ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,418, issued on May 5, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Information recording/reproducing apparatus" was invented by Yasuo Mutsuro (Yokohama, Japan), Keisuke Inata (Ebina, Japan), Hiroki Mizosoe (Kawasaki, Japan) and Akihito Nishizawa (Yokosuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Module compression/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place ...