Inventor · Yokohama, JP

Takao Arai

140Patents
24h-index
152Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 9, 1977 → Sep 4, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5627655A Recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus for video signals Electricity 104 Expired
US4539615A Azimuthal magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus Physics 93 Expired
US6674858B1 Receiving device, recording and reproducing device and receiving/recording-reproducing system for digital broadcast signal Electricity 82 Expired
US4682332A Method and apparatus for recording digital signals Physics 61 Expired
US6631505B2 Simulation circuit for MOS transistor, simulation testing method, netlist of simulation circuit and storage medium storing same Electricity 61 Expired
US5912969A Information receiving and recording/reproducing apparatus/method having function for limiting/delimiting for protecting copyright of recording information Electricity 61 Expired
US6404781B1 Data transmission method for embedded data, data transmitting and reproducing apparatuses and information recording medium therefor Electricity 48 Expired
US4541091A Code error detection and correction method and apparatus Electricity 47 Expired
US4309726A Muting circuit in a PCM recording and reproducing apparatus Physics 45 Expired
US7087396B2 Monoclonal antibody and method and kit for immunoassay of soluble human ST2 Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US5719943A Digital information signal transmitting/receiving method and system Electricity 43 Expired
US5343455A Digital signal overlapped or joined recording method and apparatus Physics 42 Expired
US4961204A PCM signal generating/reproducing apparatus Physics 36 Expired
US6535614B1 Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing electronic watermark information, and recording medium Electricity 34 Expired
US4646301A Decoding method and system for doubly-encoded Reed-Solomon codes Electricity 32 Expired
US5699370A Information recording and reproduction apparatus to be controlled by temporal information Electricity 30 Expired
US4562549A Digital player using a pulse width detector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US5528574A Disk reproducing apparatus capable of increasing speed of access to disks recorded at constant linear velocity Physics 29 Expired
US6434322B1 Reproducing method and apparatus, for a video signal having copy control information Electricity 29 Expired
US4934003A Device for transferring the disabled Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US6711276B1 Control method and apparatus for embedding information in data Physics 26 Expired
US4942487A Apparatus for recording/reproducing a digital signal at variable speeds Physics 26 Expired
US4622600A Rotary-head type PCM data recording/reproducing method and apparatus with a redundancy-reduced control data format Physics 25 Expired
US4716567A Method of transmitting digital data in which error detection codes are dispersed using alternate delay times Electricity 24 Expired
US5532835A Tracking control in apparatus for fast reproducing digital information signal from magnetic tape Electricity 24 Expired

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