| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE40809 |
Conversion of contiguous concatenation of virtual concatenation in a synchronous digital communi |
June 30, 2009 |
| In a method of transmitting user data over a synchronous digital communication network (SDH), the user data are packed in multiplex units by a peripheral device (10; 40). If a greater bandwidth than the capacity of the multiplex unit is required, several multiplex units are contiguou |
| RE40748 |
Process for producing semiconductor device |
June 16, 2009 |
| A process for producing a semiconductor device for forming a highly reliable wiring structure is provided that solves the problem occurring on using a xerogel or a fluorine resin in an inter level dielectric between the wirings to decrease a wiring capacitance, and the problem occurr |
| RE40745 |
Command processing method and radio communication apparatus |
June 16, 2009 |
| A command processing method for a radio LAN system composed of a plurality of terminals and at least one base apparatus is disclosed which prevents users of the terminals from suffering from confusion or conflict between them with regard to handling of a command issued from any of the |
| RE40679 |
Picture encoding method, picture encoding apparatus and picture recording medium |
March 24, 2009 |
| This invention employs a scheme to allow an input video signal to undergo encoding, e.g., predictive encoding, DCT processing, quantization at fixed quantization step size and variable length encoding to generate first encoded data to determine (calculate) allocated code quantity every |
| RE40568 |
Synchronization symbol structure using OFDM based transmission method |
November 11, 2008 |
| The present invention proposes a method for generating synchronization bursts for OFDM transmission systems. The symbols of a predefined symbol sequence are mapped according to a predefined mapping scheme on subcarriers of the OFDM systems by a mapping unit (2), wherein the symbols o |
| RE40468 |
Video data bus communication system and method |
August 26, 2008 |
| A video data communication system and method are disclosed which provides for the secure transmission of video data among devices connected to a video data bus. The video data is transmitted with address information corresponding to a particular device or, alternatively, video data is |
| RE40415 |
Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus |
July 1, 2008 |
| A picture type identifier, indicating one of intra-picture coding (an I-picture), forward or backward predictive coding (a P-picture) and bi-directionally predictive coding (a B-picture), is included with a picture signal when the signal is encoded and when the signal is decoded. Eac |
| RE40409 |
Photoelectric converter having a light receiving portion with an improved readout gate |
July 1, 2008 |
| A photoelectric converter with improved charge transfer efficiency from a light receiving portion. The photoelectric converter includes a light receiving portion having an output end and a gate portion having a first side and a second side that both define a readout gate width for the |
| RE40391 |
Computer |
June 24, 2008 |
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| RE40318 |
Headphone |
May 20, 2008 |
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| RE40136 |
Multilayer optical disk |
March 4, 2008 |
| A multilayer optical disk having an information storage layer which can as well as be reproduced by a general purpose reproducing apparatus, for example, a compact disk player, and from which information can be read from other information storage layers by using an exclusive reproducing |
| RE40094 |
Computer |
February 26, 2008 |
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| RE40044 |
Data recording apparatus and method, data reproducing apparatus and method, data recording/repro |
February 5, 2008 |
| Video data and audio data inputted respectively from a camera system and a microphone are compressed and encoded in a video compressor/expander-encoder/decoder and an audio compressor/expander-encoder/decoder respectively, and then are multiplexed in a multiplexer. Subsequently the m |
| RE39953 |
Recording apparatus and method, and reproducing apparatus and method |
December 25, 2007 |
| A reproducing apparatus for reading, or a recording apparatus for writing, data from or to a disc having pre-formed thereon a pair of concentrical or spiral tracks adjacent to each other and to which a common address is given, is adapted to control the time at which a read or write head |
| RE39745 |
Recording medium retaining data for menu control, menu control method and apparatus |
July 24, 2007 |
| A recording medium retaining data for menu control, a menu control method and an apparatus are provided for creating a menu highly expressive and attractive to the viewer. When operation of a menu button is determined on a menu created with a moving picture with sound, the menu button tu |
| RE39622 |
System and method for authentication, and device and method for authentication |
May 8, 2007 |
| In authentication using a plurality of cipher keys, the authentication time is shortened. In the case that an encipher key to encipher key are required to take an access to each area out of the area to area in a memory of an IC card, a plurality of areas to have an access is informed |
| RE39231 |
Communication terminal equipment and call incoming control method |
August 8, 2006 |
| In a communication terminal equipment and in a method of controlling call incoming, unnecessary noises in a period from the start of an alert sound to carrying out of the next operation can be reduced. When a predetermined operation is effected under the condition that an alert sound |
| RE38898 |
Video data bus communication system and method |
