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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7509022 | Recording medium and system for recording and reproducing the recording medium A recording medium has a first recording area on which recording information is recorded as a set of recording units, and a second recording area on which control information for controlling the recording information to be recorded on the first recording area is rec... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7486872 | Information editing apparatus and information reproducing apparatus An information editing apparatus for editing a reproduction manner of record information which is recorded on an information storage medium and includes at least one picture information, includes: a selecting unit for selecting a partial record information from the ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483465 | Near field optical apparatus A near field optical apparatus comprising a conductive sheet or plane having an aperture therein with the conductive plane including at least one protrusion which extends into the aperture. The location, structure and configuration of the protrusion or protrusions c... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7473910 | Electron beam lithography apparatus An apparatus includes a beam deflection portion for deflecting the electron beam to change an irradiation position of the electron beam; a synchronization signal generation portion for generating a synchronization signal which is in synchronization with the rotation... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7420893 | Low seek time optical media tracking system The present invention provides a system for causing an optical beam to impinge on a spot on an optical medium, while keeping an optical head apparatus in an essentially stationary position, such that it eliminates the need for a tracking function to move an optical ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7406008 | Recording medium and system for recording and reproducing the recording medium using control information that represents the number of sets of information composing the multiplexed audio information A recording medium has a first recording area on which multiplexed audio informations are recorded as sets of one or more information units, a second recording area on which control information for controlling recording of the multiplexed audio informations are reco... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7394739 | Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing type information onto/from a plurality of locations on a recording medium, and recording medium having type information recorded thereon at a plurality of locations A system controller is provided so as to record the second disk type information having the same content as that of the first disk type information, which is recorded in a DVD-R in advance, in a DVD-R in which the first disk type information is recorded as well as t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394312 | Re-configurable amplifier protection apparatus and method The present invention is directed to an amplifier, which is able to re-configure its internal protection circuits based on an output signal level. This allows the amplifier to apply the best protection level to the present operational condition. The protection level... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379399 | Optical disc, and reading system and manufacturing method of the disc A writable optical disc has an information writing track, and a guiding track for introducing a laser beam to the information writing track. The guiding track has prepit information recorded thereon, the prepit information including at least address information of t... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7342852 | Method and apparatus for differing focus between at least two dimensions The present invention obtains a more optimal focus in at least two dimensions (such as axial and radial dimensions) by setting or keeping a focus in at least a first dimension (such as both axial and radial dimensions) and detecting and adjusting the focus in a seco... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327667 | Semiconductor laser and associated drive circuit substrate A single monolithic semiconductor substrate comprises a first side and a second side. The first side includes an air bearing surface. A laser integrates with the first side. The laser has an emission facet substantially co-planer with the air bearing surface. A cont... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7298685 | Method and apparatus for recording to and reading from a multi-layer diffractive optics memory The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for recording information on a multi-layer diffractive optics memory to extend storage capacity. A composite mirror device comprises a plurality of sets of mirror elements. Each one of the mirror elements of th... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7276692 | Beam adjusting sample, beam adjusting method and beam adjusting device A beam adjusting sample having a flat surface being like a plate and having two edges orthogonal to each other is employed. A beam is applied to the beam adjusting sample to detect an amount of the beam passing through the beam adjusting sample. The beam vertically ... | 10/02/2007 |
| RE39809 | Hard sectoring circuit and method for a rotating disk data storage device An apparatus for providing sector location pulses to a controller of a rotating disk data storage device having a counter clocked in proportion to the disk rotation rate and an accumulator for accumulating times to sectors on the disk. A comparator connected to the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254105 | Method and apparatus for diffractive information storage A petabyte diffractive storage system stores information on a diffractive storage tape. A light component generates a large reference beam to cover the plurality of points of the diffractive storage tape so as to simultaneously interfere with the plurality of object... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248556 | Fast duplication of diffractive storage device for mass production A master memory device that stores a plurality of pages of information. An unexposed memory device (190) is adjacent to the master memory device (180). The unexposed memory device and the master memory device are separated by a gap. An aperture unit ( | 07/24/2007 |
| 7230986 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a video formatter and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7210628 | Dynamic solid state diffractive optics applied for reading a diffractive optics memory The apparatus and method of the present invention employ solid state dynamic diffractive optical elements for reading information from a diffractive optics memory. The diffractive optics memory has stored therein information located at a plurality of points of the m... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202984 | Double faced double storage capacity medium A first holographic data storage device has a first set of holograms stored thereon. A second holographic data storage device has a second set of holograms stored thereon. An opaque layer is disposed between and attached to one side of the first and the second holog... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200097 | Parallel recording and reading of diffractive memory using multiple object beams A parallel recording of diffractive storage system is provided. The recorded information is cellular for its designation. A laser beam is data modulated through a single reference beam and a plurality of object beams positioned at different angles. These object beam... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191442 | BCA writer serialization management A serialization management system consists of a job control host for assigning serial numbers to storage media, and for generating a job; a replication facility host communicatively coupled to the job control host, wherein the job control host communicates the job t... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7158470 | Near-field optical head system with integrated slider and laser A near-field optical apparatus having one or more solid state lasers and an aerodynamically shaped slider which comprise a single integrated, monolithic device fabricated from the same base semiconductor material. The monolithic optical head can be quickly and easil... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149811 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a reconfigurable processing stage and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146021 | Whizzer cone for loudspeaker for producing uniform frequency response A speaker cone is provided that contains a base portion, and the base portion has a front end and a rear end. The front end contains a plurality of discontinuities such that a first distance from a reference point on a longitudinal axis of the base portion to a firs... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133171 | Double facing double storage capacity A first holographic data storage device has a first set of holograms stored thereon. A second holographic data storage device has a second set of holograms stored thereon. An opaque layer is disposed between and attached to one side of the first and the second holog... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129006 | Optical data storage system and method An optical storage system and method having separate, independent format hologram writing and data writing mechanisms to allow optimization of data writing separately from format hologram recording. In its most general terms, the invention comprises an optical mediu... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117441 | Grid-based system and method for interacting with electronic program guide grid An embodiment of the invention is a technique to navigate a user interface for program selection. Program information of a plurality of program cells is displayed in a visible window. The plurality of program cells is in an electronic program guide (EPG) grid. A vis... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7095783 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including start codes and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095767 | Near field optical apparatus A near field optical apparatus comprising a conductive sheet or plane having an aperture therein, with the conductive plane including at least one protrusion which extends into the aperture. The location, structure and configuration of the protrusion or protrusions ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7072793 | Time and work tracker for servers A time and work tracker that automatically collects and analyzes information about time and work performed on a wireless device is described herein. According to the present invention, a time and work tracking function is initiated on a wireless device. Thereafter, ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069569 | Near-field optical head system with integrated slider and laser A near-field optical system having one or more solid state lasers and an aerodynamically shaped slider which comprise a single integrated, monolithic device fabricated from the same base semiconductor material. The monolithic optical head can be quickly and easily a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061853 | High-density optical pickup for rotating media An optical pickup is described with an electronically adjustable beam spot size for reading optical media. Two proximal light sources are impinged on a selected track of the media and the reflected light is registered by photodetector arrays. The electrical signal g... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048190 | Method and apparatus for recording to and reading from a diffractive optics memory using symmetrical angular encoding The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for reading information from and recording information to a diffractive optics memory using symmetrical angular encoding. A coherent light source is split to form an object beam and a corresponding reference b... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038979 | Method and apparatus for a high-speed search of an optical medium An apparatus and method for high-speed searching of an optical medium having a plurality of tracks. Light spots are directed by the apparatus onto the optical medium. As the spots traverse across the tracks in one of a first direction and a second direction, a photo... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6982935 | Pause control for a media player with a movable pickup A method and apparatus for suspending the operation of a rotating optical media player that uses simplified and efficient logic circuitry is described. When an operator initiates a pause operation, for example, by pressing a pause key, the current location of an opt... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6963530 | Near-field optical head system with integrated slider and laser A near-field optical apparatus having one or more solid state lasers and an aerodynamically shaped slider which comprise a single integrated, monolithic device fabricated from the same base semiconductor material. The monolithic optical head can be quickly and easil... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6957220 | System, method and article of manufacture for tracking and supporting the distribution of content electronically A content tracking system consists of a multi-level distributor network including a primary level distributor and a second level distributor for distributing content embodied in a storage medium. A server is included for receiving a tracking identifier that is incor... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950930 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including pipeline processing and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950101 | Computer implemented method and system for transmitting graphical images from server to client at user selectable resolution Techniques for transmitting graphical images in a network environment are described. According to the techniques, the amount of data of the graphical images that is transmited is customized in accordance with client and/or server supplied information. The techniques... | 09/27/2005 |
| D506474 | Menu display for a screen | 06/21/2005 |
