Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140167650 | Terminal Device and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - A terminal apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium capable of achieving reduction of power consumption by appropriately controlling lighting of a display unit are provided. | 06-19-2014 |
20130077939 | Captioned Video Playback Apparatus and Recording Medium - Disclosed is a captioned video playback apparatus comprising a storage unit that stores a caption signal defining a plurality of caption lines and a video signal defining a plurality of video images in association with a playback timing; a caption select unit that selects one of the plurality of caption lines defined by the caption signal stored in the storage unit; a caption playback unit that plays back the caption line selected by the caption select unit; a video playback unit that plays back the video signal stored in the storage unit; and a mode changeover unit that changes between a caption view mode for playing back a caption line selected by the caption select unit and a video image corresponding to the caption line using the caption playback unit and the video playback unit, and a normal view mode for playing back a video image using the video playback unit. | 03-28-2013 |
20130003278 | Two-Axis Hinge and Mobile Device - A two-axis hinge unit is provided with a first rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the vertical direction from a folded state with a first casing and a second casing overlapping and a second rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the horizontal direction from a folded state with the first casing and the second casing overlapping, and is provided with a restriction member positioned between the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft that, when one of the rotating shafts is in a predetermined rotational position, is pressed by this one rotating shaft and engages with the other rotating shaft, thereby restricting rotation of that other rotating shaft. | 01-03-2013 |
20120314572 | Communication Apparatus, Communication Method, and Recording Medium Storing Program - When a communication apparatus (server device) that includes wireless access means and can send content data by using the wireless access means starts sending content data, it calculates a communication band that remains available for the server device to perform communication, so that any content that has a rate equal to or greater than the remaining communication band may not be publicized open to and may not hence be sent to a client device. | 12-13-2012 |
20120279016 | Two-Axis Hinge and Mobile Device - A two-axis hinge unit is provided with a first rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the vertical direction from a folded state with a first casing and a second casing overlapping and a second rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the horizontal direction from a folded state with the first casing and the second casing overlapping, and is provided with a restriction member positioned between the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft that, when one of the rotating shafts is in a predetermined rotational position, is pressed by this one rotating shaft and engages with the other rotating shaft, thereby restricting rotation of that other rotating shaft. | 11-08-2012 |
20120000687 | Waterproof Structure and Electronic Equipment - With a waterproof structure for the space between a first case and a diaphragm doubling as a display panel provided facing the first case, a first resilient member is integrally formed at a surface of the diaphragm facing the first case, and the first resilient member is press-fitted into a groove formed in a surface of the first case facing the diaphragm side. | 01-05-2012 |
20110241880 | Electronic Device and Computer-Readable Medium | 10-06-2011 |
20100323609 | Terminal Device and Control Program Thereof - In a mobile phone | 12-23-2010 |
20100309202 | Terminal Device and Control Program Thereof - In a mobile phone | 12-09-2010 |
20100302237 | Terminal Device and Control Program Thereof - In a mobile phone | 12-02-2010 |
20100273540 | Two-Axis Hinge and Mobile Device - A two-axis hinge unit is provided with a first rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the vertical direction from a folded state with a first casing and a second casing overlapping and a second rotating shaft that rotates so as to open in the horizontal direction from a folded state with the first casing and the second casing overlapping, and is provided with a restriction member positioned between the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft that, when one of the rotating shafts is in a predetermined rotational position, is pressed by this one rotating shaft and engages with the other rotating shaft, thereby restricting rotation of that other rotating shaft. | 10-28-2010 |
20100245369 | Display Device and Recording Medium - The mobile communication terminal comprises a first casing and a second casing carrying a first display part and a second display part, respectively. The first display part and the second display part are each capable of 3D display. The controller of the mobile communication terminal detects the mobile communication terminal being opened vertically or horizontally and detects the opening angle between the first casing and the second casing. In the 3D display in the horizontal opened state, the visibility of the 3D display is altered as the opening angle is changed. Therefore, the controller of the mobile communication terminal calculates the viewing angle according to the detected opening angle and changes the parameters for the 3D display, whereby excellent visibility is maintained even if the opening angle is changed. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245346 | Image Receiving Apparatus and Memory Medium - This invention improves the convenience of viewing three-dimensional image displays. A mobile communications handset can accomplish three-dimensional image displays using image data received by a communications unit and a broadcast reception unit through a display unit provided with a parallax barrier panel. A control unit automatically performs actions to record the image data as an auxiliary recording while the three-dimensional image display is being performed when the three-dimensional image display is performed using the received image data. That is to say, recording of image data relating to the three-dimensional image display is performed automatically in preparation for cases where the display cannot be viewed three-dimensionally due to viewing conditions. | 09-30-2010 |
