Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Hitotsui
Yoshihiko Hitotsui 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).
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Patent number: 7325105Abstract: A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and managed in group units in addition to management of the data in track units. By referring to this management information, tracks from a source can be grouped automatically during a variety of recording and playback operations including mainly a search for the beginning of each group, and various kinds of editing work can be done in group units. The recording/playback apparatus is capable of carrying edit processing such as concatenation, division, batch deletion and a move operation on a specified group recorded on a disc used for recording groups each consisting of a plurality of programs.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Patent number: 7295994Abstract: When content data are distributed from an information center via a predetermined communication line to a terminal apparatus loaded with a recording medium recorded with its identifier and prepaid information, the information center manages the usable remaining amount of money in the recording medium loaded in the terminal apparatus and updates this usable remaining amount of money every time content data are distributed. Further, if the usable remaining amount of money is smaller than the price of the content data distributed from the information center, the information center instructs the terminal apparatus to load another recording medium having a usable remaining amount of money sufficient to cover the content data to be distributed. Still further, a remaining recordable capacity of a recording medium loaded in the terminal apparatus is transmitted to the information center, and the information center compares the remaining recordable capacity with the size of the data content to be distributed.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tadao Yoshida, Chisato Kitsukawa, Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Patent number: 7080233Abstract: A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and managed in group units in addition to management of the data in track units. By referring to this management information, tracks from a source can be grouped automatically during a variety of recording and playback operations including mainly a search for the beginning of each group, and various kinds of editing work can be done in group units. The recording/playback apparatus is capable of carrying edit processing such as concatenation, division, batch deletion and a move operation on a specified group recorded on a disc used for recording groups each consisting of a plurality of programs.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Publication number: 20050157602Abstract: A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and managed in group units in addition to management of the data in track units. By referring to this management information, tracks from a source can be grouped automatically during a variety of recording and playback operations including mainly a search for the beginning of each group, and various kinds of editing work can be done in group units. The recording/playback apparatus is capable of carrying edit processing such as concatenation, division, batch deletion and a move operation on a specified group recorded on a disc used for recording groups each consisting of a plurality of programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Publication number: 20050157601Abstract: A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and managed in group units in addition to management of the data in track units. By referring to this management information, tracks from a source can be grouped automatically during a variety of recording and playback operations including mainly a search for the beginning of each group, and various kinds of editing work can be done in group units. The recording/playback apparatus is capable of carrying edit processing such as concatenation, division, batch deletion and a move operation on a specified group recorded on a disc used for recording groups each consisting of a plurality of programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Patent number: 6915377Abstract: A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and managed in group units in addition to management of the data in track units. By referring to this management information, tracks from a source can be grouped automatically during a variety of recording and playback operations including mainly a search for the beginning of each group, and various kinds of editing work can be done in group units. The recording/playback apparatus is capable of carrying edit processing such as concatenation, division, batch deletion and a move operation on a specified group recorded on a disc used for recording groups each consisting of a plurality of programs.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2001Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Publication number: 20050033661Abstract: When content data are distributed from an information center via a predetermined communication line to a terminal apparatus loaded with a recording medium recorded with its identifier and prepaid information, the information center manages the usable remaining amount of money in the recording medium loaded in the terminal apparatus and updates this usable remaining amount of money every time content data are distributed. Further, if the usable remaining amount of money is smaller than the price of the content data distributed from the information center, the information center instructs the terminal apparatus to load another recording medium having a usable remaining amount of money sufficient to cover the content data to be distributed. Still further, a remaining recordable capacity of a recording medium loaded in the terminal apparatus is transmitted to the information center, and the information center compares the remaining recordable capacity with the size of the data content to be distributed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2004Publication date: February 10, 2005Inventors: Tadao Yoshida, Chisato Kitsukawa, Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Publication number: 20020042777Abstract: The present invention is characterized by that, when content data are distributed from an information center via a predetermined communication line to a terminal apparatus loaded with a recording medium recorded with its identifier and prepaid information, the information center manages the usable remaining amount of money in the recording medium loaded in the terminal apparatus and updates this usable remaining amount of money every time content data are distributed. Further, if the usable remaining amount of money is smaller than the price of the content data distributed from the information center, the information center instructs the terminal apparatus to load another recording medium having a usable remaining amount of money enough for covering the content data to be distributed. Still further, a remaining recordable capacity of a recording medium loaded in the terminal apparatus is transmitted from the same to the information center.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Inventors: Tadao Yoshida, Chisato Kitsukawa, Yoshihiko Hitotsui
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Publication number: 20020021629Abstract: A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and managed in group units in addition to management of the data in track units. By referring to this management information, tracks from a source can be grouped automatically during a variety of recording and playback operations including mainly a search for the beginning of each group, and various kinds of editing work can be done in group units. The recording/playback apparatus is capable of carrying edit processing such as concatenation, division, batch deletion and a move operation on a specified group recorded on a disc used for recording groups each consisting of a plurality of programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihiko Hitotsui