US 2001/0042149 A1Published application

Peripheral device for information processing

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

InventorsTakafumi Ito, Shogo Suzuki

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Abstract

A card-type peripheral device has a PCMCIA card shape for the device to be inserted in a slot formed in a PC. The device includes an SD card slot for an SD card to be inserted therein, and a converting adapter section configured to work as a converting adapter for the SD card. The peripheral device also includes a communication section configured to perform communication with the PC, when the device is not inserted in the slot of the PC. The peripheral device further includes a function section configured to selectively perform either one of a peripheral equipment function and an independent equipment function, depending on connection states of the device relative to the PC.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A peripheral device for information processing, which has a shape that allows the device to be put in a first slot formed in an information processing apparatus, comprising:

a data processing section;
a first connecting section configured to interface the data processing section with the information processing apparatus, when the peripheral device is put in the first slot;
a second slot configured for an information device having a second shape to be put therein;
a second connecting section configured to interface the data processing section with the information device, when the information device is put in the second slot;
a communication section configured for the data processing section to communicate with the information processing apparatus, when the peripheral device is not put in the first slot;
a first function section having a peripheral equipment function configured to pre-process or post-process data in cooperation with the data processing section, for the information processing apparatus;
and
a second function section having an independent equipment function configured to process data in cooperation with the data processing section, independently of the information processing apparatus.

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Facts

Application: 09/748,856Filed 28 Dec 2000
Priority: JP 2000-0004855 Jan 2000
Published: 15 Nov 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 3/038
Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor: control and interface…
G06F 3/002
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: specific…
G06F 3/023
Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials: arrangements for converting discrete items of information into…
G06F
Computing and data processing

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