Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

First Screening Co., Ltd.

Other

Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

Yoshito Tsunoda

Takeshi Maeda

Toshimitsu Kaku

Shigeru Nakamura

Kazuo Shigematsu

Toshimitsu Miyauchi

Kimio Tatsuno

Keiji Kataoka

Masahiro Takasago

Yasutsugu Takeda

Hiromichi Fujisawa

Hiroshi Yasuoka

Yasumitsu Mizoguchi

Akira Arimoto

Yoshihisa Kamo

Morishi Izumita

Masaru Ito

Masuo Kasai

Tokuya Kaneda

Zenji Tsutsumi

Susumu Sawano

Yohei Kanazawa

Motoyasu Terao

Susumu Saito

Hitoshi Watanabe

Kazuhisa Fujimoto

Hirofumi Sukeda

Shinya Kobayashi

Seiichi Mita

Norio Ohta

Kenchi Ito

Tetsuya Nishida

Yumiko Anzai

Toshihisa Tsukada

Tatsuya Sugita

Teruaki Mitsuya

Yoshitada Oshida

Seiji Yonezawa

Shigeo Moriyama

Shunichi Torii

Takeshi Mochizuki

Hitoshi Kakuta

Kunikazu Ohnishi

Hisashi Nakamura

Toshiaki Tsuyoshi

Takeshi Nakao

Yoshizumi Eto

Hiroyuki Tsuchinaga

Nobuyoshi Hoshi

Hajime Aoi

Wasao Takasugi

Yasuo Takuma

Mamoru Okano

Masatoshi Ohtake

Yasuhide Ouchi

Masahiko Takahashi

Toshinori Sugiyama

Toshimasa Kamisada

Ryo Imura

Kunio Aiki

Seiji Maruo

Yosuke Seo

Yasunori Kanazawa

Akira Saito

Atsushi Onose

Keikichi Ando

Motoo Uno

Yooji Maruyama

Toshiaki Taii

Ryoichi Ito

Shinichi Abe

Masateru Watanabe

Takakazu Huno

Tsuyoshi Kato

Kazuhiko Nakano

Nobuyuki Fujimoto

Fumio Hara

Tetsurou Ikegaki

Tesuya Nishida

Hisae Sasaki

Fumio Imagawa

Masaaki Hishiki

Tuyoshi Kato

A server receives a first type of time-series vital data from a first system that collects the first type of time-series vital data from a first group of subjects, and receives a second type of time-series vital data from a second system that collects a second type of time-series vital data from a second group of subjects. Provided are a storage unit for storing a plurality of types of time-series vital data including the first type and the second type, a receiving unit for receiving a request for provision of the time-series vital data from an external device that specifies at least a part of the time-series vital data stored in a vital data database, and a transmitting means for transmitting to the external device the time-series vital data selected in accordance with a request for provision from among the time-series vital data stored in the vital data database.

Server and information processing method for collecting human vital data and providing the data to users

The health support system according to a preferred embodiment includes a sensor that outputs an output signal corresponding to a specific component in urine, a transmitter connected to the sensor, and a user terminal carried by the user. The user terminal includes a storage unit that stores an identifier corresponding to the user, a wireless receiving unit that receives a wireless signal from the transmitter, an output unit that outputs the data to an analysis system that analyzes the health state of the user based on a specific component indicated by the data when the identifier indicated by the wireless signal matches the identifier stored in the storage unit, and an acquisition unit that acquires information corresponding to the results of the analysis of the analysis system.

Health facilitation system, sensor, and health facilitation method

A multilayer optical information medium provided with structure in which first and second substrates respectively provided with two to four layers of planar information areas are respectively arranged outside wherein the thickness of the above-described first and second substrates is set in the range of 0.52 to 0.65 mm. The above-described planar information area consists of embossed pits provided, for example on the surface of respective substrates or on the surface of a layer formed by transparent material and a semi-reflective layer provided on the embossed pits. A planar information area arranged in the farthest position from respective substrates is provided with a reflective layer in place of the above-described semi-reflective layer. The planar information area arranged in the farthest position from respective substrates may be constituted by a recording layer and a reflective layer provided on the recording layer.

