Patents Assigned to TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 10770077
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device records an audio signal, determines a plurality of user-specific utterance features within the audio signal, the plurality of user-specific utterance features including a first set of user specific-utterance features associated with the registered user and a second set of user-specific utterance features associated with the unregistered user, and displays the identifier of the registered user differently than an identifier of the unregistered user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Patent number: 10763676
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a power delivery controller and an embedded controller. The power delivery controller supplies a first signal to the embedded controller when reception of a power from an external device is started, and supplies a second signal to the embedded controller when a first value of the power from the external device is changed. The embedded controller acquires first data from the power delivery controller when the first signal is supplied in an activation time, acquires a second value of the power to be received from the external device from a power circuit, and acquires second data from the power delivery controller when the first value indicated by the first data is different from the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 10762342
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus performs a character recognition process, uses, if a stroke in a first area of the first handwritten document and a stroke in a second area are the same, a character recognition result of the first handwritten document, and performs, if a stroke in the first area and a stroke in the second area are different, the character recognition process for the second area including the different stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chikashi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10733123
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a computer system includes a main device, a first computer unit and a second computer unit. The main device includes a first accommodation portion and a second accommodation portion. The main device includes a selector switch, a first selector, a second selector and a control circuit. The first selector conducts either one of first signal lines extended from the first accommodation portion or the second accommodation portion. The second selector conducts either one of second signal lines extended from the first accommodation portion or the second accommodation portion. The control circuit controls the first selector and the second selector by the selector switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10705726
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a character input controller. The character input controller displays a software keyboard including a set of input areas. Each input area of the set includes objects each representing a character. The set of input areas is arranged adjacent to one another in a first direction. The character input controller moves an active input area in the first direction or in a second direction opposite to the first direction, in response to a first operation or a second operation, and changes a character of an active object displayed in the active input area into another character in the active input area, in response to a third operation or a fourth operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Hatano
  • Patent number: 10671731
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes first authentication processing and second authentication processing when the electronic apparatus is powered on or rebooted. The hardware processor executes the first authentication processing using first data stored in the nonvolatile storage region after executing the second authentication processing in a case of executing the second authentication processing when the electronic apparatus is powered on or rebooted. The hardware processor deletes the first data from the nonvolatile storage region when setting of not executing the second authentication processing upon the electronic apparatus is powered on or rebooted is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taisuke Furuya
  • Patent number: 10663108
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a holder attaches a first electronic device and a second electronic device to a display. The holder includes a base structure, a first holder section, and a second holder section. The first holder section at a first portion of the base structure holds the second electronic device and includes a first through hole that receives a first male screw to be screwed into a first female screw of the first electronic device. The second holder section at a second portion of the base structure holds the second electronic device and includes a second through hole that receives a second male screw to be screwed into a second female screw of the first electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamori, Masanori Nakano, Brad Chiu, Jonathan Lin, Walter Lin
  • Patent number: 10664037
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes: a first interface and a second interface, each interface being connected with outside of the electronic device to supply power to a connection destination or receive power from a connection destination; a storage configured to store therein first identification information; a transmitter configured to transmit first information containing the first identification information to a first device when the first interface serves as a source to supply power, the first device being the connection destination of the first interface; a receiver configured to receive second information containing second identification information of a second device from the second device when the second interface serves as a sink to receive power, the second device being the connection destination of the second interface; and a controller configured to stop reception of power via the second interface when the second information contains the first identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Horie, Katsuhiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 10628104
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device is connectable to a wearable device including a display device, an attachment sensor, and a posture sensor. The electronic device includes a screen direction controller configured to control a direction of a screen of the display device according to a posture of the wearable device detected by the posture sensor for a period of time beginning at a time when the attachment sensor has detected that a user has put on the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rinzo Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10628588
