including the subject captured by the imaging unit. The biometric information measurement unit obtains biometric information from at least one of the plurality of part images of the subject detected by the image analysis unit. The determination selection unit determines the detectability of biometric information on each of the plurality of part images of the subject detected by the image analysis unit. The determination selection unit makes a selection regarding acquisition of the biometric information of the subject on the basis of the detectability of the biometric information determined by the determination selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Otsuka, Takahiro Tomida
  • Patent number: 10913291
    Abstract: A structure forming method of present invention includes a first step including forming a first pattern serving as a fine pattern using an electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material on a first surface, on the side on which an expansion layer which expands by heating is provided, of a medium including the expansion layer and then irradiating an electromagnetic wave toward the electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material to expand a portion, corresponding to the first pattern, of the expansion layer, and a second step including forming a second pattern including a coarser pattern than the first pattern using an electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material on a second surface, on the opposite side to the side on which the expansion layer is provided, of the medium and then irradiating an electromagnetic wave toward the electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material to expand a portion, corresponding to the second pattern, of the expansion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fusao Nishiura
  • Patent number: 10914595
    Abstract: A map information providing apparatus and method are provided. Second map information of a second map range is acquired from an external apparatus having first map information of a first map range. A portable map transmitting apparatus having third map information of a third map range is communicated with the map information providing apparatus. The third map range is wider than the second map range. The second map range is narrower than the first map range. It is determined whether it is possible to provide predetermined map information corresponding to predetermined position information based on the second map information to the map information providing apparatus. If so, communication with the portable map transmitting apparatus is controlled to receive the third map information. The second map information is updated based on the third map information and the predetermined map information is acquired from the updated second map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Okada
  • Patent number: 10915070
    Abstract: The present invention is to reduce an increase in a processing load when a background image is displayed in addition to pointer images indicating pointer movements. A control section displays a plurality of pointer images indicating pointer movements in a timepiece display area of a display section based on time information acquired from a clock circuit. Here, the control section identifies an area where the plurality of pointer images are displayed, such as a pointer movement area or a pointer presence area in the pointer movement area, and controls to perform high-load and low-load display operations with different processing loads on the identified area and an area other than the identified area, such as an outer area outside the pointer movement area or a pointer absence area in the pointer movement area, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Murai
  • Patent number: 10908672
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a state determination unit. The state determination unit switches between first execution processing that executes a function of the information processing device by way of an operating system, and second execution processing that stops operation of the operating system during operation, and executes a specific function of the information processing device by way of a specific program without turning ON a power source of the information processing device. The second execution processing is not performed during execution of the first execution processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Okada, Hiroyuki Kato, Keiichi Imamura, Kayo Okada, Masaru Sakata, Kousuke Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 10906245
    Abstract: A shaped object includes a first shaped portion expressing a three-dimensional shape of an object in a first state by at least one bump on the surface of a first thermally expansive section that expands due to being heated, and second shaped portion expressing a three-dimensional shape of the object in a second state by at least one bump on the surface of a second thermally expansive section that expands due to being heated. The second state is a state in which the object is more deteriorated than in the first state. The height of the at least one bump on the surface of the second thermally expansive section at least partially differs from a height of the at least one bump on the surface of the first thermally expansive section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 10909958
    Abstract: An electronic musical interface performs the following: displaying a chord function progression of a first segment of a musical piece that is to be played by a user in a first region of a display via identifiers specifying respective chord functions; playing back an automatic accompaniment of the first segment; receiving user performance data as the user plays the musical note input device along with the playback of the automatic accompaniment; analyzing each chord contained in the obtained user performance data to determine the chord function of each chord the user played; and displaying, in a second region of the display alongside the first region, an identifier that identifies the determined chord function of the chord the user plays so that the user can determine whether the chord function of each chord the user played matches the chord function of the chord displayed in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Hofuku
  • Patent number: 10910001
    Abstract: A voice recognition device including: a recognizer which recognizes a movement of a mouth of an utterer; a detector which detects a noise among a sound around the device; and a controller which controls a voice recognition timing based on the movement of the mouth of the utterer recognized by the recognizer and the noise among the sound around the device detected by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Shimada
  • Patent number: 10899147
    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, a half cutter 10 which performs a half cut on the thermal tape 42, and a control circuit 12. After the half cut is performed, the control circuit 12 controls the platen roller 7 to feed in a backward direction opposite to a direction of ejecting the thermal tape 42 into an outlet until a printing start area of the thermal tape 42 reaches a head position of the thermal head 8. The thermal head 8 performs printing on the thermal tape 42 after the printing start area reaches the head position by the feeding of the thermal tape 42 in the backward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeo Ozawa
  • Patent number: 10893736
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10894427
    Abstract: A printer includes a printer head, a sensor, and a processor. The printer head includes printing components. The sensor acquires data with respect to a distance by which the printer is moved in one of moving directions. The processor (i) adjusts a length of an image of a print subject so that the image of the print subject has a length two times a reference travel distance that is based on a distance acquired by the sensor, the distance acquired by the sensor being a distance by which the printer is moved from a starting position in a first moving direction, and (ii) controls the printer head in such a manner that, when the printer is moved in a second moving direction that is opposite to the first moving direction, the printer is made to print the adjusted image at the adjusted position of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirotani
  • Patent number: 10897817
    Abstract: A thermally expandable material includes microcapsules and a binder having a conducting property, each microcapsule including a shell having an insulating property, and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have an insulating state with the other capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Iwamoto, Satoshi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 10897604
    Abstract: An abnormality detection unit includes a light source device configured to emit light for each of segment periods that are time divided in a frame and an illuminance value obtaining unit configured to obtain an illuminance value of light emitted from the light source device and determines that the light source device is abnormal when all illuminance values obtained at the segment periods are less than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kato, Tomoya Makino, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 10891750
    Abstract: A projection control device according to the invention includes a projection module configured to project a correcting image in which a marker including a first polygon and a second polygon disposed inside the first polygon is provided in a predetermined position in such a manner as to be picked up by an image pickup device, and at least one of sides of the first polygon is not parallel to sides of the second polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D912534
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Matsuda, Seiji Syoubayashi
  • Patent number: D912541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Iichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D913812
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Horii