Patents by Inventor Tamotsu Yamagami

Tamotsu Yamagami 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).

  • Publication number: 20030123343
    Abstract: A record carrier is described that has a servo track (4) indicating an information track (9) intended for recording information blocks. The servo track (4) has a periodic variation of a physical parameter at a predetermined frequency and modulated parts for encoding position information at regular intervals. The modulated parts start with a bit sync element and are of a data type having a data bit element or of a word sync type having a word sync element. The bit sync element, word sync element and the data bit element being modulated according to a same predetermined type of modulation of the periodic variation. The distances between all elements constituting the modulated parts are unique. Further a device for reading and/or writing the record carrier is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Cornelis Marinus Schep, Aalbert Stek, Constant Paul Marie Jozef Baggen, Koen Vanhoof, Tamotsu Yamagami, Shoei Kobayashi, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Shinichiro Iimura
  • Publication number: 20030112725
    Abstract: In step S1, the address generator generates address information composed of a sync signal which is recorded on an optical disc, address data and an error correction code for the address data, pre-encodes and supplies it to a modulator. At the same time, a carrier signal generator generates a carrier signal which is to carry the address information, and supplies it to the modulator. In step S2, the modulator makes MSK modulation of the carrier signal supplied from the carrier signal generator on the basis of the pre-encoded address information supplied from the address generator, and supplies a resultant MSK modulation signal to a wobbling unit. In step S3, the wobbling unit forms, on the optical disc, a spiral groove wobbled adaptively to the MSK modulation signal supplied from the modulator. In this optical disc, a given address can be accessed quickly and accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Shoei Kobayashi, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Tamotsu Yamagami, Shinichiro Iimura
  • Publication number: 20020110070
    Abstract: A header in which an address signal has been recorded is provided on the disc every predetermined sector interval. Recording data is arranged in an error correction encoding block and the error correcting process is performed. The error correction encoding block is divided into a plurality of portions in a predetermined direction, thereby forming sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . The data of each sector is recorded subsequent to the header. Upon reproduction, the header is detected and the data is reproduced every sector. One of the error correcting processes is performed in the reproduced data in the sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . In the case where errors cannot be corrected by the error correcting process in the reproduced data in the sector, the error correction block including the sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . is reproduced and the error correcting processes are performed in the sequences in two directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tamotsu Yamagami, Shoei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20020044511
    Abstract: A header in which an address signal has been recorded is provided on the disc every predetermined sector interval. Recording data is arranged in an error correction encoding block and the error correcting process is performed. The error correction encoding block is divided into a plurality of portions in a predetermined direction, thereby forming sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . . The data of each sector is recorded subsequent to the header. Upon reproduction, the header is detected and the data is reproduced every sector. One of the error correcting processes is performed in the reproduced data in the sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . . In the case where errors cannot be corrected by the error correcting process in the reproduced data in the sector, the error correction block including the sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . is reproduced and the error correcting processes are performed in the sequences in two directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 1996
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, TAMOTSU YAMAGAMI, SHOEI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 6335912
    Abstract: An optical information recording apparatus detects an irradiated position by a laser beam, and modulating additional information in accordance with a track address and angular information as the results of the position detecting to record the modulated additional information at a prescribed position on an optical information recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 6292451
    Abstract: An optical disk having a plurality of substantially concentric tracks, each of which includes a plurality of segments each comprising a servo area ARs provided with servo pits for giving servo information to a disk drive and a data area ARd. Identification marks SGM, ADM, STM1, STM2 are recorded in the servo area ARs. The identification marks SGM, ADM, STM1, STM2 provide information for identifying the respective segments depending on the recording position in the servo area ARs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tobita Minoru, Goru Fujita, Satoshi Otsuka, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 6282162
    Abstract: An optical disk having a plurality of substantially concentric tracks, each of which includes a plurality of segments each comprising a servo area ARs provided with servo pits for giving servo information to a disk drive and a data area ARd. Identification marks SGM, ADM, STM1, STM2 are recorded in the servo area ARs. The identification marks SGM, ADM, STM1, STM2 provide information for identifying the respective segments depending on the recording position in the servo area ARs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Tobita, Goro Fujita, Satoshi Otsuka, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 6277832
    Abstract: This invention provides a growth inhibitor for leukemia cells comprising an antisense oligonucleotide derivative to Wilms' tumor gene (WT1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Tadamitsu Kishimoto
    Inventors: Haruo Sugiyama, Tamotsu Yamagami, Kazushi Inoue
  • Patent number: 6256282
    Abstract: A novel recording medium capable of realizing high density, reliability in a recording/reproducing operation and facilitating the process which is performed by a drive apparatus is provided. An amplitude amount of wobbling of a track is made to be 10 nm to 15 nm and a track pitch of the track is made 0.74 &mgr;m to 0.82 &mgr;m. The determined values enable large-capacity recording to be realized and the recording/reproducing performance to be prevented from being deteriorated. As administration information, recommended information for a recording/reproducing operation at an inner peripheral position and an outer peripheral position is recorded. The size of data in a linking section is made to be the same as the sector for constituting a data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tamotsu Yamagami, Toru Takeda, Shoei Kobayashi, Koichiro Ogihara
  • Patent number: 6256276
