Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Tsurumi

Hiroshi Tsurumi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11928072
    Abstract: A controller includes a physical layer interface circuit configured to support a first port and a second port both conforming to a PCIe standard, the first port including a first number of lanes with a first order, the second port including a second number of lanes with a second order, and the first number of lanes and the second number of lanes being connected to the physical layer interface circuit via traces arranged in an order in which at least a part of the first order and at least a part of the second order are changed based on Lane Reversal conforming to the PCIe standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20230107127
    Abstract: A controller includes a physical layer interface circuit configured to support a first port and a second port both conforming to a PCIe standard, the first port including a first number of lanes with a first order, the second port including a second number of lanes with a second order, and the first number of lanes and the second number of lanes being connected to the physical layer interface circuit via traces arranged in an order in which at least a part of the first order and at least a part of the second order are changed based on Lane Reversal conforming to the PCIe standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 10642562
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of surfaces, and a display device provided on at least one surface among the plurality of surfaces. A plurality of communication sections are arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided among the plurality of surfaces and configured to perform communication within a predetermined distance, each of the plurality of communication sections including different identification information. A control section is configured to perform control of the plurality of communication sections and the display device. When another display apparatus is connected to the display apparatus, the control section periodically performs time synchronization to synchronize an image displayed on the display device with an image displayed on a display device provided in the other display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuo Akatsuka, Masahiro Takagi, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Kojiro Suzuki, Koji Horisaki, Toshihiro Nakamura, Takashi Nakada
  • Publication number: 20180357035
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of surfaces, and a display device provided on at least one surface among the plurality of surfaces. A plurality of communication sections are arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided among the plurality of surfaces and configured to perform communication within a predetermined distance, each of the plurality of communication sections including different identification information. A control section is configured to perform control of the plurality of communication sections and the display device. When another display apparatus is connected to the display apparatus, the control section periodically performs time synchronization to synchronize an image displayed on the display device with an image displayed on a display device provided in the other display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuo AKATSUKA, Masahiro TAKAGI, Hiroshi TSURUMI, Kojiro SUZUKI, Koji HORISAKI, Toshihiro NAKAMURA, Takashi NAKADA
  • Patent number: 10078485
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display block is a display apparatus including a plurality of surfaces. The display block includes a display device, a plurality of transmitting/receiving sections that perform communication within a predetermined distance, and a control section. The display device is provided on at least one surface of the plurality of surfaces. The plurality of transmitting/receiving sections are arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided among the plurality of surfaces. The control section performs control of the plurality of transmitting/receiving sections and the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuo Akatsuka, Masahiro Takagi, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Kojiro Suzuki, Koji Horisaki, Toshihiro Nakamura, Takashi Nakada
  • Publication number: 20160266859
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display block is a display apparatus including a plurality of surfaces. The display block includes a display device, a plurality of transmitting/receiving sections that perform communication within a predetermined distance, and a control section. The display device is provided on at least one surface of the plurality of surfaces. The plurality of transmitting/receiving sections are arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided among the plurality of surfaces. The control section performs control of the plurality of transmitting/receiving sections and the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuo AKATSUKA, Masahiro TAKAGI, Hiroshi TSURUMI, Kojiro SUZUKI, Koji HORISAKI, Toshihiro NAKAMURA, Takashi NAKADA
  • Patent number: 9201611
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interface control apparatus includes an interface, a table, a command processor, and a controller. The interface transmits and receives information to and from a host. The table holds management information for managing an address in a memory space in the host. The command processor carries out a command process of accessing the memory space in the host using the management information. The controller releases the management information corresponding to the command process from the table in response to completion of the command process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsurumi, Hidetoshi Koike, Nobuaki Yoshitake, Tomoo Utsumi
  • Patent number: 9110856
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interface control apparatus includes an interface, and a controller. The interface is configured to transmit information between a host and a data storage apparatus. The controller is configured to fetch request information making a processing request for the data storage apparatus, from an element being a storage unit of a queue provided on the host through the interface. The controller is configured to execute read request processing of fetching first request information divided into a plurality of elements and stored, with priority over second request information which is different from the first request information, when the request information is fetched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsurumi, Hidetoshi Koike, Nobuaki Yoshitake, Tomoo Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20140317362
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interface control apparatus includes an interface, a table, a command processor, and a controller. The interface transmits and receives information to and from a host. The table holds management information for managing an address in a memory space in the host. The command processor carries out a command process of accessing the memory space in the host using the management information. The controller releases the management information corresponding to the command process from the table in response to completion of the command process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi TSURUMI, Hidetoshi Koike, Nobuaki Yoshitake, Tomoo Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20140207980
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interface control apparatus includes an interface, and a controller. The interface is configured to transmit information between a host and a data storage apparatus. The controller is configured to fetch request information making a processing request for the data storage apparatus, from an element being a storage unit of a queue provided on the host through the interface. The controller is configured to execute read request processing of fetching first request information divided into a plurality of elements and stored, with priority over second request information which is different from the first request information, when the request information is fetched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsurumi, Hidetoshi Koike, Nobuaki Yoshitake, Tomoo Utsumi
  • Patent number: 7818556
    Abstract: Firmware FW1 and FW2 is separately stored in a non-volatile memory, in which a boot code for start-up and a restoration code are stored, and a first magnetic disk. A copy of the firmware FW1 stored in the non-volatile memory is stored in the first magnetic disk, and a copy of the entire firmware FW1 and FW2 stored in the first disk medium is stored in the second magnetic disk. When an error occurs during firmware update, upon next power-on, whether the volatile memory, the first magnetic disk, and the second magnetic disk are normal or abnormal is determined, and valid firmware is read and allocated to the volatile memory so as to perform start-up by a start-up mode corresponding to the determination contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Toshiba Storage Device Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Iima, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Masataka Shitara, Katsushi Ohta, Masaaki Tamura, Yasuyuki Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20100191905
    Abstract: A storage device comprises a recording/reproducing module which positions a head at an arbitrary position of a storage medium to record or reproduce data and a nonvolatile memory in which a parameter storage area is defined. An adjustment module adjusts various types of parameters necessary for controlling a positioning control module and the recording/reproducing module. A parameter save processing module saves adjusted parameters obtained by the adjustment module in the nonvolatile memory during adjustment, while leaving the minimum number of the adjusted parameters necessary to access a system area of the storage medium at the end of the parameter adjustment, and saves the remaining adjusted parameters in the system area of the storage medium to form a free area in the parameter storage area of the nonvolatile memory. The free area processing module uses the free area of the nonvolatile memory as a storage area for firmware, a log or the like other than the parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA STORAGE DEVICE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 7590400
    Abstract: In a radio apparatus, the band of a loop filter of a synthesizer in a blank channel searching state is narrower than the band in a communicating state. In addition, a radio wave environment is measured. A characteristic necessary for the radio apparatus is determined corresponding to the measured-radio wave environment. The power is controlled corresponding to the performance of the radio apparatus. Thus, the power consumption is decreased. In addition, the efficiency of the output power is improved. In the radio apparatus, the current consumption of a power amplifier PA is measured. A matching circuit (LNA or MIX) of the antenna is adjusted with the measured result so as to decrease an antenna loss. In the radio apparatus, a DC offset is removed from the transmitted power and the reflected wave. When the DC offset is removed using an AC coupling capacitor, the deterioration of the frequency characteristic of the receiving portion is compensated with a capacitor in a digital signal process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shoji Otaka, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Hiroshi Yoshida, Syuichi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kayano, Tadahiko Maeda
  • Patent number: 7502407
    Abstract: A wireless communication system which transmits and receives a signal by using a plurality of wireless apparatuses, comprising: a first wireless apparatus group having a plurality of transmitting apparatuses, each transmitting a wireless signal based on a first control signal, said first wireless apparatus group forming a first ad-hoc network between said transmitting apparatuses; and a second wireless apparatus group having a plurality of destination apparatuses, each receiving the wireless signal transmitted from said first wireless apparatus group, said second wireless apparatus group transmitting and receiving the wireless signal received by said destination apparatuses based on a second control signal, and said second wireless apparatus group forming a second ad-hoc network between said destination apparatuses different from said first ad-hoc network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ren Sakata, Syuichi Sekine, Mutsumu Serizawa, Hiroki Shoki, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Shuichi Obayashi, Tomoko Adachi, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tsuguhide Aoki
  • Patent number: 7489954
