Toshiba Memory Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Kioxia Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Keisuke Sato

Shigeto Endo

Michio Ido

Masaomi Teranishi

Shuichi Sakurai

Masahiko Nakashima

Shigeki Koizumi

Motochika Okano

Kuniaki Ito

Taku Nishiyama

Katsuyoshi Watanabe

Hitomi Tanaka

Mai Ando

Tsubasa Natsumeda

A storage device includes an antenna, a first nonvolatile memory that is operable using power generated at the antenna by an electromagnetic induction caused by an external device, and stores lock state information, a first controller configured to change the lock state information in response to a command that is wirelessly transmitted from the external device through the antenna, a second nonvolatile memory, and a second controller configured to allow access to a memory region of the second nonvolatile memory depending on the lock state information stored in the first nonvolatile memory.

Storage device having a wireless communication function

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first loop antenna, a second loop antenna, and a controller. The first loop antenna generates a second magnetic field on the basis of electromagnetic induction according to a first magnetic field. The second loop antenna generates an induced electromotive force on the basis of electromagnetic induction according to the second magnetic field. The controller is operable on the basis of the induced electromotive force generated in the second loop antenna, and performs communication with respect to a first external device generating the first magnetic field, through the second loop antenna.

Semiconductor storage device

A storage apparatus includes a first memory, which is nonvolatile, a first controller that controls the first memory, a wireless antenna, a second memory, which is operable based on power supplied from the wireless antenna, and a second controller that is operable based on the power supplied from the wireless antenna, and performs communication using the wireless antenna. When performing communication with an external apparatus using the wireless antenna, the second controller performs authentication of the external apparatus, and stores in the second memory an authentication result indicating whether the authentication succeeded or failed. If the authentication result indicates that the authentication succeeded, the second controller permits reading by the external apparatus of first data from the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna or writing by the external apparatus of second data to the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna.

Storage apparatus including nonvolatile memory

A memory device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to control the non-volatile memory and includes a receiving circuit configured to receive first data from an external device, a converting circuit configured to convert the first data received by the receiving circuit to second data having a data size equal to or smaller than a data size of the first data, and a writing circuit configured to write the second data converted by the converting circuit in the non-volatile memory.

Memory device including non-volatile memory and method of managing data thereof

A semiconductor storage device includes a substrate having a first surface, a loop antenna, and a magnetic substance. The loop antenna includes first, second, third, and fourth electrodes, first and second inner wirings, and first and second outer wirings, the first outer wiring having a first end connected to the first electrode and a second end connected to the second electrode, the first inner wiring having a first end connected to the second electrode and a second end connected to the third electrode, the second outer wiring having a first end connected to the third electrode and a second end connected to the fourth electrode, and the second inner wiring having a first end connected to the fourth electrode and a second end connected to another electrode. The magnetic substance is on the first surface and surrounded by the first and second inner and outer wirings.

A storage device includes a connection unit to which a first external device is to be connected, a first non-volatile memory in which content items are stored with associated content IDs, a first controller configured to access the content items stored in the first non-volatile memory, an antenna, a second non-volatile memory in which permission information is stored, and a second controller configured to update the permission information based on update information received from a second external device through the antenna. The update information is contained in radio waves transmitted by the second external device and the radio waves cause the antenna to generate power necessary to operate the second non-volatile memory and the second controller. In response to a read command from the first external device, the first controller performs a read of one of the content items based on the updated permission information.

Storage device and information processing system

According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a first interface, a first memory, a wireless antenna, a second memory and a second interface. The first interface is capable to electrically connect to a first host device. The first interface communicates with the first host device in accordance with an SD interface. The first memory includes a nonvolatile memory which operates based on power supplied through the first interface from the first host device. The wireless antenna generates power based on a radio wave from a second host device. The second memory is capable to operate based on power generated by the wireless antenna. The second memory has a memory capacity lower than the first memory. The second interface is capable to operate based on power generated by the wireless antenna. The second interface is connected to the second memory and the first interface.

Wireless communication device, method for controlling wireless communication device, game system, and memory system

A method of linking location information to image data in a storage device includes: generating image files, each including image data of a captured image and a time stamp of when the image was captured; determining an first time stamp and a second time stamp within a group of the image files; wirelessly transmitting the first time stamp and the second time stamp to a device having a location logging function and, in response to the wirelessly transmitting, receiving location information corresponding to at least one of a plurality of time stamps including the first time stamp, the second time stamp, and a third time stamp that is between the first time stamp and the second time stamp; and embedding location information in each image file based on the time stamp included therein and the location information received from the device.

Memory card having a wireless function for linking location information to image data

An electronic device includes a main body having an aperture, a slot member disposed in the main body, the slot member having a slot exposed by the aperture and in which a memory card of a predetermined size is inserted and a connection terminal electrically connectable to a connection terminal of the memory card, and a coil disposed on a surface of the main body or within the main body so as to overlap with a surface of the slot member that is disposed to face a main surface of the memory card when the memory card is inserted in the slot.

Electronic device that assists wireless communication by a memory card inserted in a slot thereof

A wireless communication apparatus includes a memory device in which data associated with a storage device are stored, wherein the data is acquired through a wireless communication; an image capturing device; a display; and a controller configured to: identify an external storage device corresponding to a code captured by the image capturing device, responsive to identification of the external storage device, generate a display image from the data stored in the memory device if the data stored in the memory device are associated with the identified external storage device, and control the display to display a display image, wherein the data stored in the memory device include thumbnail image data of image data stored in the external storage device, and the display image includes one or more thumbnail images that are generated from the thumbnail image data.

Wireless communication apparatus that displays images associated with contents stored in an external storage device

A memory card includes a substrate, a nonvolatile memory on the substrate, a memory controller on the substrate and configured to control access to the nonvolatile memory, an interface terminal for external wired connection, on the substrate, an antenna, a plain region surrounded by the antenna including a first region that overlaps with the substrate and a second region that does not overlap with the substrate, and a communication controller disposed on the substrate, electrically connected to the antenna, and configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device through the antenna, using power generated at the antenna by an electromagnetic induction caused by the external device.

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Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan

Keisuke Sato