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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189995 | Record carrier, apparatus and method for storing video having playback control using conditional arithmetic operation A record carrier (1) of the invention stores at least video-related user data and control data in digital form. The control data enables playback control of the user data, which control data comprises at least play control data which defines user data items w... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185541 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, reproduction device, and information processing system that identifies content using a similarity calculation An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive, from a reproduction device that reproduces content recorded on a loaded recording medium, content forming information regarding the structure of the content; a degree-of-similar... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8139926 | Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, reproduction program, record medium, and data structure A reproduction apparatus has a player section, a content reproduction section, an interface section. The player section has a read section reading data from the record medium on which the content data containing at least one of a video data stream and an audio data ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8085624 | Method for storing audio-centered information with a multi-level Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism with one Master-TOC and Sub-TOCs for various audio formats, a device for use with such mechanism and a unitary storage medium containing such mechanism Audio information is stored on a unitary storage medium with a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism for therein specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In particular, one or more Sub-TOCs are each assigned to a respective different audi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077561 | Recording medium, apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the same and method thereof A physical structure, apparatus for recording/reproducing on/from a recording medium using the same and method thereof are disclosed, by which the physical structure suitable for such a recording medium as BD and the like may be provided. The present invention inclu... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059498 | Operating element and reproducer An operating element for receiving from an operator an instruction about reading speed and reading order of stored data includes: a rotatable operating disc part (38) disposed at one end of a rotation shaft (40), for receiving a rotation operation by a... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036071 | Wobble information recording method, information recording medium, and recording and reproduction method and apparatus thereof An optical disk and a method for identifying the optical disk making it possible to identify a recording system of the optical disk easily in a short time by a recording and reproduction apparatus when a groove-recording system and a land-recording system are both e... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014236 | Optical disk, an optical disk barcode forming method, an optical disk reproduction apparatus, a marking forming apparatus, a method of forming a laser marking on an optical disk, and a method of manufacturing an optical disk Disclosed is an optical disk barcode forming method wherein, as information to be barcoded, position information for piracy prevention, which is a form of ID, is coded as a barcode and is recorded by laser trimming on a reflective film in a PCA area of an optical di... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7911885 | Recording control device and method, program, and recording medium A recording medium and having efficiency of a reading and a writing process. Audio annual ring data, video annual ring data, low-resolution annual ring data, and meta annual ring data extracted from data series of metadata, an audio file, a video file, and low resol... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7889604 | Information recording medium, apparatus, and method, using dummy data in dummy data recording area An information recording medium is provided with: a first recording layer in which one portion of record information including predetermined data can be recorded, the predetermined data being (i) capable of setting a recording layer close to a physically or opticall... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7755982 | Optical disc device When a hybrid type next-generation DVD is loaded in the optical disc device, first, a red laser is turned on and parameter value and a lead-in information with respect to a DVD layer are acquired. The acquired information is stored in a memory. Next, a blue laser is... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7710836 | Method and apparatus for controlling data access rate of an optical disc driver Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling data access rate of an optical disc player. The method includes steps of (1) utilizing a micro-controller to decide whether an action of an instruction of a predetermined data processing is an extraction operation... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7701810 | Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method and reproduction program A reproduction apparatus includes a storage part which stores a plurality of items of contents data; reproduction means for reproducing contents in any one of reproduction modes including a normal reproduction mode that reads the contents data stored in the storage ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7649813 | Accessing audio-centered information using a multilevel table-of-contents mechanism and directory structures Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism for specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In addition to the TOC mechanism a file-based access mechanism to the information is assigned... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7613078 | Information recording medium, information recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method, and program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave for controlling record or reproduction An information recording medium is provided with: an object data file for storing object data which constitutes a series of content information, such as picture information and audio information, and a play list information file for storing play list information whi... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7602676 | Method for recording a lead-out on an optical disc A device for recording information writes marks in a track on a record carrier of a writable type. The device records the information according to a predefined recording format like DVD for constituting a recording area containing user data preceded by a lead-in zon... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7532549 | Method of recording file system information of write-once high density optical disc and reproducing method thereof The present invention provides a method of recording file system information of a write-once high density optical disc and reproducing method thereof, by which the robust file system information can be provided and by which the efficient reproduction of the optical ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7486593 | Method of writing into unwritten region of optical disc, optical disc writing device, optical disc, and program for writing data on optical disc To surely write data readably into a region of a designated address even if an unwritten region exists ahead of the designated address. A step of registering beforehand an address map attached to an unwritten region of the data writing area; a step of judging whethe... