Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Kitamura

Tetsuya Kitamura 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: 6167002
    Abstract: A table of a management region on the disc contains a disc identifier that represents the type of the data recording format of the disc, a number-of-disc-sides identifier that represents whether the disc is a single-sided disc or a double-sided disc, and a disc side identifier that represents whether the reproducing disc is side A or side B of a double-sided disc. A disc identifier 4 that represents the type of the data recording format of the file is recorded in a file (n) table including management information of the file. A reproducing apparatus reads the disc identifiers from the PVD table and the file (n) table and determines whether or not the disc and the file are reproducible. In addition, the reproducing apparatus reads the number-of-disc-sides identifier 2 from the PVD table and determines whether or not the disc is a double-sided disc or a single-sided disc. When the disc is a double-sided disc, the reproducing apparatus determines whether the reproducing side is side A or side B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Taira, Hideki Mimura, Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6118927
    Abstract: In a super density optical disk for storing video data, wherein video data is compressed to packs defined in MPEG and trains of the packs are stored in a video object unit. The video object unit includes a navigation pack which is placed at the head of the pack train. In a data cell, a plurality of video object units, each being reproduced within a predetermined period, are arranged and a cell playback information table describes a cell playback information which defines a playback order of the cells. The navigation pack has an area storing playback information for reproducing each video object unit and search information for indicating the relationship with other video object units. The data cells and the cell playback information table are stored in the optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Takeo Arafune, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira, Yuzo Tamada
  • Patent number: 6094414
    Abstract: A table a management region on the disc contains a disc identifier that represents the type of the data recording format of the disc, a number-of-disc-sides identifier that represents whether the disc is a single-sided disc or a double-sided disc, and a disc side identifier that represents whether the reproducing disc is side A or side B of a double-sided disc. A disc identifier that represents the type of the data recording format of the file is recorded in a file (n) table including management information of the file. A reproducing apparatus reads the disc identifiers the PVD table and the file (n) table and determines whether or not the disc and the file are reproducible. In addition, the reproducing apparatus reads the number-of-disc-sides identifier from the PVD table and determines whether or not the disc is a double-sided disc or a single-sided disc. When the disc is a double-sided disc, the reproducing apparatus determines whether the reproducing side is side A or side B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Taira, Hideki Mimura, Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6081208
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6047086
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6044175
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6031963
    Abstract: A sub-picture packet is encoded using a packet header containing a time stamp, sub-picture data containing compressed pixel data, one or more display control sequences, and a sub-picture unit header. The time stamp indicates the playback start time of the sub-picture packet. The display control sequence defines the order of display of the sub-picture data. The sub-picture unit header indicates the size of the sub-picture packet and the location of the display control sequence. The encoded sub-picture packet is decoded, and displayed based on the display control sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Tae Aoki, Toshiaki Shirasuna, Hideki Mimura
  • Patent number: 6026232
    Abstract: A method and system in which a section of a previously encoded digital bit stream is replaced with another section of encoded video. In order to remove a section of encoded video, it is necessary to determine the beginning and ending points of the encoded video in the digitally encoded bit stream. The addresses of the beginning and ending points of the encoded data cannot be simply looked up but are calculated by summing the bits consumed by each picture, the number of bits of the sequence header of each picture, the number of bits of each Group of Pictures (GOP) header, and all stuff bits. In order to encode the video which is to be inserted in place of the removed video, a process is performed which prevents decoding artifacts from appearing. This is accomplished by determining the last P-picture before the edit point and using it as a reference frame for frames after the edit point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P.
    Inventors: Jay Yogeshwar, Sheau-Bao Ng, Teiichi Ichikawa, Hiroaki Unno, Hideki Mimura, Tetsuya Kitamura, Christopher J. Cookson, Greg B. Thagard, Andrew Drusin Rosen
  • Patent number: 6021226
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6018594
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6016363
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6016364
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6011867
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 6009202
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 5999160
    Abstract: A sub image display control system is composed of two sub image display control portions that are a display region control portion and a display timing control portion and a display output portion. A sub image data packet is composed of three types of data that are a sub image header, sub image display data, and sub image control data. In this structure, display spatial loss and display temporal loss can be remarkably reduced and sub images with wide applicability can be accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Shinichi Kikuchi, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 5995667
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira
  • Patent number: 5980023
    Abstract: To provide a recording apparatus that is capable of recording high quality images free from density unevenness, a recording electrode used in the recording apparatus is formed from an electrically insulating base film formed with a plurality of apertures, and control electrodes formed on the front surface of the base film to surround each of the plurality of apertures. To obtain the base film which is not likely to be scratched or wrinkled, a product of the modulus of elasticity of the base film and the thickness thereof to the third power needs to be more than 0.008 kg.multidot.mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 5898447
    Abstract: An aperture electrode member includes an insulating sheet having a plurality of apertures formed in a row therein, and a control electrode formed on the insulating sheet on the upper side of each of the apertures. On the face of the insulating sheet opposite to the face on which the apertures are formed, a coating layer serving as an oxide fine particle layer is formed at portions of insulating sheet at which the insulating sheet contacts with toner particle carried on the toner carrying roller. A coating layer can be formed by dispersing carbon serving as an antistatic agent and oxide fine particle silica serving as a fluidity increasing agent into a binder, applying the mixture to the insulating sheet to form a film and baking to harden it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Masaki Takatsugi
  • Patent number: 5870523
    Abstract: In a super density optical disk for storing video data, wherein data video is compressed to packs defined in MPEG and trains of the packs are stored in a video object unit. The video object unit includes a navigation pack which is placed at the head of the pack train. In a data cell, a plurality of video object units, each being reproduced within a predetermined period, are arranged and a cell playback information table describes a cell playback information which defines a playback order of the cells. The navigation pack has an area storing playback information for reproducing each video object unit and search information for indicating the relationship with other video object units. The data cells and the cell playback information table are stored in the optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Takeo Arafune, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira, Yuzo Tamada
  • Patent number: 5845021
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira