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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189449 | Multilayer optical information medium and optical information processing apparatus therefor, program product and information medium including the same A disclosed multilayer optical information medium includes three or more information layers. Address information indicating positions in each of the information layers is recorded in a helical manner. The information layers comprise at least one I to O layer in whic... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7382705 | Recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, and information recording medium A recording method for recording, on a write once type information recording medium, management information representing a recording state of the write once type information recording medium is provided. The information recording medium includes data including a fir... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7356142 | Secure compact disk and player A method for recording data on an optical medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first plurality of frames of data at a Cross Interleave Reed-Solomon Code (CIRC) encoder, encoding the first plurality of frames of data by the CIRC enc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352993 | Data reproducing apparatus and data reproducing system A data reproducing system of the invention includes a data transmitter for transmitting a data signal containing audio data by air and a data receiver for receiving the data signal by air from the data transmitter. The data receiver includes a data receiving section... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348907 | Range compression in oversampling analog-to-digital converters An analog-to-digital converter according to the invention is provided. The analog-to-digital converter preferably includes an analog input signal, a first reference signal, a second reference signal, and a range compression signal. The range compression signal is pr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7327660 | Optical disc and physical address format An optical disc medium comprises a track groove, along which main information is recorded. The track groove is divided into a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks each include a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames each include one shape of wobbles i... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7275040 | RFID security device for optical disc An optical disc has a security feature in the form of an RFID tag that communicates with a voltage controlled optical modifier layer in the optical disc. In the presence of an interrogation signal, the RFID tag allows the optical disc to be used normally by outputti... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269116 | Optical disc and physical address format An optical disc medium comprises a track groove, along which main information is recorded. The track groove is divided into a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks each include a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames each include one shape of wobbles i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269117 | Optical disc and physical address format An optical disc medium comprises a track groove, along which main information is recorded. The track groove is divided into a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks each include a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames each include one shape of wobbles i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260523 | Sub-band speech coding system An improved sub-band speech coding system is provided by subdividing signals into a lower an higher subband, downsampling the lower subband before coding and coding the higher subband without downsampling. The decoder includes decoding and upsampling of the lower su... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254316 | Data recording method and data recording device using same A data recording device, using a disc, wherein it is easy to handle respective audio signals independently and which receives digital data got by multiplexing plural audio signals is provided. In a data recording device according to the present invention data... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7231731 | Information record medium having two phase pit areas of mutually different depths and groove track area On an information record medium (1), information is optically recorded and reproduced while a servo control is performed with respect to the information record medium by a push-pull method. The information record medium is provided with: a record/reproduction... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7215611 | Compressed audio data editing method and apparatus A digital recording system for stereophonic audio signals is disclosed. Included is an MP3 encoder coupled to an ADC for encoding the two channels of digital audio signals into a compressed data stream. Before being directed into a flash memory for editing, the comp... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196983 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method The present invention provides an information recording method and an information recording apparatus, which are capable of recording reproduction controlling information in information recording medium such as DVD. An operation portion designates a division timing ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184236 | Magnetic hard disk drive A hard disk drive and magnetic medium including a servo area, a data area divided into a plurality of sector blocks and at least one micro-servo area disposed between two sector blocks. There may be a micro-servo area immediately preceding each of the plurality of s... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7167828 | Multimode speech coding apparatus and decoding apparatus Square sum calculator 603 calculates a square sum of evolution in smoothed quantized LSP parameter for each order. A first dynamic parameter is thereby obtained. Square sum calculator 605 calculates a square sum using a square value of each order. The ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7116624 | Optical disc and physical address format An optical disc medium compares a track groove, along which main information is recorded. The track groove is divided into a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks each include a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames each include one shape of wobbles in... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7095680 | Method and apparatus for disc recording A disc device in which recording is possible in a basic recording area in units of a subarea and startable at any position. Even if the recording cannot help stopping due to some external cause during recording on a disc-type recording medium that basically employs ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095688 | Simultaneous recording and reproduction apparatus and simultaneous multi-channel reproduction apparatus When recording and reproduction are performed at the same time, if a system controller detects that an amount of data accumulated in a buffer memory exceeds a predetermined value, the system controller stops data reading from an optical disk temporarily and records ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092344 | Apparatus for creating a multi-dimensional data signal An optical disk drive (101) is disclosed which has essentially no seek time. The drive utilizes a Virtual Head (VH) (103) which is capable of accessing any and/or all tracks in an optical disk (111) at any time. The drive utilizes a procedure by... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088650 | Methods and apparatus for optical disc data acquisition using physical synchronization markers Methods and apparatus for using physical synchronization markers during optical disc data acquisition are provided. In accordance with this invention, physical synchronization markers on optical discs and/or disc covers can be used to determine absolute and/or relat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7068581 | Optical recording apparatus for recording addresses and having a non-consecutive part in which addresses may or may not be set A recordable optical information recording medium having an address t for each sector, comprises: an area A1 starting from an address t1 to which access is made only when a recording apparatus performs recording operation; an area A2 starting fr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065491 | Inverse-modified discrete cosine transform and overlap-add method and hardware structure for MPEG layer3 audio signal decoding An inverse-modified discrete cosine transform and overlap-add method, and hardware structure for MPEG Layer3 audio signal decoding. In order to have the MPEG Layer3 audio signal decoder have more competitive power in the consumer market, the present invention provid... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065030 | Reproduction-only recording medium, reproduction device, reproduction method A data-arranging method similar to that of a RAM disk is adopted for a ROM disk to make the ROM disk highly compatible with the RAM disk. According to this method, buffer areas are allocated as a data run-in and a data run-out respectively preceding and succeeding a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062699 | Method and apparatus for recording data on recording medium and recording medium including recorded data Provided is a method of recording data on an optical recording medium having a plurality of addressable unit areas. 62 sync frames, each having a sync code and data, can be recorded in each of the addressable unit areas. Thus, user data can be recorded on a recordab... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054249 | Access control apparatus and method for controlling access to storage medium In a write process through channels Ch1, Ch2, and Ch3, the deadline of each channel is set based on the transfer rate variable by the ratio of dummy packets to valid packets, and deadline information is written with write data on a disk. In a re... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7042813 | Shock protection for compressed audio on a CD player A media player permits multiple compressed media files to be concurrently stored in memory interval to the media player. By concurrently buffering more than one compressed media file at a time, any mechanical disturbance that occurs during the playing of a file or b... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035182 | Decoder A decoder for improving the reliability of synchronization pattern detection. The decoder includes a synchronization circuit for detecting a synchronization pattern from LPP data and wobble data. A first frame counter is reset when a synchronization detection circui... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7023789 | Playback device and storage medium for selective storage of data as a function of data compression method A playback device and a storage medium for storing audio data make it possible to increase the audio data volume that may be stored on such a storage medium without increasing the data density. To this end, the audio data compressed according to at least one compres... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6995699 | Encoding method, and encoding apparatus, and decoding method and decoding apparatus In an encoding apparatus, when difference value between adjacent quantization units of quantization accuracy information where, e.g., distribution range is 0˜7, e.g., if difference value is 3 or more, 8 is subtracted, and if difference value is less than −4, 8 is... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6982938 | Method and apparatus for disc recording A disc device in which recording is possible in a basic recording area in units of a subarea and startable at any position. Even if the recording cannot help stopping due to some external cause during recording on a disc-type recording medium that basically employs ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980499 | Data recording clock signal generator for generating a recording clock signal for recording data on a recordable medium When data recording is performed on an optical disk provided with a data recording track wobbled by a wobble signal having predetermined frequency components, a recording clock generator circuit extracts the wobble signal, generates a divided clock signal obtained b... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6917574 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus and method for linking data using a decreased number of data linking blocks User data is recorded in a recording medium while being linked in units of a fixed length packet, and information indicative of this fact is written to the recording medium. At the time of reading the user data, the position of data linking block can be detected by ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6904539 | Method of determining data transfer speed in data transfer apparatus A method of determining a transfer speed of an encoded data signal including a clock signal and a data signal is provided. First, the encoded data signal is decoded to generate a decoded clock signal. Then, a data transfer speed of the encoded data signal is determi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6842522 | Secure digital video disk and player A method for recoding data on an optical medium such as DVD. The method includes receiving main data from a data source, determining a plurality of data frame values in response to the main data, inverting at least one selected bit in at least one of the data frame ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6785213 | Disk drive apparatus, and disk formatting method Formatting is applied only to a local area which is a part of the entire recordable area of a rewritable disk and which does not include portions where a lead-in area and a lead-out area are to be formed. In other words, only the required minimum area is formatted. ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6754149 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method An encoder & decoder unit for encoding data to be recorded has a data-supply-start-signal-generating circuit for generating an ATTX signal requesting that an operation to supply the data to be recorded to the encoder & decoder unit be started by counting 88.5 frames... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6665784 | Method for writing and reading data to and from a compact disc media A method for writing a file of data to a compact disc media is provided. The method begins by receiving a first portion of the file for writing to the compact disc media. The first portion can be any portion of the file. Once received, the first portion i... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6657938 | Disk having expanded elapsed time information A data record medium on which a digital signal has been recorded in which the digital signal is composed of main data and a sub code, the sub code having time information representing reproduction elapsed time, and the sub code being recorded in associati... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6487145 | Method and system for audio data collection and management A method is provided for extracting music data from a compact disc and managing the music data. The method is configured to have the system extract at least a portion of an initial track of music data at an extracting rate that is greater than the listeni... | 11/26/2002 |
