Patents by Inventor Mitsuaki Matsuo
Mitsuaki Matsuo 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: 11959980Abstract: Power consumption due to failed automatic calibration is suppressed. An electronic watch is provided with a magnetic sensor, a processor for performing calibration of the magnetic sensor and controlling two or more function modes, and an acceleration sensor for sensing movement of a user. The processor determines whether a state of movement sensed by the acceleration sensor is a calibratable state in which calibration of the magnetic sensor can be performed, performs discrimination of a function mode being executed among the two or more function modes, and performs the calibration of the magnetic sensor when (i) the state of movement sensed by the acceleration sensor is the calibratable state and (ii) the function mode is not a non-default mode, the non-default mode being a function mode executed in accordance with an operation by the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuyoshi Omura, Susumu Yamazaki, Mitsuaki Matsuo
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Patent number: 10852701Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a receiver which receives broadcast radio waves including time information; a communicator which carries out wireless communication by establishing communication connection with an external device which is set; a processor; and an operation receiving unit which receives an input operation via an operating member, wherein in a case where a predetermined input operation corresponding to a command for obtaining information regarding a present time is received via a predetermined operating member, the processor selects a first information obtaining operation by which the information is obtained from the external device which is set via the communicator or a second information obtaining operation by which the information is obtained based on the broadcast radio waves received by the receiver according to whether a setting regarding the external device exists.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Hasegawa, Yuki Oshita, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Akihiro Kuroha, Shimpei Matsuda
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Publication number: 20200300929Abstract: Power consumption due to failed automatic calibration is suppressed. An electronic watch is provided with a magnetic sensor, a processor for performing calibration of the magnetic sensor and controlling two or more function modes, and an acceleration sensor for sensing movement of a user. The processor determines whether a state of movement sensed by the acceleration sensor is a calibratable state in which calibration of the magnetic sensor can be performed, performs discrimination of a function mode being executed among the two or more function modes, and performs the calibration of the magnetic sensor when (i) the state of movement sensed by the acceleration sensor is the calibratable state and (ii) the function mode is not a non-default mode, the non-default mode being a function mode executed in accordance with an operation by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuyoshi OMURA, Susumu YAMAZAKI, Mitsuaki MATSUO
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Patent number: 10739731Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Hasegawa, Yohei Kawaguchi, Katsuhiko Obata, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Shimpei Matsuda
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Publication number: 20200012235Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Kosuke HASEGAWA, Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Katsuhiko OBATA, Mitsuaki MATSUO, Shimpei MATSUDA
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Patent number: 10509371Abstract: A smartphone includes a receiver, a log acquirer, a determiner, an information notifier, and a display. The receiver is in wireless communication with a time display device. The log acquirer acquires log data from the time display device by the receiver. The determiner determines the usage status of the time display device on the basis of the log data acquired by the log acquirer. The information notifier provides, via the display, notification of information corresponding to the usage status determined by the determiner.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hanada, Katsuhiko Obata, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Hirofumi Nagareda, Tadashi Kojima, Oh Takahashi, Toyokazu Nishio
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Patent number: 10459408Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Hasegawa, Yohei Kawaguchi, Katsuhiko Obata, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Shimpei Matsuda
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Publication number: 20180246475Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a receiver which receives broadcast radio waves including time information; a communicator which carries out wireless communication by establishing communication connection with an external device which is set; a processor; and an operation receiving unit which receives an input operation via an operating member, wherein in a case where a predetermined input operation corresponding to a command for obtaining information regarding a present time is received via a predetermined operating member, the processor selects a first information obtaining operation by which the information is obtained from the external device which is set via the communicator or a second information obtaining operation by which the information is obtained based on the broadcast radio waves received by the receiver according to whether a setting regarding the external device exists.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke HASEGAWA, Yuki OSHITA, Mitsuaki MATSUO, Akihiro KUROHA, Shimpei MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20180246472Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Kosuke HASEGAWA, Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Katsuhiko OBATA, Mitsuaki MATSUO, Shimpei MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20180246473Abstract: A smartphone includes a receiver, a log acquirer, a determiner, an information notifier, and a display. The receiver is in wireless communication with a time display device. The log acquirer acquires log data from the time display device by the receiver. The determiner determines the usage status of the time display device on the basis of the log data acquired by the log acquirer. The information notifier provides, via the display, notification of information corresponding to the usage status determined by the determiner.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi HANADA, Katsuhiko OBATA, Mitsuaki MATSUO, Hirofumi NAGAREDA, Tadashi KOJIMA, Oh TAKAHASHI, Toyokazu NISHIO
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Patent number: 9058022Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic timepiece including a rotary switch, a rotation detection unit which detects a rotation of the rotary switch every time the rotary switch rotates for a predetermined rotation angle, a determination unit which determines as a continuous detection when a number of times the rotation detection unit detects the rotation is a predetermined number of times or greater before a preset unit time have elapsed from a detection timing, the predetermined number of times being 2 or more and a control unit which executes a predetermined function when the determination unit determines as the continuous detection.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Teruhisa Tokiwa, Mitsuaki Matsuo
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Patent number: 9022643Abstract: Disclosed is an analog electronic timepiece including a first pointer which rotates freely with respect to a dial, a driving control unit which controls rotation of the first pointer, and an operation unit which receives an input operation performed by a user. In the analog electronic timepiece, the driving control unit includes an intermittent fast forwarding unit which performs a fast forwarding operation with temporary stops, where the rotation of the first pointer is stopped for a predetermined time period every time the first pointer is rotated by being fast forward for a predetermined number of steps according to a predetermined starting operation performed on the operation unit, the predetermined number of steps being 2 or more steps.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Nagareda, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Noriyuki Kitta
