Patents by Inventor Tetsuhiro Sakamoto

Tetsuhiro Sakamoto 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: 9536543
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an input unit to which words are input, an analysis unit configured to analyze meanings of the respective words, an image generation unit configured to generate single images corresponding to the respective words, and a display control unit configured to control the images generated by the image generation unit to be displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimu Higashimoto, Junko Saito, Tetsuhiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20150051903
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an input unit to which words are input, an analysis unit configured to analyze meanings of the respective words, an image generation unit configured to generate single images corresponding to the respective words, and a display control unit configured to control the images generated by the image generation unit to be displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kimu HIGASHIMOTO, Junko SAITO, Tetsuhiro SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140050877
    Abstract: There is provided an optical information recording medium including a plurality of laminated resin layers, and an inorganic layer that is formed in an interface between the resin layers. Storage elastic moduli are different when the interface is assumed to be a boundary. An information signal is recorded in the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yo Ota, Shiori Tashiro, Koichi Yasuda, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Shinya Narumi, Kenji Takayanagi, Mitsuaki Oyamada, Tetsuhiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20140037921
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes multiple laminated resin layers. At least one of interfaces between the resin layers has a refractive index which gradually changes in a thickness direction of the resin layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yo Ota, Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Shiori Tashiro, Koichi Yasuda, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Mitsuaki Oyamada
  • Patent number: 8634287
    Abstract: An information signal area on an information signal recording surface is provided as pits on a mirror in accordance with modulated information data, and is covered with a metal alloy reflective film. Sections that do not include pits corresponding to the information data are provided in the information signal area, and portions of the metal alloy reflective film on the sections are formed as perforated marks corresponding to the information data. In this case, the reproduction signal amplification level of a prepit signal and the reproduction signal amplitude level of a perforated mark signal can be obtained as substantially equal values by adjusting the depth and width of pits and/or adjusting the width and length of perforated marks. Hence, waveform distortion due to a waveform equalization circuit and variations in binary signals due to displacement of the slice level are reduced so that signals can be stably and reliably detected with the same reading apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Jun Nakano, Takayuki Asahina, Etsuo Shibasaki, Hideo Kawachi
  • Patent number: 8565057
    Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided. The optical recording medium includes a multilayer including an N (N?5) number of interfaces capable of reflecting incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Hirotaka Miyamoto, Jun Nakano, Kouichi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 8526284
    Abstract: A multilayer optical recording medium includes a plurality of interfacial surfaces that reflect an incident light beam, and neighboring ones of the interfacial surfaces has a spacer therebetween. When a light incident surface side is defined as an upper surface side, a different thickness layer unit including the spacers having different thicknesses arranged sequentially is disposed on the lowermost layer side, and the spacers each having a thickness different from the thickness of any one of the spacers arranged in the different thickness layer unit are sequentially arranged above the different thickness layer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8462608
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a durable read-only optical recording medium having less variances in characteristics of a metal reflective film due to a temporal change. [Solving Means] Provided is a read-only optical recording medium (100) including: a substrate (101); an information recording surface onto which information is recorded by combining pits (P) and lands (L); and a metal reflective film (102) that is provided in contact with the information recording surface and represented by Al100-x-zXxZz, where x and z each represent an atomic %, X is constituted of an element including at least Ti, Z is constituted of an element including at least Fe, x is 1.0 to 3.0, and z is 0.05 to 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony DADC Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Jun Nakano, Takehide Endo, Naoki Okawa
  • Patent number: 8379503
    Abstract: An optical information recording reproduction apparatus includes: a first light beam source; a second light beam source emitting a beam with a wavelength shorter than that of the first light beam source; and an object lens condensing the beams from the first and second light beam sources to an optical information recording medium. When information is recorded in the optical information recording medium, a recording beam is emitted from the first light beam source and a beam used to generate a signal for controlling a position of the object lens is emitted from the second light beam source. When the information of the optical information recording medium is reproduced, a reproduction beam is emitted from the second light beam source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayuki Yamatsu, Tetsuhiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20130007781
    Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided. The optical recording medium includes a multilayer including an N (N?5) number of interfaces capable of reflecting incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Hirotaka Miyamoto, Jun Nakano, Kouichi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20120281513
    Abstract: [Object] To enable stable void recording to be performed with lower power than in a case where a conventional void recording method that records hole marks (voids) in a bulk layer is adopted. [Solving Means] First laser light is irradiated onto an optical recording medium in which a plurality of resin layers are formed while the first laser light is focused on a boundary surface of the resin layers, to thus record hole marks onto the boundary surface. Since a recording sensitivity of the hole marks is enhanced at the boundary surface of the resin layers, by recording hole marks onto the boundary surface as described above, laser power requisite for recording can be suppressed as compared to the conventional art. As a result, it becomes unnecessary to use a special laser such as a short-pulse laser, and even if a CW laser (CW: Continuous Wave) is used, a recording speed does not need to be sacrificed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Miyamoto, Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Hisayuki Yamatsu, Hiroshi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 8305870