    Abstract: One of objects of a wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention is to realize stable communication regardless of received signal strength indication and information amount. The wireless communication apparatus for communicating in an autonomous distributed wireless network includes a detection unit which generates a detection signal by detecting a first wireless signal from a first wireless apparatus; a wireless circuit which receives a second wireless signal relating to said first wireless signal, transmitted from a second wireless apparatus which received said first wireless signal; a signal estimation unit which estimates said detection signal and the received second wireless signal; a signal selector which selects either said detection signal or the received second wireless signal, based on an estimation result of said signal estimation unit; and a demodulator which demodulates the signal selected by said signal selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Syuichi Sekine, Mutsumu Serizawa, Hiroki Shoki, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Shuichi Obayashi, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tomoko Adachi, Tsuguhide Aoki, Ren Sakata, Ryoko Matsuo
  • Patent number: 7386329
    Abstract: One of objects of a wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention is to realize stable communication regardless of received signal strength indication and information amount. The wireless communication apparatus for communicating in an autonomous distributed wireless network includes a detection unit which generates a detection signal by detecting a first wireless signal from a first wireless apparatus; a wireless circuit which receives a second wireless signal relating to said first wireless signal, transmitted from a second wireless apparatus which received said first wireless signal; a signal estimation unit which estimates said detection signal and the received second wireless signal; a signal selector which selects either said detection signal or the received second wireless signal, based on an estimation result of said signal estimation unit; and a demodulator which demodulates the signal selected by said signal selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Syuichi Sekine, Mutsumu Serizawa, Hiroki Shoki, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Shuichi Obayashi, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tomoko Adachi, Tsuguhide Aoki, Ren Sakata, Ryoko Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20080126784
    Abstract: Firmware FW1 and FW2 is separately stored in a non-volatile memory, in which a boot code for start-up and a restoration code are stored, and a first magnetic disk. A copy of the firmware FW1 stored in the non-volatile memory is stored in the first magnetic disk, and a copy of the entire firmware FW1 and FW2 stored in the first disk medium is stored in the second magnetic disk. When an error occurs during firmware update, upon next power-on, whether the volatile memory, the first magnetic disk, and the second magnetic disk are normal or abnormal is determined, and valid firmware is read and allocated to the volatile memory so as to perform start-up by a start-up mode corresponding to the determination contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Hirotaka Iima, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Masataka Shitara, Katsushi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20080052506
    Abstract: Firmware FW1 and FW2 is separately stored in a non-volatile memory, in which a boot code for start-up and a restoration code are stored, and a first magnetic disk. A copy of the firmware FW1 stored in the non-volatile memory is stored in the first magnetic disk, and a copy of the entire firmware FW1 and FW2 stored in the first disk medium is stored in the second magnetic disk. When an error occurs during firmware update, upon next power-on, whether the volatile memory, the first magnetic disk, and the second magnetic disk are normal or abnormal is determined, and valid firmware is read and allocated to the volatile memory so as to perform start-up by a start-up mode corresponding to the determination contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Hirotaka Iima, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Masataka Shitara, Katsushi Ohta, Masaaki Tamura, Yasuyuki Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20080049665
    Abstract: A wireless communication system which transmits and receives a signal by using a plurality of wireless apparatuses, comprising: a first wireless apparatus group having a plurality of transmitting apparatuses, each transmitting a wireless signal based on a first control signal, said first wireless apparatus group forming a first ad-hoc network between said transmitting apparatuses; and a second wireless apparatus group having a plurality of destination apparatuses, each receiving the wireless signal transmitted from said first wireless apparatus group, said second wireless apparatus group transmitting and receiving the wireless signal received by said destination apparatuses based on a second control signal, and said second wireless apparatus group forming a second ad-hoc network between said destination apparatuses different from said first ad-hoc network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ren Sakata, Syuichi Sekine, Mutsumu Serizawa, Hiroki Shoki, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Shuichi Obayashi, Tomoko Adachi, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tsuguhide Aoki
  • Publication number: 20080040818
    Abstract: A storage apparatus divides and stores firmware which is drive control software to record and reproduce data in a disk medium into a non-volatile memory and a disk medium, and at the time of activating the apparatus, stores and executes firmware read from the non-volatile memory and the disk medium into a volatile memory. A renewal request processing unit, when received a renewal request of the firmware from a host, advises the host of the renewal completion at a point of time when new firmware transferred from the host is received and stored in the buffer memory. The background renewal unit, after the advice of the renewal completion, writes and renews the new firmware into the non-volatile memory and the disk medium as a background processing using the processing idle time of a command issued by the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Hirotaka Iima, Hiroshi Tsurumi, Masaaki Tamura, Masataka Shitara