Patents Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA and
  • Publication number: 20200292505
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor module includes a sensor and a diagnosis circuit. The sensor includes piezoelectric transducers and switches. The piezoelectric transducers have different resonance frequencies. The switches are provided to correspond to the piezoelectric transducers, respectively. Each of the switches outputs an output signal corresponding to a voltage generated by an inverse piezoelectric effect of a corresponding piezoelectric transducer of the piezoelectric transducers. The diagnosis circuit diagnoses, based on a difference in pattern of the output signal, whether vibration has newly occurred in the sensor, and switch an output destination of the output signal of the sensor according to a result of the diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yongfang Li, Takahiro Omori, Takashi Usui, Osamu Nishimura, Kazuo Watabe
  • Publication number: 20200292469
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an analysis system includes a display controller. The display controller is configured to display a first comprehensive image and a first individual image from a plurality of workpiece data. The plurality of workpiece data relate to a plurality of workpieces, are classified into a plurality of categories, and are classified into one of a plurality of classes. The first comprehensive image is based on the plurality of workpiece data. The first individual image is based on a part of the plurality of workpiece data classified into one of the plurality of categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shun HIRAO
  • Publication number: 20200295217
    Abstract: A photodetector according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of light detectors. Each light detector has a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductive type different from the first conductive type, in which the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer constitute a PN junction. The photodetector further includes a quench resistor that is optically transmissive and connected to the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masaki ATSUTA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Ikuo FUJIWARA, Honam KWON, Keita SASAKI, Yuki NOBUSA
  • Publication number: 20200293666
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a memory on which first/second processing applications are stored, the first processing application being a secure application; and a processor that is coupled to the memory and executes the first and second processing applications. The first processing application includes an issuance module, a first communication module, and a log verification module. The issuance module issues a command to call a function of the second processing application and links the command to a verification rule. The first communication module transmits, to the second processing application, a command execution request including command identification information that identifies the command, and receives, from the second processing application, an execution log including an execution result of the command identified by the command identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Jun KANAI, Shinya TAKUMI, Yoshikazu HANATANI
  • Publication number: 20200292677
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a distance measuring device is a signal processing device that performs processing on time-series luminance signals of each of frames acquired on the basis of reflected lights of laser lights irradiated in order in a plurality of predetermined directions for each of the frames. The distance measuring device includes a storage circuit and a selection circuit. The storage circuit stores information concerning a distance value obtained on the basis of a time-series luminance signal of a preceding frame. The selection circuit selects a peak based on the distance value as a candidate of the distance value out of peaks in the time-series luminance signal in a present frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUBOTA, Nobu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20200294260
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes storage and a processor. The storage stores a statistical model generated by learning bokeh produced in a first image affected by aberration of an optical system, the bokeh changing nonlinearly in accordance with a distance to a subject in the first image. The processor obtains a second image affected by the aberration of the optical system. The processor inputs the second image to the statistical model and obtains distance information indicating a distance to a subject in the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masako KASHIWAGI, Nao MISHIMA, Takayuki SASAKI, Tatsuo KOZAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20200295687
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a driving device includes a voltage controller, a parameter setter, and a phase adjuster. The voltage controller causes an electric power converter to apply a drive voltage to the electric motor, the electric power converter converting input electric power to A/C electric power having desired voltage and frequency and supplying the converted electric power to an electric motor. The parameter setter sets at least one of a rotation speed of the electric motor and a parameter related to the rotation speed as speed information. The phase adjuster adjusts a phase of the drive voltage in such a manner that an index calculated based on a current flowing in the electric motor and the speed information set in the parameter setter becomes smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi TAKAGI, Toshimitsu AIZAWA, Shen WANG
  • Publication number: 20200292715
    Abstract: A method of identifying item selection by a user, the method comprising: receiving signals at a receiver of a fixed terminal from a transmitter of a mobile terminal associated with the user, generating a signature at the receiver of the fixed terminal of the movement of the user based on changes in the signals received from the transmitter, matching the signature with prior stored movement information to determine the movement of the user, and identifying the item being selected by the user based on the determined movement of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Timothy David Farnham, Zubeir Bocus
  • Publication number: 20200295620
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine according to an embodiment includes a stator element, a rotor element, and a housing. The rotor element is rotatable about a rotation axis. The housing houses the stator element and the rotor element, and is provided with an electric insulating portion on a part of or whole of an inner surface including a surface facing at least one of the stator element and the rotor element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Yasuhito UEDA
  • Publication number: 20200294895
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a die pad; a semiconductor chip mounted on a front surface of the die pad; a bonding layer placed between the die pad and the semiconductor chip; a first resin member being positioned between the bonding layer and the semiconductor chip; and a second resin member covering the semiconductor chip and the front surface of the die pad. The first resin member is provided along a periphery of the semiconductor chip. The bonding layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is positioned between the semiconductor chip and the die pad, and contacts the semiconductor chip. The second portion is positioned between the first resin member and the die pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHTA, Shunsuke NITTA
  • Publication number: 20200295145
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body, a first electrode on a back surface of the semiconductor body, second and third electrodes provided on a front surface of the semiconductor body, a first film linking the second electrode and the third electrode, and a second film between the semiconductor body and the first film. The first film has a higher resistivity than the first semiconductor body, and the second film is insulative. The second film includes a first-film-thickness portion and a second-film-thickness portion. The first-film-thickness portion has a first film thickness along a first direction directed from the first electrode toward the second electrode. The second-film-thickness portion has a second film thickness along the first direction thicker than the first film thickness. The first-film-thickness portion and the second-film-thickness portion surround the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanobu TSUCHITANI