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7443770 | Apparatus for playback of data storage disks A CD player for use with a CD having prerecorded thereon a series of tunes or tracks together with track numbers, and with a TOC which lists the prerecorded tunes with their starting addresses but, conventionally, with no ending addresses. The CD player comprises a ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7400565 | Reproduction method, a program, a recording medium, and a drive apparatus A method for reproducing contents of an information recording medium, having at least one data zone, is disclosed, wherein a determination is made as to whether the entirety of a requested reproduction zone included in the data zone of the information recording medi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7372801 | Reproduction-only optical disc and method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from the same A reproduction-only optical disc has a lead-in area, a user data area, and a lead-out area. Disc related information recorded on at least one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area is recorded by high frequency groove wobbles, and data of the user data area is re... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369473 | Record medium, recording method for record medium, output controlling method, reproducing apparatus, record and reproduction controlling method, recording method, record and reproduction method, and recording and/or reproducing method A recording method for embedding in a record medium many types of management information corresponding to many types of record media as additional information added to content data that is recorded on the record medium, performing a first encoding process for the co... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362665 | Seek method of optical disks and optical storage device An optical disk includes a first area, a second area having time information undistinguishable from time information of the first area and a third area having unique time information. The third area is divided into a plurality of sub-areas. Peculiar zone numbers are... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7345959 | Method of data storage in optical storage media under multiple specifications A method of data storage in an optical storage media under multiple specifications. When a data is provided to store in a data area of the optical storage media under Mount Rainier (M3) specification, a first index of the data area under M3 specificati... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7327640 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, and storage medium When the user designates the reproduction of searching audio data, the designated searching audio data and audio volume data are read from a searching data recording portion. The searching audio data is reproduced corresponding to the audio volume data. When the use... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321539 | Locating information on an optical media disc to maximize the rate of transfer A user-interactive program assists a user in locating files on optical media discs such as CD-ROMs and DVDs to enhance file-transfer rates and program installation times in computers with a Constant Angular Velocity (CAV) optical media disc drive. In addition, an ap... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313316 | Method and apparatus for evaluating for the purpose of decoding a bitstream having a data structure fulfilling the requirements of two different data structure standards, and storage medium containing such bitstream There are different types of DVD systems, e.g. the replay-only DVD-Video system and the re-recordable DVD-VR system. A DVD-VR type disc containing a DVD-VR type bitstream is to be replayed on a DVD-VR type recorder or player. However, it is also possible to record a... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7283446 | Recording medium for storing write protection information and write protection method thereof A recording medium storing a write protection information, and a write protection method for protecting data recorded on a recordable and/or rewritable disc from unwanted overwriting or erasing. In order for write protection of a disc in a bare state that is usually... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274642 | Data recording medium, data recording method and apparatus, data reproducing method and apparatus, data transmitting method, and data receiving method A recording medium having at least a lead-in area, a data recording area to which data is recorded, and a lead-out area, wherein the data recording area comprises a first recording area portion to which data that has been encoded with an error correction code is rec... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266054 | Method and device for recording real-time information In a method of recording real-time information on an information carrier, e.g. audio on an optical disc, the real-time information is compressed to units comprising a variable amount of compressed data, and playback parameters are determined in dependence of the com... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263051 | Storing audio-centered information with a multi-level table-of contents (TOC) mechanism having redundant sub-TOCs Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by using a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism that specifies an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In particular, each one of a set of one or more Track Areas gets at least two mutually ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7251664 | Volume allocation within a storage management system A performance margin of a disk group is calculated upon allocating volumes to disk groups based on a condition on performance requested per operating time zone of a volume designated by a client and on history information obtained from a result of actually operating... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7215261 | DVD recording method and rewritable DVD apparatus A DVD recording method for recording data onto recording media by using a given coding rule, including: generating two data streams by using a plurality of code mapping variants prepared for coding input data, quasi-randomly selecting one of the plurality of code ma... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215352 | Information recording system and information recording method System and method are devised to produce an optical recording medium suitable for identification and management. A recording layer formed in the optical recording medium is irradiated with writing light by a pickup. A visible image pattern suitable for identificatio... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212875 | Semiconductor memory card, apparatus for recording data onto the semiconductor memory card, and apparatus for reproducing data of the semiconductor memory card A semiconductor memory card for storing audio information with corresponding text information and type information, where the type information indicates a type of the text information. The type is classified into at least (a), (b), and (c) in which the text informat... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200073 | Method and device for recording real-time information A method and device for recording video on a record carrier (11), e.g. an optical disc. The information is arranged according to a recording format, e.g. DVD-video, for being playable in standardized players. The video information is subdivided into cells and... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196976 | Accessing audio-centered information using a multi-level table-of-contents mechanism and directory structures Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism for specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In addition to the TOC mechanism a file-based access mechanism to the information is assigned... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193935 | Method and apparatus for controlling positioning of a pickup A disc drive to control a home-in mode and method thereof includes a pickup unit irradiating a light beam on a disc loaded in the disc drive, a motor moving the pickup unit along a radius direction of the disc, and a control unit detecting and storing position infor... | 03/20/2007 |
