Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Nonomura

Tomoyuki Nonomura 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: 7302168
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 7187851
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 7187850
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20060239662
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20060239663
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 6993133
    Abstract: A data recording and reproduction apparatus is provided with a stream attribute decision means for deciding whether an audio data stream supplied from an outside source is compressed or not. A compression ID flag having a value according to the result of the compression decision is attached to the audio data stream, and the flag-attached audio data stream is written in a stream storage unit. Therefore, a watermark can be inserted in a compressed audio data stream after reading the compressed audio data stream from the stream storage unit, whereby the time required for writing the compressed audio data stream in the stream storage unit is reduced, and the quality of analog audio data obtained by reproducing the compressed audio data stream is prevented from being degraded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Masataka Minami, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20050201732
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 6907188
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20030108338
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 6574419
    Abstract: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces of still picture data. The reproduction control information has flag information representing specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mori, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 6529506
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus is provided with a data obtaining unit which receives a network signal sn on a network N and obtains distributed audio data Dau in which copyright information or the like is embedded, and a control unit which obtains information indicating a watermarking method which has been used when embedding the copyright information or the like in the audio data. The embedded information is extracted by an appropriate watermarking method according to the obtained information indicating the used watermarking method. The extracted information is again embedded in the distributed audio data Dau by using a predetermined watermarking method, and thus obtained audio data is recorded on a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masataka Minami, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 6493503
    Abstract: A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area includes sub-areas. Each sub-area includes addresses of objects selected from the objects in the data area, a flag indicating a random reproduction of the objects selected, and a number of repeats of the random reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ld.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Kaoru Murase, Katsuhiko Miwa
  • Publication number: 20020061186
    Abstract: A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area includes sub-areas. Each sub-area includes addresses of objects selected from the objects in the data area, a flag indicating a random reproduction of the objects selected, and a number of repeats of the random reproduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Kaoru Murase, Katsuhiko Miwa
  • Patent number: 6356703
    Abstract: A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area includes sub-areas. Each sub-area includes addresses of objects selected from the objects in the data area, a flag indicating a random reproduction of the objects selected, and a number of repeats of the random reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Kaoru Murase, Katsuhiko Miwa
  • Patent number: 6229952
    Abstract: A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area includes sub-areas. Each sub-area includes addresses of objects selected from the objects in the data area, a flag indicating a random reproduction of the objects selected, and a number of repeats of the random reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Kaoru Murase, Katsuhiko Miwa
  • Patent number: 6201928
    Abstract: A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area includes sub-areas. Each sub-area includes addresses of objects selected from the objects in the date area, a flag indicating a random reproduction of the objects selected, and a number of repeats of the random reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Kaoru Murase, Katsuhiko Miwa
  • Patent number: 6118445
    Abstract: The display unit displays an "Author" window and other windows that form a CUI according to control by the display control unit. The input operation unit receives inputs from the editor who views the "Author" and other windows. The window information storage unit stores the attributes of windows displayed by the display unit. The script information storage unit stores a template of scripts, including parameter strings, which conforms to the standards for multimedia optical discs and which is to be used for generating the outputted strings. The control unit interprets the operations received by the input operation unit 1501 and instructs the display control unit to display windows as required, in addition to storing variables that correspond to the parameters in the input data storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Yasushi Uesaka, Kenji Tagawa, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 6046778
    Abstract: To provide a sub-picture unit generation apparatus for generating a plurality of sub-picture units that compose a sub-picture stream which is interleaved with a video stream into a system stream, each sub-picture unit including a subtitle image that is to be superimposed on moving images reproduced from the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Yasushi Uesaka, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 5915067
    Abstract: A multimedia disc made up of a video data storage region and a management information storage region, the video data storage region storing a plurality of video data sequences, each video data sequence having a plurality of video segments of a reproduction period which are recorded in an interleaved manner with a plurality of audio samples, wherein a plurality of sub-pictures and a plurality of control procedures and one audio sample and one sub-picture are reproduced simultaneously with a video segment and wherein each control procedure indicates one video data sequence as a branch address which reflects an interactive operation of a reproduction device during reproduction of a current video data sequence, the management information storage region storing management information comprised of group information which shows which video data sequences have been grouped together to compose a group for which only one of the composing video data sequences is reproduced, a plurality of level identifiers, each of whic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industiral Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Kaoru Murase, Katsuhiko Miwa
  • Patent number: 5734788
    Abstract: A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area includes sub-areas. Each sub-area includes addresses of objects selected from the objects in the data area, a flag indicating a random reproduction of the objects selected, and a number of repeats of the random reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nonomura, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Kaoru Murase, Katsuhiko Miwa