Patents Assigned to TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 10430362
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes first and second devices. The first device detects whether a cable is connected to the first device in a first state or a second state. The first device receives, from the second device, status information indicative of whether the cable is connected to the second device in the first state or the second state. The first device switches allocation of signal lines to contact pins of a connector of the first device to which the cable is connected, based on connection states of the first and second devices. The second device detects whether the cable is connected to the second device in the first state or the second state. The second device transmits, to the first device, a result of detection as the status information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Chiba, Koichi Senuma
  • Patent number: 10432715
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a registration module, a transmission processor, and a reception processor. The registration module registers second data in a first file in a non-volatile storage device. The transmission processor transmits third data which is at least part of the first file to a server. The third data includes data registered in the first file after the data is previously transmitted to the server. The server includes a second file for registering all data transmitted from at least one second electronic apparatus, which corresponds to a user, including the electronic apparatus. The reception processor does not receive the fourth data from the server when only the electronic apparatus corresponds to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Ohashi, Akiyoshi Sougen
  • Patent number: 10429948
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus including a first body and a second body is provided. The second body is mechanically attachable to the first body in a first style and a second style. The electronic apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor connected to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to detect whether the electronic apparatus is in the first or second style, and validate an operation of changing an orientation of a screen image displayed on the display and limit the validation of the operation to a certain time period during from a time of the second style being detected to a predetermined time passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10418213
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a port connection circuit includes a controller, an input contact, a switch, and a switch control circuit. The controller comprises a first port to selectively switch to an input or output state, a second port configured to output a switch control signal, and a third port configured to detect an event. The input contact is connected to an output contact of an external connector and the third port. The switch is connected between the input contact and the first port. The switch control circuit is configured to close or open the switch based on a voltage of the input contact. The switch control circuit includes a hysteresis circuit to which this voltage is input, and an OR gate that logically adds an output of the hysteresis circuit and a switch control signal from the second port and outputs the result to a control contact of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Motoaki Ando
  • Patent number: 10419230
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a transceiver and a hardware processor. The transceiver receives first handwriting shared in a first group according to a first scheme. The first group includes a first electronic apparatus and a second electronic apparatus. The first handwriting includes handwriting made on the first electronic apparatus and handwriting made on the second electronic apparatus. The hardware processor reads first data to be shared in the first group, makes a third group including the electronic apparatus and the first electronic apparatus, and shares the first data in the third group according to a third scheme by transmitting the first data to the first electronic apparatus from the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Yamagami
  • Patent number: 10418697
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna apparatus includes first line which has a feed end connected to a feed point and an open end, and is L-shaped, and second line which has a first end connected to a branch point between a bend portion of first line and the feed point and a second end connected to a first ground point, and is L-shaped. First line includes first portion which is elongated from the feed end to the bend portion, and second portion which is elongated from the bend portion to the open end. Second line includes third portion which is elongated from the branch point to a bend portion, and fourth portion which is elongated from the bend portion to the first ground point. The second portion and the third portion are opposed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 10405468
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a shield case includes a frame configured to surround an electronic component and including a contact portion at a top of the frame, and a cover including a side plate and a top plate, a groove being formed at a peripheral portion of the top plate. The side plate is outside the frame and the groove contacts the contact portion when the cover is engaged with the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Yuasa, Hideo Shirasaka
  • Patent number: 10401919
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a first housing including an antenna for wireless communication, and a second housing including a speaker for audio output configured to be used in a state where the second housing overlaps the first housing. When the antenna and the speaker are seen through from an upper surface side of the first housing, a location of the antenna and a location of the speaker do not relatively overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sugiura, Tomofumi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10362669
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes housing, a circuit board in the housing, a semiconductor package, and a support plate on a second surface of the circuit board. The support plate is arranged at a position corresponding to a corner of the first area and includes a main portion, a first projecting portion in contact with the main portion at a first side of the main portion, and a second projecting portion in contact with the main portion at a second side of the main portion. The first projecting portion and the second projecting portion are arranged such that an imaginary line connecting a corner of the first projecting portion and a corner of the second projecting portion is outside the main portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hayashiyama, Akihisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10333195
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing, an antenna, and a sheet metal member. The antenna is contained in the housing with a gap formed between the antenna and the housing. The sheet metal member is supporting the antenna to be thermally connected with the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Issei Takahashi, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10296274
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an input device configured to accept a user's operation and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to receive a virtual desktop image transmitted by the server apparatus, display the received virtual desktop image on a screen, transmit, in a case where a second operation other than a first operation is accepted while the virtual desktop image has been displayed, operation information indicative of the second operation to the server apparatus, and display on the screen an indicator forward of the virtual desktop image, in a case where the first operation is accepted while the virtual desktop image has been displayed, the indicator being provided to change setting of hardware of the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyohei Matsuda, Yoshio Matsuoka, Kouetsu Wada, Kohei Momosaki, Tsukasa Nunami
  • Patent number: 10296170
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, contents which are created by first and second application programs are arranged two-dimensionally according to a first direction and a second direction. The first direction represents a chronological order, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The first application is one of an application to input handwriting, an application to capture an image, an application to record voice, and an application to clip a part of a document. The second application is another one of the application to input handwriting, the application to capture an image, the application to record voice and the application to clip a part of a document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kurita, Hiroto Yoshihara, Hideya Minamiji
  • Patent number: 10289584
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a USB Type-C connector connected to a second electronic device, a processor connected to the USB Type-C connector and including four terminals outputting an image signal, and a USB controller connected to the USB Type-C connector and including two terminals outputting USB 3.x signal. The USB Type-C connector includes two USB 2.0 pins D and D defined under USB Type-C standard and four USB 3.x pins TX1, RX1, TX2 and RX2 defined under the USB Type-C standard. The image signal and the USB 3.x signal are output via the two USB 2.0 pins D and D and the four USB 3.x pins TX1, RX1, TX2 and RX2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Chiba
  • Patent number: 10289187
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a keyboard, a backlight and a hardware processor. The backlight illuminates the keyboard. The hardware processor is electrically coupled to the backlight. The hardware processor is configured to gradually decrease brightness of the backlight during a period of time of which the backlight is continuously on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Midorikawa
  • Patent number: 10281951
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first casing, a second casing, and a hinge which couples them rotatably from a first state to a second state. The hinge includes a first shaft, a first rotation engaging portion, a second shaft, a second rotation engaging portion, a housing, and a transmission unit. The transmission unit links the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion and rotates them with respect to a rotation angle of the housing from the first state to the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Vic, Chiu Brad, Lin Walter, Huang San, Minoru Enomoto
  • Patent number: 10276918
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a system includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device is detachably and rotatably connected to the second electronic device. The at least two pairs of antennae are arranged such that each antenna exclusively used for transmission respectively faces each corresponding antenna exclusively used for reception between the first and second electronic devices, and the antennae are bilaterally symmetrical with respect to an axis of rotation of the first and second electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions Co., LTD
    Inventor: Nobuaki Takasu
  • Patent number: 10219393
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing including a wall portion, a printed circuit board including a plurality of lines and provided in the housing, and a connector formed of a part of the housing and a part of the printed circuit board. The connector includes an engagement hole formed in the wall portion and into which a connector plug is inserted. The connector further includes a shell formed of a portion located around the engagement hole in the wall portion, a tongue portion formed of a part of the printed circuit board and provided in the engagement hole, and connection terminals formed of the lines extending to and on a surface of the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Yasui, Masaya Hirashima, Takahiro Sakaguchi, Tsuyoshi Kozai
  • Patent number: 10216472
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a microphone recording audio data comprising first and second sections, a screen capable of detecting input of strokes on a surface thereof, a receiver configured to receive stroke data representing strokes input on other electronic devices during a period of the recording, and a hardware processor. The hardware process is configured to determine a first number of users who performed or devices that processed handwriting inputs in the first section, determine a second number of users who performed or devices that processed handwriting inputs in the second section, conditionally display on the screen a first object representing the first section in a first display style, and conditionally display on the screen a second object representing the second section in a second display style, the first and second numbers being different and the first and second display styles being visually distinguishable from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10080282
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, FPC has a flexible board body, a reinforcing plate, an opening portion, and a bent structure. The opening portion is formed to penetrate through the board body. The bent structure is bent to pass through the inside of the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Ogawa, Sasaki Kazuyoshi
  • Patent number: D844008
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shusuke Yamazaki