Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Ogishima
Kiyoshi Ogishima 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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Publication number: 20190073658Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus includes a processor that functions as: a processing unit configured to perform accounting processing for a product having been subject to sales registration; and a control unit configured to cause a communication unit to transmit, when the accounting processing is performed by the processing unit, accounting data associated with the accounting processing while causing a printing unit to print the accounting data together with information indicating that the accounting data has been transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Taiki Murakami, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Yoshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10210718Abstract: An emergency reporting apparatus of the present invention includes: a determining unit that determines an emergency state based on an image photographed by a photographing unit while a cash drawer keeping cash therein is left open; and a reporting unit that transmits an emergency report to a predetermined report addressee based on a result of the determination made by the determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Sato, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Akao, Kiyoshi Ogishima
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Publication number: 20160343061Abstract: A shopping supporting apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a receiving unit for receiving an electronic receipt which receipt clearly indicates a payment amount of the purchased goods and store information of the store at which a user has purchased the goods, a receipt memorizing unit for memorizing plural electronic receipts as history information of the electronic receipts, a list memorizing unit for memorizing a commodity list created by the user at his/her arbitrary option, an extracting unit for referring to the history information, thereby extracting a candidate good to be purchased at present or at a present position from among the plural goods included in the commodity list, and a displaying unit for displaying the extracted candidate good.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo SUZUKI, Kiyoshi OGISHIMA, Hiroshi AKAO
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Publication number: 20160307262Abstract: A shopping memo which is easy to dairy use can be prepared in a simple manner. A smart phone is provided with a shopping-memo preparing unit and an indication processing unit. The shopping-memo preparing unit registers commodity information on an electronic receipt to a shopping list in response to user's operation to prepare shopping-memo data. The indication processing unit displays an electronic receipt in such a manner that allows a user to clearly discriminate whether or not each piece of commodity information has been registered to a shopping list of the shopping-memo data prepared in the past by the shopping-memo preparing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro SATO, Hiroshi AKAO, Hideo SUZUKI, Kiyoshi OGISHIMA
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Publication number: 20160171426Abstract: A commodity processing system, includes: a commodity identification unit that identifies a target being conveyed in a predetermined conveyance direction by a conveyance unit as a commodity based on image information acquired from a taken image of the target and/or an identification label attached to the target; and a driving control unit that, when the commodity identification unit cannot identify the target as a commodity, stops conveyance of the target by the conveyance unit when the target moves to a predetermined position in the conveyance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki FUJIMOTO, Taro EJIRI, Hideo SUZUKI, Hiroshi AKAO, Kiyoshi OGISHIMA
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Publication number: 20160171843Abstract: An emergency reporting apparatus of the present invention includes: a determining unit that determines an emergency state based on an image photographed by a photographing unit while a cash drawer keeping cash therein is left open; and a reporting unit that transmits an emergency report to a predetermined report addressee based on a result of the determination made by the determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro SATO, Hideo SUZUKI, Hiroshi AKAO, Kiyoshi OGISHIMA
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Patent number: 9280847Abstract: There is provided an image retrieval method including obtaining a parallax that exists in a material image which is viewed as an object in a three-dimensional manner, retrieving a three-dimensional image that satisfies a predetermined condition as a selectable candidate image from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which is viewed in a three-dimensional manner, and executing image composition by superposing the material image on the three-dimensional image that is retrieved as the selectable candidate image in the retrieving of the three-dimensional image.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Ogishima, Yoshihisa Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8995750Abstract: There is provided an image composition apparatus including a parallax deriving unit configured to derive a parallax of one area in a background image, the one area corresponding to one object in the background image, an image selection unit configured to select an image which has a parallax different from the parallax of the one area in the background image, as a material image, from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which is viewed as a specific object in a three-dimensional manner, and an image composition unit configured to superpose the material image selected by the image selection unit on the background image.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Ogishima, Yoshihisa Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8546808Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes picture element regions each defined by a first electrode provided on a first substrate and a second electrode provided on a second substrate so as to oppose the first electrode via a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. In each of the picture element regions, the first electrode includes a solid portion and a nonsolid portion. The liquid crystal display device further includes a pair of polarizing plates disposed with polarization axes thereof crossing each other substantially perpendicularly. The polarization axis of one of the pair of polarizing plates is substantially parallel to a direction in which the solid portion extends. When a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, in each of the picture element regions, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are in a radially-inclined orientation state.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Kubo, Akihiro Yamamoto, Takashi Ochi, Tetsuhiro Yamaguchi, Naoshi Yamada, Katsuhiko Morishita, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Kazuhiro Maekawa
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Patent number: 8330890Abstract: A plurality of display elements each includes two signal lines: S1 and S2. An electrode 4, which is one of the electrodes constituting an element capacitor Cp, is connected to the signal line S1 via a switching element TFT1, while the other electrode 5 is connected to the signal line S2 via a switching element S2. The gate electrodes of the switching elements TFT1 and TFT2 are connected to a single common scanning line G. With this structure the drive voltage applied to the element capacitor can be increased even when a TFT has a limited withstand pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Miyachi, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Akihito Jinda
