Patents by Inventor Shingo Okano

Shingo Okano 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: 12606101
    Abstract: A control apparatus that bidirectionally communicates with a control unit based on a preset time-sharing method includes: a plurality of devices each installed on a different substrate; a communication controller daisy-chained to the control unit via a bus line through which bidirectional communication of communication data is performed, the communication data having a data structure having a band in which data to be communicated between the plurality of devices is superimposable; and a cable configured to connect at least one device of the plurality of devices to the communication controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Yamanaka, Shingo Okano, Tomoki Umeda, Kouta Onoyama
  • Publication number: 20260100175
    Abstract: An input interface device includes at least one processor. The processor, in response to a detector not detecting that an object is in contact with or in proximity to a detection surface, causes a plurality of light emitters disposed alongside the detector to emit light with a first luminous intensity. The processor, in response to the detector detecting that the object is in contact with or in proximity to the detection surface, causes, among the plurality of light emitters, a light emitter corresponding to a contact or proximity point detected by the detector at which the object is in contact with or in proximity to the detection surface, to emit light with a second luminous intensity that is higher than the first luminous intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Shingo OKANO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Ken TERAO, Shinichi MORITANI, Yutaro ICHIMURA
  • Patent number: 12518727
    Abstract: An input interface device includes at least one processor. The processor performs control to cause, among light emitters, a first light emitter corresponding to a contact/proximity point detected by a detector to emit light with a luminous intensity higher than that of a remaining light emitter. The contact/proximity point is where an object is in contact with or in proximity to a detection surface. The processor further performs control, while the object is moving along the light emitters in a state in which the object is in contact with or in proximity to the detection surface, to gradually reduce a luminous intensity of, among the light emitters, a second light emitter corresponding to a point where the object being in contact with or in proximity to the detection surface once detected by the detector is no longer detected to put out the second light emitter in a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Kajikawa, Shingo Okano, Osamu Moriyama, Ken Terao, Shinichi Moritani, Yutaro Ichimura
  • Patent number: 12354575
    Abstract: An indicator device includes a plurality of light emitters and at least one processor. The processor obtains, at intervals of a first period, a first period maximum value representing a maximum volume among a plurality of pieces of volume information based on an input signal. The processor obtains, for each second period including a plurality of first periods each being the first period, a minimum value among first period maximum values each being the first period maximum value as a second period minimum value and a maximum value among the first period maximum values as a second period maximum value. The processor controls light emission of the light emitters based on a relative ratio of a predetermined first period maximum value among the first period maximum values. The relative ratio is based on the second period minimum value and the second period maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Kajikawa, Shingo Okano, Osamu Moriyama, Ken Terao
  • Publication number: 20250191045
    Abstract: A computer of an ordering supporting server executes: a process of acquiring information necessary for specifying a product model number corresponding to a specific product from a terminal apparatus; a process of specifying a product model number corresponding to the specific product on the basis of the acquired information; a process of specifying, on the basis of constituent component data associated with the specific product, a component model number associated with the product model number while defining a value of a component variable part associated with a value of a variable part of the product model number according to a rule for an associated relation set between the model numbers; and a process of providing the specified component identification information to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: MISUMI Group Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo OKANO, Minoru KAGE, Nobuaki EBI, Tetsuya KAWANO, Kenji TAKAHASHI, Lei LI
  • Publication number: 20250104680
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a memory that stores a program; and at least one processor that executes the program stored in the memory, wherein the processor: controls a light source unit, sets one tempo from among a plurality of tempos, and changes a display form of light emitted from the light source unit and projected on a display section from a third display form to a first display form according to a first beat timing of the set tempo, a first period in which the light is projected while being changed between the third display form and the first display form has a constant length regardless of the set tempo, and the constant length is a length of less than one beat of a fastest tempo among settable tempos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Yumi AIHARA, Shingo OKANO, Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Osamu MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250104679
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a memory that stores a program; and at least one processor that executes the program stored in the memory, wherein the processor: controls a light source unit, changes a display position of light such that the light emitted from the light source unit and projected on a display section repeatedly reciprocates on a predetermined track on the display section according to a beat timing, and stops the display position of the light at positions corresponding to both ends of the track during a certain period including the beat timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Yumi AIHARA, Shingo OKANO, Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Osamu MORIYAMA, Takuma ITO
  • Patent number: 12258262
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate that is highly resistant to ESD, on which a reverse sound hole type MEMS microphone can be mounted. The substrate has one surface connected to a MEMS microphone, and comprises a substrate sound hole that penetrates through the substrate and communicates with a sound hole of the MEMS microphone, and a GND pad disposed around the substrate sound hole on another surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Okano
  • Publication number: 20250095617
    Abstract: A display device includes a display and a processor. The display displays one piece of a plurality of pieces of information and does not display two or more pieces of the plurality of pieces of information simultaneously. The processor causes the display to preferentially display a second piece of information included in the plurality of pieces of information rather than a first piece of information included in the plurality of pieces of information in accordance with a set priority order. The first piece of information corresponds to a performance operation of a user, and the second piece of information assists a performance of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shingo OKANO, Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Osamu MORIYAMA, Yumi AIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250078792
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of performance operating elements, a storage unit configured to store performance data corresponding to a performance operation of a user each time the user operates any one of the plurality of performance operating elements, and at least one processor. In a first operation state, in a case where any one of the plurality of performance operating elements is operated by the user, the at least one processor starts an output of the performance data from a reproduction start position of the performance data in the storage unit, the reproduction start position corresponding to the operated performance operating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Shingo OKANO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Ken TERAO, Tatsuro TSUCHIYA, Yuki KURIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250078791