20100234001 | Mobile Communication Terminal, Mobile Communication System, Mobile Communication Method and Recording Medium - A mobile communication terminal includes a proximity wireless communication unit and a control command generating unit. The proximity wireless communication unit performs wireless communication directly with another mobile communication terminal present in a communicationable range. When the proximity wireless communication unit is capable of communicating with another mobile communication terminal, the control command generating unit generates a control command which is associated with an internal state and which is for controlling another mobile communication terminal, and transmits the control command to another mobile communication terminal through the proximity wireless communication unit. | 09-16-2010 |
20100189413 | Electronic Device and Recording Medium - An electronic device comprises a display unit, determination unit, parameter acquiring unit, and display control unit, and is configured as follows: the display unit can provide a three-dimensional display that makes an image stereoscopically viewable; the determination unit determines a posture of the display unit; the parameter acquiring unit acquires a control parameter that is related to the posture and intended to control a display operation of the display unit; the display control unit controls, on the basis of the control parameter acquired by the parameter acquiring unit, the display operation of the display unit, which is associated with the three-dimensional display. | 07-29-2010 |
20100124408 | Image Converter, Image Reproducer, Image Conversion/Reproduction System, and Recording Medium - An image converter includes an image converting unit and a determining unit. The image converting unit acquires frame image groups each including one or more frame images from original image data, and outputs the frame image(s) of each acquired group, converting its/their image quality based on determination by the determining unit, generating foreign-device-use image data including the frame image groups including the frame image(s). The determining unit determines necessity of first-image-quality retention of the frame image(s) of each group based on whether it/they satisfies/satisfy a condition. The image converting unit outputs the frame image(s) of the group at the first image quality if it/they is/are determined by the determining unit as necessary to retain at the first image quality, or a second image quality if determined as unnecessary to retain at the first image quality. | 05-20-2010 |
20100107069 | Terminal Device and Control Program Thereof - In a mobile phone, even when an audio-related function is running in background processing in parallel with a function running in the main processing (foreground processing) where operations by the main operating section have been assigned to the function running in the main processing, the control section operates the audio-related function based on a user operation detected by the touch screen, the imaging section, the sound collecting section, or the housing movement detecting section. | 04-29-2010 |
20100056208 | Electronic Device and Control Program Thereof - In a mobile phone device | 03-04-2010 |
20100016043 | Slide Mechanism and Electronic Apparatus - Slide mechanism includes: a slide pin; a base in which formed are a first guide portion guiding the pin upwardly and downwardly and a first hook portion formed integrally with and bent to the right from the upper end of the portion; a slider slidable upwardly and downwardly relative to the base, in which formed are a second guide portion guiding the pin upwardly and downwardly, a second hook portion formed integrally with upper end of the second guide portion and bent to the left, and a runout formed integrally with lower end of the second guide portion; and an urging mechanism that has one end attached to the pin and the other end attached rotatably to base such that the vertical position of the other end is between both ends of the first guide portion, and that urges the pin away from the other end. | 01-21-2010 |
20090316046 | CAPTIONED IMAGE REPRODUCING DEVICE, CAPTIONED IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A control unit creates caption management data having plural caption texts to which caption display times each indicating a time of starting reproduction of each caption text are added and plural images in association with one another in accordance with a reproduction order, and stores the caption management data in a memory unit. The control unit selects a caption text registered in the caption management data, and acquires received caption display times of the selected caption text and a caption text corresponding to the next reproduction order. The control unit sets the caption display time of the selected caption text as the initial value of a dummy caption display time. When determining that a difference between the initial value and the caption display time of the caption text corresponding to the reproduction order next to the selected caption text is larger than the reference time, the control unit stores a time acquired by adding a predetermined time to the initial value and a dummy caption in the memory unit in association with each other. | 12-24-2009 |
20090295172 | Mobile Telephone - A mobile telephone includes a casing provided with at least a locking member and a lid that can be detached or attached by pivoting of the locking member. The lid comprises a passage the locking member passes through, and a locking piece that a locking lug provided at the locking member can freely engage with and be detached from as a result of pivoting of the locking member. The locking piece is located at an inner periphery of the passage. Further, with a mobile telephone having casings that are foldably joined by a hinge, at least one of the foldably joined casings is a box-like case provided with a hinge at an upper surface and an opening portion at a rear surface, and has a lid-like case fitting to the opening of the box-like case. | 12-03-2009 |
