Canon Assigned Patent

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,154,760) developed by Suzuki, Toshihiko, Hoshi, Hidenori, and Endo, Hiroaki, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, for a “apparatus for recording signals on disk recording medium.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A recording apparatus of this invention detects the state of management information, which pertains to a recording address of an image signal, and which is reproduced from a disk-like recording medium having a first area for the image signal and a second area for the management information. On the basis of the detection result, management data is reproduced from the first area of the disk-like recording medium. On the basis of the management data reproduced from the first area, the management information reproduced from the second area is modified. A modify unit records the modified management information in the second area.“

The patent application was filed on March 14, 2013 (13/827,498).