Inventor · Osaka, JP

Masahiro Honjo

46Patents
15h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 3, 1981 → Jul 11, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5432769A Apparatus for intermittently recording or reproducing variable length coded video data Electricity 126 Expired
US5223949A Coding means for a signal processing system Electricity 82 Expired
US5337088A Method of correcting an image signal decoded in block units Electricity 81 Expired
US4963991A Video tape recorder capable of recording both narrow band and wideband signals Electricity 62 Expired
US5596421A Optical disk recorder for video signals and an optical disk for use therein Electricity 51 Expired
US4812783A Phase locked loop circuit with quickly recoverable stability Electricity 45 Expired
US6321027A Video signal recorder and method of recording video signals Electricity 42 Expired
US5557331A Image encoding method, an image encoding circuit, an image encoding apparatus, and an optical disk Electricity 37 Expired
US5787225A Optical disk apparatus for the reproduction of compressed data Electricity 30 Expired
US5491514A Coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, coding-decoding apparatus for video signals, and optical disks conforming thereto Electricity 21 Expired
US4908581A Frequency demodulator having circuit cancelling undesired signal components Electricity 21 Expired
US5387938A Adaptive interframe/intraframe block coding method and apparatus Electricity 20 Expired
US6006007A Optical disk apparatus for recording and reproducing compression encoded video signal Electricity 16 Expired
US4695900A Magnetic recording and playback apparatus for teletext signals Electricity 15 Expired
US4931858A Waveform improving apparatus Electricity 15 Expired
US5892550A Television signal conversion system and image encoding and decoding system Electricity 15 Expired
US4623940A Magnetic reproducing apparatus Electricity 13 Expired
US4451860A Tracking-error correcting system in a video reproducing apparatus Physics 12 Expired
US5627809A Optical disk device having high-speed reproduction capability Electricity 10 Expired
US5568459A Optical disk apparatus and optical disk having a hard address mark area Physics 10 Expired
US4489352A Video tape recording/reproducing apparatus having an auto tracking function Physics 9 Expired
US4590523A Control of auto-tracking in tracking-error correcting system of video recording/reproducing apparatus Physics 8 Expired
US5218448A Signal reproducing apparatus Electricity 7 Expired
US5319468A Image signal recording and reproducing system with use of bandwidth compression coding Electricity 7 Expired
US5379120A Optical disk apparatus for selectively recording and reproducing signals having different bit rates Electricity 7 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.