Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Kimiyasu Mizuno

Munetaka Seo

Tsuyoshi Minami

Shuhei Uchida

Takehiro Aibara

Hitoshi Amagai

Takayuki Kogane

Naotaka Uehara

Sumito Shinohara

Masato Nunokawa

Tetsuya Handa

Takashi Suenaga

Keiichi Nomura

Hideo Suzuki

Jun Muraki

Koki Dobashi

Itsuki Yamashita

Hiroki Takahashi

Toshiya Sakurai

Shigeki Kitamura

Takeshi Kasahara

Takahiro Mizushina

Wataru Nimura

Seiji Mochizuki

Kenichi Iwata

Yuji Kuriyama

Kouichi Nakagomi

Ren Imaoka

Toshifumi Hoshii

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.

Electronic device, method and storage medium

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.

Electronic device, control method, and recording medium for controlling switching first controller and second controller to communicator

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.

Electronic device capable of appropriately using various time displays

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.

Wireless communication device, terminal, wireless communication system, connection control method and recording medium

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.

Electronic device, body-worn type device, communication system, communication control method and storage medium

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. The first processor is configured to, when a condition for transitioning to a power suppression state is satisfied, send a power suppression notification to the second processor, stop displaying by the first display and communicating by the first communicator, and transition to the sleep state, and to, when the wake-up signal is received from the second processor or the operation acquirer, recover to the normal state from the sleep state, and start displaying by the first display and communicating by the first communicator. The second processor is configured to, when the second processor receives the power suppression notification from the first processor, start displaying by the second display and communicating by the second communicator, and to, when a condition for transitioning to the normal state is satisfied, send the wake-up signal to the first processor, and stop the displaying by the second display and the communicating by the second communicator.

Electronic device, control method, and recording medium

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.

Display device and method for controlling same

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.

Information device, mobile device, and wearable information device

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).

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.

Display module, display device, and method for controlling same

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.

Information processing apparatus that saves power in position acquisition

An electronic apparatus includes a main CPU, a main power supply control unit which conducts power supply to the main CPU and conducts supply control of the power, a sub power supply control unit which conducts power supply to the main power supply control unit, and a first switch which switches on and off power supply from the sub power supply control unit to the main power supply control unit.

Electronic apparatus efficiently conducting power supply control

A display device including a first processor, a second processor, a frame memory which is overwritten by and stores first image data generated by the first processor and second image data generated by the second processor, and a display on which a predetermined image is displayed based on the first image data and the second image data stored in the frame memory, in which the first processor or the second processor sets the first processor in a power saving state when the first processor is not overwriting the first image data in the frame memory.

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Akishima, Japan

Kimiyasu Mizuno