Patents by Inventor Yuji Hatanaka

Yuji Hatanaka 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).

  • Publication number: 20010033586
    Abstract: In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracted from the digital broadcasting signal. Then, the separated/extracted broadcasting signal is supplied to a recording/reproducing apparatus. In the recording/reproducing apparatus, the supplied broadcasting signal is recorded, and the recorded program can be immediately reproduced without complicated manipulating operations during the signal reproducing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: Satoru Takashimizu, Yuji Yamamoto, Kenji Katsumata, Takumi Okamura, Takuya Matsumoto, Shuko Sei, Yuji Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 6185228
    Abstract: In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracted from the digital broadcasting signal. Then, the separated/extracted broadcasting signal is supplied to a recording/reproducing apparatus. In the recording/reproducing apparatus, the supplied broadcasting signal is recorded, and the recorded program can be immediately reproduced without complicated manipulating operations during the signal reproducing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Takashimizu, Yuji Yamamoto, Kenji Katsumata, Takumi Okamura, Takuya Matsumoto, Shuko Sei, Yuji Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 6085023
    Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes an input circuit for inputting the digital signal, an identification information addition circuit for adding recording identification information indicative of recording identification for the digital signal input through the input circuit, a recording circuit for recoding the digital signal with the recording identification information on the recoding medium, a reproducing circuit for reproducing the content of the recording medium, an identification information detecting portion for detecting the identification information from a reproduced signal reproduced by the reproducing circuit for ouputting an identification information detection signal indicative of detection of the identification information, a storage circuit for storing the reproduced signal, a time stamp detection circuit for detecting the time stamp from the reproduced signal stored in the storage circuit, an output control circuit for generating a timing for reading the reproduced signal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Hatanaka, Yasunori Ohara, Hiroaki Tachibana, Yoshio Yamada, Nobutaka Amada, Hiroo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 5719943
    Abstract: A digital information signal transmitting/receiving method and system having a transmitter for transmitting an encrypted digital information signal and a plurality of receivers for receiving the encrypted digital information signal from the transmitter. The transmitter simultaneously distributes a plurality of identification codes associated with the receivers at a time ahead of the digital information signal. The receivers detect whether a particular identification code assigned to the receiver was included within a received plurality of identification codes. When the particular identification code has been detected as having been received the received encrypted digital information signal is decrypted into the original digital information. In order to request that a particular identification code be included so as to allow access to a program, either one of the receivers or the recorders each generate an information request signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Amada, Shigeru Yamazaki, Takaharu Noguchi, Hideo Nishijima, Hiroaki Ono, Hiroo Okamoto, Hitoaki Owashi, Takao Arai, Yuji Hatanaka, Seiichi Saito
  • Patent number: 5285289
    Abstract: An apparatus for recording and reproducing a video signal and a PCM audio data sampled by a sampling frequency being asynchronous to a field frequency of a video signal. The apparatus enables to record and reproduce the digital data formatted at each field. The apparatus includes an address control circuit for switching the number of sample values to be recorded per field and a clock generating circuit. The clock generating circuit provides a VCO for forcibly stopping the switching of the number of the sample values, keeping the number of the sample values constant and generating a sampling clock being synchronous to a field frequency, based on a signal sent from an input terminal for a selecting signal. When recording a different digital data from the PCM audio data, the sampling clock sent from the clock generating circuit is used in the address control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Hatanaka, Shinichi Obata, Toshifumi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 5260840
    Abstract: A segmentation system in which, in recording a PCM audio signal on a magnetic tape or the like, a signal divided in 5 per field is divided into 4 segments per field with high capabilities of error correction and a mean value interpolation for burst errors etc. Regarding the signal of a deep-layer record PCM format, in which each subframe (3 in FIGS. 1(a)-1(c)) is formed of 30 blocks of only even data or odd data and in which data frames (4) each including 1 subframe of the even data and 1 subframe of the odd data in combination are formed in the number of 5 per frame, the even data items are arranged in the first half part of a PCM record area on the tape, and the odd data items in the latter half part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Hatanaka, Toshifumi Takeuchi, Takao Arai
  • Patent number: 4943964
    Abstract: PCM signals belonging to a first reproduction channel and a second reproduction channel and grouped into odd number data and even number data are previously recorded on a recording medium having a plurality of tracks in the form of frames each including at least a set of a first track and a second track. In the operation of reproducing the recorded PCM data, the PCM data reproduced by reproduction heads are stored in accordance with a first control signal, errors in the stored reproduced data are detected in accordance with a second control signal, the numbers of errors are counted, comparison is made between the error number of the odd number data and that of the even number data of the first channel and of the second channel, respectively, and the data which has been judged to include a larger number of errors are replaced by interpolated data and finally the interpolated data are mute-processed at the boundary between adjacent frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Pioneer Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hatanaka, Hiroo Okamoto, Shin-ichi Wakumura, Ichiro Miyake, Shunichiro Sakamoto