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Patent number: 8937851Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes: a radio-wave receiving unit; a time acquiring unit that acquires time information and daylight-saving-time implementation information; a storage unit that stores predetermined information associated with a time in a preset area; and a calculation unit that calculates a current time in the preset area, wherein the predetermined information includes daylight-saving-time setting information; and when the time of switching to/from daylight saving time comes during a radio-wave reception process, the calculation unit determines whether a first or second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is that radio-wave reception has failed; and the second condition is that the daylight-saving-time implementation information is information provided before the time of switching; and when the first or second condition is satisfied, the calculation unit switches the time to calculate current time.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuaki Matsuo, Hirofumi Nagareda
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Patent number: 8929179Abstract: An analog electronic timepiece comprising: a plurality of rotating display bodies; a gear train mechanism; a drive control unit; a detection unit; and a delay cycle counting unit, wherein the delay cycle counting unit adds 1 to the number of delay cycles in a case where it is determined, for each detection cycle of a predetermined reference display mode, that the first rotating display body is stopped during a rotation cycle of the first rotating display body based on detection results by the detection unit at a first timing and at a second timing, and the drive control unit rotationally moves the first rotating display body for a number of times, the number corresponding to the number of delay cycles, in a case where the first rotating display body is capable of operating at the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuaki Matsuo
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Publication number: 20140092714Abstract: Disclosed is an analog electronic timepiece including a first pointer which rotates freely with respect to a dial, a driving control unit which controls rotation of the first pointer, and an operation unit which receives an input operation performed by a user. In the analog electronic timepiece, the driving control unit includes an intermittent fast forwarding unit which performs a fast forwarding operation with temporary stops, where the rotation of the first pointer is stopped for a predetermined time period every time the first pointer is rotated by being fast forward for a predetermined number of steps according to a predetermined starting operation performed on the operation unit, the predetermined number of steps being 2 or more steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi NAGAREDA, Mitsuaki MATSUO, Noriyuki KITTA
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Publication number: 20140029387Abstract: An analog electronic timepiece comprising: a plurality of rotating display bodies; a gear train mechanism; a drive control unit; a detection unit; and a delay cycle counting unit, wherein the delay cycle counting unit adds 1 to the number of delay cycles in a case where it is determined, for each detection cycle of a predetermined reference display mode, that the first rotating display body is stopped during a rotation cycle of the first rotating display body based on detection results by the detection unit at a first timing and at a second timing, and the drive control unit rotationally moves the first rotating display body for a number of times, the number corresponding to the number of delay cycles, in a case where the first rotating display body is capable of operating at the first timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventor: Mitsuaki MATSUO
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Patent number: 8473096Abstract: A substrate transfer robot includes a substrate gripping portion, an arm unit, and a controller. The substrate gripping portion is configured to hold a substrate. The arm unit includes a plurality of arms which are capable of turning in a horizontal plane. The arm unit has the substrate gripping portion at a leading end of the arm unit and is configured to transfer the substrate between a plurality of taught positions taught beforehand. When the taught positions are taught, the controller is configured to generate an access standby position corresponding to each of the plurality of taught positions and configured to generate and store a plurality of routes from the access standby position to a minimum turning posture of the substrate transfer robot.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Mitsuaki Matsuo, Yoshiki Kimura
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Publication number: 20130077448Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes: a radio-wave receiving unit; a time acquiring unit that acquires time information and daylight-saving-time implementation information; a storage unit that stores predetermined information associated with a time in a preset area; and a calculation unit that calculates a current time in the preset area, wherein the predetermined information includes daylight-saving-time setting information; and when the time of switching to/from daylight saving time comes during a radio-wave reception process, the calculation unit determines whether a first or second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is that radio-wave reception has failed; and the second condition is that the daylight-saving-time implementation information is information provided before the time of switching; and when the first or second condition is satisfied, the calculation unit switches the time to calculate current time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuaki MATSUO, Hirofumi Nagareda
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Publication number: 20100209225Abstract: A substrate transfer robot includes a substrate gripping portion, an arm unit, and a controller. The substrate gripping portion is configured to hold a substrate. The arm unit includes a plurality of arms which are capable of turning in a horizontal plane. The arm unit has the substrate gripping portion at a leading end of the arm unit and is configured to transfer the substrate between a plurality of taught positions taught beforehand. When the taught positions are taught, the controller is configured to generate an access standby position corresponding to each of the plurality of taught positions and configured to generate and store a plurality of routes from the access standby position to a minimum turning posture of the substrate transfer robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Mitsuaki MATSUO, Yoshiki KIMURA
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Patent number: 5497143Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle detects the number of rotations of a wheel of a vehicle, calculates the distance covered by the vehicle, measures the atmospheric pressure to provide data on the atmospheric pressure, obtains a height corresponding to the measured atmospheric pressure from a height-atmospheric pressure conversion table stored in a RAM on the basis of the measured atmospheric pressure data, calculates an tilt of a road where the vehicle travels on the basis of the height and the measured covered distance, detects a gear corresponding to the calculated tilt from a gear change conversion table, drives a transmission to put the gear in the meshed state. In order to apply a barometer to a weather forecast, an actual height where the vehicle travels is calculated on the basis of data on a tilt of the road measured by an inclinometer attached to the vehicle and the calculated covered distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1994Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuaki Matsuo, Yasuo Kuroki, Takashi Kanzaki