Patents by Inventor Erina Ichikawa

Erina Ichikawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250099865
    Abstract: A robot acts autonomously and includes a first table, a second table, and a controller. The first table stores a growth parameter indicating a growth of the robot and data indicating behavior information specifying an action of the robot corresponding to the growth parameter in association with each other. The second table stores data indicating the behavior information and data indicating an action file defining the action of the robot in association with each other. The controller acquires the growth parameter and causes, based on data stored in the first table and data stored in the second table, the robot to perform an action corresponding to the acquired growth parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Miyuki URANO, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250105653
    Abstract: The power receiving system includes a power receiver, a battery and one or more processors. The power receiver receives power from a power supply device. The battery is accommodated in the robot and is to be charged with power received by the power receiver. In a case where a determination is made that an amount of charge of the battery is determined to be less than a predetermined amount of charge, the one or more processors control the robot and sets an energy saving mode of the robot, and in a case where a determination is made that the amount of charge of the battery is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount of charge, the one or more processors release setting of the energy saving mode and controls to receive power that is equal to or greater than a reference power consumption corresponding to the energy saving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250083327
    Abstract: An imaging system includes a camera and at least one processor. The processor, in a case in which a gesture, that a robot is to be caused to execute at a time of video capturing, is selected from among a plurality of gestures registered in advance and, also, video capturing by the camera is to be started with the robot as a subject, controls the video capturing by the camera so that the video capturing ends at a timing corresponding to a timing at which the robot ends the gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki KANAMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA, Wataru NIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250015615
    Abstract: A power supply system includes: an indicator lamp; and at least one processor. The at least one processor executes retry processing of stopping and then restarting non-contact power supply in a case where an error occurs during the non-contact power supply performed on a robot. The at least one processor maintains a display manner of the indicator lamp during execution of the retry processing as a first manner same as a manner when the error does not occur, in a case where a state of the non-contact power supply is notified by a display manner of the indicator lamp and the occurring error corresponds to an error of a first classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Kazuto YAMAMOTO, Masanobu SATOU, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250010485
    Abstract: A robot includes a coupler coupling a first part to a second part; a driver driving the coupler; a sound outputter that outputs a sound; and at least one processor. The at least one processor, upon detection of a predetermined trigger, controls at least one of the driver or the sound outputter so that the robot executes a first action set so that action content changes in accordance with pseudo-growth of the robot, and a second action set so that a change of the action content according to the pseudo-growth does not occur and also set so that the action content varies due to a difference in an individuality of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Miyuki URANO, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240248486
    Abstract: A robot includes a torso, a head coupled to the torso so as to be rotatable with respect to the torso, and at least one processor. The at least one processor determines whether the torso is inclined from a horizontal direction and, in a case where a determination is made that the torso is inclined from the horizontal direction, controls an actuator to rotate the head with respect to the torso such that the head faces the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouki MAYUZUMI, Erina ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240246242
    Abstract: A robot includes at least one processor configured to update, in accordance with a type of an acquired external stimulus, an emotion parameter expressed by a position on a positioning map having at least two coordinate axes and expressing a pseudo-emotion, and execute action control corresponding to the updated emotion parameter, and a memory configured to store a first table and a second table. In a case of updating the emotion parameter, the at least one processor acquires, from the first table, the evaluation value corresponding to the type of acquired external stimulus and acquires, from the second table, the correction value corresponding to a current position of the emotion parameter on the positioning map, and move, based on the acquired evaluation value and the acquired correction value, a position of the emotion parameter on the positioning map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA
  • Publication number: 20240231373
    Abstract: An action control device includes a sound acquirer, an actuator, and a controller. In response to the controller determining, during an action of the actuator, that a sound acquired by the sound acquirer is a human voice, the controller controls so as to stop the actuator, capture sound after the determination for a predetermined period, and in response to the predetermined period having elapsed, restart the action of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240190000
    Abstract: A controller of an action control device that controls an action of a controlled device, wherein the controller controls the action of the controlled device using set control data that is set in advance in correspondence with a pseudo-emotion and random control data that is randomly generated in accordance with the pseudo-emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouki MAYUZUMI, Erina ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO
  • Publication number: 20240173636
    Abstract: An action control device that controls the actions of a robot acquires an external stimulus; and in a case of executing an action corresponding to the external stimulus, controls so as to execute, based on an intimacy between a subject applying the external stimulus and the robot, different action content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240100708
