Patents by Inventor Yukio Shirako

Yukio Shirako 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: 5982727
    Abstract: In an optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus having a device for seeking a predetermined position on a postscript type optical disc, a device for reading recorded data from the disc, and a device for recording data and a time table on predetermined data area and table area of the disc, respectively, a method of recording the time table comprising the steps of: reading position data corresponding to a position of each recorded data on the disc; detecting remaining data area on which no data is recorded; dividing the remaining data area into a plurality of small areas; and recording the position data of each recorded data and each small area on the time table area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Kondo, Yukio Shirako, Teruhito Noshiro
  • Patent number: 5612941
    Abstract: A command from a remote terminal of an editor is supplied to a system controller in an information reproducer. The system controller controls a control circuit and a reproducing circuit, and sets address information in an address output circuit. During virtual reproduction, the system controller sets virtual address information in the address output circuit, and the virtual address information signal is output to an address input terminal of the editor. A reproduced information signal from the reproducing circuit is supplied to an information input terminal of the editor via an information output circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Shirako, Yoshio Kishi, Yukihiro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Fujikura
  • Patent number: 5295124
    Abstract: An optical recording apparatus employing a method of halting a recording operation halfway a unitary frame of additional information and capable of realizing an exact operation in recording the additional information at the joint of preceding and present record portions. Out of the last unitary frame of the additional information in the preceding operation, the remaining information portion not included in the preceding record is generated, at the beginning of an additional recording mode, by an address information generator 4 from the content stored in an address information memory 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yukio Shirako