    Abstract: Thermal stress is prevented from accumulating on a disk recording medium. Data to be recorded is divided into 32-kilobyte clusters, and a front link area and a back link area, whose lengths are randomly changed, formed of a total of 8 frames are added before and after the clusters. Then, the data is recorded on a predetermined area of a disk on the basis of address data prerecorded on the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shoei Kobayashi, Toru Takeda, Tamotsu Yamagami, Shozo Masuda
  • Patent number: 6215750
    Abstract: A data recording apparatus is constructed by: an input unit for receiving first and second digital data in which a ratio of sector sizes is not equal to an integer ratio; a block segmenting unit for inserting first data nA and second data mB (n and m are integers of 2 or more and n≠m) when it is assumed that a sector size of first data is set to A and a sector size of second data is set to B and for forming data of a block structure; a recording processing unit for performing an error correction encoding and a digital modulation to the data of the block structure; and a recording unit for recording the recording data from the recording processing unit to a data recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 6147945
    Abstract: An information recording/reproducing apparatus wherein exact reproduction of both wobbled address information and sync information can be realized in a recording mode as well as in a reproduction mode. The apparatus comprises first and second detectors for detecting two diametrical side portions of each track on a recording medium where a pregroove is modulated correspondingly to address information and sync information of mutually different frequency bands; a calculator for calculating a normalized track information signal on the basis of the outputs of the first and second detectors; and a third detector for detecting the address information and/or the sync signal on the basis of the output of the calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shoei Kobayashi, Toru Takeda, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 6118754
    Abstract: A data recording apparatus is constructed by: an input unit for receiving first and second digital data in which a ratio of sector sizes is not equal to an integer ratio; a block segmenting unit for inserting first data nA and second data mB (n and m are integers of 2 or more and n.noteq.m) when it is assumed that a sector size of first data is set to A and a sector size of second data is set to B and for forming data of a block structure; a recording processing unit for performing an error correction encoding and a digital modulation to the data of the block structure; and a recording unit for recording the recording data from the recording processing unit to a data recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 6064639
    Abstract: A header in which an address signal has been recorded is provided on the disc for every predetermined sector interval. Recording data is arranged in an error correction encoding block and the error correcting process is performed. The error correction encoding block is divided into a plurality of portions in a predetermined direction, thereby forming sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . . The data of each sector is recorded subsequent to the header. Upon reproduction, the header is detected and the data is reproduced for every sector. One of the error correcting processes is performed in the reproduced data in the sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . . In the case where errors cannot be corrected by the error correcting process in the reproduced data in the sector, the error correction block including the sectors S1, S2, S3, . . . is reproduced and the error correcting processes are performed in the sequences in two directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tamotsu Yamagami, Shoei Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6034235
    Abstract: This invention provides a growth inhibitor for leukemia cells comprising an antisense oligonucleotide derivative to Wilms' tumor gene (WT1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignees: Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Haruo Sugiyama
    Inventors: Haruo Sugiyama, Tamotsu Yamagami, Kazushi Inoue
  • Patent number: 6035433
    Abstract: A data recording apparatus for recording digital data to a data recording medium is disclosed, that comprises an error correction code encoding means for interleaving a predetermined unit of data to be recorded and encoding the resultant data with an error correction code, and an identifying means for identifying whether the data to be recorded is reproduction-only data or rewritable data, wherein said error correction code encoding means is adapted for changing the interleave length corresponding to the output of said identifying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 6018507
    Abstract: An optical recording method according to the invention is provided such, that when an optical pickup (2) is moved over an optical disk (1), the optical pickup (2) being positioned onto the target track location, record marks are recorded on the optical disk (1) by a light beam irradiated onto the optical disk (1) through the optical pickup (2). An irradiation position of the light beam is offset during recording by a predetermined amount to a track at the recording direction side relative to the target track location, and a record mark is formed on a target track by the offset light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Takeda, Akira Shimazu, Tamotsu Yamagami, Tadaaki Nomoto
  • Patent number: 5978350
    Abstract: An optical disk having a plurality of substantially concentric tracks, each of which includes a plurality of segments each comprising a servo area ARs provided with servo pits for giving servo information to a disk drive and a data area ARd. Identification marks SGM, ADM, STM1, STM2 are recorded in the servo area ARs. The identification marks SGM, ADM, STM1, STM2 provide information for identifying the respective segments depending on the recording position in the servo area ARs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Tobita, Goro Fujita, Satoshi Otsuka, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 5978333
    Abstract: An information recording/reproducing apparatus wherein exact reproduction of both wobbled address information and sync information can be realized in a recording mode as well as in a reproduction mode. The apparatus comprises first and second detectors for detecting two diametrical side portions of each track on a recording medium where a pregroove is modulated correspondingly to address information and sync information of mutually different frequency bands; a calculator for calculating a normalized track information signal on the basis of the outputs of the first and second detectors; and a third detector for detecting the address information and/or the sync signal on the basis of the output of the calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shoei Kobayashi, Toru Takeda, Tamotsu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 5966359
    Abstract: A data recording apparatus is constructed by: an input unit for receiving first and second digital data in which a ratio of sector sizes is not equal to an integer ratio; a block segmenting unit for inserting first data nA and second data mB (n and m are integers of 2 or more and n.noteq.m) when it is assumed that a sector size of first data is set to A and a sector size of second data is set to B and for forming data of a block structure; a recording processing unit for performing an error correction encoding and a digital modulation to the data of the block structure; and a recording unit for recording the recording data from the recording processing unit to a data recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tamotsu Yamagami