    Abstract: An optical information recording method includes emitting light having a wavelength ?1 from a first light source with a pulse width of time tw1 or more and power P1, emitting light having a wavelength ?2 from a second light source with a pulse width of time tw2, a repetition interval T, and power P2, and performing information recording by simultaneously irradiating an identical part of a recording medium with the light from the first light source and the light from the second light source, in which the wavelength ?1 and the wavelength ?2 satisfy ?1>500 nm>?2 and ?0 which is expressed as 1/?1+1/?2=1/?0 satisfies a relationship of ?0<300 nm, and emission of the first light source and emission of the second light source satisfy relationships of tw2<tw1, T<tw1, and P2>P1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Hisayuki Yamatsu
  • Publication number: 20120196077
    Abstract: [Object] To enable stable void recording to be performed with lower power than in a case where a conventional void (hole) recording method is adopted. [Solving Means] Provided is an optical recording medium including a recording layer in which a plurality of boundary surfaces of resin layers are formed, and intervals of the boundary surfaces are set to be equal to or smaller than a focal depth of recording light. A recording sensitivity of hole marks is enhanced at the boundary surfaces of the resin layers. Therefore, by providing the recording layer in which the boundary surfaces are provided at intervals equal to or smaller than the focal depth of recording light as described above, that is, the recording layer is practically filled with the boundary surfaces, the hole mark recording sensitivity of the recording layer can be enhanced as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Hirotaka Miyamoto, Yoshihiro Takemoto, Hisayuki Yamatsu
  • Patent number: 8187689
    Abstract: A pirated optical recording medium may be determined which is produced by physically transferring a shape of pits and lands formed on a substrate of an optical recording medium. The optical recording medium is provided with excellent weatherability and long-term storage reliability. A reflective film formed of an Ag alloy film of Ag100-x-yXxCuy, where X is at least one element among Ti, W, Ta, V, Mo, Nb and Zr, is formed on a substrate on which main data is recorded with a combination of pits and lands. A mark may be formed so that a reproduction signal level in the recorded mark of auxiliary data write once recorded on the reflective film is increased, and a reproduction signal level is decreased in an optical recording medium prepared by physically transferring the surface shape of the pits and lands of the substrate. A pirated optical recording medium may be determined in this manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Jun Nakano, Naoki Okawa, Junichi Nakai, Yuki Tauchi
  • Publication number: 20120113789
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a durable read-only optical recording medium having less variances in characteristics of a metal reflective film due to a temporal change. [Solving Means] Provided is a read-only optical recording medium (100) including: a substrate (101); an information recording surface onto which information is recorded by combining pits (P) and lands (L); and a metal reflective film (102) that is provided in contact with the information recording surface and represented by Al100-x-zXxZz, where x and z each represent an atomic %, X is constituted of an element including at least Ti, Z is constituted of an element including at least Fe, x is 1.0 to 3.0, and z is 0.05 to 1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: SONY DADC CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Jun Nakano, Takehide Endo, Naoki Okawa
  • Publication number: 20120092977
    Abstract: An optical recording medium includes a recording layer in which recording of a mark is selectively performed in a depth direction by irradiation of first light, and the mark is formed in multilayer form; and a reflection film reflecting second light of a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first light, and provided on a lower layer side of the recording layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Hisayuki Yamatsu, Hirotaka Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20120008484
    Abstract: An optical information recording reproduction apparatus includes: a first light beam source; a second light beam source emitting a beam with a wavelength shorter than that of the first light beam source; and an object lens condensing the beams from the first and second light beam sources to an optical information recording medium. When information is recorded in the optical information recording medium, a recording beam is emitted from the first light beam source and a beam used to generate a signal for controlling a position of the object lens is emitted from the second light beam source. When the information of the optical information recording medium is reproduced, a reproduction beam is emitted from the second light beam source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayuki Yamatsu, Tetsuhiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20110310723
    Abstract: An optical information recording method includes emitting light having a wavelength ?1 from a first light source with a pulse width of time tw1 or more and power P1, emitting light having a wavelength ?2 from a second light source with a pulse width of time tw2, a repetition interval T, and power P2, and performing information recording by simultaneously irradiating an identical part of a recording medium with the light from the first light source and the light from the second light source, in which the wavelength ?1 and the wavelength ?2 satisfy ?1>500 nm>?2 and ?0 which is expressed as 1/?1+1/?2=1/?0 satisfies a relationship of ?0<300 nm, and emission of the first light source and emission of the second light source satisfy relationships of tw2<tw1, T<tw1, and P2>P1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Hisayuki Yamatsu
  • Publication number: 20110258653
    Abstract: A multilayer optical recording medium includes a plurality of interfacial surfaces that reflect an incident light beam, and neighboring ones of the interfacial surfaces has a spacer therebetween. When a light incident surface side is defined as an upper surface side, a different thickness layer unit including the spacers having different thicknesses arranged sequentially is disposed on the lowermost layer side, and the spacers each having a thickness different from the thickness of any one of the spacers arranged in the different thickness layer unit are sequentially arranged above the different thickness layer unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7972673
    Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided. The optical recording medium includes at least a reflective film and a cover layer on a substrate; main data by a combination of pit and land are recorded on the substrate; a write-once recording is made to be possible on the reflective film by irradiating a laser light; sub-data are recorded by a mark that is formed by the irradiation of laser light for the write-once recording with respect to the reflective film; a reproducing signal level at portion where said mark is formed increases for the land of specified length; the mark by which the reproduced level decreases at the portion where the mark is formed is formed for an optical disc recording medium manufactured by physical copy; the reflective film is composed of an Ag-alloy film of Ag100-xXx(0<x<100); and the X is selected from Ti, W, Ta, V, Mo, Nb and Zr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Takashi Shimouma, Shigeki Takagawa, Jun Nakano, Goro Fujita