  • Publication number: 20200293063
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a travel planning system for a plurality of mobile objects which travel in a travel network including a plurality of traveling paths includes first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry. The first processing circuitry generates a plurality of traveling timing schedules including timings of traveling on the traveling paths for the plurality of mobile objects under a condition that conflict among the mobile objects does not occur on the traveling paths, based on: position information of the plurality of mobile objects; structure information of the travel network; and a plurality of route plans which designates order of passing through one or more designated areas in the travel network for the plurality of mobile objects. The second processing circuitry transmits movement command data for the plurality of mobile objects on a basis of the plurality of traveling timing schedules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Aisu
  • Publication number: 20200295711
    Abstract: An amplification apparatus as the embodiment of the present invention includes a switching amplifier and an adjuster. The switching amplifier is driven on the basis of a control signal and amplifies an input signal to be amplified to generate an amplified signal. The adjuster adjusts at least one of the signal to be amplified and the control signal before being input into the switching amplifier. In addition, the adjuster adjusts so that timing when the control signal turns from LOW to HIGH aligns with timing when the signal to be amplified turns from LOW to HIGH, or aligns with timing when the signal to be amplified turns from HIGH to LOW.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAOKA, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Yuuki Funahashi
  • Publication number: 20200294546
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a housing having a box-shaped base with a bottom wall, a first connection portion provided inside the bottom wall, a second connection portion provided outside the bottom wall and electrically connected to the first connection portion, a control circuit board provided outside the housing, a third connection portion fixed to an inner surface of the control circuit board facing the bottom wall, and abutting on and electrically connecting to the second connection portion, and a reinforcement member positioned between the control circuit board and the bottom wall and provided around the third connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yamamoto, Yousuke Hisakuni
  • Publication number: 20200294535
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording device includes a magnetic head, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The magnetic head includes a magnetic pole, a first shield, a stacked body provided between the magnetic pole and the first shield, a first terminal electrically connected to the magnetic pole, a second terminal electrically connected to the first shield, and a coil. The first circuit is electrically connected to the first terminal and the second terminal. The second circuit is electrically connected to the coil. The first circuit performs at least a first operation. In the first operation, the first circuit supplies a first current to a current path between the first and second terminals when the second circuit supplies a recording current to the coil. The first current is smaller than a second current. The second current causes an electrical resistance of the current path to oscillate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Narita, Tomoyuki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20200294090
    Abstract: A battery information provision system, which is an embodiment of the present invention, includes: a storage device that stores battery information; a first server configured to extract the battery information from the storage device; and a second server configured to transmit the extracted battery information to a communication device. The battery information is information related to rechargeable batteries or devices including rechargeable batteries, and includes information corresponding to evaluation categories determined according to deterioration states of the rechargeable batteries. The first server extracts battery information corresponding to both a battery or a device designated by the communication device and an evaluation category designated by the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomokazu MORITA, Yumi FUJITA, Nobukatsu SUGIYAMA, Ena ISHII
  • Publication number: 20200293967
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a prediction device includes: first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry. The first processing circuitry corrects a demand result value on a particular date on a basis of an adjustment coefficient depending on the particular date; and generates a prediction model of a demand on a basis of the corrected demand result value on the particular date and a demand result value on a non-particular date. The second processing circuitry calculates a demand predicted value on a date of a prediction target on a basis of demand result values on one or more dates, an adjustment coefficient depending on a particular date among the one or more dates, and the prediction model. The second processing circuitry inversely corrects the demand predicted value using an adjustment coefficient depending on the date of the prediction target if the date of the prediction target is a particular date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa SHIN, Yoshiaki SHIGA, Ryoichi ICHIKAWA, lchiro TOYOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200296413
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image encoding method includes selecting a motion reference block from an already-encoded pixel block. The method includes selecting an available block including different motion information from the motion reference block, and selecting a selection block from the available block. The method includes generating a predicted image of the encoding target block using motion information of the selection block. The method includes encoding a prediction error between the predicted image and an original image. The method includes encoding selection information identifying the selection block by referring to a code table decided according to a number of the available block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Taichiro Shiodera, Saori Asaka, Akiyuki Tanizawa, Takeshi Chujoh
  • Publication number: 20200295180
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer including a first plane extending along a plane including a first axis and a second axis; a first electrode extending along the first axis; a second electrode extending along the second axis; and a third electrode above the first plane. The third electrode is electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode, and includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion crosses the first electrode. The second portion crosses the second electrode. The third portion crosses the second electrode and is separate at a first end from the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro ICHINOSEKI, Tatsuya NISHIWAKI, Kikuo AIDA, Kohei OASA
  • Publication number: 20200295656
    Abstract: A power supply circuit according to an embodiment includes an driver, a control circuit, and a protection circuit. The driver includes a first transistor connected between a high-potential-side power supply and a node and a second transistor connected between a low-potential-side power supply and the node. The control circuit generates, according to an output voltage to a load connected to the node via a first low-pass filter circuit, first and second switching pulses for alternately switching the first and second transistors. The protection circuit outputs, when a voltage of the node via a second low-pass filter circuit exceeds a first reference voltage, an interruption signal for making at least the first transistor nonconductive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio NAGASAWA, Takuya HIRAKAWA