Patents by Inventor Morio Aoki
Morio Aoki 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).
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Patent number: 8139927Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording medium receiver. The management information provides information about whether or not data can be recorded on the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Marumori, Morio Aoki, Hiroyuki Tarumizu
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Publication number: 20090187685Abstract: An information recording apparatus is disclosed, in which a HDD is connected to an ATA bus as a master device, an optical disk drive is connected as a slave device to a connector by an eSATA interface, and a system control unit asserts a PDAIG signal at the time of activating the information recording apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Morio Aoki, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20090187774Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus is disclosed, wherein a hard disk drive or a flash memory in a video camera is accessed by a personal computer having a control program for the recording and reproducing process, through a USB-I/F circuit kept on. A CPU in the video camera, on the other hand, is connected to an external dubbing optical disk having a control program for the recording and reproducing process, through a SATA-I/F circuit only in the case where a user command is given through a switch or power is supplied from an AC adaptor. As a result, the connection with the personal computer is established at an arbitrary timing, and the I/F circuit of the external optical disk can save the power consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Kouji MINABE, Hiroaki Tachibana, Morio Aoki, Kazunori Uemura
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Publication number: 20090021613Abstract: Under circumstances where various recording formats are employed for HD (high-definition) images, the present invention provides a user-friendly video camera apparatus that can be used in a variety of user environments. An HD mode video signal picked up by an imaging unit is encoded to video data in the H.264 format and recorded onto an HDD. A decoder and an encoder transcode the video data reproduced from the HDD to video data in the MPEG2 format, whereas a resolution conversion module performs a resolution conversion process to obtain SD (standard-definition) mode video data. The converted data is dubbed to an optical disc (DVD) for recording purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Ito, Yuichi Katano, Morio Aoki
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Publication number: 20080313569Abstract: The invented apparatus includes a part of measuring the duration of activation of a select button on its control pad. When the select button is activated longer than a predetermined period, the apparatus enters a mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails for selecting a plurality of successive thumbnails. During this mode, after selecting a range of successive thumbnails with a cursor positioning mechanism on the control pad, when the select button is activated, it becomes determinate that the thumbnails in the selected range be selected and the apparatus exits the mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Morio AOKI, Kazuto Yoneyama
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Publication number: 20080232222Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording medium receiver. The management information provides information about whether or not data can be recorded on the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki MARUMORI, Morio AOKI, Hiroyuki TARUMIZU
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Patent number: 7417680Abstract: The invented apparatus includes a part of measuring the duration of activation of a select button on its control pad. When the select button is activated longer than a predetermined period, the apparatus enters a mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails for selecting a plurality of successive thumbnails. During this mode, after selecting a range of successive thumbnails with a cursor positioning mechanism on the control pad, when the select button is activated, it becomes determinate that the thumbnails in the selected range be selected and the apparatus exits the mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Morio Aoki, Kazuto Yoneyama
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Patent number: 7391964Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording medium receiver. The management information provides information about whether or not data can be recorded on the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Marumori, Morio Aoki, Hiroyuki Tarumizu
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Publication number: 20030190160Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording medium receiver. The management information provides information about whether or not data can be recorded on the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2002Publication date: October 9, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Marumori, Morio Aoki, Hiroyuki Tarumizu
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Publication number: 20030133032Abstract: The invented apparatus includes a part of measuring the duration of activation of a select button on its control pad. When the select button is activated longer than a predetermined period, the apparatus enters a mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails for selecting a plurality of successive thumbnails. During this mode, after selecting a range of successive thumbnails with a cursor positioning mechanism on the control pad, when the select button is activated, it becomes determinate that the thumbnails in the selected range be selected and the apparatus exits the mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Morio Aoki, Kazuto Yoneyama
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Publication number: 20020191951Abstract: A conventional image recording apparatus like a video camera recorder may often bring about coding noises if an image to be inputted or a target object reaches a certain degree of complexity. The remaining time when data is to be recorded on a recording medium may be so varied according to the magnitude of the coding rate that the time cannot be easily grasped. To overcome these problems, the present image recording apparatus is arranged to vary the display based on the coding rate according to the magnitude of the coding rate so that the user can grasp how much the coding noises appear with sense. Further, by displaying the remaining volume and the coding rate of the recording medium associated therewith, the decreasing pace of the remaining time may be notified to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Sodeyama, Tomishige Yatsugi, Morio Aoki
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Patent number: 4958242Abstract: In a video tape recorder in which a video signal is recorded on a video track, a control signal is recorded on a control track and when reproducing, the control signal is used as tracking signal to control the running speed of the magnetic tape, time is supervised to recognize whether a predetermined period of time expires during the recording pause mode, a cue signal for tape heading is generated at the expiration of the predetermined time or up on change of date, and the thus generated cue signal is recorded on the control track in correspondance to a portion from which recording of individual pieces of information in the video signal starts, thereby making it easy to control edition and heading of the tape.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Morio Aoki