Patents by Inventor Susumu Takeda

Susumu Takeda 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: 11942120
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes an acquisition part, and a processor. The acquisition part is configured to acquire a reproduction signal obtained from a recording part. The recording part includes a recording medium. The reproduction signal includes a first signal corresponding to information recorded in the recording medium. The processor is configured to derive a first output and a second output. The first output is obtained by first information being processed by a first processing model. The first information includes the first signal. The second output is obtained by the first information being processed by a second processing model. The processor is configured to output a result of processing the first information based on a third output. The third output is obtained based on the first output, the second output, and the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Susumu Takeda, Kenichiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230298619
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes an acquisition part, and a processor. The acquisition part is configured to acquire a reproduction signal obtained from a recording part. The recording part includes a recording medium. The reproduction signal includes a first signal corresponding to information recorded in the recording medium. The processor is configured to derive a first output and a second output. The first output is obtained by first information being processed by a first processing model. The first information includes the first signal. The second output is obtained by the first information being processed by a second processing model. The processor is configured to output a result of processing the first information based on a third output. The third output is obtained based on the first output, the second output, and the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Susumu TAKEDA, Kenichiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10956085
    Abstract: A memory system connected to a processor is described. The memory system includes a volatile first storage section, a nonvolatile second storage section having a smaller storage capacity than that of the first storage section, and a storage control section that performs control to store data sets in the second storage section. Each of the data sets including data written in the first storage section in response to a write command from the processor, address information indicating a write destination in the first storage section, and address information indicating a write destination in a nonvolatile third storage section to which the data written in the first storage section is to be written back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Fujita, Susumu Takeda
  • Patent number: 10896708
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a conductive member, a first element portion, and a controller. The conductive member includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion between the first portion and the second portion. The first element portion includes a first element, a first interconnect, and a first circuit. The first element includes a first magnetic layer, a first counter magnetic layer, and a first nonmagnetic layer. The first counter magnetic layer is provided between the third portion and the first magnetic layer. The first nonmagnetic layer is provided between the first counter magnetic layer and the first magnetic layer. The first interconnect is electrically connected to the first magnetic layer. The first circuit is electrically connected to the first interconnect. The first circuit includes a first switch, a first capacitance element, a first parallel switch, and a first parallel capacitance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoaki Inokuchi, Katsuhiko Koui, Naoharu Shimomura, Hideyuki Sugiyama, Kazutaka Ikegami, Susumu Takeda, Satoshi Takaya, Shinobu Fujita, Hiroaki Yoda
  • Publication number: 20200279596
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a conductive member, a first element portion, and a controller. The conductive member includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion between the first portion and the second portion. The first element portion includes a first element, a first interconnect, and a first circuit. The first element includes a first magnetic layer, a first counter magnetic layer, and a first nonmagnetic layer. The first counter magnetic layer is provided between the third portion and the first magnetic layer. The first nonmagnetic layer is provided between the first counter magnetic layer and the first magnetic layer. The first interconnect is electrically connected to the first magnetic layer. The first circuit is electrically connected to the first interconnect. The first circuit includes a first switch, a first capacitance element, a first parallel switch, and a first parallel capacitance element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoaki INOKUCHI, Katsuhiko KOUI, Naoharu SHIMOMURA, Hideyuki SUGIYAMA, Kazutaka IKEGAMI, Susumu TAKEDA, Satoshi TAKAYA, Shinobu FUJITA, Hiroaki YODA
  • Patent number: 10564871
    Abstract: A memory system has a first memory to store first-granularity data having a granularity smaller than second-granularity data, the first memory having a memory capacity smaller than a memory capacity of a second memory storing the second-granularity data, a controller to read third-granularity data having a granularity equal to or greater than the first-granularity from the data stored in the second memory, and a data extractor to extract the first-granularity data from the third-granularity data read by the controller and to store the extracted data in the first memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu Takeda, Shinobu Fujita
  • Patent number: 10528270
    Abstract: A memory system has a nonvolatile memory to have a memory capacity equal to or less than a memory capacity of a volatile memory, and store at least a part of data stored in the volatile memory, a first controller to refresh data in the volatile memory, and a second controller to overwrite the nonvolatile memory with data read from the volatile memory in a first period between a second period to refresh data in the volatile memory and a third period to subsequently refresh data in the volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Keiko Abe, Hiroki Noguchi, Susumu Takeda, Kumiko Nomura, Shinobu Fujita
  • Publication number: 20190212947
    Abstract: A memory system connected to a processor is described. The memory system includes a volatile first storage section, a nonvolatile second storage section having a smaller storage capacity than that of the first storage section, and a storage control section that performs control to store data sets in the second storage section. Each of the data sets including data written in the first storage section in response to a write command from the processor, address information indicating a write destination in the first storage section, and address information indicating a write destination in a nonvolatile third storage section to which the data written in the first storage section is to be written back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu FUJITA, Susumu TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 10120750
    Abstract: A cache memory includes cache memory circuitry that is accessible per cache line and a redundant-code storage that stores one or more numbers of first redundant codes to be used for error correction of cache line data stored in the cache memory circuitry per cache line and one or more numbers of second redundant codes to be used for error detection of a part of the cache line data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Susumu Takeda, Hiroki Noguchi, Kazutaka Ikegami, Shinobu Fujita
