Patents by Inventor Satoshi Katsuo
Satoshi Katsuo 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: 8611729Abstract: A conversion apparatus and method is disclosed by which a file including data multiplexed therein can be edited or handled readily while maintaining the compatibility. A standard/independent conversion section converts a file of a standard AV multiplex format wherein video data and audio data are placed in a multiplexed state in a body into a file of an AV independent format wherein video data or audio data are placed collectively in a body. Meanwhile, an independent/standard conversion section converts a file of the AV independent formation into a file of the standard AV multiplex format.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Hideki Ando, Hisao Tanaka, Takashi Furukawa, Masaki Hirose, Takayoshi Kawamura, Motohiro Terao
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Patent number: 8588042Abstract: A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management file for individually managing the content data; a device configured to register control information for the content data in a second management file collectively managing the content data. Further, the apparatus includes a device configured to read out the control information in the second management file recorded on the recording medium; a memory in which the control information of the second management file read out by the read-out device is expanded; a device configured to compare the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory and the content data recorded on the recording medium; and a device configured to update the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Yuka Yamamoto, Minoru Kawahara, Hisao Tanaka, Noboru Oya, Tsutomu Shimosato, Motohiro Terao
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Patent number: 8402169Abstract: The information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected via a network. Each apparatus includes one or more modules interconnected via a system bus. At least one of the modules is a network module having a network communication function. The information processing apparatus that inputs an external timing signal functions as a timing master, and the other information processing apparatuses function as a timing slave. The module in the timing master generates time synchronization information in the form of a packet and in the form of a command according to the timing signal and transmits the command to another module and transmits the packet to the timing slave via the network. The network module in the timing slave receives the packet from the timing master, converts the packet to the command to transmit to another module connected to the system bus and included in the timing slave.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Satoshi Katsuo
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Patent number: 8326128Abstract: A conversion apparatus and method is disclosed by which a file including data multiplexed therein can be edited or handled readily while maintaining the compatibility. A standard/independent conversion section converts a file of a standard AV multiplex format wherein video data and audio data are placed in a multiplexed state in a body into a file of an AV independent format wherein video data or audio data are placed collectively in a body. Meanwhile, an independent/standard conversion section converts a file of the AV independent formation into a file of the standard AV multiplex format.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2003Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Hideki Ando, Hisao Tanaka, Takashi Furukawa, Masaki Hirose, Takayoshi Kawamura, Motohiro Terao
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Publication number: 20120242894Abstract: A conversion apparatus and method is disclosed by which a file including data multiplexed therein can be edited or handled readily while maintaining the compatibility. A standard/independent conversion section converts a file of a standard AV multiplex format wherein video data and audio data are placed in a multiplexed state in a body into a file of an AV independent format wherein video data or audio data are placed collectively in a body. Meanwhile, an independent/standard conversion section converts a file of the AV independent formation into a file of the standard AV multiplex format.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Satoshi KATSUO, Hideki ANDO, Hisao TANAKA, Takashi FURUKAWA, Masaki HIROSE, Takayoshi KAWAMURA, Motohiro TERAO
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Patent number: 8229273Abstract: A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for reproducibly controlling data recorded on a recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire control information required for reproducing the data when the data is recorded; a device configured to control operations during the period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium. The apparatus further includes a device configured to determine whether a recorded file of the data exceeds a predetermined limit of a storage capacity of a file system in the recoding medium and sequentially generate a subsequent recorded file upon exceeding the limit. Moreover, the apparatus includes a device configured to generate a single recording-and-reproducing unit during the period on the recording medium indicated by the control device based on a plurality of recorded files upon exceeding the limit; and a device configured to update the control information by recording the single recording-and-reproducing unit on the control information.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Minoru Kawahara, Hisao Tanaka, Noboru Oya, Tetsuya Narita, Yuka Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8204919Abstract: A file generating apparatus for improving the usability of recording media and providing efficient read and write processes. A header control portion generates a header arranged at the beginning of a file. A footer control portion generates a footer arranged at the end of the file. A filler control portion generates a filler so that the data amount of a body, the header, or the footer of the file corresponds to an integral multiple of an ECC block on an optical disk by adding the filler to the body, the header, or the footer. A KLV encoder KLV-encodes a filler for the body according to the KLV structure. The present invention can be applied to a disk apparatus that records video data or audio data on optical disks.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2004Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Oka, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa
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Publication number: 20110135275Abstract: A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management file for individually managing the content data; a device configured to register control information for the content data in a second management file collectively managing the content data. Further, the apparatus includes a device configured to read out the control information in the second management file recorded on the recording medium; a memory in which the control information of the second management file read out by the read-out device is expanded; a device configured to compare the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory and the content data recorded on the recording medium; and a device configured to update the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2011Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Yuka Yamamoto, Minoru Kawahara, Hisao Tanaka, Noboru Oya, Tsutomu Shimosato, Motohiro Terao
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Patent number: 7916584Abstract: A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management file for individually managing the content data; a device configured to register control information for the content data in a second management file collectively managing the content data. Further, the apparatus includes a device configured to read out the control information in the second management file recorded on the recording medium; a memory in which the control information of the second management file read out by the read-out device is expanded; a device configured to compare the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory and the content data recorded on the recording medium; and a device configured to update the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Yuka Yamamoto, Minoru Kawahara, Hisao Tanaka, Noboru Oya, Tsutomu Shimosato, Motohiro Terao
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Patent number: 7697823Abstract: In a recording control apparatus and method, in recording areas on an optical disk, consecutive empty areas for an ALLOCATION_UNIT are reserved as reserved areas. Multiplexed data in units of packets which can be recorded in the reserved areas is recorded in the reserved areas. A remaining part of the reserved areas in which the multiplexed data in units of packets is not recorded is freed as empty areas. Subsequently, multiplexed data is similarly recorded.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takaya Ono, Hideki Ando, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa, Hisao Tanaka, Takayoshi Kawamura, Motohiro Terao, Masaki Hirose
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Patent number: 7552299Abstract: A real-time reproduction determination unit determines whether or not AV data recorded in recording areas on an optical disc can be reproduced in a real-time manner. If the AV data recorded on the optical disc cannot be reproduced in a real-time manner, a compile simulation unit and a compile execution unit respectively select extents from the AV data recorded on the optical disc and relocate the extents to a relocation area.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shiro Hagihara, Hisao Tanaka, Hideki Ando, Masaki Hirose, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa, Takayoshi Kawamura, Motohiro Terao
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Patent number: 7366399Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a file-time-code (FTC) sort unit and a logical block number (LBN) scheduling unit. The FTC unit sorts data items recorded on an optical disk based on the playback times of the pieces of data. The LBN scheduling unit sorts the data items recorded by the FTC sort unit based on the recording positions of the data items on the optical disk. The LBN scheduling unit also uses the sorting result as the result of scheduling the order of reading the data items from the optical disk.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2003Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takaya Ono, Hideki Ando, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa, Hisao Tanaka, Takayoshi Kawamura, Motohiro Terao, Masaki Hirose
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Publication number: 20080080842Abstract: A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for reproducibly controlling data recorded on a recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire control information required for reproducing the data when the data is recorded; a device configured to control operations during the period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium. The apparatus further includes a device configured to determine whether a recorded file of the data exceeds a predetermined limit of a storage capacity of a file system in the recoding medium and sequentially generate a subsequent recorded file upon exceeding the limit. Moreover, the apparatus includes a device configured to generate a single recording-and-reproducing unit during the period on the recording medium indicated by the control device based on a plurality of recorded files upon exceeding the limit; and a device configured to update the control information by recording the single recording-and-reproducing unit on the control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Minoru Kawahara, Hisao Tanaka, Noboru Oya, Tetsuya Narita, Yuka Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080080323Abstract: A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management file for individually managing the content data; a device configured to register control information for the content data in a second management file collectively managing the content data. Further, the apparatus includes a device configured to read out the control information in the second management file recorded on the recording medium; a memory in which the control information of the second management file read out by the read-out device is expanded; a device configured to compare the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory and the content data recorded on the recording medium; and a device configured to update the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Katsuo, Yuka Yamamoto, Minoru Kawahara, Hisao Tanaka, Noboru Oya, Tsutomu Shimosato, Motohiro Terao
