Inventor · Nagoya, JP

Hisashi Yamada

128Patents
22h-index
170Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 15, 1975 → May 4, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6490683B1 Optical disk having electronic watermark, reproducing apparatus thereof and copy protecting method using the same Physics 136 Expired
US6301663A Copy protection apparatus and information recording medium used in this copy protection apparatus Physics 119 Expired
US4432610A Liquid crystal display device Physics 95 Expired
US4491553A Method for producing filler-loaded thermoplastic resin composite Chemistry; Metallurgy 94 Expired
US5903531A Reproduction device for optical disks Physics 73 Expired
US7137012B1 Storage medium and contents protection method using the storage medium Physics 64 Expired
US4830779A Electrically conductive resin composition Electricity 46 Expired
US4800339A Amplifier circuit Electricity 41 Expired
US6144743A Information recording medium, recording apparatus, information transmission system, and decryption apparatus Physics 39 Expired
US5930214A Recording/reproducing optical head apparatus compatible with different optical media Physics 38 Expired
US7065648B1 Mutual authentication method, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and recording medium Physics 36 Expired
US5729510A Optical head used for recording on optical recording medium having various thicknesses, warpage and the like Physics 35 Expired
US6847950B1 Contents managing method and contents managing apparatus Physics 35 Expired
US6795381B2 Multi-body multi-purpose information processing apparatus Physics 34 Expired
US6556679B1 Copy-guard system and information recording medium used in the same system Electricity 34 Expired
US5774078A Single merging bit DC-suppressed run length limited coding Physics 30 Expired
US5325242A Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for decreasing an error rate in recording/reproducing a digital signal Physics 28 Expired
US6159572A Information recording medium and method of manufacturing resinous substrate for use in the recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US6438692B1 Copy protection apparatus and information recording medium used in this copy protection apparatus Physics 24 Expired
US4023053A Variable capacity diode device Electricity 23 Expired
US5987066A Digital data transmitting method Electricity 22 Expired
US5475210A Noise reduction system for optical record and reproduction apparatus using auto-power controlled semiconductor laser device Electricity 22 Expired
US5677801A Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for automatically adjusting a recording current in accordance with the wear of a read head Physics 22 Expired
US4542370A Cascade-comparator A/D converter Electricity 21 Expired
US7181008B1 Contents management method, content management apparatus, and recording medium Physics 21 Expired

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