20090247248 | Slide Device and Electronic Equipment - A slide device includes a base, a slider provided at the base and slidable along an axis serving as a y-axis with respect to the base, a cam provided at the base and having a surface undulating in an x-axis direction orthogonal to the y-axis, a cam follower provided at the slider and capable of moving from a position corresponding to one end of the cam in the x-axis direction to a position corresponding to the other end, and an urging mechanism urging the cam follower towards the cam such that the cam follower slides around the cam in one direction in accompaniment with the sliding of the slider with respect to the base. Further, electronic equipment includes a front casing, a rear casing facing a rear surface of the front casing, and the slide device described above. | 10-01-2009 |
20090221335 | Hinge Apparatus and Portable Electronic Device - A hinge apparatus includes a hinge unit that pivotably links a first housing and a second housing about a pivot axis, and a slide mechanism that enables the hinge unit to slide with respect to the second housing in a direction perpendicular to the pivot axis of the hinge unit on one face of the second housing. A portable electronic device includes the first housing, the second housing, and the hinge apparatus. | 09-03-2009 |
20090176535 | Communication Terminal Device and Storage Medium - The controller, under a condition where in association with a plurality of pieces of its own communication identifying information (for example, two subscriber directory numbers), divided screen information when dividing and displaying a predefined screen (standby screen) of a display unit by the number of subscriber directory numbers, and communication-related information (arrival information) when performing voice call or mail arrival using the subscriber directory numbers are stored in a communication management table, associates each of the divided screens with each of the subscriber directory numbers, and also displays the arrival information for each of the subscriber directory numbers on a corresponding divided screen. | 07-09-2009 |
20090139058 | Hinge Apparatus and Foldable Electronic Device - A hinge apparatus of the present invention comprises a first rotational shaft which rotates a first casing and a second casing relative to each other from a state where the first and second casings are folded down, and opens the first and second casings in a vertical direction, a second rotational shaft which rotates the first casing and the second casing relative to each other in a horizontal direction, a coupling member which couples the first rotational shaft and the second rotational shaft together, with an end portion of the first rotational shaft being overlapped with an end portion of the second rotational shaft, and an engagement member which allows either one rotational shaft of the first rotational shaft and the second rotational shaft to engage with the other rotational shaft, thereby restricting a rotation of the other rotational shaft when the one rotational shaft rotates. | 06-04-2009 |
20090138921 | Control Device, Reproduction System, and Program - First, a control device determines a reproduction-display device, from which the control device has been able to obtain neighborhood device information via a short-range wireless communication section, to be located in the neighborhood of the control device, and registers this reproduction-display device to neighborhood determination information. Next, the control device detects the reproduction-display devices connected to a network, to which a content server is connected, using a network communication section and registers these reproduction-display devices to reproduction device registration information. The reproduction-display device, which is registered in both of the reproduction device registration information and the neighborhood determination information, is designated by priority, and reproduces and displays content. | 05-28-2009 |
20090124295 | Broadcasting Receiver and Information Recording Medium - When an instruction to change the display size of the content of a 1-segment broadcast received by a television broadcast communication unit is given while the content is being displayed on a display screen, and if it is possible to receive the content of a 12-segment broadcast continuously to the content of the 1-segment broadcast, a CPU switches to receiving the 12-segment broadcast and displays the broadcast content in the standard display size (second display size) of the 12-segment broadcast. If it is not possible to receive the 12-segment broadcast continuously to the 1-segment broadcast, the CPU displays the content of the 1-segment broadcast by changing it to the second display size. | 05-14-2009 |
20090121655 | Terminal device and computer-readable storage medium - A terminal apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium capable of achieving reduction of power consumption by appropriately controlling lighting of a display unit are provided. | 05-14-2009 |
20090101384 | Waterproof Structure and Electronic Equipment - With a waterproof structure for the space between a first case and a diaphragm doubling as a display panel provided facing the first case, a first resilient member is integrally formed at a surface of the diaphragm facing the first case, and the first resilient member is press-fitted into a groove formed in a surface of the first case facing the diaphragm side. | 04-23-2009 |
