Patents Assigned to Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd
  • Patent number: 9024267
    Abstract: A radioactive ray detector card comprises semiconductor elements on a substrate, each having a plurality of first electrodes, provided on one of main surfaces thereof, and a second electrode, provided on other of main surfaces thereof; the substrate having first electrode wirings electrically connected with the plurality of first electrodes, and card edge portions, which transmit signals from the plurality of semiconductor elements to an external electric circuit; the second electrode corresponding to a second electrode identifier, for identifying the semiconductor elements; the first electrodes corresponding to first electrode identifiers, for identifying the plurality of first electrodes, respectively; and the first electrode wirings electrically connect between the first electrodes, corresponding to one of the first electrode identifiers on one semiconductor element of the plurality of semiconductor elements, and the first electrodes, corresponding to one of the same first electrode identifiers on the othe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawauchi, Yoshinori Sunaga, Isao Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9025425
    Abstract: In an optical information recording device and optical information recording method for angularly multiplexing and recording data on pages on the same recording region on a hologram disk, data on each page is sequentially generated by sequentially dividing input data in predetermined units, the pages to be recorded on the same recording region are divided into page groups so that pages to be recorded adjacently by the angular multiplexing may not belong to the same group, each page group is individually subjected to inter-page coding processing for computing an error-correcting code and adding the computed error-correcting code, and data on the pages subjected to the inter-page coding processing is angularly multiplexed and recorded on the hologram disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junya Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9013972
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical information recording and reproducing device capable of recording an interference fringe pattern as a hologram in an optical information recording medium, the interference fringe pattern being formed by a signal beam superimposed with signal information and a reference beam, and also capable of reproducing the signal information from the optical information recording medium, the device having a light source unit to emit light, a light splitting unit to split the light into the reference beam and the signal beam, a spatial light modulation unit to superimpose the signal information on the signal light, and a light detection unit to detect an image reproduced by the reference beam, wherein information about defects on the spatial light modulation unit is recorded in the optical information recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taku Hoshizawa, Yusuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8995245
    Abstract: The above-described problem can be solved by the following optical-information reproducing apparatus: An optical-information reproducing apparatus for reproducing a hologram storage medium into which an interference pattern is recorded as a hologram, the interference pattern being formed by causing a reference beam and a signal beam to interfere with each other, the optical-information reproducing apparatus, including an optical detector for detecting a reproduced beam, the reproduced beam being acquired by illuminating the recorded hologram with the reference beam, an optical element for generating a first reference beam and a second reference beam by branching the reference beam, a wavefront detector for detecting wavefront aberration of the reference beam by causing the first reference beam and the second reference beam to interfere with each other, and a wavefront compensator for compensating the wavefront of the reference beam, wherein the wavefront compensator is adjusted based on an output of the wavef
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakamura, Toshiki Ishii
  • Patent number: 8976639
    Abstract: When recording layers were provided on both the front and back sides of an optical disk in order to increase the recording capacity, whether the reproducing surface of the optical disk taken out of the cartridge was the front side or the back side could not be determined. This problem can be solved by adding to the BCA, in addition to disk identification information: type information indicating whether a recording surface is provided on one side or both sides; side information indicating whether the surface with which reproduction is being performed is side A or side B; recording layer quantity information indicating whether the disk has a single layer or a double layer; information indicating the areas other than the BCA and the directions in which data on the read-in, data zones, and read-out are recorded/reproduced; and information indicating the presence/absence of a disk cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taku Hoshizawa
  • Patent number: 8964519
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology which estimates the most suitable cure time which changes with the environment when recording a hologram and adjusts the cure time in real time, thereby enabling a suitable pre-cure or post-cure. When irradiating an optical information recording medium with cure light, the light transmitted from the optical information recording medium is detected by a detector and the irradiation time is adjusted by continuing irradiation until the intensity of the transmitted light detected exceeds a prescribed reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Hosaka
  • Patent number: 8958275
    Abstract: A recording waveform is adjusted based on the fluctuation amount of the mark edge position, focused on that fluctuation of a mark edge position is increased in aged deterioration of a recording signal. Specifically, the recording waveform is adjusted such that a fluctuation amount becomes minimum or a threshold value or less. Then, information is recorded on the optical disc using the recording waveform. Further, provided is a recording medium or an information recording apparatus which stores parameters of the recording waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignees: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Morimoto, Soichiro Eto, Koichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8958277
    Abstract: An optical disc device and information recording/reading method for an optical disc in which a recording layer is formed through volume recording by aligning recording tracks, which hold information, in a homogenous recording region that does not internally have a layer defining a recording position. The information recording method includes a step in which a first recording layer forming a complex recording layer is formed by forming a recording track while recording information by focusing a main beam at a predetermined depth position in the recording region, and a step in which a second recording layer forming the complex recording layer is formed by forming a recording track while recording information by focusing the main beam at a depth position that is separated from the first recording layer in a depth direction by a depth offset greater than ? of a wavelength of the main beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kikugawa, Tatsuro Ide
  • Patent number: 8958278
    Abstract: In the optical information reproduction apparatus using Homodyne phase diversity detection, the S/N ratio of a reproduced signal is deteriorated due to the influence of a quantization noise generated in an A/D converter for digitalizing a differential signal. The optical information reproduction apparatus is arranged to have the A/D converter for digitalizing the differential signal having a vertical resolution equal to or higher than 9 bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kurokawa, Atsushi Kikugawa
  • Patent number: 8947991
    Abstract: A method of calculating a reliability effective in a decoding process of hologram. An optical information reproducing apparatus that reproduces information with the use of the holography includes an image acquisition unit that reproduces two-dimensional data from a hologram disc, an image equalization unit that makes the two-dimensional data equal to target data having a target PR characteristic, a soft output decoding unit that decodes output data of the image equalization unit on the basis of the PR characteristic, and outputs a decoded result having a reliability, and an error correction unit that conducts an error correction of the data on the basis of the decoded result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakamura, Hajime Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20150009788
    Abstract: Provided are an optical information recording/reproduction device and an optical information recording/reproduction method with which retry data during verify error detection can be efficiently recorded. In the optical information recording/reproduction device for recording data on an optical information recording media and reproducing data from an optical information recording medium, if verify error data is detected at a first cure unit region on the optical information recording medium, verify error retry data is recorded at a second cure unit region which is different to the first cure unit region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 8929184
    Abstract: There is a problem that when the relative angle between laser light and an optical disc is changed by temperature, or a chucking state of an optical disc and so forth, the formerly recorded data is overwritten. The above-mentioned problem is solved by performing focus control and tracking control independently with respect to a servo layer and a recording layer in a grooveless disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukinobu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150002435
    Abstract: Blocking a view of a whiteboard by a position of an attendee who writes on the whiteboard is prevented, and writing records made by all attendees are stored in order to use the writing records including a course of the written records later. Each terminal of all of the attendees has a touch-panel-equipped terminal having a function of dividing any input line drawing on the terminal into line segment data, successively transmitting the line segment data to the controller, and displaying line drawing information transmitted from the controller on the display of the touch-panel-equipped terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hideo Nishijima, Nobuo Masuoka
  • Patent number: 8913474
    Abstract: An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information on a recording medium and/or reproducing information from the recording medium, includes: a laser light source for performing recording and/or reproducing information; a shielding part, using a liquid crystal, that can switch between transmission and interception of laser light emitted from the laser light source; a driving circuit for driving the switching between transmission and interception of the shielding part; a moving part for relatively moving the shielding part and the laser light; and a controlling circuit for controlling the moving part. The moving part relatively moves the shielding part and the laser light so as to switch a region to which the laser light is applied from a first region of the shielding part to a second region thereof different from the first region, in order to prevent the liquid crystal from deteriorating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Taguchi, Kouji Fujita, Taku Hoshizawa, Ukyo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8908487
    Abstract: In reproduction of a two-dimensional page data from an optical information recording medium utilizing holography, a reproduced two-dimensional page data is divided into a plurality of areas each of which has a predetermined size, the divided two-dimensional areas are individually subjected to adaptive equalizing, and then are coupled to restore the condition of the original two-dimensional page data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Hosaka, Toshiki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20140344642
    Abstract: Patterns that might be generated due to a burst error are prepared beforehand. These patterns are formed by shifting all “1”s in an original channel word. A list of these patterns generated as described above is retrieved in parallel with a general conversion table during demodulation. When the demodulation is interrupted due to the burst error, the result of the retrieval of the previous pattern is referred to, and when there is a hit, the error is regarded as the burst error of the original channel word, and the demodulation is continued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicants: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc.
    Inventor: Atsushi KIKUGAWA
  • Patent number: 8893162
    Abstract: In an optical disc drive, a degradation of traveling performance of an optical pickup under hard acceleration or hard deceleration in a random access operation or the like results in a degradation of recording/reproducing performance. Groove structure is provided between two gears of a guide feed provided in an optical pickup, and the groove forms bending structure. Thus, the engagement state between a screw gear and the gears of the guide feed is stabilized. This makes it possible to prevent tooth jumping and step-out from occurring in the gears during the traveling of the optical pickup, achieving stable traveling. In consequence, the recoding/reproducing performance of the optical disc drive can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Tatsuya Yamasaki, Nozomu Harada, Sojiro Kirihara, Ikuo Nishida
  • Publication number: 20140333837
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus having an input unit for inputting an image signal and an image corrector for correcting the input image signal is disclosed. The image corrector is arranged to extract from the input image signal a specular reflection component and a diffuse reflection component and generate a corrected image signal based on a computation result with respect to these specular and diffuse reflection components thus extracted. This image corrector is adaptable for use in various types of image processors, including projectors, display devices and imaging devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUDA, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 8879370
    Abstract: An optical disk apparatus which conducts overwriting of data on a rewritable optical disk or conducts write-once recording of data on a write-once optical disk includes a control unit for receiving a recording command which specifies a recording area and orders recording and receiving transfer data, and a collation unit for collating existing data on the optical disk with the transfer data. Upon reception of the recording command and the transfer data by the control unit, the existing data is collated with the transfer data by the collation unit, and overwrite recording of data in places where the transfer data is different from the existing data is conducted on the rewritable optical disk, or data in places where the transfer data is different from the existing data is recorded in an unrecorded area of the write-once optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc.
    Inventor: Masayuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8873361
    Abstract: There is disclosed an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for optically recording and/or reproducing information in and from an optical recording medium. The apparatus has an oscillator light generator for generating oscillator light that is made to overlap and interfere with reproduced light from the optical recording medium, an oscillator light modulator for producing a given phase difference between the oscillator light and the reproduced light, a light detector for detecting interference light in which the oscillator light and the reproduced light overlap each other, a wavefront deviation detector for detecting an amount of wavefront deviation between the oscillator light and the reproduced light from an output from the light detector, and a compensation amount calculation unit for calculating a wavefront compensation amount from the amount of wavefront deviation. The phase difference produced by the oscillator light modulator is controlled based on the wavefront compensation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakamura