Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Masatoshi Watanuki

Hiroyuki Sasaki

Kohtaro Hanzawa

Jun Yoshino

Toshiaki Kawanishi

Shiro Ishiguro

Masaaki Sasaki

Masao Sambongi

Tetsuji Makino

Hiroyoshi Ogawa

Michihiro Nihei

Noriyuki Kitta

Katsunori Ishii

Hyuta Tanaka

An electronic device includes a communication module configured to communicate with an external device having a battery capacity greater than a battery capacity of the electronic device, a display, and at least one processor. The processor is configured to control the communication module to transmit a communication start request to the external device, and in a case where the electronic device receives notification information from the external device, change an operation mode of the electronic device from a first mode to a second mode. The display performs displaying a normal operation of the electronic device in the first mode, and the display performs displaying based on the notification information in the second mode.

Electronic device, control method of electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A robot is equipped with a processor. The processor detects external appearance or audio of a living being, and by controlling the robot, causes the robot to execute an operation in accordance with liking data indicating preferences of the robot regarding external appearance or audio and the detected external appearance or audio of the living being.

Robot, robot control method, and recording medium

A timer unit to counts a current date and time, a current position acquisition unit to acquire a current position, a determination unit to determine a time zone in which the acquired current position is included, and a local time acquisition unit to calculate local time corresponding to a time difference of the time zone determined by the determination unit are included. When a boundary line of the time zone is along a coastline, the determination unit changes the boundary line from the coastline to a side of a sea in a predetermined distance range and determines a time zone.

Electronic device which modifies a boundary of a time zone used to set a current date and time, and method and non-transitory recording medium thereof

An image processing apparatus includes an emphasis map creation module configured to create an emphasis map indicating an emphasis region of image data and an emphasis level of the emphasis region, and an image processor configured to perform a first conversion of a tone of image data of the emphasis region into a first tone and a second conversion of a tone of image data of another region into a second tone, in accordance with the emphasis map created by the emphasis map creation module.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

A moving image reproducer includes a generation section, a calculation section, a determination section, a correction section and a control section. The generation section generates an interpolation frame image interpolating between two adjacent frame images among a plurality of frame images. The calculation section sequentially calculates a progress level of a predetermined musical piece between the two adjacent frame images reproduced in synchronization with the predetermined musical piece. The determination section determines whether the progress level has varied along with a change in a tempo of the predetermined musical piece defined in the tempo information. The correction section corrects the progress level so as to reduce the variation in the progress level along with the change in the tempo if the progress level is determined to have varied. The control section controls the generation section to generate an interpolation frame image corresponding to the corrected progress level.

Moving image reproducer reproducing moving image in synchronization with musical piece

A computer program product executed by a computer connected with a document imager that uses an imaging section to image an original document mounted on a document bed plate on which the original document is mounted and which has a specific pattern formed on a surface thereof and outputs an image of the original document allows a CPU to execute a judging step of judging stillness of the original document mounted on the document bed plate from at least one of a discontinuity of the pattern at an outer peripheral portion in a document bed plate image obtained by the imaging section and a change in the document bed plate image.

Document imager, document stillness detection method, and computer program product

When a plurality of effects are simultaneously applied to an input audio signal, a plurality of effect-algorithms each for applying solely an effect to the input signal are stored in a memory, and a plurality of combination-algorithms or combination-data which represent combinations of the effects and orders in which effects are applied to the input audio signal are stored in the memory. When one of the combination-algorithms or the combination-data is selected, effect-algorithms included in the selected combination-algorithm or combination-data are selectively read out from the memory. A program for applying effects in a predetermined combination and order is written by CPU based on the read out effect-algorithms and combination-algorithm or combination-data. Receiving the program, DSP successively applies effects to the input audio signal in accordance with the program. As a result, the present effector needs less memory capacity than the conventional effector in which a number of programs consisting of combinations of effect-algorithms are previously stored. A multi-effector comprised of a connection of a digital effect adding device and an analog effect adding device, is provided with a memory having a plurality of memory areas for storing audio signals. An input audio signal, an input signal to the analog effect adding device and an output signal of the digital effect adding device are stored in respective memory areas of the memory. Whether either of input signals is supplied to the digital effect adding device or whether the output signal of the digital effect adding device is input to the analog effect adding device or the output signal is output as a final signal are decided by operation of an externally operated switch. In this way, the order in which effects are applied can be altered independently of the connection of the above two effect adding devices.

Effect adding apparatus

A plurality of groups of tone parameters different in kind required for the generation of a musical sound is stored. The tone parameters of the same kind among those tone parameters are modulated with the same sway signal generated at the same time at a desired time or at fixed intervals of time when a key concerned is depressed. The modulated parameters are either restored in the original storage region or directly delivered to a sound source. The resulting musical sound has an acoustically natural comfortable tone quality. Even if musical sounds are generated simultaneously, no sways in the respective tones of the musical sound are canceled.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Masatoshi Watanuki