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a processor, a volatile memory, a BIOS-ROM, and an interface. An embedded OS in the BIOS-ROM causes the processor to execute connecting the apparatus to a server via a network, and when the server sets a first OS as an OS in the apparatus by switching from the embedded OS, and a nonvolatile memory connected via the interface stores a second OS used at previous startup of the apparatus, loading the second OS into the volatile memory and starting the second OS. The second OS causes the processor to execute downloading the first OS from the server and storing the downloaded first OS in the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Nunami, Kouetsu Wada, Kohei Momosaki
  • Patent number: 10627925
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wearable device includes a display, a detector, and a hardware processor. The display displays a screen keyboard on a screen when an instruction is input. The detector includes a polygonal plate and detects a tracing action of a finger over a side of the polygonal plate. The hardware processor determines whether the screen keyboard is displayed on the screen when the detector detects the tracing action, and executes an action on the screen in accordance with the tracing action detected by the detector when the hardware processor determines that the screen keyboard is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10592198
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a hardware processor configured to display, on a screen, a first bar corresponding to utterance of a first user of a first zone, a second bar corresponding to utterance of a second user of a second zone, and a seek bar corresponding to a zone of a sound included in audio data when the audio data is played back. The hardware processor plays back, when a first position on the seek bar is specified, audio data from a first time point corresponding to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada, Ryuichi Yamaguchi, Hiroto Yoshihara, Hideya Minamiji
  • Patent number: 10593183
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna device includes at least one terminal, a plurality of array antennas, a plurality of sensors corresponding to the plurality of array antennas, and a selection circuit. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors measures a temperature of an array antenna corresponding to the sensor among the plurality of array antennas. The selection circuit selects at least one array antenna from the plurality of array antennas, based on the temperature measured by each sensor. The at least one array antenna is connected to a wireless communication circuit via the at least one terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Funaki, Takeshi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10565299
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display and a hardware processor. The hardware processor displays a view on a screen of the display, wherein the view includes a part of a document shared between the electronic apparatus and at least one other electronic apparatus and handwritten strokes being input from the electronic apparatus and the at least one other electronic apparatus are rendered in the view. The hardware processor determines, when an operation for pasting an object in the view is performed, whether a blank area allowing the object to be pasted exists in the view, based on an area free of the handwritten strokes in the view. The hardware processor renders the object in the blank area if the hardware processor determines that the blank area exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Motoi
  • Patent number: 10565636
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory, and is configured to: receive first information including information indicative of a usage state of a device; detect a sign of mechanical failure of the device by analyzing the first information; acquire second information associated with a replacement product for the device of which the sign of mechanical failure is detected, the second information including information of at least one of an identical product and an alternative product to the device; and output the second information as information associated with the device of which the sign of mechanical failure is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Ito, Kouetsu Wada
  • Patent number: 10558601
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a receptacle, a first port, a second port, and a switch circuit. The receptacle includes pins. The pins of the receptacle are connectable to pins of a plug respectively. Each of the first and second ports communicates with the receptacle. The switch circuit switches a signal flow between the receptacle, and the first port and second port when the plug is inserted into the receptacle. The switch circuit communicates a first signal between the first port and one of a pair of first and second pins of the receptacle and a pair of third and fourth pins of the receptacle, and communicates a second signal between the second port and the other of the pair of the first and second pins and the pair of the third and fourth pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Senuma
  • Patent number: 10552360
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, when an external device is connected, the electronic device detects devices in the external device, and setup of detected devices. When the electronic device is powered, when a power state is restored from a hibernation or a sleep state to a normal state, or when the external device is connected, it is determined whether a first device is included in the detected devices. When the first device is included and when setup of a second device is failed, detection of devices and setup of detected devices are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rinzo Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10497079
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage medium, a display and a hardware processor. The storage medium stores first images in a first directory. The hardware processor displays the first images on a screen of the display, moves at least one second image of the first images from the first directory to a second directory in the storage medium, the at least one second image selected by a user and displays at least one third image on the screen after the at least one second image is moved to the second directory, the at least one third image obtained by excluding the at least one second image from the first images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Hirakawa, Yuuji Irimoto, Takako Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10452860
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a first electronic apparatus and a second electronic apparatus. The first electronic apparatus causes an external storage medium to store first information which controls possibility of writing of a file to the external storage medium in units of file. The second electronic apparatus determines possibility of the writing of a requested file to the external storage medium based on the first information, write the requested file to the external storage medium if the requested file is determined to be capable of being written, and prohibit the writing of the requested file to the external storage medium if the requested file is determined to be incapable of being written.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akemi Kayama
  • Patent number: D888709
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: ChingTing Kang