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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159906 | Address generating and detecting method and reproducing and recording apparatus Recording capacity per layer is detected from a disc and bit allocation of wobble addresses in a conventional optical disc and bit allocation in a high-density optical disc are controlled selectively to detect physical position addresses on the disc. Address detecti... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8077560 | Additionally recordable information recording medium, information recording method, information reproducing method, information recording apparatus and information reproducing apparatus An additionally recordable information recording medium has a complicated management structure for managing an unrecorded area. Therefore, there are problems that it takes a long time for a disk to startup and it is difficult to build a recording/reproducing system.... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7996448 | Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium A method and apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium are disclosed. The method and apparatus calls for downloading data associated with data read from the recording medium. The downloaded data is stored in a local storage using an organization ID dire... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990808 | Performing error-free access operation on multi-layered disc A method of reproducing information recorded on an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers inclusive of a first recording layer and a second recording layer includes the steps of referring to an order of recording of the first recording layer and the sec... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990809 | Music data transfer method, information processing apparatus and information recording/playback system One embodiment of invention is useful when updating data of a database which is configured to take in data through a network, has a part to be updated, and takes in information of media stored in a local storage, and characterized by that a result of retrieval is ou... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7933170 | Optical disk medium and method and apparatus for reading information An optical disk medium includes a track groove thereon. On the optical disk medium, information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis. The block unit has a predetermined length. The block unit having the predetermined length includes a number of s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7773465 | Media vaulting in an automated data storage library Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to provide for managing data storage media to provide secure storage of the data storage media in an automated data storage library. A logical library partition vault is created in the automated data stora... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7715284 | Cassette library device and method of controlling the attitude thereof A cassette library apparatus and a posture control method thereof are provided. A swing arm (16a) is capable of chucking or releasing a cassette (1) by getting into a recessed part (10a) of the cassette (1) and getting out o... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7606118 | Music data transfer method, information processing apparatus and information recording/playback system One embodiment of invention is useful when updating data of a database which is configured to take in data through a network, has a part to be updated, and takes in information of media stored in a local storage, and characterized by that a result of retrieval is ou... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7542380 | Method of and apparatus for immediately writing or reading files on a disc-like recording medium having control information on defect management stored in a predefined location and such a disc-like recording medium A method of recording digital information signals on a removable rewritable disc like recording medium, the method including recording user data on a logical area of the disc and, prior to removal of the disc out of a recording/reproducing apparatus, finalizing the ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7437503 | Method and apparatus for handling data transfers Embodiments of the present invention provide for implementation of data transfers in an efficient manner. The 48-bit LBA mechanism requires two sets of I/O writes to IDE registers on primary channel or secondary channel. The two sets of I/O writes to the primary or ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7403451 | Media vaulting in an automated data storage library Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to provide for managing data storage media to provide secure storage of the data storage media in an automated data storage library. A logical library partition vault is created in the automated data stora... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398391 | Content addressable information encapsulation, representation, and transfer Techniques for managing the storing of a digital asset by a first computer in a computer system that further comprises a second computer. The first computer receives a communication from the second computer including the digital asset, determines whether the digital... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382703 | Optical disc apparatus In the optical disc apparatus according to the present invention, the CPU 113 is operated to execute a control program stored in the ROM 112 to calculate a reproduction time at the time point when the power supply was turned off based on parameters aft... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7362664 | Optical disk medium and method and apparatus for reading information An optical disk medium includes a track groove thereon. On the optical disk medium, information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis. The block unit has a predetermined length. The block unit having the predetermined length includes a number of s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356248 | Apparatus and method of reproducing subtitle recorded in digital versatile disk player In an apparatus and method of reproducing a subtitle recorded in a digital versatile disk player including a subtitle processing section for receiving, storing and reproducing multilingual subtitles, as well as video data and audio data of multiple titles which are ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349297 | Method and apparatus for acquiring an index mark A method and apparatus for reading an index mark pattern. The pattern may be formed on an optical disc medium. The optical disc medium may include a set of data arranged in a data field, and an index mark pattern for identifying a relative location of the data field... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348748 | Motorized system and method of control A system and method for generating a controlled motion path with a machine-tool system having a controller operating in a servo rate. The method includes a first interpolation step, in which a path segment corresponding to a number of servo update periods is calcula... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346740 | Transferring speculative data in lieu of requested data in a data transfer operation Method and apparatus for transferring speculative data in lieu of requested data in a data transfer operation. First data are transferred in response to an execution of a first pending command. Speculative data are transferred instead of second data associated with ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7301867 | Method and apparatus for changing a recording speed of a disk device The present invention relates to a recording speed determining method of a disk device. The present method, when data record is requested from a host through an interface, a disk device can receive size information about data to be recorded and/or the present time f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301887 | Methods for erasing bit cells in a high density data storage device Methods in accordance with the present invention can be applied, in an embodiment, to a media comprising a phase change material to alter a resolved portion of the phase change material to have a resistance different from a resistance of the bulk material. A tip hav... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290709 | Information card system A data distribution system (10) including an information card (12) to work with a reader (14, 72). The information card (12) includes visible indicia (20) on its front, stripe zones (34) and a ring zone (36) nominally... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290698 | Progress bar with multiple portions A method and system for providing information about recorded media content having a beginning and end time. A progress bar including a first portion is displayed on a display device. The first portion graphically represents the duration of the recorded media content... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7265928 | Data storage cartridge with worm write-protection A data storage cartridge is equipped with write-once-read-many (WORM) write-protection. The cartridge is compatible with an existing cartridge docking station with a modification to the control logic of the docking station's control module. Specifically, the control... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7245579 | High-definition optical disk and high-definition optical disk drive A high-definition optical disk and a high-definition optical disk drive, which record data on lands and grooves. Wobbles are formed in grooves and lands of an optical disk, and address information is embedded in the wobbles. The wobbles are formed so as to become in... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7164635 | Method of estimation parameter adaptability adjustment of an optical storage device A method of estimation parameter adaptability adjustment of an optical storage device. The method determines an estimation parameter according to a current data recording location of the optical storage device to estimate a channel bit rate. The method includes prov... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161889 | Information recording medium, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first play... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7130145 | Automated storage system for individual and supersets of media An automated storage system includes a media storage facility, which may take the form of an automated storage library or shelf system. The media storage facility includes a plurality of individual medium slots and a plurality of superset slots. The facility further... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120232 | Lifestyle multimedia security system A method for remote monitoring of a premises. A geographically remote client is operatively coupled to a security system server capable of authenticating a user of the remote client. The remote client is then operably coupled to a security gateway capable of managin... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110329 | Device and method for compensating feed control amount An optical pickup moves to the most inner circumference, then moves to outer circumference for a predetermined period and acquires address information there. Next, a difference XZ between the acquired address information and predetermined reference address informati... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7095694 | Information recording medium, storage medium, information reproduction apparatus and method, and information recording and reproduction apparatus and method as well as providing medium The invention provides an information recording medium, a storage medium, an information reproduction apparatus and method, and an information recording and reproduction apparatus and method as well as a providing medium by which information recorded on an informati... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7051279 | Method and system for providing multiple levels of help information for a computer program A method and system for providing help information for a computer program. The help system provides help information based on a schema that specifies the structure of a valid computer program. The schema provides definitions of program element types that are specifi... | 05/23/2006 |
| RE39067 | Apparatus and method for optical disk reproduction An apparatus of the present invention is an optical disk apparatus for irradiating with a laser beam an optical disk on which address marks are recorded at intervals based on a pulse width modulation method and for reproducing data from a reproduced signal based on ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023777 | Optical disk recording/reproduction apparatus with a detection means for detecting dirt on the optical disk An optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus includes: recording/reproducing means for recording/reproducing information by emitting a light beam onto a disc having a track which wobbles at a predetermined frequency; reflected light detection means for detecting ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012859 | Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of optical recording medium A method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of an optical recording medium is disclosed. According to the method and apparatus, a moving direction of an object lens on a disc is detected from a slope of a differential phase detection (DPD) error signal in ca... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6999587 | Information recording/reproducing system An information recording medium 1 is provided with: a user data recording part 3 which records user data; a random-patter-information recording part 4 which records random pattern information from a random physical phenomenon; and an authenticat... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6983314 | Recording mechanism for recording information specified from an external source using capacity information A client transmits the title and artist of a particular music piece to a Web server via the Internet. The Web server accesses a music piece playing time information database and searches the playing time corresponding to that music piece. The playing time searched a... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6957291 | Removable disk storage array emulating tape library having backup and archive capability A hard disk drive based data archive system emulating a tape archive system includes a hot pluggable multi-drive magazine having a housing for holding a plurality of hard disk drives, each drive connected to receive power and data from the magazine in a controlled f... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6892274 | Method and apparatus for handling data transfers Embodiments of the present invention provide for implementation of data transfers in an efficient manner. The 48-bit LBA mechanism requires two sets of I/O writes to IDE registers on primary channel or secondary channel. The two sets of I/O writes to the primary or ... | 05/10/2005 |
