Patents by Inventor Shigeru Yato

Shigeru Yato 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: 6084831
    Abstract: A disc control apparatus handles an even number of disc-shaped recording mediums run in rotation at a constant angular velocity and to which addresses are accorded for incrementing from an inner disc rim side or from an outer disc rim side. The disc control apparatus effectuates data accessing with the disc-shaped recording mediums in terms of a pre-set block as a unit. The control apparatus includes an accessing control unit which effectuates data accessing on the block basis by addressing from the outer disc rim side for one of the disc-shaped recording mediums of the set while effecting data accessing on the block basis by addressing from the inner disc rim side for the other disc-shaped recording medium of the set. During data recording/reproduction, one of two contiguous blocks is recorded/reproduced on the disc-shaped recording medium accessed from the outer disc rim side while the other block is recorded/reproduced on the disc-shaped recording medium accessed from the inner disc rim side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Yato, Noboru Asamizuya