    Abstract: A robot imitating a living thing and driven by a battery that is rechargeable, includes: an operator to perform an operation simulating a living thing; and a controller. The controller performs processing of causing the robot to perform a breathing operation that is an operation simulating breathing of a living thing at a predetermined cycle and processing of differentiating a control content of the operator between a charging breathing operation that is the breathing operation during charging of the battery and a non-charging breathing operation that is the breathing operation during non-charging of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100707
    Abstract: A robot imitating a living thing, includes a body, a head connected to a front end of the body, a movable portion for moving the head relative to the body, and a controller. In a state in which the body is placed on a mounting surface, the controller executes a first control that controls the movable portion to change a distance between the front end of the body and the mounting surface alternately between a first distance and a second distance by moving the head so that a state of the head pressing the mounting surface changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100706
    Abstract: An apparatus control device includes an emotion setter that sets, in accordance with an external stimulus acting on the apparatus, an emotion parameter expressing a pseudo-emotion; and an emotion changer that changes the set emotion parameter when the pseudo-emotion is close to a predetermined state and, also, the external stimulus is not detected in a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Wataru NIMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100699
    Abstract: A controller of a robot executes processing of determining whether an apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact and, when determination is made that the apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact in a case where a movable part is in a first state in which the movable part is able to cause the apparatus to execute a physical operation, transferring the movable part from the first state to a second state for suppressing an impact exerted on the movable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Wataru NIMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Tomio HIGO
  • Publication number: 20240100709
    Abstract: A robot that imitates a living thing and is driven by a battery that is rechargeable, includes an operator for causing the robot to perform an operation imitating a living thing, and a controller. In a case where the battery changes from a powered state in which a power supply operation for charging is in progress to a non-powered state that is a state in which the power supply operation is stopped, the controller controls the operator with a control content that is determined in accordance with the remaining level of the battery at timing corresponding to the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10836041
    Abstract: A robot provided with eyes includes an operation unit that operates a display and a movable member; a checker that checks whether eye contact with a predetermined target is made or not; a determiner that determines whether a predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied during the eye contact or not, in a case in which the checker checks that the eye contact with the predetermined target is made; and an operation controller that controls the display and the movable member to cancel the eye contact with the predetermined target, in a case in which the determiner determines that the predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Erina Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20190295526
    Abstract: A first robot acquires reaction determination results that includes a result obtained by determining a reaction of a predetermined target to an utterance by the first robot and a result obtained by determining a reaction of a predetermined target to an utterance by a second robot provided separately from the first robot, and controls, based on the acquired reaction determination results, an utterance by at least one of a plurality of utterance devices including the first robot and the second robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Erina ICHIKAWA, Takahiro TOMIDA
  • Publication number: 20180370032
    Abstract: A robot provided with eyes includes an operation unit that operates a display and a movable member; a checker that checks whether eye contact with a predetermined target is made or not; a determiner that determines whether a predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied during the eye contact or not, in a case in which the checker checks that the eye contact with the predetermined target is made; and an operation controller that controls the display and the movable member to cancel the eye contact with the predetermined target, in a case in which the determiner determines that the predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9258453
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing section, an image capturing control section, an image clipping section, an HDR composing section and a panoramic image composing section. The image capturing control section causes the image capturing section to repeatedly capture an image of different luminance to provide plural images of different luminance. The image clipping section clips respective data of substantially overlapping image regions of the plural images of different luminance. The HDR composing section composes the image regions each clipped by the image clipping section to generate data of plural composite images having a wider dynamic range than the image captured by the image capturing section. The panoramic image composing section joins data of the plural composite images generated by the HDR composing section to generate an image whose range is wider than that of the image captured by the image capturing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Jun Muraki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Erina Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9172868
    Abstract: The present invention can easily acquire images having a uniform aspect ratio. In an imaging device of the invention, a control section detects the movement amount and the movement direction of the imaging device based on output from an acceleration sensor. Then, when the movement direction of the imaging device in its initial movement started at the beginning of imaging is substantially linear and a substantially horizontal or vertical direction, the control section calculates a reference movement amount by which a composite image having a predetermined aspect ratio can be generated, based on the movement amount of the imaging device, and controls the display section to display imaging area information (guide) indicating the final imaging area having the predetermined aspect ratio based on the reference movement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Erina Ichikawa, Jun Muraki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Hiroyuki Kato