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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8014261 | Optically-readable disk with copy protection device An optically-readable disk includes a device that disrupts readability of the disk when the disk is spun at an angular velocity substantially greater than required to play the disk in its intended playing device, or for when a defined integral of velocity and time i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7859984 | Optical information recording medium An optical information recording medium includes a dielectric layer and an Ag-based reflection layer or an Ag-based metal semitransparent layer adjacent to the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer contains niobium oxide between 50 mol % and 75 mol %, zinc sulfide ... | 12/28/2010 |
| RE42011 | Machine-readable optical disc with reading-inhibit agent An optical disc having machine-readable, information-encoding features is provided with a barrier layer secured to the disc. This barrier layer is configured to prevent machine-reading of the features. A reading-inhibit agent, included in the disc and activated by r... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859983 | Optical disk and optical disk recording and reproducing device An optical disk includes a plurality of disk sheets which are laminated, and each of which has a recording face on one of the surfaces and a flat back surface, wherein the plurality of disk sheets are laminated by adhesive layers in such a manner that between adjace... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7613100 | Optical pickup device and focus control method therefor An optical pickup device comprises a first laser light source and a second laser light source that emit first laser light and second laser light, respectively, and further comprises an objective lens that receives the first and second laser light. The first laser li... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7411887 | Optical information recording medium A phase-change optical information recording medium in which information can be recorded, reproduced and rewritten and which includes a first transparent substrate having a wobbling guide groove which is spirally formed thereon at a pitch; a first dielectric layer l... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408869 | Optical disk and optical disk apparatus In an optical disk of the invention composed of two substrates bonded to each other, the level of double refraction is set to 60 nm or less in a read-only disk, to 60 nm or less in a write-once type disk, and to 40 nm or less in a rewritable type disk, respectively.... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7368221 | Changing light absorption by disruption of conjugation Copy-protected optical medium utilizing a composition comprising a transient optical state change security materials constrained to change the optical state light absorption at a wavelength of about 400 nm and an electron transfer agent. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368223 | Multi-stack optical data storage medium and use of such a medium A multi-stack optical data storage medium for rewritable recording by a focused laser-light beam, the medium having a substrate with deposited on aside thereof: a first recording stack comprising a phase-change type recording layer... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370367 | Security device and article incorporating same A compact disc (10) for a computer incorporates a security device for preventing non-authorized reading of data carried by the disc. The security device includes an LCD laser blocker (16) which is activated or deactivated by means of a microchip (13... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368222 | Optical data storage media with enhanced contrast Disclosed is an optical data storage medium with enhanced contrast. The optical data storage medium includes a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces. A first metal/alloy layer is formed overlaying the first surface of the substrate. The first ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367773 | Apparatus for combining or separating disk pairs simultaneously Various methods and apparatus are provided for merging and demerging pairs of disks. In one embodiment, pairs of merged disks are first separated and then transferred to separate cassettes such that all of the disks in the separate cassettes are oriented in the same... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366081 | Information recording medium An information recording medium according to the present invention includes a recording layer that is formed of a single layer of a single type of recording material and is directly sandwiched by a pair of resin layers, the information recording medium being constru... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359309 | Optical disk, thin plastic sheet, and method for affixing display sheet to disk substrate An optical disk is provided with a disk substrate having a recording layer formed on one surface of a substrate and a cover sheet applied over the recording layer; and a display sheet which is affixed to a surface of the disk substrate opposite to a surface covered ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355945 | Optical pickup adjusting apparatus and adjusting method An adjustment apparatus for adjusting an optical pickup capable of recording and/or reproducing optical discs of different sorts. The adjustment apparatus is an adjustment optical disc having a first signal recording layer of a physical format in common with a CD an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348124 | High-density readable only optical disk A high-density readable only optical disk with a large storage capacity includes a substrate with pits, and one or more mask layers with a super resolution near field structure, which are made of a mixture of a dielectric material and metal particles. The optical di... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341820 | Optical information recording medium The present invention is an optical information recording medium comprising a substrate having disposed in an order thereon a recording layer, an interlayer, and a cover layer, wherein recording and reproduction are carried out by the irradiation with a laser light ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328447 | Optical recording medium manufacturing device, method, optical recording medium, reproduction device, method, recording device, and method An optical recording medium having a plural number of recording layers includes a n-th recording layer (23) (n≧1), made up by a substrate (20) and a semi-reflective layer (21) carried by the substrate (20) and adapted for partially refl... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322098 | Method of simultaneous two-disk processing of single-sided magnetic recording disks Various methods and apparatus for simultaneously processing two single-sided hard memory disks is provided. Disks are positioned in pairs, with one surface of one disk positioned adjacent one surface of the second disk, with the disk surfaces touching or with a slig... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321481 | Optical recording medium An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a light transmission layer and a plurality of recording layers between the substrate and the light transmission layer and capable of recording data in the plurality of recording layers and reproducing data recorded i... