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Minoru Tobita
Also filed as: TOBITA MINORU
39 granted patents·2 pending applications·705 citations·filing 1989–2006
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41 records- 0195US6128272ARecording mediumSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 3, 2000·84 cites·57 claims
- 0294US6310851B1Frequency demodulating circuit, optical disk apparatus thereof and preformating deviceSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 30, 2001·55 cites·13 claims
- 0392US6215758B1Recording mediumSONY CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 10, 2001·62 cites·61 claims
- 0491US5363352AMagneto-optic disk apparatusSONY CORP·Filed 1993·Granted Nov 8, 1994·52 cites·6 claims
- 0587US6385257B1Frequency demodulating circuit, optical disk apparatus thereof and preformating deviceSONY CORP·Filed 1998·Granted May 7, 2002·44 cites·8 claims
- 0686US5592454AData reproducing apparatus which replaces vendor unique identification data in response to a reference error correction rate which is lower than that used for replacement of other dataSONY CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Jan 7, 1997·38 cites·4 claims
- 0785US6914544B2Modulation apparatus and method and DSV control bit generation methodSONY CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 5, 2005·14 cites·20 claims
- 0884US6965329B2Modulation apparatus and method, and DSV-control-bit generating methodSONY CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 15, 2005·4 cites·1 claims
- 0984US5506827ADigital data reproducing apparatusSONY CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Apr 9, 1996·35 cites·4 claims
- 1082US5151905AData recording methodSONY CORP·Filed 1989·Granted Sep 29, 1992·29 cites·7 claims
- 1181US5469415AOptical information recording or reproducing apparatus with asymmetry compensationSONY CORP·Filed 1993·Granted Nov 21, 1995·30 cites·8 claims
- 1280US6950042B2Modulating apparatus and method, and DSV control bit producing methodSONY CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 27, 2005·14 cites·20 claims
- 1378US7224656B2Disc detection device and associated methodSONY CORP·Filed 2005·Granted May 29, 2007·3 cites·7 claims
- 1478US6982660B2Modulation apparatus and method, and DSV-control-bit generating methodSONY CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 3, 2006·8 cites·1 claims
- 1577US7626912B2Optical recording medium, reproduction apparatus and reproduction methodSONY CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 1, 2009·3 cites·20 claims
- 1673US5978350AOptical disc and optical disc driving deviceSONY CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 2, 1999·19 cites·24 claims
- 1772US6327240B1Optical disc and optical disc driveSONY CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 4, 2001·20 cites·3 claims
- 1871US5721873AData reproducing apparatusSONY CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 24, 1998·18 cites·11 claims
- 1970US6765860B2Optical disc and optical driveSONY CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 20, 2004·6 cites·14 claims
- 2069US6678223B2Frequency demodulating circuit, optical disk apparatus thereof and preformating deviceSONY CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 13, 2004·6 cites·3 claims
- 2169US5812512AData reproducing apparatus which prohibits illegitimate access to data using an internal IDSONY CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Sep 22, 1998·16 cites·5 claims
- 2269US5781565AData recording/reproducing method, data reproducing apparatus and recording mediumSONY CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Jul 14, 1998·21 cites·24 claims
- 2369US5761171AGenerating data detecting threshold levels from reference patterns recorded in an optical disk, such as a magneto-optical diskSONY CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 2, 1998·21 cites·47 claims
- 2468US5675586ARecord medium, and method for recording to and reproducing from a record mediumSONY CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 7, 1997·20 cites·45 claims
- 2567US5469420AMulti-value recorded data detecting methodSONY CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Nov 21, 1995·16 cites·5 claims
- 2662US6282162B1Optical disc and optical disc driving deviceSONY CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 28, 2001·12 cites·1 claims
- 2760US7355929B2Magneto-optical disk and recording and/or reproducing method and recording and/or reproducing apparatus using the magneto-optical diskSONY CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 8, 2008·4 cites·50 claims
- 2860US6320839B1Optical information recording medium, optical information recording method and optical information recording apparatusSONY CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 20, 2001·14 cites·6 claims
- 2960US5295130AApparatus and method for signal reproductionSONY CORP·Filed 1991·Granted Mar 15, 1994·18 cites·6 claims
- 3057US7554900B2Disc-shaped recording medium, method and apparatus for manufacturing same and data recording methodSONY CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 30, 2009·0 cites·4 claims
- 3156US6958713B2Modulation apparatus and method, and DSV-control-bit generating methodSONY CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 25, 2005·2 cites·1 claims
- 3255US6751166B2Phase error detection method for magnetic wall displacement type of magneto-optical recording deviceSONY CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 15, 2004·2 cites·16 claims
- 3352US7002894B2Disc-shaped recording medium, manufacturing method and manufacturing device thereof, and data recording methodSONY CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 21, 2006·1 cites·9 claims
- 3447US7256718B2Modulation apparatus and methodSONY CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 14, 2007·4 cites·15 claims
- 3546US7263708B2Cartridge type recording medium, associated apparatus and methodology of disc detectionSONY CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 28, 2007·0 cites·4 claims
- 3645US2006227671A1Content distribution system, content providing medium production method, content acquisition apparatus, and content aquisition methodSONY CORP·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
- 3743US5654948ADisc apparatus for recording/reproducing with zone constant angular velocitySONY CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 5, 1997·5 cites·8 claims
- 3843US5136564APit pattern detecting apparatus and methodSONY CORP·Filed 1990·Granted Aug 4, 1992·5 cites·13 claims
- 3940US7110328B2Recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information to and from a magneto-optical storage mediumSONY CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 19, 2006·0 cites·10 claims
- 4040US2005163029A1Recording medium recording medium reproduction method recording medium reproduction device unique identification recording method and recording medium recording deviceSONY CORP·Filed 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 4137US8223619B2Optical recording medium, reproduction apparatus, and tracking servo methodSHIOURA KUNIHIRO·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 17, 2012·0 cites·1 claims
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