Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.

Toshiba America Information Services, Inc.

Kenji Shimano

Yoshihiko Sugano

Shogo Suzuki

Yoshinori Katagami

Scott Yu

Darren Saravis

John Andrew Duval

Thomas Keen

Mike Wick

Cary Chow

Martin Philip Riddiford

Scott S Yu

Akihiro Koga

Yuuki Shibata

Mikio Kamegi

Patrick Hunt

Shusuke Yamazaki

Hajime Sudo

Yasuo Matsumoto

Tamane Takahara

Motoyuki Suzuki

Tomoyasu Shinozaki

Jim Fullalove

Trent Stoddard

Masakazu Okumura

According to one embodiment of the invention, an electronic device comprises a main body and a protective panel. The main body features a periphery formed by a plurality of sidewalls. The protective panel is placed over a top surface of the main body and extending outwardly beyond the periphery of the main body.

Apparatus for improving durability of electronic devices

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a portable computer, such as a laptop or notebook computer, a subnotebook computer, a personal digital assistant, a wireless phone or the like, that can be set up in a closed configuration, a laptop configuration or a tablet configuration. The portable computer may include a base unit having a primary input device, such as a keyboard or pointing device, and a display unit having a display device. The base unit and the display unit may be coupled so that the display unit can be moved relative to the base unit to place the portable computer in a desired configuration.

Portable computer usable in a laptop and tablet configurations

Portable computer usable in laptop and tablet configurations

Notebook computer with touch screen

Electronic computer

Element of an electronic computer

A cursor can be operated continuously from a picture now being displayed to another picture not yet displayed. Further, an icon area arranged in another picture not yet displayed can be pointed out accurately without depending upon the operational characteristics of operators. When depressed by an operator, a pad-type input section (5) detects the two-dimensional position and the magnitude of the depression force at a pressure point. The detected data are applied to an encode section (14) through a signal amplifier (13). The encode section (14) detects the two-dimensional coordinates and the pressure value at the pressure point. On the other hand, a domain registering section (15) registers respective partitions on each of a plurality of pictures (8) as a domain group (11) of three-dimensional position domains. Therefore, when the output of the encode section (14) is compared by a comparing section (17) with respect to the positional data, if both match, the data detected by the pad-type input section (5) are assigned to a representative position (12) in a picture of the domain group (11), so that it is possible to accurately allow an input applied onto the pad-type input section (5) to correspond to a two-dimensional area of each of a plurality of pictures (8).

Signal generating apparatus, signal inputting apparatus and

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Shimano