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a performance operating element, a storage unit configured to store performance data corresponding to an operation each time a user operates the performance operating element, and at least one processor. The at least one processor executes, in a first period, processing of storing the performance data in the storage unit in response to the operation of the user on the performance operating element in a case of being in a recording state. The at least one processor executes, in a second period longer than the first period, processing of outputting the performance data stored in the storage unit in a case of being in a reproduction state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Shingo OKANO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Ken TERAO, Tatsuro TSUCHIYA, Yuki KURIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250078793
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a performance operating element, a second operating element configured to add an acoustic effect or change setting information including a tone, a storage unit including a first storage area that stores first performance data corresponding to an operation on the performance operating element and second performance data corresponding to an operation on the second operating element, and a second storage area that stores the second performance data, and at least one processor. The at least one processor stores, in a case where the second performance data stored in the first storage area is overwritten in a recording state, the overwritten second performance data in the second storage area, and instructs to generate a musical sound based on the first performance data stored in the first storage area and the second performance data stored in the second storage area in a reproduction state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Shingo OKANO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Ken TERAO, Tatsuro TSUCHIYA, Yuki KURIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230419928
    Abstract: An indicator device includes a plurality of light emitters and at least one processor. The processor obtains, at intervals of a first period, a first period maximum value representing a maximum volume among a plurality of pieces of volume information based on an input signal. The processor obtains, for each second period including a plurality of first periods each being the first period, a minimum value among first period maximum values each being the first period maximum value as a second period minimum value and a maximum value among the first period maximum values as a second period maximum value. The processor controls light emission of the light emitters based on a relative ratio of a predetermined first period maximum value among the first period maximum values. The relative ratio is based on the second period minimum value and the second period maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Shingo OKANO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Ken TERAO
  • Publication number: 20230410779
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a memory including a data region that stores data; a display device; and at least one processor. At least one processor executes: first boot processing in which a boot time is constant irrespective of a usage state of data in the data region, first output processing of outputting information of a first pattern to the display device during execution of the first boot processing, second boot processing in which a boot time varies depending on a usage state of the data, and second output processing of outputting information of a second pattern to the display device until the second boot processing is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo OKANO, Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Osamu MORIYAMA, Shinichi MORITANI, Yutaro ICHIMURA, Akira MIYATA, Ken TERAO
  • Publication number: 20230410772
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including: a display; a detector that detects contact or proximity between an operating body and a detection surface; multiple light emitters that are provided at a position corresponding to the detector, and cause the detection surface to emit light; and at least one processor. The processor performs control to link displaying regarding at least part of a content on the display with light emission of at least part of the light emitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Shingo OKANO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Ken TERAO, Shinichi MORITANI, Yutaro ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230410775
    Abstract: An input interface device includes at least one processor. The processor performs control to cause, among light emitters, a first light emitter corresponding to a contact/proximity point detected by a detector to emit light with a luminous intensity higher than that of a remaining light emitter. The contact/proximity point is where an object is in contact with or in proximity to a detection surface. The processor further performs control, while the object is moving along the light emitters in a state in which the object is in contact with or in proximity to the detection surface, to gradually reduce a luminous intensity of, among the light emitters, a second light emitter corresponding to a point where the object being in contact with or in proximity to the detection surface once detected by the detector is no longer detected to put out the second light emitter in a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Shingo OKANO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Ken TERAO, Shinichi MORITANI, Yutaro ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230413403
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an operation receiver that receives an input operation and a processor. The operation receiver includes a rotating wheel. The rotating wheel includes a first light emitter that emits colored light. The processor causes, upon the rotating wheel receiving an input operation, the first light emitter to change an emission color from a color at a start of the input operation to a color corresponding to a rotation angle of the rotating wheel having received the input operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo OKANO, Akira IKEDA, Ken TERAO, Osamu MORIYAMA, Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Yutaro ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230410773
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an input device that receives an input operation, a display, and a processor. The processor performs a first process upon duration of a detected continuation of the input operation being a reference time or longer. The processor performs a second process upon duration of a detected continuation of the input operation being less than the reference time. The processor causes the display to display a content from which it is determinable whether or not duration of a detected continuation of the input operation being the reference time or longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo OKANO, Akira IKEDA, Ken TERAO, Shinichi MORITANI, Tomoya KAJIKAWA, Osamu MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230186879
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic music playing control device that provides an instruction of playing music, the control device implementing natural music playing capable of expressing the timing and voicing in live music playing of a musical instrument by a player. The automatic music playing control device includes at least one processor, and the at least one processor selects a voicing pattern corresponding to a combination of the probabilistically-selected number of sounds to be emitted and a decided voicing type corresponding to a range from among a plurality of voicing patterns based on a scale decided according to the tune and chords of a music piece and instructs a sound source to emit a chord voiced based on the selected voicing pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun YOSHINO, Toshiyuki TACHIBANA, Shingo OKANO
  • Publication number: 20230186880
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic music playing control device that automatically plays chords to achieve a good music playing. The automatic music playing control device has at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor probabilistically selects any one of a plurality of timing types that defines the number of sound emissions, probabilistically selects any one of a plurality of note timing tables that defines sound emission timings, corresponding to the selected timing type, and instructs a sound source to emit a chord at a sound emission timing based on the selected note timing table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun YOSHINO, Toshiyuki TACHIBANA, Shingo OKANO