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Publication number: 20120092338Abstract: There is provided an image retrieval method including obtaining a parallax that exists in a material image which is viewed as an object in a three-dimensional manner, retrieving a three-dimensional image that satisfies a predetermined condition as a selectable candidate image from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which viewed in a three-dimensional manner, and executing image composition by superposing the material image on the three-dimensional image that is retrieved as the selectable candidate image in the retrieving of the three-dimensional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Ogishima, Yoshihisa Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20120082369Abstract: There is provided an image composition apparatus including a parallax deriving unit configured to derive a parallax of one area in a background image, the one area corresponding to one object in the background image, an image selection unit configured to select an image which has a parallax different from the parallax of the one area in the background image, as a material image, from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which is viewed as a specific object in a three-dimensional manner, and an image composition unit configured to superpose the material image selected by the image selection unit on the background image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Ogishima, Yoshihisa Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20120075541Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes picture element regions each defined by a first electrode provided on a first substrate and a second electrode provided on a second substrate so as to oppose the first electrode via a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. In each of the picture element regions, the first electrode includes a solid portion and a nonsolid portion. The liquid crystal display device further includes a pair of polarizing plates disposed with polarization axes thereof crossing each other substantially perpendicularly. The polarization axis of one of the pair of polarizing plates is substantially parallel to a direction in which the solid portion extends. When a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, in each of the picture element regions, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are in a radially-inclined orientation state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Kubo, Akihiro Yamamoto, Takashi Ochi, Tetsuhiro Yamaguchi, Naoshi Yamada, Katsuhiko Morishita, Kiyoshi Ogishima
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Patent number: 8053775Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a plurality of picture element regions each defined by a first electrode provided on a face of a first substrate facing a liquid crystal layer and a second electrode provided on a second substrate so as to oppose the first electrode via the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. In each of the picture element regions, the first electrode has a plurality of openings and a solid portion, the liquid crystal layer is in a vertical orientation state when no voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, and when a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, a plurality of liquid crystal domains each in a radially-inclined orientation state are respectively formed in the plurality of openings and the solid portion by inclined electrode fields generated at respective edge portions of the openings of the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Kubo, Akihiro Yamamoto, Takashi Ochi, Tetsuhiro Yamaguchi, Naoshi Yamada, Katsuhiko Morishita, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Kazuhiro Maekawa
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Patent number: 8026992Abstract: A plurality of display elements each includes two signal lines: S1 and S2. An electrode 4, which is one of the electrodes constituting an element capacitor Cp, is connected to the signal line S1 via a switching element TFT1, while the other electrode 5 is connected to the signal line S2 via a switching element S2. The gate electrodes of the switching elements TFT1 and TFT2 are connected to a single common scanning line G. With this structure the drive voltage applied to the element capacitor can be increased even when a TFT has a limited withstand pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2009Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Miyachi, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Akihito Jinda
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Publication number: 20100321600Abstract: A plurality of display elements each includes two signal lines: S1 and S2. An electrode 4, which is one of the electrodes constituting an element capacitor Cp, is connected to the signal line S1 via a switching element TFT1, while the other electrode 5 is connected to the signal line S2 via a switching element S2. The gate electrodes of the switching elements TFT1 and TFT2 are connected to a single common scanning line G. With this structure the drive voltage applied to the element capacitor can be increased even when a TFT has a limited withstand pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Miyachi, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Akihito Jinda
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Patent number: 7768589Abstract: A plurality of display elements each includes two signal lines: S1 and S2. An electrode 4, which is one of the electrodes constituting an element capacitor Cp, is connected to the signal line S1 via a switching element TFT1, while the other electrode 5 is connected to the signal line S2 via a switching element S2. The gate electrodes of the switching elements TFT1 and TFT2 are connected to a single common scanning line G. With this structure the drive voltage applied to the element capacitor can be increased even when a TFT has a limited withstand pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2004Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Miyachi, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Akihito Jinda
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Patent number: 7755087Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a plurality of picture element regions each defined by a first electrode provided on a face of a first substrate facing a liquid crystal layer and a second electrode provided on a second substrate so as to oppose the first electrode via the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. In each of the picture element regions, the first electrode has a plurality of openings and a solid portion, the liquid crystal layer is in a vertical orientation state when no voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, and when a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, a plurality of liquid crystal domains each in a radially-inclined orientation state are respectively formed in the plurality of openings and the solid portion by inclined electrode fields generated at respective edge portions of the openings of the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Kubo, Akihiro Yamamoto, Takashi Ochi, Tetsuhiro Yamaguchi, Naoshi Yamada, Katsuhiko Morishita, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Kazuhiro Maekawa
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Publication number: 20100157182Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a plurality of picture element regions each defined by a first electrode provided on a face of a first substrate facing a liquid crystal layer and a second electrode provided on a second substrate so as to oppose the first electrode via the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. In each of the picture element regions, the first electrode has a plurality of openings and a solid portion, the liquid crystal layer is in a vertical orientation state when no voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, and when a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, a plurality of liquid crystal domains each in a radially-inclined orientation state are respectively formed in the plurality of openings and the solid portion by inclined electrode fields generated at respective edge portions of the openings of the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2010Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Kubo, Akihiro Yamamoto, Takashi Ochi, Tetsuhiro Yamaguchi, Naoshi Yamada, Katsuhiko Morishita, Kiyoshi Ogishima, Kazuhiro Maekawa
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Publication number: 20100149480Abstract: A display element according to the present invention is provided with a pair of substrates, at least one of which is transparent; a medium between the substrates, wherein optical anisotropy magnitude of the medium is changeable by and according to an electric field applied thereon; at least one pair of electrodes for applying, on the medium, the electric field substantially parallel to the substrates; and a shielding electrode overlapping at least a display portion of at least one of the substrates, and used for shielding the display element from static electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2010Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Koichi Miyachi, Seiji Shibahara, Iichiro Inoue, Shoichi Ishihara, Akihito Jinda, Kiyoshi Ogishima