Patents Represented by Attorney Israel Gopstein Clark & Brody
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Patent number: 6963607Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6954497Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6904090Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6823007Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6681076Abstract: A first rotational head of a first azimuth angle and a second rotational head of a second azimuth angle are arranged on a rotational drum rotated at a constant rotational speed. Also, input digital signals are processed in a signal recording system to form blocks of digital recording signals, a magnetic tape is moved by a tape driving unit according to an information signal generated in a control unit, and the blocks of digital recording signals and the information signal are recorded on the magnetic tape in a recording operation through the first and second heads alternately tracing the magnetic tape. In a reproducing operation, the signals are read through the first and second heads and are reproduced in a signal reproducing system. When the input digital signals are transmitted at a standard data rate, the magnetic tape is rotated at a first traveling speed in the recording and reproducing operations.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2000Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Takeo Ohishi, Mitsuo Fujita
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Patent number: 6654415Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6647378Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided of adapting a dictionary into which a keyword effective for judging whether or not information provided from either one of an information recording medium or an information communication network is recorded preferentially. The information includes information data and one or more keywords attached to the information data. The method is implemented by providing a user with the information data, enabling the user to input a signal indicating that the provided information data is necessary or unnecessary; calculating a prediction value for predicting a user's necessity degree of each keyword attached to the provided information data on the basis of the signal inputted in the inputting step, and registering preferentially the keyword effective for the dictionary by using the prediction value.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiki Kindo
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Patent number: 6590935Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with charges in production level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing a degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6570920Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6553067Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6552825Abstract: A data communication apparatus such as a facsimile apparatus having an automatic telephone message recording function, having a common memory for storing video and audio data that have been received or are to be transmitted, enables selection of a method of memory management whereby the memory space is divided at a boundary address into two regions which respectively store video data and audio data and a method whereby the memory space is not so divided, but the video data and audio data are written into addresses which successively increase from respectively opposite ends of the memory space. Remaining amounts of memory capacity which can be used to store video and/or audio data can be displayed as respective numbers of standard document pages and telephone calls, the latter representing standard-duration recording intervals.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1992Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems, Inc.Inventors: Mitsuaki Doi, Masatsugu Okuyama
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Patent number: 6542543Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6539053Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6532261Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data With the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6522692Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6501019Abstract: An electromagnetic isolation apparatus for an electronic device such as a portable telephone is provided which includes first and second shield cases and elastic members such as rubber cushions. The first and second shield cases are disposed within a casing of the electronic device to surround at least part of both surfaces of a printed circuit board mounted within the electronic device. The elastic members are interposed between an inner wall of the casing of the electronic device and an outer surface of the first shield case and between the inner wall of the casing and an outer surface of the second shield case to produce elastic pressures urging the first and second shield cases into conductive engagement with the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2001Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriyoshi Sato, Shinichi Terao
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Patent number: 6493382Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6487564Abstract: A multimedia playing apparatus plays hypermedia titles each consisting of a plurality of monomedia objects including at least one finite time monomedia object such as a video object, which is formatted as a sequence of fixed-length playing sections such as video frames and functions as a base-axis object for providing a timing reference. The apparatus executes playing of a hypermedia title in accordance with processing time points specified as respective numbers of the playing sections, and stores and utilizes a plurality of sets of synchronization trigger data each of which designates that playing of a specific monomedia object other than the base-axis object is to be started, or is to be ended, at a specific processing time point, with the synchronization trigger data sets being successively accessed and used as the corresponding processing time points are respectively reached during playing of the hypermedia title.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1996Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kayoko Asai, Makoto Sato, Atsushi Minemura, Toshio Oka
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Patent number: 6483873Abstract: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating apparatus protection data which are specific to the reproduction apparatus, a section for combining the apparatus protection data with the medium protection data to define a protection level, and a section for applying the protection level to restrict reproduction of the original signal, with stepwise variations in restriction occurring in accordance with changes in protection level. The medium protection data may include information for specifying restricted reproduction of portions of the original signal, such as by producing degraded resolution within specified regions of specified frames of a video signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Sugahara
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Patent number: 6414720Abstract: A digital broadcasting system capable of causing any of physical channels selected by a broadcaster to be received as one of the channels available to users which is different from the physical channel selected by the broadcaster. For each of programs of each of the channels available to said users, a program information record comprising PSI (program specific information) is stored in a data base. The broadcaster is permitted to include, in the PSI, channel mapping information whose mapping destination is a channel (or a program) to be received instead of the channel for which said program information is intended. The program information records is inserted in broadcast transport streams on schedule and, if necessary, immediately after the broadcaster have included the channel mapping information in the PSI data.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Tsukidate, Kenichi Fujita, Shigeki Kaneko, Yoshiyasu Takeuchi