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Publication number: 20070220101Abstract: The information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected via a network. Each apparatus includes one or more modules interconnected via a system bus. At least one of the modules is a network module having a network communication function. The information processing apparatus that inputs an external timing signal functions as a timing master, and the other information processing apparatuses function as a timing slave. The module in the timing master generates time synchronization information in the form of a packet and in the form of a command according to the timing signal and transmits the command to another module and transmits the packet to the timing slave via the network. The network module in the timing slave receives the packet from the timing master, converts the packet to the command to transmit to another module connected to the system bus and included in the timing slave.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi KATSUO
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Patent number: 7260037Abstract: A minimum buffer data amount and a minimum reproduction delay time are found from a line approximation graphic form approximating a media read line and used as a basis for determining whether or not data can be reproduced in a real-time manner from a recording medium at a requested reproduction rate. The media read line is a line expressing the change in cumulative amount of data read out from the recording medium. The minimum buffer data amount is the minimum of the amount of data stored in a buffer as data required in reproduction of the data in a real-time manner at the requested reproduction rate. The minimum reproduction delay time is the minimum of a reproduction delay time from the start of an operation to read out the data from the recording medium to the start of an operation to reproduce the data.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2003Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takaya Ono, Hideki Ando, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa, Hisao Tanaka, Takayoshi Kawamura, Motohiro Terao, Masaki Hirose
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Patent number: 7221634Abstract: The rewriting counts in respective areas of a rewritable medium are uniformized. If empty areas are present on the rewritable medium rearward of a recording start position in terms of addresses, then data is recorded in those empty areas. When no empty areas become available rearward of the recording start position, data is then recorded in empty areas forward of the recording start position. The numbers of times that data is recorded in recording areas of the recording medium are thus averaged.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Motohiro Terao, Hideki Ando, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa, Hisao Tanaka, Masaki Hirose, Takayoshi Kawamura
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Publication number: 20070094290Abstract: The present invention aims at improving the usability of recording media and providing efficient read and write processes. A header control portion 53 generates a header arranged at the beginning of a file. A footer control portion 52 generates a footer arranged at the end of the file. A filler control portion 54 generates a filler so that the data amount of a body, the header, or the footer of the file corresponds to an integral multiple of an ECC block on an optical disk by adding the filler to the body, the header, or the footer. A KLV encoder 55 KLV-encodes a filler for the body according to the KLV structure. The present invention can be applied to a disk apparatus that records video data or audio data on optical disks.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2004Publication date: April 26, 2007Inventors: Takeshi Oka, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa
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Patent number: 7136578Abstract: A data recording and reproducing apparatus (11) which generates a plurality of divided data through dividing input data D1 using a distributor (22) if recording data, while generating redundancy-code data P1 and P2 using Read-Solomon-code data which can perform error-correcting on a plurality of divided data, and records the divided data and the redundancy-code data P1, P2 on HDDs 211 to 21K, 281 and 28Z. The data recording and reproducing apparatus (11) reproduces the divided data and the redundancy-code data from the HDDs 211 to 21K, 281 and 28Z, performs error-correcting processing on the divided data based on the redundancy-code data by an error corrector (31), and outputs the divided data which have been error-corrected after multiplying the divided data by a data multiplier (32) if reproducing data.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Norikazu Ito, Satoshi Yoneya, Masakazu Yoshimoto, Satoshi Katsuo, Jun Yoshikawa, Satoshi Yutani, Koichi Sato, Tomohisa Shiga, Hiroyuki Fujita, Masaki Hirose
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Publication number: 20050025450Abstract: In a recording control apparatus and method, in recording areas on an optical disk, consecutive empty areas for an ALLOCATION_UNIT are reserved as reserved areas. Multiplexed data in units of packets which can be recorded in the reserved areas is recorded in the reserved areas. A remaining part of the reserved areas in which the multiplexed data in units of packets is not recorded is freed as empty areas. Subsequently, multiplexed data is similarly recorded.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2003Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Takaya Ono, Hideki Ando, Satoshi Katsuo, Takashi Furukawa, Hisao Tanaka, Takayoshi Kawamura, Motohiro Terao, Masaki Hirose