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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080024893 | SLIDER FORM FACTOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH IMPROVED LOW BAND PERFORMANCE An electronic device is provided that includes a housing having an upper slider portion and a lower slider portion. The upper slider portion and the lower slider portion are slidably engaged to permit relative sliding motion therebetween along a sliding axis. The electr... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070285814 | RECORDING DEVICE A recording device for recording and playback of audio data has a body which is relatively thin for incorporation between the pages of an album or within the cover of an album is disclosed. Recording and playback controls are accessible from the front face of the body a... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070229997 | Write once recording medium, recorder and recording method for write once recording medium, reproducer and reproducing method for write once recording medium, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure A write-once-type recording medium (100) on which record data can be recorded only once, provided with: a data area (108) to record therein the record data; and a shared area (104, 105) to temporarily record therein evacuation data which is record d... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070183070 | Coding method and device for determining absolute angular position Method for coding at least one datum using three digital signals A, B, C delivered on respectively one channel, in which the third signal C is delivered by a combination of the first two signals A, B in order to form m binary triplets, where m<8. The method provides for... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070171559 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring de... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070097533 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch of pits in the sys... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070091493 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070091496 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch of pits in the sys... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070091495 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070091494 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070091492 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070086099 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070086102 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070086101 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch of pits in the sys... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070086100 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch of pits in the sys... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070070532 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND IMAGE GENERATOR An information processor includes a rotating magnetic disk that stores therein data, an accessing unit that accesses the magnetic disk, a detecting unit that detects an abnormal state. The abnormal state is a state that a user takes an action that may cause the magnetic... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20060262444 | Controlling The Downloading and Recording of Digital Data A method and apparatus for enabling a licensed end user to record digital data as described is particularly useful to the music industry as it enables them to make audio data available over the internet but to retain control of the uses to which that audio data can be p... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262437 | Disk device, disk-transporting device, and disk-loading device The present invention provides a disk drive with a compact size that makes it possible to effectively utilize space within a disk drive and permits a straightforward layout of members. The disk drive comprises a disk holder 10 that ... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262438 | Storage device, cartridge, and cartridge manufacturing method The object of the invention is to provide a storage device represented by a removable hard disk from which a cartridge having a storage medium is removable, to which cartridges having different specification sizes of the outer shapes can be applied. A cartridge of this ... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262439 | Magnetic recording heads with bearing surface protections and methods of manufacture In one aspect described herein, a read head having one or more magnetoresistive (MR) sensors (or devices) is provided. In one example, the read head includes an MR sensor and an insulator layer disposed at the same level as the MR sensor. The read head further includes ... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262440 | Thin film magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof A thin film magnetic head has a configuration in which a main magnetic pole film having a magnetic pole end portion on a medium opposing surface (ABS) side facing a magnetic disk, a write shield film facing the magnetic pole end portion so as to form a recording gap fil... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262441 | Write protected magnetic storage media and associated methods According to one aspect and example, a method is provided for handling write protected storage devices. The method includes generating a read signal from a portion of a magnetic storage medium and determining if a modulation pattern is present in the read signal, the mo... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262442 | Stator for an electric motor The invention relates to a stator (1) for an electric motor, in particular for an external rotor motor, having a laminated stator core (2) which is provided with a stator winding (8) and having a connecting arrangement (20), which is arranged... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262443 | PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, CONTROL PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION APPARATUS There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of wri... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060262445 | Yoke structure with a step A planar top yoke in a magnetic write head is disclosed. The top yoke includes a backside region and a second pole tip region that is thinner than the backside region and forms a step at the ABS. Alternatively, a front section of the backside region includes a step with... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060256461 | Magnetic memory device, write current driver circuit and write current driving method The number of write circuit components, variations in a write current flowing through each write line, and the power consumption for write operation can be reduced. A first constant current circuit and a second constant current circuit (a transistor (Q8) and a re... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060250714 | Switchable magnetic device The invention relates to a switchable magnetic device for securing a formwork device on a magnetizable formwork support, comprising a magnetic means generating a magnetic force and an at least section-wise magnetizable support means by which the magnetic means is suppor... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060250718 | Medium and apparatus for magnetic recording and method for measuring the offset amount A magnetic recording medium includes a discrete area and an offset amount measurement area. The discrete area has a plurality of magnetic tracks where data can be recorded and that has a non-magnetic track where the data cannot be recorded located between the plurality ... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060250717 | Magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk device in which the slider is mounted A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic head for recording/reproducing information from/into a magnetic disk and a slider on which the magnetic head is mounted. The slider has a first surface and a second surface provided at an air-outflow side at positions with resp... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060250716 | Method of demagnetizing magnetic recording medium and apparatus for carrying out same Embodiments of the invention improve efficiency in alternating-current demagnetization of a magnetic recording medium. In specific embodiments, magnet fields in a direction slanting to an easy direction of magnetization of recording layer magnetization of a medium in ro... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060250715 | Disk drive device and electronic apparatus A disk drive device includes a housing having a slot through which a disk-shaped recording medium having a recording surface is inserted and ejected, a mount that is disposed in the housing and on which the recording medium inserted through the slot is mounted, and a co... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060250713 | Digital broadcast recorder and method for recording digital broadcast A method for recording a digital broadcast, and a digital broadcast recording using the method, includes: recording start location data of a plurality of programs recorded during a recording mode of the digital broadcast; and indicating start locations of the individual... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060250712 | Perpendicular magnetic recording head and magnetic recording apparatus A perpendicular magnetic recording head capable of preventing information erasing without intention at the time of non-recording through making the magnetic domain structure of a pole layer appropriate is provided. A main pole layer is formed so as to include a first po... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060245099 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR A storage apparatus comprises at least one housing A in which a storage device and a controller are provided, at least one housing B in which a storage device and a peripheral device are provided, and a transmission path for connecting the storage device and the control... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060245096 | Application framework phasing model The present invention comprises phasing systems and methods for software systems. In embodiments of the present invention, the phasing system comprises a multi-tiered phasing space where operations within the software system are constrained to a phase or a sub-phase. Th... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060245100 | Suspension having magnetic head assembly mounted thereon and magnetic recording disk drive using the suspension A suspension having a magnetic head assembly 1 mounted thereon is provided, wherein the magnetic head assembly comprises: a write head 1-2; a read head 1-1; and a resistive heating element 1-3 for controlling the flying h... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060245095 | Energy efficient disk scheduling for mobile applications: adaptively extending the disk standby time A total amount, M, of memory is allocated over streaming data buffers (86). The memory is partitioned over a set of streams (88), each stream being given a partitioned amount of buffer memory. Scheduling is repeatedly performed during each filling/emptying... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060245098 | Actuator for valve lift controller A feed screw mechanism including a screwed shaft which moves linearly along with the control shaft, and a rotation spindle which rotates in a circumferential direction. The feed screw mechanism converts a rotational movement of the rotation spindle into a linear movemen... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060245097 | Display apparatus and method for providing function of universal remote control A display apparatus and a method are provided for extracting a preset control code by analyzing a standard control code of a standard remote control received through infrared communication, and providing a function of universal remote control to user to control a concer... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060001991 | Corrective adjustment of recording characteristics in digital renditions of analog recordings A signal reconstruction technique is used to correct for wow and flutter in analog audio recordings. Elements of the recording are used to generate a signal for correcting the output. Involves locating modulated entities such as bias signal (e.g. frequency-modulated, am... | 01/05/2006 |
