Patents by Inventor Kimiyasu Mizuno

Kimiyasu Mizuno 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).

  • Patent number: 11890110
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a biological information acquirer that acquires biological information of a target; an error factor detector that detects a factor that causes an error in the biological information; a display; and at least one processor. The error factor detector includes a motion detection sensor that detects a direction of motion of the electronic device, and the processor is that determines whether the factor is detected, based on the direction of the motion of the electronic device; and to cause, when the processor determines that the factor is detected, the display not to display the biological information acquired by the biological information acquirer, or to cause the biological information acquirer to stop acquisition of the biological information, in a period determined based on a timing when the factor is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kimiyasu Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20240021198
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a microphone that acquires a speech signal, and at least one processor. In a case in which the processor determines a wake word is included in first recognition data derived from the speech signal, when the processor determines that control information, that is information related to a control processing, is included in second recognition data derived from the speech signal after the wake word, the processor executes a first control processing corresponding to the control information. When the processor determines that the control information is included in third recognition data derived from the speech signal acquired by the microphone during a first period after a predetermined condition related to an event that occurs after the wake word is satisfied or during execution of the first control processing, the processor executes a second control processing corresponding to the control information included in the third recognition data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kimiyasu MIZUNO, Keiichi SAKURAI, Hideo SUZUKI, Koki NAKAMURA, Karen SUZUKI, Bing YU
  • Patent number: 11815980
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than power consumption of the first processor; a communicator that communicates with an external device; and a switch that switches a connection destination of the communicator to the first processor or the second processor. The second processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a power suppression state that is an operating state in which power consumption is suppressed is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch. The first processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a normal state that is a normal operating state is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Minami, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Publication number: 20230326171
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a data transmitter/receiver and at least one processor. The processor obtains first data of a continuous first image, obtains performance information of a display of a first external device that displays a second image based on the first image, generates, from the first data, second data of the second image in accordance with the performance information, and outputs the second data to the first external device through the data transmitter/receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kimiyasu MIZUNO, Keiichi SAKURAI, Koki NAKAMURA, Hideo SUZUKI, Karen SUZUKI, Bing YU
  • Patent number: 11774916
    Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second processors, and first and second display units. While the first and second processors cooperate with each other and perform a display operation including a time display, the first processor can be set to a normal mode, a low power mode in which a power consumption is lower than a power consumption in the normal mode, or a pause mode in which a power consumption is lower than the power consumption in the low power mode, and the first processor is stopped. In the normal or low power modes, the first processor controls such that the first display unit displays a time, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit does not display a time. In the pause mode, the first display unit is turned off, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit displays a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minami, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Hideo Suzuki, Takashi Suenaga, Keiichi Nomura, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Patent number: 11523451
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a communicator and a processor. The communicator which wirelessly communicates with a first communicator of an external device in a first communication standard and which wirelessly communicates with a second communicator of the external device in a second communication standard different from the first communication standard. The processor obtains association between identification information of the first communicator and identification information of the second communicator. To switch a current communicator which is one of the first and second communicators of the external device to a next communicator which is another of the first and second communicators, the processor specifies identification information of the next communicator based on the association, and establishes connection with the next communicator using identification information of the next communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kimiyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11497075
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device, a body-worn type device, a communication system, a communication controlling method and a storage medium which make it possible to appropriately perform necessary data communication while more reducing power consumption of the body-worn type device. The electronic device includes a transceiver which performs communication via short-range wireless communication, a memory which stores identification data on each electronic device which is communicable with the body-worn type device via the transceiver, and a processor which, in a case where communication connection is established between any one of the electronic devices which are contained in the identification data and the body-worn type device, operates to perform data transmission and reception between its own device and the body-worn type device via another electronic device that the communication connection with the body-worn type device is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munetaka Seo, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Minami, Shuhei Uchida
  • Publication number: 20220244774
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than power consumption of the first processor; a communicator that communicates with an external device; and a switch that switches a connection destination of the communicator to the first processor or the second processor. The second processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a power suppression state that is an operating state in which power consumption is suppressed is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch. The first processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a normal state that is a normal operating state is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu MIZUNO, Tsuyoshi MINAMI, Shuhei UCHIDA, Munetaka SEO
  • Patent number: 11347299
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than power consumption of the first processor; a communicator that communicates with an external device; and a switch that switches a connection destination of the communicator to the first processor or the second processor. The second processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a power suppression state that is an operating state in which power consumption is suppressed is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch. The first processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a normal state that is a normal operating state is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Minami, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Publication number: 20220091567
    Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second processors, and first and second display units. While the first and second processors cooperate with each other and perform a display operation including a time display, the first processor can be set to a normal mode, a low power mode in which a power consumption is lower than a power consumption in the normal mode, or a pause mode in which a power consumption is lower than the power consumption in the low power mode, and the first processor is stopped. In the normal or low power modes, the first processor controls such that the first display unit displays a time, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit does not display a time. In the pause mode, the first display unit is turned off, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit displays a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MINAMI, Kimiyasu MIZUNO, Hideo SUZUKI, Takashi SUENAGA, Keiichi NOMURA, Shuhei UCHIDA, Munetaka SEO
  • Publication number: 20220086937
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device, a body-worn type device, a communication system, a communication controlling method and a storage medium which make it possible to appropriately perform necessary data communication while more reducing power consumption of the body-worn type device. The electronic device includes a transceiver which performs communication via short-range wireless communication, a memory which stores identification data on each electronic device which is communicable with the body-worn type device via the transceiver, and a processor which, in a case where communication connection is established between any one of the electronic devices which are contained in the identification data and the body-worn type device, operates to perform data transmission and reception between its own device and the body-worn type device via another electronic device that the communication connection with the body-worn type device is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munetaka SEO, Kimiyasu MIZUNO, Tsuyoshi MINAMI, Shuhei UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11209781
    Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second processors, and first and second display units. While the first and second processors cooperate with each other and perform a display operation including a time display, the first processor can be set to a normal mode, a low power mode in which a power consumption is lower than a power consumption in the normal mode, or a pause mode in which a power consumption is lower than the power consumption in the low power mode, and the first processor is stopped. In the normal or low power modes, the first processor controls such that the first display unit displays a time, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit does not display a time. In the pause mode, the first display unit is turned off, and the second processor controls such that the second display unit displays a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minami, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Hideo Suzuki, Takashi Suenaga, Keiichi Nomura, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Patent number: 11209895
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display; a second display for which power consumption is lower than that of the first display; a first communicator; a second communicator for which power consumption is lower than that of the first communicator; a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than that of the first processor; and an operation acquirer to, when an operation from a user is acquired, send a wake-up signal that causes the first processor to recover from a sleep state in which power consumption is suppressed to a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Minami, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo
  • Patent number: 11194383
    Abstract: A display device and a method for controlling same are provided which are capable of suppressing power consumption of an electronic apparatus while supplying a user with various types of information in various display formats. The display device has a first display block including a processor with relatively high processing power and a display section with high display performance and a second display block including a processor with relatively low processing power and a display section with low display performance. The processors mutually collaborate and are controlled to properly use the first display block and the second display block in accordance with an operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kimiyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11157891
    Abstract: An information device makes a payment with a payment terminal through a contactless communication, using amount data of an electronic purse function of a mobile device. The mobile device with the electronic purse function permits the information device to be used for performing payment processing with the payment terminal, using amount data of the electronic purse function of the mobile device. A wearable information device includes an image taking unit configured to take an image of an object in the direction of line of vision of a user, and notifies the information device of the presence or absence of the information device in a taken image. The information device makes a payment with the payment terminal through a contactless communication based on the notification from the wearable information device of the presence or absence of the information device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Minami, Hideo Suzuki, Takashi Suenaga, Keiichi Nomura, Shuhei Uchida, Munetaka Seo, Itsuki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20210298101
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a communicator and a processor. The communicator which wirelessly communicates with a first communicator of an external device in a first communication standard and which wirelessly communicates with a second communicator of the external device in a second communication standard different from the first communication standard. The processor obtains association between identification information of the first communicator and identification information of the second communicator. To switch a current communicator which is one of the first and second communicators of the external device to a next communicator which is another of the first and second communicators, the processor specifies identification information of the next communicator based on the association, and establishes connection with the next communicator using identification information of the next communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kimiyasu MIZUNO
  • 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20210161468
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a biological information acquirer that acquires biological information of a target; an error factor detector that detects a factor that causes an error in the biological information; a display; and at least one processor. The error factor detector includes a motion detection sensor that detects a direction of motion of the electronic device, and the processor is that determines whether the factor is detected, based on the direction of the motion of the electronic device; and to cause, when the processor determines that the factor is detected, the display not to display the biological information acquired by the biological information acquirer, or to cause the biological information acquirer to stop acquisition of the biological information, in a period determined based on a timing when the factor is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Kimiyasu MIZUNO