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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120002529 | Information Storage Medium, Reproducing Method, And Recording Method According to one embodiment, an information storage medium includes an organic dye material which records information with a light beam having a wavelength equal to or smaller than 620 nm.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002531 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD According to one embodiment, an information storage medium includes an organic dye material which records information with a light beam having a wavelength equal to or smaller than 620 nm.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002530 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD According to one embodiment, an information storage medium includes an organic dye material which records information with a light beam having a wavelength equal to or smaller than 620 nm.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110286320 | ADAPTIVE WRITING METHOD FOR HIGH-DENSITY OPTICAL RECORDING APPARATUS AND CIRCUIT THEREOF An optical recording medium is provided, the optical recording medium including a plurality of zones configured to store data corresponding to an adaptive write pulse, the adaptive write pulse including a first pulse, a last pulse, and a multi-pulse train, the adaptive ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110267932 | Copy Protection System for Data Carriers A copy-protected compact disc includes, within a single session, a table of contents (TOC) and a Video CD index (VI). Each track (T) is prefaced by unrecoverable data (UD) at a track start position (ATOC) indicated by the table of contents (TOC). However, the Video CD i... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110228657 | Embedded Virtual Media A method and an optical storage medium are provided for storing data to and accessing data from an embedded virtual medium within the optical storage medium. Information describing the embedded virtual medium may be stored on to the optical storage medium. Space for an ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110216636 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING DATA ON WRITE-ONCE DISC AND WRITE-ONCE DISC THEREFOR A method of recording, and an apparatus for recording, data on a write-once disc, and the write-once disc used with the method and the apparatus. The write-once disc includes a plurality of update areas in which to record a predetermined type of updated information, at ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110194393 | RECORDABLE OPTICAL DISK, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION DEVICE The present invention is to realize a proper inner zone layout in an optical disk having at least three layers. A test area is provided in the inner zone (inner circumference side area) in each of recording layers. The test areas of each layer are so disposed as to be p... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110170382 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING METHOD Minimized is the influence which is exerted by recording calibration (test recording) such as power calibration, strategy calibration or the like, performed in an area for recording calibration (recording calibration area or test area) provided in each of a plurality of... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164480 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an information storage medium in which layer 0 and layer 1 are arranged from a read surface, a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area are arranged from an inner circumference of the layer 0, a... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110158060 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an information storage medium in which layer 0 and layer 1 are arranged from a read surface, a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area are arranged from an inner circumference of the layer 0, a... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158061 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an information storage medium in which layer 0 and layer 1 are arranged from a read surface, a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area are arranged from an inner circumference of the layer 0, a... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110134728 | DISC-SHAPED RECORDING MEDIUM, CUTTING APPARATUS FOR SAME, AND DISC DRIVE There is provided an optical disc having preformed thereon a spiral wobbled track as a grove and/or land along with data is to be recorded. The track is wobbled for a series of predetermined signal units each composed of an FSK information bit part based on a waveform r... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134745 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM Disclosed is an optical information recording medium that can solve a problem that a BCA mark becomes unrecognizable in an optical recording medium including a recording layer using an organic coloring matter. A playback signal in a burst cut area comprises a bright-are... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134739 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is pres... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110122759 | Data Recording Apparatus and System Having Sustained High Transfer Rates According to the invention, techniques for recording data onto recording media at relatively high transfer rates for relatively long periods of time. Embodiments according to the present invention include systems and apparatus capable of an improved sustained rate of da... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110122742 | RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A SUBSTRATE CONTAINING MICROSCOPIC PATTERN OF PARALLEL GROOVE AND LAND SECTIONS AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT THEREFOR An information recording medium 1 at least comprises a substrate 13 having a microscopic pattern 20, which is constituted by a shape of continuous substance of approximately parallel grooves formed with a groove section G and a land section L altern... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110122750 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC DRIVE, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A big pattern for a run-in area which allows data reproduction to be performed stably even when the recording density of an optical disc is increased is provided. An optical disc according to the present invention includes tracks, each of which divided into a plurality ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110122749 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC DRIVE, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT An address format for appropriately controlling the recording linear density and the number of information recording layers is provided in order to increase the recording capacity of an information recording medium such as an optical disc or the like in a range in which... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110110209 | OPTICAL INFORMATION MEDIA, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING UBIQUITOUS READ AND SELECTIVE WRITE An optical information media, system, and method for providing ubiquitous reading and selective writing is disclosed. By placing data structures representing a nonstandard book type in byte “0” of the media, the media is made universally bootable and universally rea... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110096653 | MICRO-HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD A micro-holographic data storage system and method. Micro-holograms are written to a data storage medium with two counter-propagating beams via objective recording lenses which have a first numerical aperture (NA) to make the micro-holograms larger. Alternatively, elong... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096654 | COMPATIBLE OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM A compatible optical recording medium is described, which is designed in such a way that it has the appearance of a read-only optical recording medium for most players and recorders. Further described is a method for manufacturing the recordable optical recording medium... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110085434 | MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL DISC, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD According to one embodiment, single-sided dual-layer recordable disc 100 may be used. Information recording is performed by forming mark and space portions on data area DA using modulated laser power. Pp denotes the maximum laser power or peak power for forming t... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085426 | RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING DATA ON THE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING DATA ON THE RECORDING MEDIUM A recording medium on which data is recorded in units of clusters, a method and apparatus for reproducing data on the recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording data on the recording medium, wherein each of the clusters includes a plurality of address fi... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110069592 | ACCESS CONTROLLED OPTICAL DISC AND METHOD THEREFOR An optical disc is disclosed having a set of primary tracks and a set of alternate tracks. At least some of the primary and alternate tracks are associated. When a CD-DA reader accesses the optical disc, it locates only the primary tracks. By contrast, when a data reade... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069594 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS THEREFOR An environmental load information of an information recording medium is recorded on the information recording medium so as to recycle or dispose properly an information recording medium, which is not necessary any more. The information recording medium comprises a main ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110058466 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECORDING/REPRODUCING DATA OF OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM An optical recording medium, an apparatus and method of manufacturing an optical recording medium, and an apparatus and method of recording/reproducing data of an optical recording medium, allocated with a wobble address suitable for a capacity of a high density recordi... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110026391 | WRITE-ONCE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD According to the present invention, multiple space bitmaps (SBMs #0 and #1 30) are provided for the user data area of each recording layer. A disc management structure update unit including one of those space bitmaps and a disc definition structure (TDDS 32 | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019526 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APARATUS, CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THEREIN An optical disk apparatus according to the present invention includes: a sub-data forming section for forming, from data to be recorded into an optical disk (3), element data (42a, 42b) constituting the data and parity data (42<... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT IN TWO FORMATS ON ONE DRM DISK A DRM disk such as a Blu-ray stores content in a high resolution version for playing by a disk player. The disk also stores the same content in a lower resolution version for playing by a secondary device such as a Playstation Portable (PSP). The disk can be engaged wit... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110002603 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002606 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002627 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002604 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002602 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002629 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002631 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002611 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002607 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002628 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 01/06/2011 |
