Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Kuronuma
Hirotaka Kuronuma 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).
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Patent number: 11691438Abstract: A printing apparatus that performs printing on a nail to which a base is applied determines an order of applying a base to the nails of a plurality of fingers by a practitioner based on practitioner information about the practitioner who applies the base to the nail, sets, based on the base application order for the nails, the print order for the nails of the plurality of fingers, and performs, based on this print order, printing on the nails of the plurality of fingers, to which the base was applied.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20210315359Abstract: A printing apparatus that performs printing on a nail to which a base is applied determines an order of applying a base to the nails of a plurality of fingers by a practitioner based on practitioner information about the practitioner who applies the base to the nail, sets, based on the base application order for the nails, the print order for the nails of the plurality of fingers, and performs, based on this print order, printing on the nails of the plurality of fingers, to which the base was applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka KURONUMA
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Patent number: 10696067Abstract: A nail printing apparatus comprising: a print head configured to perform printing on a nail of one of a finger of a hand and a toe of a foot; and a processor configured to detect, from a nail image captured of the nail of one of the finger and the toe, a nail area that is a target of the printing performed by the print head; wherein the processor is further configured to: divide the nail area into a first area on a nail root side of the nail and a second area on a nail free edge side of the nail to store information of the first area in a memory; and, in accordance that the information of the first area is stored in the memory, when detecting the nail area from the nail image, forgo detecting the first area, and reads out the information of the first area stored in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Patent number: 10507651Abstract: A printing device includes a print head that prints on a print medium image data of a print target and a decorative image and a processor that controls the print head to print image data of the decorative image on the print medium while the printing device that is held by a user moves on the print medium in a first movement, wherein the processor causes the print head to print the image data of the print target in a range that is indicated by the printed decorative image while the held printing device moves on the print medium in a second movement after the image data of the decorative image is printed.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20190091994Abstract: A printing device includes a print head that prints on a print medium image data of a print target and a decorative image and a processor that controls the print head to print image data of the decorative image on the print medium while the printing device that is held by a user moves on the print medium in a first movement, wherein the processor causes the print head to print the image data of the print target in a range that is indicated by the printed decorative image while the held printing device moves on the print medium in a second movement after the image data of the decorative image is printed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka KURONUMA
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Publication number: 20190001705Abstract: A nail printing apparatus comprising: a print head configured to perform printing on a nail of one of a finger of a hand and a toe of a foot; and a processor configured to detect, from a nail image captured of the nail of one of the finger and the toe, a nail area that is a target of the printing performed by the print head; wherein the processor is further configured to: divide the nail area into a first area on a nail root side of the nail and a second area on a nail free edge side of the nail to store information of the first area in a memory; and, in accordance that the information of the first area is stored in the memory, when detecting the nail area from the nail image, forgo detecting the first area, and reads out the information of the first area stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka KURONUMA
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Patent number: 10166797Abstract: A printer includes: a processor; a print head configured to perform printing in accordance with input print data; and a scanner configured to acquire an image of a material to be printed. The processor is configured to detect at least one line extending in a first direction on the material to be printed from the image acquired by the scanner when moving of the printer in a moving direction in which the scanner is on the front side of the print head, and set a print area along the first direction based on the line on the material to be printed, and the print head prints in the print area.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Patent number: 10165146Abstract: A printer includes: a processor; a head configured to perform printing; a sensor configured to detect an amount of movement of the printer; and a scanner configured to acquire an image including a frame described on a material to be printed beforehand, the scanner being disposed forward of the head in a moving direction of the printer. The processor executes during scanning for frame detection over the material to be printed, frame detection processing to detect the frame based on the amount of movement and the image without performing the printing, and during scanning for printing over the material to be printed, print processing to perform the printing with the head based on the frame detected.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20180086120Abstract: A printer includes: a processor; a print head configured to perform printing in accordance with input print data; and a scanner configured to acquire an image of a material to be printed. The processor is configured to detect at least one line extending in a first direction on the material to be printed from the image acquired by the scanner when moving of the printer in a moving direction in which the scanner is on the front side of the print head, and set a print area along the first direction based on the line on the material to be printed, and the print head prints in the print area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20180088881Abstract: A printer includes: a processor; a head configured to perform printing; a sensor configured to detect an amount of movement of the printer; and a scanner configured to acquire an image including a frame described on a material to be printed beforehand, the scanner being disposed forward of the head in a moving direction of the printer. The processor executes during scanning for frame detection over the material to be printed, frame detection processing to detect the frame based on the amount of movement and the image without performing the printing, and during scanning for printing over the material to be printed, print processing to perform the printing with the head based on the frame detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka KURONUMA
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Patent number: 9114633Abstract: A printing apparatus having an adhesive applying function is provided with a transporting mechanism for transporting an elongated print member, a transferring mechanism for transporting a transferring member having adhesive, contained in a cartridge installed on the apparatus, and for selectively bringing the transferring member into contact with the print member transported by the transporting mechanism, thereby transferring the adhesive of the transferring member onto the surface of the print member which no data is to be printed on, a controlling unit for controlling whether the transferring mechanism transfers the adhesive of the transferring member onto the surface of the print member which no data is to be printed on, and a printing mechanism provided on the downstream side of the transferring mechanism, for processing print data including rotation of the data in unit of 90 degrees, and for printing the data on the surface of the print member.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Kuronuma, Akio Tsuji
