Patents by Inventor Mikio Togami

Mikio Togami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Recording and/or reproducing apparatus having tape guiding member
    Patent number: 6373652
    Abstract: In a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, at least one of tape guiding members provided for wrapping a tape around a rotary drum pulls out the tape from a cassette before a cassette mounting member is moved in a direction of approaching the rotary drum and, after that, the tape guiding members and the cassette mounting member are moved in directions of approaching the rotary drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikio Togami, Akira Tomitaka
  • Data detection apparatus
    Patent number: 5581568
    Abstract: A data detection apparatus has an A/D (analog to digital) converter which samples and quantizes the output of a low-frequency-emphasizing-type equalization circuit and a digital filter which processes the output of the A/D converter. A Viterbi decoder performs Viterbi decoding of the digital output filter and determines a branchmetric on the basis of an equalization error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mikio Togami