Patents by Inventor Kouji Arii

Kouji Arii 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).

  • Combination of an optical-disk and barcode memory medium for use with an optical disk playback apparatus, having control programs stored in the optical-disk and specified by barcodes stored in the barcode memory medium
    Patent number: 5382776
    Abstract: An optical-disk playback apparatus plays back an optical-disk on which control programs defining the operations of the optical-disk playback apparatus and other information are recorded. Such optical-disk playback apparatus is operable by a combination of an optical-disk, such as a laser disk or CD, and printed materials on which barcodes are printed. Predetermined programs are recorded defining the operation of the optical-disk playback apparatus corresponding to the barcodes. As a result, variable, complex and yet flexible optical-disk playback operations which are not fixed at the initial system designing stage can be accomplished by simply tracing the printed barcode. The operation of the optical-disk playback apparatus is controlled by the control programs recorded in the optical disk. Difficulties which might occur when an optical-disk and barcode of different systems are combined can be prevented since a one-to-one correspondence between the barcode and the optical disk code is established beforehand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Arii, Testsuo Maeda, Tetsuo Tomimoto, Ryo Akiyama
  • Optical-disk playback apparatus, method of optical-disk playback and combined memory medium, having control programs stored in the optical-disc and specified by barcodes stored in a barcode memory medium
    Patent number: 5250787
    Abstract: An optical-disk playback apparatus is disclosed which plays back an optical-disk on which control programs defining the operations of the optical-disk playback apparatus and other information are recorded. Such optical-disk playback apparatus is operable by a combination of an optical-disk, such as a laser disk or CD, and printed materials on which barcodes are printed. Predetermined programs are recorded defining the operation of the optical-disk playback apparatus corresponding to the barcodes. As a result, variable, complex and yet flexible optical-disk playback operations which are not fixed at the initial system designing stage can be accomplished by simply tracing the printed barcode. The operation of the optical-disk playback apparatus is controlled by the control programs recorded in the optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Arii, Tetsuo Maeda, Tetsuo Tomimoto, Ryo Akiyama