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7314658 | Storage medium for data This disclosure relates to a data storage medium, and in particular to a data storage medium comprising at least one high modulus layer. In one embodiment, an asymmetric optical storage medium can comprise: a substrate layer comprising polyarylene ether, a high modu... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309518 | Radial tilt reduced media A storage media can comprise: a plastic substrate, an optical layer, a reflective layer disposed between the optical layer and the substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the optical layer and the reflective layer. The optical layer can have an optical lay... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305690 | Optical information recording medium A disk-shaped optical information recording medium comprising a recording layer, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer or an adhesive layer, and a cover sheet in this order on a substrate, and having a central hole, a track pitch of 300 to 600 nm and a groove depth of... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301883 | Advanced high density data write strategy A method of writing a mark to an optical disc includes receiving data to be written and generating a control signal for a laser pulse having a melt period that transitions to a growth period wherein the melt period is characterized by a melt power and the growth per... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300690 | Radial tilt reduced media A storage media having a radial deviation of less than or equal to about 1.15 degrees at a radius of 55 mm is disclosed. In one embodiment, the storage media comprises: a plastic substrate, an optical layer and a data storage layer disposed therebetween. A reflectiv... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292525 | Optical information recording method and apparatus for multiple recording layer medium A plurality of types of recording pulse control rules for which the recording pulse waveform is determined according to the information signals to be recorded are stored in advance in an optical disk. When recording to the optical disk, information is recorded using... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283447 | Optical disc and optical disc apparatus The refractive index of a light transmission layer of an optical disk is set within the range of 1.45 to 1.75, the numerical aperture of a lens emitting laser light which is incident onto the light transmission layer is set to 0.65, and the wavelength range of the l... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276274 | Optical recording medium and method for recording and reproducing data An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a light transmission layer and a plurality of recording layers between the substrate and the light transmission layer and capable of recording data in the plurality of recording layers and reproducing data recorded i... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7270866 | Piracy-resistant data leasing system and method The present invention discloses the data storage medium enabling subsequent alteration by a user or user's data rendering system in order to enforce the restrictive covenants of the data usage agreement. The present invention also discloses the data rendering system... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272091 | Birefringence characteristic measuring method, optical recording medium and optical information recording/reproducing apparatus Four types of optical systems, a polarization optical system including an objective lens having a high numerical aperture, a polarization optical system including an objective lens having a low numerical aperture, a non-polarization optical system including an objec... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267841 | Method for manufacturing single-sided sputtered magnetic recording disks An information-storage media is provided that includes: (a) a substrate disk 312 having first and second opposing surfaces; (b) a first interface layer 304 on the first surface, the first interface la... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263707 | Information processing medium and information processing apparatus using the same An information processing medium includes a substrate, a single layered or multilayered thin film layer formed on the substrate, and a thin protective film formed to cover at least one surface of the thin film layer. The thin protective film is mainly comprised of a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251212 | Optical information recording medium An optical information recording medium containing a first information substrate including a first substrate having a guide groove thereon, a first recording layer including a dye, overlying the first substrate and a first reflective layer being a semi-transmittance... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7241549 | Information recording medium An optical recording medium configured with a light reflection layer; a first protection layer; a recording layer containing a phase-change material which changes between crystalline and amorphous phases by a light irradiation; a second protection layer; and one of ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239601 | Optical recording medium, method of manufacturing optical recording medium, apparatus for manufacturing optical recording medium, program, and medium There are some cases that an accuracy is low for reading unique information identifying an individual from an optical disk which comprises a plurality of information layers. The optical disk according to the present invention is an optical disk which comprise... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236450 | Recording medium having resin substrate A recording medium including a resin substrate having a first thermal expansion coefficient, a center hole, a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a recording layer formed on the first surface of the resin substrate and having a recordi... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233565 | Optical recording medium An increase in cost is minimized while realizing larger capacity. An optical disc 102 includes, from the bottom of the drawing: a substrate 104; a first information recording layer 108 formed on the substrate 104; and a first light transm... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231649 | Optical recording medium and method for optically recording data in the same An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a first recording layer formed on the substrate and containing an element selected from the group consisting of Si, Sn and Ge as a primary component, and a second recording layer located in the vicinity of the first ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227717 | Asymmetric disk surface properties in one head disk drives A disk drive for storing data includes a drive housing and an asymmetrical storage disk. The storage disk includes a body region, a first side region, and an opposed second side region. The side regions are asymmetrical relative to the body region. Various structure... | 06/05/2007 |