Multilayer optical information medium

A high-speed image forming method and apparatus is capable of directly controlling a toner by the force of an energy beam. Selected toner particles in a mass of toner adhering to the surface of a transparent drum are irradiated with a laser beam emitted by a laser disposed within the transparent drum and controlled for scanning according to image information. The laser beam separates the selected toner particles from the transparent drum by the force it produces on the particles, and then the separated toner particles are moved to a paper sheet by the force of an electric field produced by a developing electrode. Each toner particle need only be irradiated with the light for a comparatively short period of time, so that an image can be formed at high speed.

Image forming method and apparatus using energy beam impingement on

A fast access high capacity data storage system and method are disclosed, the data storage system including a disk-based storage system employing a plurality of storage surfaces. Selected storage surfaces have a plurality of independently controlled data access heads in data communication therewith, and circuitry is provided for allowing concurrent data transfers through the plurality of data access heads. Performance is further improved by monitoring frequently accessed data records and transferring them to a copy recording surface or recording surfaces less frequently used, and by moving a data access head of the plurality of data access heads to other recording surfaces to decrease access bottlenecks. The storage system further includes circuitry for averaging at least one of record length data, transfer timing data, access timing data and address data.

High capacity data storage method and system using independently

A file system including an input/output unit for inputting data from and outputting data to an external system; a controller connected to the input/output unit for dividing the data into an optional number of parallel data; a management table for storing the number of divisions of the data; a head group for writing the divided parallel data into a storage medium at the same time; and a unit for reading the data from the storage medium while referring to information stored in management device.

Variable length data in a parallel disk array

According to the present invention, a so-called overwrite operation which records new information while erasing existing information can be reliably performed in an information storage system such as optical disk system. In addition, whether the rewriting of recording has been properly done can be verified.

Method for recording and reproducing information using at least two

An information recording and reproducing apparatus which has a memory portion which uses the Bloch lines occurring at the magnetic domain walls at the periphery of magnetic domains present in magnetic garnet films as the information carrier, a drive portion to write information into or read information from the said memory portion, and in which the memory portion is constructed to be connectable to and disconnectable from the drive means, wherein the signal transfer is carried out via a connection means when the said memory portion is set in the drive portion. In this information recording and reproducing apparatus, since the recording portion can be freely connected to or disconnected from the drive portion, it is possible to selectively insert portable substrates storing different information in the same apparatus body portion.

Information recording and reproducing apparatus

A recording medium is provided with a recording film having opto-magnetic characteristics formed on the substrate, with first information being recorded in advance in the form of pit strings of a phase structure. Second information is recorded over the first information through the application of a magnetic field with polarities corresponding to the second information in the presence of the irradiation of a high-power radiation beam, without damaging the record of the first information. The first and second information are produced independently and simultaneously with a single spot in the same area by use of different signal reproduction mechanisms for the first information and second information. The first information (ROM information) is reproduced as the variation in the amount (intensity) of the reflected light from the opto-magnetic recording film, and the second information (RAM information) is reproduced by detecting the rotational angle of the reflected light, based on the Kerr effect, from the opto-magnetic film concurrently with the reproduction of the first information using a single spot.

Method of recording and reproduction of information using a recording

An optical memory device includes a cylindrically-shaped optical information recording medium and at least one optical head disposed around the information recording medium for irradiating the information recording medium with a light spot for recording or reproduction of information. The optical head has light spot moving means incorporated therein for the irradiation position of the light spot. The recording or reproduction of information is achieved by causing the light spot moving means to perform tracking control so that the light spot follows a desired track in an area within a range of movement of the light spot by the light spot moving means (or an infromation recording zone) in a state in which the relative positional relationship between the optical head and the cylindrically-shaped information recording medium in the direction parallel to the direction of the rotation axis of the information recording medium is fixed, with the optical head being not moved. The device can be constructed so that the position of either the optical head or the cylindrically-shaped information recording medium relative to the other in the direction parallel to the direction of the rotation axis of the information recording medium is mechanically moved, thereby making it possible to cahnge the information recording zone in the range of movement of the light spot by the light spot moving means to another information recording zone.

Small-sized optical memory device and information processing apparatus

A record carrier having a disc-shaped substrate and a recording layer for optically writing information therein is disclosed which includes a guide groove extended in the rotational direction of the record carrier so that a plurality of revolutions of the guide groove are spaced apart from each other in radial directions of the record carrier, and a pit pattern provided between adjacent guide grooves, at positions arranged at intervals in the above rotational direction, for detecting the deviation of a light spot from the center line between adjacent guide grooves. The recording/reproducing operation for this record carrier is performed in such a manner that the first tracking error signal is detected from diffracted light from the guide groove, the second tracking error signal is detected from the pit pattern, and information is recorded in and reproduced from a land formed between adjacent guide grooves in a state that a tracking operation is performed using the first and second tracking error signals. The second tracking error signal detected from the pit pattern is not affected by the tilting of the record carrier and the movement of the light spot. When a tracking signal obtained by adding the first and second tracking error signals to each other, is used in a closed-loop tracking system, a stable tracking operation can be performed. The polarity of the pit pattern is reversed on every track, and hence a polarity pit having a depth of .lambda./4 (where .lambda. indicates the wavelength of a reproducing light beam) is provided in the record carrier, to reverse the polarity of the second tracking signal on every track on the basis of a signal from the polarity pit.

Apparatus for optical disc memory with correction pattern and master

Data recording and/or reproduction on or from a recording medium on which tracking signal detection marks are intermittently provided along each track in a pattern wobbling alternately across the track center line with a very small lateral displacement therefrom, wherein data recording area is defined between the tracking signal detection mark. A servo control system for controlling a write/read light spot so as to follow the track with the aid of a tracking signal obtained by detecting the tracking signal detection marks is provided with a low-pass filter circuit having a cut-off frequency lower than the frequency at which the tracking signal detection marks are detected. A data is recorded or reproduced on or from the recording areas of the recording medium while following the track under the control of the servo system. A blank area where data recording is inhibited is provided between the data recording area and the tracking signal detecting mark (prepit) to suppress interference to the data. A particular access prepit pattern which allows track addresses to be at least approximately detected upon passing of the light spot over the track of the recording medium is previously provided together with synchronizing marks in a synchronizing area.

Information recording/reproducing method and apparatus

An optical scanning apparatus has a scanning lens with a rotationally asymmetric aspheric surface having individual curvature radii in the main scanning direction and in the sub-scanning direction. The curvature radius in the sub-scanning direction is asymmetrically increased in the lateral direction with the distance from the optical axis. A field curvature aberration which may be generated in the sub-scanning direction on the scanning surface due to an oblique incident of optical beams on the rotating polygonal mirror or the movement of the reflective surface caused by rotation of the rotating polygonal mirror is compensated for by the scanning lens and the focusing properties of the system can be kept at a level of high resolving power.

Optical scanning apparatus and asymmetrical aspheric scanning lens

An optical card of the present invention has a card-shaped recording layer whose optical characteristic is varied by a laser beam applied thereon, and a resin layer for protecting this recording layer. The recording layer has optical grooves provided at a substantially equal interval in the opposite end portions of the recording layer respectively and varying the light intensity of the laser beam when the beam traverses the grooves, and first and second optical markers provided at a prescribed interval in the direction of extension of each of the optical grooves and varying the light intensity of the laser beam which passes them. The optical grooves are made longer every prescribed number thereof than others, and the longer optical grooves are used for zone access, while the shorter optical grooves are used for track access in a zone. The first and second optical markers are provided at positions deviated alternately at equal distance from the center of a track, and operate as so-called wobble pits to detect a track error. These markers are used also as timing marks for generating a clock signal.

Optical card having optical grooves for access and wobbled marks for

An optical tape apparatus having improved focus and tracking control. An optical head records, reproduces, or rewrites data on an optical tape by helically scanning the tape with a laser beam. A guide plate is disposed between the optical head and the tape to prevent the beam from becoming unfocused due to fluctuation of the tape cuased by an air film between the optical head and the tape. The optical head contains a semiconductor laser and an optical system exhibiting chromatic aberration for directing the laser beam onto the tape. The optical system includes a condenser lens for focusing the beam onto the tape. Fine focus control is achieved by changing the wavelength of the laser beam by directing part of the beam reflected from the tape back to the laser, thereby changing the focal point of the beam by virtue of the chromatic aberration of the optical system. Coarse focus control is achieved by mounting the condenser lens on a piezoelectric actuator which moves the consenser lens to focus the beam onto the tape. A recording head for recording timing marks and tracking signals on the tape is disposed in advance of the optical head. A reading head reads the timing marks and the optical head reads the tracking signals. The timing marks and tracking signals are used to control the operation of the apparatus such that the tape is transported with a constant speed and data on diagonal signal tracks on the tape is accurately recorded, reproduced, or rewritten.

Optical tape apparatus with a tracking control mechanism and/or a

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Yoshito Tsunoda