20090082060 | Mobile Telecommunication Terminal, Communication System, and Computer Readable Storage Medium - Convenience is improved when a mobile telecommunication terminal uses a fixed telephone line. The mobile telecommunication terminal to perform communication via a mobile telecommunication network by cellular communication is a dual-mode terminal able to be wirelessly communicated (by non-cellular communication) with a communication device such as a fixed telephone or a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) access point. The mobile telecommunication terminal when carrying out signal transmission by accessing the communication device via a fixed telephone line connected to the communication device, obtains a telephone number of the mobile telecommunication using usable cellular communication as notifying information and transmits the information to the communication device. The communication device carries out signal transmission via the fixed telephone line so that the telephone number notified from the mobile telecommunication terminal is transmitted to a signal receiver. | 03-26-2009 |
20090066666 | Information Display Device and Program Storing Medium - A CPU determines whether or not the display position of a link character string is finger-touched when a touch sensor on a screen constituting a display unit is finger-touched, and when the link character string is touched, a user is informed that a jump to a link destination is possible through screen vibration or the like. | 03-12-2009 |
20090061694 | Connector, jack socket component, electronic equipment and plug component - A connector of the present invention comprises a jack socket with a plurality of first terminals disposed at a cylindrical inner wall at predetermined intervals in a depth direction, a plug with a plurality of second terminals disposed at an outer wall thereof, constituting a plurality of electrical contacts by individually making contact with each of the first terminals in a state of insertion into the jack socket, and ring-shaped elastic seal members that seal each of the electrical contacts when the plug is inserted in the jack socket. | 03-05-2009 |
20090055478 | Communication terminal and communication program thereof - In communication terminals | 02-26-2009 |
20090054111 | Portable terminal device - A portable terminal device can extrapolate the position of a sound source in the thicknesswise direction regardless of the use style. A slide type portable terminal has an upper casing, a lower casing, and a coupling part that couples the casings in such a way that their positional relation is changeable. The upper casing has a plurality of first microphones, and the lower casing has a second microphone. In a handhold style, one of the first microphones and the second microphone are lined in the thicknesswise direction of the cellular phone, As the upper casing is slid, the other one of the first microphones and the second microphone are lined in the thicknesswise direction of the cellular phone. The position of a sound source in the thicknesswise direction can be extrapolated from output signals of a formed microphone array in the thicknesswise direction. | 02-26-2009 |
20090030654 | Noise Suppression System, Sound Acquisition Apparatus, Sound Output Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Medium - The sound acquisition apparatus broadcasts a sound “output notice request” through a communication network. In response to the request by the sound acquisition apparatus, the sound output apparatus gives notification of starting a sound output operation, the sound acquisition apparatus requests the sound output apparatus to transfer “output sound data”. The sound output apparatus then transfers “output sound data” representing the sound outputted by its own speaker to the sound acquisition apparatus in response to this request. The sound acquisition apparatus then suppresses a noise component from sound data acquired through a microphone using the transferred “output sound data”. | 01-29-2009 |
20090011751 | Electronic device and processing program thereof - In a cellular phone | 01-08-2009 |
20080319662 | Electronic device and recording medium - A controller determines whether or not the map data that includes the position information of the user device and the position information of the other party can be displayed on the screen of the display panel at a predetermined reduced scale. When the result of the determination specifies that the map that includes the position information of both parties cannot be displayed at the predetermined reduced scale, the controller | 12-25-2008 |
20080310370 | Communication terminal and recording medium - A communication terminal has a plurality of wireless communication units. An access control unit determines whether or not a selected wireless interface is in a state where a connection request is possible based on communication state information on the wireless interface selected beforehand in the plurality of wireless interfaces. When determining that a connection request using the selected wireless interface is not possible, the access control unit determines whether or not to change over the wireless interface used for a communication based on a changeover availability information table set beforehand. When determining that a changeover of the wireless interface is not possible, the access control unit idles without performing a connection request to establish a communication until it is determined that a connection request through the selected wireless interface becomes possible. | 12-18-2008 |
20080292272 | Captioned video playback apparatus and recording medium - Disclosed is a captioned video playback apparatus comprising a storage unit that stores a caption signal defining a plurality of caption lines and a video signal defining a plurality of video images in association with a playback timing; a caption select unit that selects one of the plurality of caption lines defined by the caption signal stored in the storage unit; a caption playback unit that plays back the caption line selected by the caption select unit; a video playback unit that plays back the video signal stored in the storage unit; and a mode changeover unit that changes between a caption view mode for playing back a caption line selected by the caption select unit and a video image corresponding to the caption line using the caption playback unit and the video playback unit, and a normal view mode for playing back a video image using the video playback unit. | 11-27-2008 |