November 29, 2005 |
| A video data communication system and method are disclosed which provides for the secure transmission of video data among devices connected to a video data bus. The video data is transmitted with address information corresponding to a particular device or, alternatively, video data is |
| RE38829 |
Viewing restricting method and viewing restricting apparatus |
October 11, 2005 |
| A method and apparatus for securely restricting the viewing of television programs. When a television program has been received along with rating data associated with a rating of the television program; length data associated with a length of the program, a microcomputer determines w |
| RE38802 |
Method for reproducing compressed information data from a disk using a spatial frequency less th |
September 27, 2005 |
| Method and apparatus for reproducing MPEG-compressed video data and compressed audio data from an optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm.+-.0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information |
| RE38638 |
Optical disk having a particular format to store user-selected data, such as video data or compu |
October 26, 2004 |
| An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm.+-.0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 .mu.m and 1.05 .mu.m; with the tracks |
| RE38621 |
OPTICAL DISK HAVING A PARTICULAR FORMAT TO STORE USER-SELECTED DATA, SUCH AS COMPRESSED VIDEO DA |
October 12, 2004 |
| An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm.+-.0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 .mu.m and 1.05 .mu.m; with the tracks |
| RE38613 |
Method for growing a nitride compound semiconductor |
October 5, 2004 |
| A new and improved method for growing a p-type nitride III-V compound semiconductor is provided which can produce a p-type nitride compound semiconductors having a high carrier concentration, without the need for annealing to activate impurities after growth. In a preferred embodiment, |
| RE38529 |
Scramble/descramble method and apparatus for data broadcasting |
June 8, 2004 |
| A transmitter for transmitting news data via satellite and which includes an information storage unit for storing news data, an information scramble processing unit for scrambling the news data using a predetermined first key to output once scrambled news data, a data scrambler for scram |
| RE38502 |
Method and apparatus for recovering TOC and user information from an optical disk and using the |
April 20, 2004 |
| An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm.+-.0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 .mu.m and 1.05 .mu.m; with the tracks |
| RE38481 |
Method and apparatus for recording MPEG-compressed video data and compressed audio data on a dis |
March 30, 2004 |
| Method and apparatus for recording MPEG-compressed video data end compressed audio data on an optical disk having a diameter leas than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm.+-.0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and |
| RE38363 |
Method of forming trench isolation having polishing step and method of manufacturing semiconduct |
December 23, 2003 |
| A method of forming trench isolation including a burying step of burying trenches by a deposition means for conducting etching and deposition simultaneously and a polishing step of flattening a burying material by polishing is conducted by disposing an isotropic etching step, a multi |
| RE38339 |
Semiconductor laser |
December 2, 2003 |
| A semiconductor laser comprises: a first cladding layer of a first conduction type; an active layer stacked on the first cladding layer; and a second cladding layer of a second conduction type stacked on the active layer. The first cladding layer, the active layer and the second cladding |
| RE38236 |
Digital signal transmitting method, digital signal receiving apparatus, and recording medium and |
August 26, 2003 |
| A digital signal transmitting method, a digital signal receiving apparatus, and a recording medium which ensure the security of fee-charged software information. When an image providing predetermined services is transmitted, a band-compression coded digital video signal is given firs |
| RE38055 |
Video data bus communication system and method |
April 1, 2003 |
| A video data communication system and method are disclosed which provides for the secure transmission of video data among devices connected to a video data bus. The video data is transmitted with address information corresponding to a particular device or, alternatively, video data is |
| RE38007 |
Controlled-access broadcast signal receiving system |
February 25, 2003 |
| An apparatus and method for transferring from a broadcaster to a receiver a limited reproduction right in data. A signal indicating the limited reproduction right is transmitted by the broadcaster and stored by the receiver with the data. The receiver reproduces and processes the data as |
| RE37864 |
Quantizing error reducer for audio signal |
October 1, 2002 |
| There is provided a quantizing error reducer for an audio signal, which is constructed to feed a quantizing error back to the input side of a quantizer through a noise filter, wherein the coefficient of the noise filter is set on the basis of information relating to the equiloudness |
| RE37810 |
Digital video signal reproducing apparatus with high-speed play mode |
July 30, 2002 |
| Apparatus for reproducing digital video signals from a magnetic tape, wherein a frame of digital video signals had been recorded in 2 m tracks (m is an integer greater than 1), in which a pair of rotary heads having respectively different azimuth angles scan traces across the magnetic |
| RE37808 |
Disc recording medium having subsidiary data in which is stored an identifier |
July 30, 2002 |
