Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Nakai

Masatoshi Nakai 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).

  • Patent number: 5764846
    Abstract: A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus, which enable a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enable a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movements, each consisting of program bars, are recorded on the disk 100. The data reproducing apparatus includes a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, an operator panel 205, a video processing section 206, and audio processing sections 211 and 213. The sections 203 and 204 and the panel 205 select any one of the program movements, and switch one movement to another, and select any one of the program bars of the movement selected and switch one bar to another. The information thus selected is supplied to the video processing section 206 and the audio processing sections 211 and 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Kenji Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5751892
    Abstract: A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus, which enables a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enables a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movements, each consisting of program bars, are recorded on the disk 100. The data reproducing apparatus includes a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, an operator panel 205, a video processing section 206, and audio processing sections 211 and 213. The sections 203 and 204 and the panel 205 select any one of the program movements and switch one movement to another, and select any one of the program bars of the movement selected and switch one bar to another. The information thus selected is supplied to the video processing section 206 and the audio processing sections 211 and 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Kenji Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5742731
    Abstract: A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus, which enables a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enables a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movements, each consisting of program bars, are recorded on the disk 100. The data reproducing apparatus includes a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, an operator panel 205, a video processing section 206, and audio processing sections 211 and 213. The sections 203 and 204 and the panel 205 select any one of the program movements and switch one movement to another, and select any one of the program bars of the movement selected and switch one bar to another. The information thus selected is supplied to the video processing section 206 and the audio processing sections 211 and 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Kenji Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5737308
    Abstract: It is easy to reproduce a recorded information and, particularly, its portions on a disc, in a repeated fashion and the disc is convenient to learn. It is proved effective to perform reproduction, while picking up only a specified portion of a plurality of programs in the recorded information on the disc, and to conduct a search for a program while viewing it. The disc (100) includes a plurality of programs recorded thereon and voice information written in an order of phrase units, chorus units and sentence units. A reproduction apparatus is of such a type that, upon detecting the flag, an address of corresponding voice information is recorded and updated and, upon the entry of a repeat command, a shift is made back to the address so that repeat reproduction may be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakai, Mitsutaka Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 5732185
    Abstract: A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus which enables a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enables a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movements, each consisting of program bars, are recorded on the disk 100. The data reproducing apparatus includes a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, an operator panel 205, a video processing section 206, and audio processing sections 211 and 213. The sections 203 and 204 and the panel 205 select any one of the program movements and switch one movement to another, and select any one of the program bars of the movement selected and switch one bar to another. The information thus selected is supplied to the video processing section 206 and the audio processing sections 211 and 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Kenji Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5729650
    Abstract: A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus which enables a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enables a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movements, each consisting of program bars, are recorded on the disk 100. The data reproducing apparatus includes a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, an operator panel 205, a video processing section 206, and audio processing sections 211 and 213. The sections 203 and 204 and the panel 205 select any one of the program movements and switch one movement to another, and select any one of the program bars of the movement selected and switch one bar to another. The information thus selected is supplied to the video processing section 206 and the audio processing sections 211 and 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Kenji Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5675695
    Abstract: A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus, which enables a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enables a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movements, each consisting of program bars, are recorded on the disk 100. The data reproducing apparatus includes a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, an operator panel 205, a video processing section 206, and audio processing sections 211 and 213. The sections 203 and 204 and the panel 205 select any one of the program movements, and switch one movement to another, and select any one of the program bars of the movement selected and switch one bar to another. The information thus selected is supplied to the video processing section 206 and the audio processing sections 211 and 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Kenji Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5655052
    Abstract: Display is made according to the user's request by using the time information recorded on the disk. A disk contains a management area in which management data is recorded and a data area in which programs are recorded. Recorded in the management area are the absolute time information on the starts of the programs and the in-program relative time information on the starts of data units constituting each program. In the absolute time display mode, the absolute time information for display is obtained from the absolute time information on the program being reproduced and the relative time information on the data unit of the program being reproduced. In the relative time display mode, the absolute time information of the program being reproduced is set at 0, and the absolute time information for display is obtained from the relative time information on the data unit of the program being reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakai, Mitsutaka Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 5652824
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus is designed to select and decode speech and subtitles (characters) in a given language from a disk on which various types of information are recorded in different languages. This system arrangement makes it possible to standardize the manufacture of disks and reproduction apparatuses world-wide, resulting in a reduction in production cost. In a disk 100, various types of information are recorded in different languages along with video information. A reproduction apparatus selects information in a given language from the reproduced information using a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, and an operator section 205, and supplies the selected pieces of information to each of a video processing section 206, a subtitle decoder 211, and an audio processing section 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Yuichi Miyano, Kenjiro Endoh
  • Patent number: 5630006
    Abstract: A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus which enables a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enables a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movements, each consisting of program bars, are recorded on the disk 100. The data reproducing apparatus includes a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, an operator panel 205, a video processing section 206, and audio processing sections 211 and 213. The sections 203 and 204 and the panel 205 select any one of the program movements and switch one movement to another, and select any one of the program bars of the movement selected and switch one bar to another. The information thus selected is supplied to the video processing section 206 and the audio processing sections 211 and 213.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Hirayama, Masatoshi Nakai, Kenji Shimoda
  • Patent number: 5619338
    Abstract: A desired frame image can be searched for and reproduced at high speeds. The same holds true for frame return reproduction. A data unit containing the video information compressed by encoding is stored in a data unit memory and decoded at a decoding unit. When the target frame is decoded, the decode output is stored in an image memory and supplied as a still reproduction image via a switch. The image memory can also be used as a memory for storing the decode output of the frame located at the mid-point between the start frame of the data unit and the frame currently being reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakai, Mitsutaka Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 4353388
    Abstract: This invention provides a butterfly valve in which gland packing portions for preventing fluid leakage are provided between a valve stem carrying a valve closure member rotatable in a valve housing and tubular portions of the housing receiving the stem, and bearing portions for the stem are disposed outwardly of the gland packing portions. Each of the gland packing portions is divided into two sections between which a bearing member is provided to support the stem. Thus the stem is supported by the bearing portions and the bearing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: Kubota, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Isoyama, Susumu Takeda, Masatoshi Nakai