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Patent number: 9116592Abstract: A data processing device includes an input unit including an input detection region, a detection unit, a partition region setting unit, a valid region setting unit, a longitudinal direction determination unit and a magnification determination unit. The detection unit detects input to the input detection region. The partition region setting unit partitions the input detection region into partition regions. The valid region setting unit sets, among said partitioned partition regions, a partition region in which input is detected as a valid region. The longitudinal direction determination unit determines a longitudinal direction of the valid region. The magnification determination unit determines a magnification for enlarging or reducing a size of a drawing corresponding to the input in the valid region, so that a width along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the valid region conforms to a width along a transverse direction of a printing medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20140340462Abstract: A printing apparatus having an adhesive applying function is provided with a transporting mechanism for transporting an elongated print member, a transferring mechanism for transporting a transferring member having adhesive, contained in a cartridge installed on the apparatus, and for selectively bringing the transferring member into contact with the print member transported by the transporting mechanism, thereby transferring the adhesive of the transferring member onto the surface of the print member which no data is to be printed on, a controlling unit for controlling whether the transferring mechanism transfers the adhesive of the transferring member onto the surface of the print member which no data is to be printed on, and a printing mechanism provided on the downstream side of the transferring mechanism, for processing print data including rotation of the data in unit of 90 degrees, and for printing the data on the surface of the print member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka KURONUMA, Akio TSUJI
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Publication number: 20140285827Abstract: A data processing device includes an input unit including an input detection region, a detection unit, a partition region setting unit, a valid region setting unit, a longitudinal direction determination unit and a magnification determination unit. The detection unit detects input to the input detection region. The partition region setting unit partitions the input detection region into partition regions. The valid region setting unit sets, among said partitioned partition regions, a partition region in which input is detected as a valid region. The longitudinal direction determination unit determines a longitudinal direction of the valid region. The magnification determination unit determines a magnification for enlarging or reducing a size of a drawing corresponding to the input in the valid region, so that a width along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the valid region conforms to a width along a transverse direction of a printing medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka KURONUMA
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Patent number: 8270034Abstract: When the length of a print area in a print tape is designated and an instruction to print a symbol image of a two-dimensional code and character information is given, a printing apparatus sets the print size of the symbol image of the two-dimensional code to a predetermined print size defined as the initial setting, but changes the print attributes of the character information from the initial values to adjust the length of the character string, so that the character information can be printed together with the symbol image of the two-dimensional code within the print area in the print tape, that has the designated length. The printing apparatus prints the character information whose print size is adjusted and the symbol image of the two-dimensional code maintained at the predetermined print size, in a serial arrangement, in a range of the print tape having the designated length.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Handa, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20120206736Abstract: A printable width setter sets a printable width that corresponds to a printable width of a printing medium. A display displays a character string. A specifier specifies at least one first character selected from the character string displayed on the display. A requester requests an emphasis process to the specified at least one first character. An emphasis processor performs a size up process of increasing a size of the specified at least one first character until the size of the specified at least one first character reaches the specified size allowed based on the printable width set by the printable width setter. The emphasis processor performs a size down process of decreasing a size of the at least one second character that has not been specified by the specifier, if the size of the specified at least one first character exceeds the specified size.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka KURONUMA
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Patent number: 7995222Abstract: A printer having a first printing mode in which information is printed in a normal image on a general printing tape and a second printing mode in which information is printed in a mirror image on a transfer tape. When the printer prints a two-dimensional code symbol image 40b in the second printing mode on the transfer tape 31b, the printer also prints a two-dimensional code symbol image 40a in the normal image in an area of the transfer tape next to its area in which the symbol image is printed in the mirror image. At this time, an additional confirmative indication 42 is printed close to the symbol image 40a printed in the normal image to indicate that this symbol image should be used only for confirming the content of the symbol image printed in the mirror image.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Handa, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Patent number: 7782479Abstract: A label sheet is constituted by a second label and predetermined plural numbers of first labels which are formed consecutively with the second label. The first label to be attached to an object indicates predetermined information on the object, and the second label for managing the first label indicates second information which is not appropriate as the information to be indicated on the first label and is on the purpose and handling of the first label.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Handa, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20070222205Abstract: A label sheet is constituted by a second label and predetermined plural numbers of first labels which are formed consecutively with the second label. The first label to be attached to an object indicates predetermined information on the object, and the second label for managing the first label indicates second information which is not appropriate as the information to be indicated on the first label and is on the purpose and handling of the first label.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Yuji Handa, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Hirotaka Kuronuma
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Publication number: 20070217849Abstract: A printer having a first printing mode in which information is printed in a normal image on a general printing tape and a second printing mode in which information is printed in a mirror image on a transfer tape. When the printer prints a two-dimensional code symbol image 40b in the second printing mode on the transfer tape 31b, the printer also prints a two-dimensional code symbol image 40a in the normal image in an area of the transfer tape next to its area in which the symbol image is printed in the mirror image. At this time, an additional confirmative indication 42 is printed close to the symbol image 40a printed in the normal image to indicate that this symbol image should be used only for confirming the content of the symbol image printed in the mirror image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Handa, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Hirotaka Kuronuma