| A disc-shaped recording medium and a reproducing apparatus for the disc-shaped recording medium in which the letter information, such as a title, pertinent to a program recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium, is recorded as subsidiary data in a management area or in a program a |
| RE37717 |
Optical pickup device |
May 28, 2002 |
| An optical pickup device for condensing the light from a light source on a signal recording surface by an objective lens and for detecting the return light from the signal recording surface by a light detection unit is disclosed. The optical pickup device is capable of recording and/or |
| RE37428 |
Magneto-optical disk system with specified thickness for protective layer on the disk relative t |
October 30, 2001 |
| A magneto-optical disc system includes a magneto-optical disc with a light transmitting protective layer, an objective lens for bundling or focusing a laser beam onto a magnetic recording layer of the magneto-optical disc in order to perform recording and/or reproduction, and a magnetic |
| RE37398 |
Headphone |
October 2, 2001 |
| A headphone in which a housing containing a drive unit is provided with a window hole formed therein and the window hole is covered with a diaphragm providing acoustic transmissibility therethrough. |
| RE37327 |
Method for reproducing compressed information data from a disk using a spatial frequency less th |
August 14, 2001 |
| Method and apparatus for reproducing MPEG-compressed video data and compressed audio data from an optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm.+-.0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information |
| RE37222 |
Video signal transmitting system |
June 12, 2001 |
| Video signal transmitting system in which digital video signal are divided into groups of predetermined frames. Digital video signals of at least one frame are intraframe coded and then transmitted. Remaining digital video signals are interframe coded with reference to the intraframe cod |
| RE37177 |
Semiconductor laser |
May 15, 2001 |
| A semiconductor laser comprises: a first cladding layer of a first conduction type; an active layer stacked on the first cladding layer; and a second cladding layer of a second conduction type stacked on the active layer. The first cladding layer, the active layer and the second cladding |
| RE37170 |
Disc loading mechanism in a disc player for positioning a disc and an optical pickup while reduc |
May 8, 2001 |
| A loading mechanism of a disc tray onto which recording medium discs such as compact discs, laser discs, or the like are set and which moves between a pull-out position at which the disc tray was pulled out of an outer casing and a pull-in position at which the disc tray was pulled into |
| RE36999 |
Video signal coding method |
December 26, 2000 |
| In a method for encoding successive frames of a digital motion video signal in the form of compressed digital data including an intraframe coded signal and a plurality of interframe coded signals, a first frame of the digital motion video signal is encoded to form one of an intraframe co |
| RE36877 |
Photographic camera system |
September 19, 2000 |
| A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes. The camera varies the width |
| RE36803 |
Bit clock reproducing circuit |
August 1, 2000 |
| .[.A bit clock reproducing circuit produces an output bit clock signal in response to an input clock signal but without reproducing jitter present in the input signal. A counter is supplied with a reference clock signal as a counting input, and the counter is periodically loaded, at a fi |
| RE36763 |
Apparatus and method for preventing unauthorized copying of video signals |
July 4, 2000 |
| In a digital video tape recorder (VTR) which reproduces digital video and audio signals from a magnetic tape, a copy protect bit in the reproduced digital video signal is detected, and on the basis of the copy protect bit, a code is generated and inserted into the vertical blanking inter |
| RE36753 |
Photographic camera system |
June 27, 2000 |
| A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes. The camera varies the as |
| RE36683 |
Apparatus and method for audio data compression and expansion with reduced block floating overhe |
May 2, 2000 |
| A method for compressing a digital audio input signal to provide a recording signal in which the input signal is divided into frames comprising plural samples. Each frame is transformed into a block of spectral coefficients, which are divided into plural bands. For each band, block f |
| RE36559 |
Method and apparatus for encoding audio signals divided into a plurality of frequency bands |
February 8, 2000 |
| This invention relates to a digital signal encoding apparatus in which the .[.width of the range in.]. .Iadd.digital signal is divided into frequency components in plural frequency bands and the bandwidth of the frequency bands is .Iaddend.selected to be wider for .[.the.]. higher .[.fre |
| RE36218 |
Disc recording/reproducing apparatus having a servo system capable of successively recording and |
June 1, 1999 |
| During recording the inputted data are sequentially written into a memory at one transfer rate and are read out at a second, higher transfer rate for recording on a record medium. The reading of the memory is such that data in a preset first amount are successively read from the memory t |
| RE35950 |
Recording medium cassette and a recording/reproducing apparatus |
November 10, 1998 |
| A recording medium cassette being easily miniaturized if necessary, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, such as a VTR, adapted to use the same recording medium cassette. The recording medium cassette includes a printed wiring board having a plurality of information indicating c |
