Patents by Inventor Yoshinari Yokochi

Yoshinari Yokochi 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: 7239596
    Abstract: There is disclosed an optical pickup device including: a blue semiconductor laser which emits a first laser light having a wavelength of 450 nm or less to record on or reproduce from an extra-high density optical disc; a red semiconductor laser which emits a second laser light having a wavelength longer than that of the first laser light to record on or reproduce from a DVD having a low recording density; an objective lens; and an aberration correction element. The objective lens is designed for the extra-high density optical disc, and has a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.75 or more. The aberration correction element passes the first laser light as such and thereafter allows the light to be incident upon the objective lens, whereas the element limits an aperture with respect to the second laser light and diffracts the second laser light so as to correct an aberration with respect to the DVD and thereafter allows the light to be incident upon the objective lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Ryo Saitoh, Fumihiko Ito, Yoshinari Yokochi, Makoto Itonaga
  • Publication number: 20040233821
    Abstract: There is disclosed an optical pickup device including: a blue semiconductor laser which emits a first laser light having a wavelength of 450 nm or less to record on or reproduce from an extra-high density optical disc; a red semiconductor laser which emits a second laser light having a wavelength longer than that of the first laser light to record on or reproduce from a DVD having a low recording density; an objective lens; and an aberration correction element. The objective lens is designed for the extra-high density optical disc, and has a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.75 or more. The aberration correction element passes the first laser light as such and thereafter allows the light to be incident upon the objective lens, whereas the element limits an aperture with respect to the second laser light and diffracts the second laser light so as to correct an aberration with respect to the DVD and thereafter allows the light to be incident upon the objective lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Ryo Saitoh, Fumihiko Ito, Yoshinari Yokochi, Makoto Itonaga
  • Patent number: 6527173
    Abstract: The CGH (computer generated hologram) readout section (4) reproduces an image of the CGH (28), which is formed in the data storage area (52) of the crude card (26). The CGH certifying section (5) judges whether the card is genuine or fake and obtains an ID (identification) information. In a case that the card is genuine, the ID information is supplied to the data processing section (6). The data processing section (6) inputs a personal information of a person to be a cardholder and also inputs a face picture of the person. These data are registered in the database (2) in response to the ID information. A part of or all of the personal information is outputted to the IC reader/writer (8) and written into the IC module (53). Further, a part of the personal information and the face picture are outputted to the color printer (7) as a printing information and printed on the surface of the crude card (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Narusawa, Kazunori Namiki, Toshiro Kohno, Tadashi Aizawa, Yoshinari Yokochi, Haruo Matsuo, Manabu Sakane
  • Patent number: 6252685
    Abstract: A phase watermark hologram “W” is composed of a blaze having binary phase difference of 2&pgr;×n, where “n” is a natural number of more than 1. An watermark appears in response to phase difference, which changes by a faked blaze. A phase watermark hologram “W” and a phase hologram “D” indicating data are formed on a same surface of a substrate mixed in arbitrary locations and arbitrary ratio of both holograms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Yokochi