Patents Assigned to Victor Company of Japan, Limited
  • Publication number: 20090231987
    Abstract: Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kondo
  • Patent number: 7586832
    Abstract: An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ueki
  • Patent number: 7583581
    Abstract: An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ueki
  • Publication number: 20090213720
    Abstract: An information recording medium comprises a substrate, a second recording layer, a second light transmitting layer, a first recording layer for recording different information from that to be recorded in the second recording layer, and a first light transmitting layer. The second recording layer is formed with a continuous second microscopic pattern of grooves. The first recording layer is formed with a continuous first microscopic pattern of grooves that is different from the second microscopic pattern. Both sidewalls of raised portions of the first and second microscopic patterns are formed with wobbling so as to be parallel with each other. Auxiliary information and a reference clock is recorded on these sidewalls alternately and continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kondo, Kenji Oishi
  • Publication number: 20090213715
    Abstract: An information recording medium comprises a substrate, a second recording layer, a second light transmitting layer, a first recording layer for recording different information from that to be recorded in the second recording layer, and a first light transmitting layer. The second recording layer is formed with a continuous second microscopic pattern of grooves. The first recording layer is formed with a continuous first microscopic pattern of grooves that is different from the second microscopic pattern. Both sidewalls of raised portions of the first and second microscopic patterns are formed with wobbling so as to be parallel with each other. Auxiliary information and a reference clock is recorded on these sidewalls alternately and continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kondo, Kenji Oishi
  • Publication number: 20090213714
    Abstract: An information recording medium comprises a substrate, a second recording layer, a second light transmitting layer, a first recording layer for recording different information from that to be recorded in the second recording layer, and a first light transmitting layer. The second recording layer is formed with a continuous second microscopic pattern of grooves. The first recording layer is formed with a continuous first microscopic pattern of grooves that is different from the second microscopic pattern. Both sidewalls of raised portions of the first and second microscopic patterns are formed with wobbling so as to be parallel with each other. Auxiliary information and a reference clock is recorded on these sidewalls alternately and continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kondo, Kenji Oishi
  • Patent number: 7580342
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate having a microscopic pattern, which includes a shape of continuous substance of approximately parallel grooves formed with a convex shaped section and a concave shaped section alternating on a surface of the substrate. A recording layer is formed on the microscopic pattern and a light transmitting layer has a thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.12 mm formed on the recording layer. The microscopic pattern satisfies a relation of P??/NA, wherein P is a pitch of the convex shaped section, ? is a wavelength of a reproducing light beam and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens. The microscopic pattern also includes modulated address information formed on both side walls of the convex shaped section viewed from the light transmitting layer as a wobble, both the side walls being parallel to each other, and furthermore wherein the address information is modulated by the phase-shift keying modulation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kondo, Akira Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 7580338
    Abstract: An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ueki
  • Patent number: 7580343
    Abstract: In an information recording medium comprising at least a substrate, a recording layer, and a resin layer, the substrate is formed with at least a pit corresponding to a read only area 31 and a groove corresponding to a recording/reproducing area 32 without overlapping with each other. A reflectivity of the recording layer is specified to be more than 10%. The recording layer and the resin layer are continuously adhered over both the read only and recording/reproducing areas 31 and 32. The information recording medium is characterized in that both push-pull signal outputs T1 and T2, which are reproduced from the read only area 31 and the recording/reproducing area 32 respectively, are more than 0.1 and satisfy an inequality 1.5?T1/T2?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kondo
  • Patent number: 7580957
    Abstract: Structured data is stored into a structured data file, which is a text file. Index information is generated to speed up searching or updating of the structured data and stored into an index file, which is a binary file. When a general-purpose structured data processor on an external device side updated the content of the structured data file, a dedicated structured data processor detects that the structured data file has been updated and analyzes the updated structured data file. Subsequently, the dedicated structured data processor generates new index information relating to the structured data having the analyzed structured data file to update the index file using the new index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Tomohiro Azami
  • Patent number: 7575325
    Abstract: An image displaying apparatus is capable of maintaining the contrast ratios of displayed images even if the f-value of an optical system of the apparatus is lowered to provide bright images, efficiently utilizing a beam from a light source, minimizing the size and weight of the optical system, and being easy to manufacture. The image displaying apparatus includes first to third reflective polarizing plates (120, 121, 122) provided for first to third reflective spatial light modulators (130, 131, 132), respectively. The reflective polarizing plates polarize and separate beams to be injected into the reflective spatial light modulators. In the image displaying apparatus, a color separating optical system has a larger effective diameter than a color composition prism (140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuji Suzuki, Satoru Moriya
  • Patent number: 7577081
    Abstract: An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ueki
  • Publication number: 20090202100
    Abstract: A voice coil includes a cylindrical bobbin formed of a first material; a coil which surrounds on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin; and a plurality of reinforcement members formed of a material having a propagation speed faster than the first material and provided on the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junji Iino, Shinji Kamimura, Satoshi Imamura
  • Patent number: 7573804
    Abstract: An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ueki
  • Patent number: 7570571
    Abstract: In an information recording medium comprising at least a substrate, a recording layer, and a resin layer, the substrate is formed with at least a pit corresponding to a read only area 31 and a groove corresponding to a recording/reproducing area 32 without overlapping with each other. A reflectivity of the recording layer is specified to be more than 10%. The recording layer and the resin layer are continuously adhered over both the read only and recording/reproducing areas 31 and 32. The information recording medium is characterized in that both push-pull signal outputs T1 and T2, which are reproduced from the read only area 31 and the recording/reproducing area 32 respectively, are more than 0.1 and satisfy an inequality 1.5?T1/T2?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kondo
  • Patent number: 7570573
    Abstract: In an information recording medium comprising at least a substrate, a recording layer, and a resin layer, the substrate is formed with at least a pit corresponding to a read only area 31 and a groove corresponding to a recording/reproducing area 32 without overlapping with each other. A reflectivity of the recording layer is specified to be more than 10%. The recording layer and the resin layer are continuously adhered over both the read only and recording/reproducing areas 31 and 32. The information recording medium is characterized in that both push-pull signal outputs T1 and T2, which are reproduced from the read only area 31 and the recording/reproducing area 32 respectively, are more than 0.1 and satisfy an inequality 1.5?T1/T2?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kondo
  • Patent number: 7570572
    Abstract: In an information recording medium comprising at least a substrate, a recording layer, and a resin layer, the substrate is formed with at least a pit corresponding to a read only area 31 and a groove corresponding to a recording/reproducing area 32 without overlapping with each other. A reflectivity of the recording layer is specified to be more than 10%. The recording layer and the resin layer are continuously adhered over both the read only and recording/reproducing areas 31 and 32. The information recording medium is characterized in that both push-pull signal outputs T1 and T2, which are reproduced from the read only area 31 and the recording/reproducing area 32 respectively, are more than 0.1 and satisfy an inequality 1.5?T1/T2?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kondo
  • Patent number: D598940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Masaya Mihara, Shuji Tanifuji, Tatsuya Narita
  • Patent number: D598941
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Shuji Tanifuji
  • Patent number: D598942
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Yanai, Shuji Tanifuji, Akihiko Miyamori