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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051198 | METHOD FOR WRITING DATA ON MULTILAYER OPTICAL DISC AND OPTICAL DISC DRIVE The present invention provides a method for writing data on a multilayer optical disc with N information storage layers (where N is an integer and N≧2). The kth deepest one (where k is an integer and 1≦k≦N) of the storage layers of the multilayer optica... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120020644 | PLAYING DATA FROM AN OPTICAL MEDIA DRIVE Example embodiments provide various techniques for playing data from an optical media drive. The optical media drive may detect certain media access information for use in accessing optical media. This media access information is stored a non-volatile memory. The optica... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014236 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING MANUFACTURER INFORMATION ON A RECORDING MEDIUM AND FOR DETERMINING WHETHER THE MANUFACTURER INFORMATION IS EFFECTIVE A recording medium and a recording apparatus for storing manufacturer information for supporting specific functions for each manufacturer and a method therefor. A reproducing apparatus for reproducing manufacturer information for supporting specific functions and a meth... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014235 | DISK RECORDING DEVICE AND DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME USING THE SAME A disk recording device includes a processor, and a storage device, a memory reader, a display, an encoder, a disk recorder, all electrically connected to the processor. The storage device is configured for storing a first file. The memory reader is configured for readi... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008473 | PLAYBACK METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISC, PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL DISC, NON-TRANSISTORY COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Address information that has been error correction encoded is recorded on a second version of a recording medium after being transformed such that such that the address decoding cannot be performed by a playback device that is not compatible with the second version of t... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110305127 | RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD A recording device includes: a rotation driving unit that rotates an optical medium having a reference face and a recording layer, at a constant velocity; a light irradiating unit that irradiates the optical recording medium with first and second light through a common ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110273972 | CODING APPARATUS, CODING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS, AND DECODING METHOD A coding apparatus includes a transform table in which with regard to data words of m bits and code words of n bits where n and m are both integers and also n>m is established, 2m pieces of code words selected to have a tendency that the number of symbols ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267933 | CODING FOR OPTICAL STORAGE SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE READER HEADS AND MULTIPLE OPTICAL DISKS Provided are methods and systems of encoding and decoding techniques in an optical storage system having a multi-head detector. In one embodiment, source data may be encoded using error correction coding (e.g., turbo coding) techniques, and the encoded data may be inter... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110242952 | SIGNAL CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND SAMPLING METHOD THEREFOR A digital disk device is provided in which the quality of a digital signal is improved without causing the development cost for and power consumption by the digital disk device to increase. An ADC included in a signal conversion circuit samples an analog signal which re... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110219393 | WRITE-ONCE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM In an information recording medium in which storage capacity per recording layer has increased so much that the size of an SBM varies with those of spare areas, there is mutual dependence between a DDS and an SBM and it is difficult to retrieve disc management informati... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211433 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM A recording and/or reproducing method, a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and an information storage medium are provided. The method of recording data to an information storage medium includes: according to a change in a method of using the information storage me... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205876 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM The present invention provides an optical information recording medium (2) capable of shortening a time from acquiring identification information to starting a program etc. recorded on an ROM layer. The optical information recording medium (2) includes two... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110194391 | LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE A laser device includes a semiconductor laser, a signal generating circuit generating a pulse signal for driving the semiconductor laser, an amplifying circuit amplifying the pulse signal, and a control circuit unit provided between the amplifying circuit and the semico... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110194390 | CONTROL METHOD FOR ADJUSTING LASER POWER OF LASER BEAM IRRADIATING MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM AND RELATED CONTROLLER THEREOF An exemplary control method for controlling access of a multi-layer optical storage medium includes: receiving a layer jump request for moving a focus point from a first recording layer of the multi-layer optical storage medium to a second recording layer of the multi-l... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110176400 | METHOD OF SERVO SPIRAL SWITCHING DURING SELF SERVO-WRITE FOR A DISK DRIVE A recording medium for a disk drive has a plurality of tracks defined by servo wedges that are written using a first servo spiral set, a second servo spiral set, and a correction factor that accounts for the differences in the first set of spirals and the second set of ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110164485 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LAYER JUMP IN OPTICAL DISC DRIVE A method for controlling layer jump in an optical disc drive is provided. In one embodiment of the present invention, upon request of layer jump, a circumferential position of a rotating disc can be compared with predetermined circumferential position stored in a memory... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110158066 | BACKUP DEVICE AND ONE-KEY DATA BACKUP METHOD FOR THE SAME A backup device and a one-key data backup method for the same use a backup device having ability to retrieve a memory card and an optical disc. The backup device is connected to an external computer. A backup application is installed having backup conditions configured ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158067 | Recording/reproducing device and method for controlling same A recording/reproducing device includes: a data comparing section which compares, at the time of ejection of an optical disc, recorded information recorded on a ROM layer of the optical disc and relevant information (e.g., additional data) which is stored in the recordi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110141866 | TRACKING SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD, REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A tracking signal generating apparatus is provided with: a reading device for reading reflected light of a laser beam applied onto a recording medium, thereby obtaining a resulting read signal; an amplitude-limiting device for limiting an amplitude level of the read sig... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141865 | Metrology for Extreme Ultraviolet Light Source An extreme ultraviolet light system includes a drive laser system that produces an amplified light beam; a target material delivery system configured to produce a target material at a target location; a beam delivery system configured to receive the amplified light beam... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110134734 | DETERRING THEFT OF OPTICAL MEDIA An optical media disk is treated with a light-sensitive material that impedes the ability of an optical media player from reading data stored on the disk. This light-sensitive material is a material that changes phase upon exposure to one or more wavelengths of light. D... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110128834 | FILTER AND FILTERING METHOD THEREOF A filter, including a direct-current (DC) tracking unit, a subtracter and a control unit, is provided. The DC tracking unit extracts a DC component of a radio-frequency (RF) signal and accordingly generates a level signal. The subtracter subtracts the level signal from ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110110210 | INFORMATION DETECTION DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE An information detection device includes an equalizer that equalizes the readout signal to a PR channel having equalization target levels of four or more values, and a Viterbi detector. The Viterbi detector generates branch metrics with the equalization target levels as... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110103207 | OPTICAL SYSTEM OF OPTICAL PICK-UP AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS An optical system of an optical pick-up including a resin coupling lens and a resin objective lens with NA larger than 0.8, wherein, magnification β satisfies a condition: −0.13<β<−0.08, a focal length f of the objective lens satisfies a condition: 1.15<f... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103208 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC, PLAYBACK METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISC, PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL DISC, RECORDING APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL DISC Address information that has been error correction encoded is recorded on a second version of a recording medium after being transformed such that such that the address decoding cannot be performed by a playback device that is not compatible with the second version of t... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110096642 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD A computer readable medium, apparatus, and method for efficiently managing a space bitmap. A computer readable medium includes: a user data area on which user data is recorded; and a temporary disc management area on which a space bitmap indicating a recording status of... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090773 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VITERBI-PROCESSED DATA USING AN INPUT SIGNAL OBTAINED FROM READING AN OPTICAL DISC An apparatus for generating Viterbi-processed data using an input signal obtained from reading an optical disc includes a Viterbi decoding unit and a control circuit. The Viterbi decoding unit is arranged to process the input signal and generate the Viterbi-processed da... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110085428 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS An information storage medium according to the present invention has n information storage layers (where n is an integer and n≧3), on which data can be written with a laser beam and which are stacked one upon the other. Each of the n storage layers has a test write zo... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110075534 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE An object of the invention is to provide an optical recording medium and an optical information device that enable to improve the quality of a servo signal and a reproduction signal. In the case where shape-wise thicknesses tr1, tr2, tr3, and tr4... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110063959 | LOADER MODULE OF AN OPTICAL ACCESS APPARATUS A loader module of an optical access apparatus is provided. The optical access apparatus has a main control printed circuit board (PCB). The loader module comprises an optical pick-up head, a drive unit, a first signal line, a second signal line and a non-volatile memor... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110063960 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS An optical disc apparatus, being improved in a random access speed thereof and superior in a usability thereof, comprises: a virtual disc for memorizing data of at least one (1) pieces of an optical disc; a recording/reproducing means for executing reproduction of data ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110038241 | Optical Disc Recording Device A technique for investigating differences of composition and structural state of a recording layer of an optical disc along with other defects, such as scratches, contamination, warp and distortion, prior to video recording and for setting up appropriate recording condi... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032807 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME An optical pickup device is provided. In an optical pickup device, a light receiving element has light receiving regions for focusing as part of the plurality of light receiving regions. A diffraction element has diffraction regions for focusing as part of the plurality... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032806 | OPTICAL DISC AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS An optical disc recording method for recording disc information to be used in recording/reproducing control on an optical disc, comprises the following steps of: providing a first disc information unit and a second disc information unit, each having a predetermined data... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032808 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD An information recording/reproducing apparatus including an optical pickup unit for generating an RF signal performs signal processing to acquire, at a restart of recording after a halt of recording, a data ID to be used as a reference for specifying a recording restart... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110026383 | REPRODUCED SIGNAL EVALUATION METHOD AND WRITE ADJUSTMENT METHOD The present invention aims to provide a reproduced signal evaluation method and a write adjustment method for offering a Blu-ray disc having a large storage capacity with excellent media compatibility. An evaluation index L-SEAT is calculated through signed addition usi... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026384 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD An information recording apparatus for recording additional content on a medium on which a title including one or more files is already recorded, includes means for designating a title to be added on the medium; means for transmitting disc package information, the disc ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019515 | METHOD OF MANAGING DATA IN OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS A method of managing data in an optical disc apparatus is provided. The type of a loaded disc is checked, and data corresponding to the checked disc type is read from a compressed file, decompressed and stored in a memory of the optical disc apparatus. Recording-related... | 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 |