20080287103 | Electronic device and computer-readable medium | 11-20-2008 |
20080270419 | Portable terminal device and storage medium storing program - Provided that use environment conditions (types of access points) fit for using a telephone directory (user use information) are stored and managed in a condition table in association with the telephone directory, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) activates a wireless LAN module at the time of opening the telephone directory, and determines whether a portable terminal device lies within a wireless LAN or a hot spot based on whether wireless communication with an access point present nearby has been established. When the portable terminal device lies within the wireless LAN or the hot spot, the CPU accesses and outputs the telephone directory associated therewith. | 10-30-2008 |
20080261666 | Electronic device - A cellular phone device has an operation-unit casing, a sliding casing which is coupled to the operation-unit casing with the front face of the sliding casing facing the rear face of the operation-unit casing, and which slides with respect to the operation-unit casing in a direction parallel to the rear face of the operation-unit casing, and a direction input device provided on the rear face of the operation-unit casing. The sliding casing slides with respect to the operation-unit casing between a state where the direction input device is covered by the sliding casing and a state where a covering of the direction input device by the sliding casing is released. | 10-23-2008 |
20080254841 | Communication terminal and computer-readable storage medium - A controller of the communication terminal identifies, after power is turned on, whether or not to use a cellular phone communicating unit or a wireless LAN communicating unit based on communication system information stored beforehand in a storing unit. When the identification is complete, the controller initializes the cellular phone communicating unit, and, according to results of the identification, causes the cellular phone communicating unit to enter standby state or sleep state. Next, the controller initializes the wireless LAN communicating unit, and, according to results of the identification, causes the wireless LAN communicating unit to enter standby state or sleep state. When an application which using a wireless communicating unit in sleep state is launched, the controller causes that wireless communicating unit to enter standby state from sleep state. | 10-16-2008 |
20080247138 | Electronic device and recording medium - In an electronic device whose source of electric power is a fuel cell and which has a heat radiator that radiates heat by evaporating water generated in accordance with electric power generation of the fuel cell, there are provided a use condition detector that detects use condition of the electronic device, a heat radiation suppression discriminator that discriminates whether to suppress heat radiation by the heat radiator based on use condition detected by the use condition detector, and a heat radiation suppression controller that controls to suppress heat radiation by the heat radiator as a result of the discrimination by the heat radiation suppression discriminator. | 10-09-2008 |
20080240677 | Playback apparatus, broadcast receiving device, and computer-readable recording medium - A television broadcast received by a television broadcast receiving device is recorded as a recording file, and a central control device identifies specific recording portions (for example, commercial portions) within the recording file, and then calculates the remaining playback time (the total remaining time without the specific recording portions) that is the playback time of the recording file after the playback position minus the total time for the specific recording portions after the playback position, and displays information according to the total remaining time without the specific recording portions. | 10-02-2008 |
20080220758 | Broadcast receiver and processing program thereof - When reservation information is inputted, a mobile terminal apparatus (broadcast receiver) | 09-11-2008 |
20080218533 | Terminal apparatus and processing program thereof - In the terminal apparatus, a CPU | 09-11-2008 |
20080218484 | Input apparatus, mobile apparatus, and information recording medium - Keys that structure the keyboard have a diamond-shaped form that is symmetrical in both the vertical and the horizontal directions, disposed so that none of the edges of the surface in which the keyboard is formed are parallel with any of the edges of the diamond shapes. To each key is applied a marking in one or two orientations depending on the orientation of use of the mobile communications terminal. In the keyboard, these types of keys are laid out in a staggered pattern, wherein the markings are applied in positions that are on a straight line that passes through each of the keys in two rows of keys that are adjacent in the vertical direction on keys that are used when the mobile communications terminal is used in the horizontal orientation. | 09-11-2008 |
20080214235 | Mobile terminal device, remote notification method and recording medium - When detecting that an other cellular phone device | 09-04-2008 |
20080201069 | Terminal device and recording medium - A mobile phone terminal has a positional information acquisition unit acquiring present positional information indicating a present position, a destination information acquisition unit acquiring destination information specifying a destination (where to return, and where to go), a navigation unit navigating a route from a position specified by the present positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit to a destination specified by the destination information, upon activation, a distance acquisition unit acquiring a distance between a position specified by the present positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit and a destination specified by the destination information, and an activation control unit activating the navigation unit depending on a distance acquired by the distance acquisition unit. | 08-21-2008 |