  • Patent number: 10031854
    Abstract: A memory system has a non-volatile memory used as a first cache memory to be accessed at a higher speed than a main memory, a first translation lookaside buffer that stores address conversion information indicating the conversion of a virtual address issued by a processor into a physical address, and a first control circuitry that stores the address conversion information stored in the first translation lookaside buffer in the non-volatile memory during a power off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Susumu Takeda
  • Patent number: 10025719
    Abstract: A cache memory system includes cache memories of at least one layer, at least one of the cache memories having a data cache to store data and a tag to store an address of data stored in the data cache, and a first address conversion information storage to store entry information that includes address conversion information for virtual addresses issued by a processor to physical addresses and cache presence information that indicates whether data corresponding to the converted physical address is stored in a specific cache memory of at least one layer among the cache memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Susumu Takeda, Shinobu Fujita
  • Patent number: 10025504
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing method including: detecting by a time information acquiring unit a start and an end of an access of a memory access unit to a target memory, the access of the memory access unit being due to instructions of an instruction issuer, and acquiring by the time information acquiring unit a memory access time being a time from the start of the access till the end of the access; calculating by a computation amount acquiring unit, based on the instructions of the instruction issuer, a computation amount of a computing unit from the start of the access till the end of the access; and evaluating by an evaluation unit, based on the memory access time and the computation amount, computing performance of the computing unit from the start of the access till the end of the access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Susumu Takeda, Shinobu Fujita
  • Patent number: 9959919
    Abstract: A memory system has a non-volatile memory of which access speed is electrically controlled, a control circuitry that selects a first region which is a portion of a memory region of the non-volatile memory, and a boost circuit that adjusts an access speed of the first region to be higher than an access speed of a second region different from the first region in the memory region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Daisuke Saida, Susumu Takeda, Hiroki Noguchi, Kazuhiko Abe
  • Patent number: 9959212
    Abstract: A memory system has a first cache memory comprising a volatile memory, a second cache memory comprising a non-volatile memory with access speed slower than access speed of the volatile memory, and a reconfiguration control circuitry to switch between a first mode that uses the second cache memory as a cache memory in a lower layer than the first cache memory and a second mode that uses the first cache memory and the second cache memory as cache memories in an identical memory layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Susumu Takeda
  • Publication number: 20180081570
    Abstract: A memory system has a nonvolatile memory to have a memory capacity equal to or less than a memory capacity of a volatile memory, and store at least a part of data stored in the volatile memory, a first controller to refresh data in the volatile memory, and a second controller to overwrite the nonvolatile memory with data read from the volatile memory in a first period between a second period to refresh data in the volatile memory and a third period to subsequently refresh data in the volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Keiko ABE, Hiroki NOGUCHI, Susumu TAKEDA, Kumiko NOMURA, Shinobu FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20180059980
    Abstract: A memory system has a first memory to store first-granularity data haying a granularity smaller than second-granularity data, the first memory having a memory capacity smaller than a memory capacity of a second memory storing the second-granularity data, a controller to read third-granularity data having a granularity equal to or greater than the first-granularity from the data stored in the second memory, and a data extractor to extract the first-granularity data from the third-granularity data read by the controller and to store the extracted data in the first memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu TAKEDA, Shinobu FUJITA
  • Patent number: 9734061
    Abstract: A memory control circuit has a request determination circuitry to determine whether a period without read-out request and write request to an i-th (i being an integer of 1 or more and of n or less, n being an integer of 2 or more) level cache memory among first to n-th level cache memories continues for a first period of time or longer, the i-th level cache memory comprising a first nonvolatile memory, and a power-supply controller to control a power cut-off timing to the i-th level cache memory based on a determination of the request determination circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kumiko Nomura, Shinobu Fujita, Keiko Abe, Kazutaka Ikegami, Hiroki Noguchi, Susumu Takeda
  • Publication number: 20170004095
    Abstract: A memory control circuit has a memory controller that performs access control for a first memory accessed by a first data amount and access control for a second memory of a memory layer equal to the first memory at a read speed lower than a read speed of the first memory by a second data amount larger than the first data amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Susumu TAKEDA, Shinobu Fujita
  • Publication number: 20160378593
    Abstract: A cache memory includes cache memory circuitry that is accessible per cache line and a redundant-code storage that stores one or more numbers of first redundant codes to be used for error correction of cache line data stored in the cache memory circuitry per cache line and one or more numbers of second redundant codes to be used for error detection of a part of the cache line data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Susumu TAKEDA, Hiroki NOGUCHI, Kazutaka IKEGAMI, Shinobu FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20160378652
    Abstract: A cache memory system has a group of layered memories has two or more memories having different characteristics, an access information storage which stores address conversion information from a virtual address into a physical address, and stores at least one of information on access frequency or information on access restriction, for data to be accessed with an access request, and a controller to select a specific memory from the group of layered memories and perform access control, based on at least one of the information on access frequency and the information on access restriction in the access information storage, for data to be accessed with an access request from the processor, wherein the information on access restriction in the access information storage comprises at least one of read-only information, write-only information, readable and writable information, and dirty information indicating that write-back to a lower layer memory is not yet performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Susumu TAKEDA, Shinobu FUJITA