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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8125860 | Optical disk playback device An optical disk playback device includes a first control means for holding difference information which the first control means generates by, during playback of an optical disk 10, performing a comparison between track start point position information detecte... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7911887 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus, data recording and reproducing method, and computer program A recording medium has a user-data zone in which a plurality of fragments can be reserved by recording the start and end addresses of the fragments, and a management information zone in which management information having recorded-area-indicator (RAI) information in... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7864636 | Multi-layered optical recording medium, address assignment method for multi-layered optical recording medium, apparatus and method of reproducing and method of recording A optical recording medium wherein a sector address is assigned such that a sector address of a first recording layer is a complement of a sector address of a second recording layer adjacent to the first recording layer, and a sector address of each of the remaining... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7760589 | Information recording apparatus and method, and computer program for recording control An information recording apparatus (300) is provided with: a first recording device (302 etc.) for recording the first information into a first area of the first layer; a second recording device (302 etc.) for recording the second information in... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7599256 | Method and apparatus for reproducing information from recording medium One of (1) a signal reproduced from a recording medium by a pickup device and (2) control information related to the reproduced signal is searched in a first search range for first information. A trial is made for detecting an optimum condition of a reproducing oper... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7586814 | Recording media data structure and method of reading data recorded in recording media A recording media data structure includes a first recording layer having a lead-in area, a first user region successive to a physical sector of the lead-in area and for storing user data, and a first jump region successive to a physical sector of the first user regi... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7577062 | Recording medium controller and recording medium controlling method A battery-operated recording medium controller monitors the ID of a replayed melody and when a replay ID comparing section (A126) makes a decision that a melody of the same ID as the previous one is replayed, a section (A127) for judging necessity of a... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7554886 | Disk access device A disk access device records to and plays back from a disk on which data recording is performed according to the ZCLV format, and includes a head that reads/writes data from/to the disk. The disk access device calculates a deferment time period that begins upon comp... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551525 | Method for preventing excessive skipping on audio disks The present invention provides for a method for reducing undesirable skipping during playback of a compact disc in a compact disc player. A lens system of the compact disc player reads audio data and subcode data from the compact disc. The subcode data includes Q ch... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7529159 | System and method for recording information onto an information recording medium's first and second recording layers There is provided an information recording device for recoding information onto an information recording medium including a first recording layer (L0 layer) having a first recording capacity and a second recording layer (L1 layer) having a second recording capacity.... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7355957 | Optical disc medium having a system information recording area of low recording density In order to stably carry out reproduction of information in an optical disc medium (10) using a PRML (partial-response maximum-likelihood) method for reproducing the signal, the optical disc medium (10) has not only a data recording area (14) wh... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355936 | Disc recording medium, disc drive apparatus, and reproduction method First data representing user data and third data use the same error correction codes. The first data has a first error correction block structure and the third data has a second error correction block structure. That is to say, the first data and the third data have... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350118 | Method and apparatus for recording information in concatenated manner A method of recording data as presence/absence of marks on an information recording medium includes a step of obtaining data pieces, each of which has size of one block and is made by adding error-correction-purpose data to information data, a step of attaching to e... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349309 | Disk recording medium having ID recorded over a circle of a burst cutting area Disclosed is a disk-like recording medium, a disk recording apparatus and a disk recording method, and a disk playback apparatus and a disk playback method. Disk ID is recorded over a circle of a burst cutting area on an optical disk. The circle is divided into n bl... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339873 | Data recording/reproducing apparatus, data recording/reproducing method, program, and recording medium A data recording/reproducing apparatus for use with a disc recording medium having a plurality of either concentric or spiral tracks formed thereon, each of the tracks being divided into a plurality of sectors is provided. The apparatus includes a seeking element fo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337175 | Method of storing data in a multimedia file using relative timebases The invention concerns a method for storing data in a multimedia file, the multimedia file containing an absolute time base indicator and at least a track wherein the data are stored. Said data comprise time values. The method is characterised in that it consists in... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324420 | Optical disc and method of identifying recording layer An optical disc in which a physical address of each smallest recording unit and a recorded address increase or decrease on first and second recording layers, and a method of identifying the recording layers. Embodiments are provided for discs having first and second... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315507 | Information recording medium, and recording method and reproducing method thereof An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit arra... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315492 | Header mask signal generating track jump method for a recording medium A track jump method for an optical recording/reproducing medium is provided. In the track jump method, once a track jump command is input, a track jump operation is held until a falling edge of a header mask signal is detected. The track jump starts at the falling e... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313081 | Information recording medium, and recording method and reproducing method thereof An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit arra... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310299 | Information recording medium, and recording method and reproducing method thereof An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit arra... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310300 | Information recording medium, and recording method and reproducing method thereof An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit arra... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310823 | Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301874 | Apparatus and method for searching for writable area, apparatus and method for updating recording management information, integrated circuit, and write-once information recording medium An apparatus is provided for searching for a writable area of a write-once information recording medium, comprising a searching portion and a control portion. The searching portion searches for an unrecorded area using a prescribed address as a reference. The contro... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295396 | Magnetic disk drive Embodiments of the present invention reduce noise and residual vibration during random access operation of a magnetic disk drive. The magnetic disk drive which executes each instruction from an upper device to move a magnetic head from a start track to an end track ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289394 | Data recording controller for adding new data to a medium A data recording controller for properly adding data to a disc medium. The controller includes a data location counter for performing counting in synchronism with reproduction of data written to an optical disc. An LPP location counter performs counting in synchroni... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289411 | Optical disc apparatus The present invention provides an optical disc apparatus capable of rotating an optical disc with high speed while enabling reduced current consumption. The optical disc apparatus comprises a spindle motor for rotating the optical disc and a thread motor for driving... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283444 | Method and device for determining disk size and stopping a rotating disk without using frequency generator signals A method and device for determining the presence or absence of a disk and/or a disk size without using FG signals, are provided. The method includes placing a pickup at a first zone on the optical recording medium, the first zone located between an outer radius of a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274313 | High speed data recording with input duty cycle distortion Data from both a positive edge sample and negative edge sample are used to determine a data bit. The primary and secondary clocks capture two copies of the data. A sample is taken with a positive edge of one clock and the negative edge of the other clock each bit pe... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7263044 | Information storage medium and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the same An information storage medium and a method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the information storage medium. The information storage medium includes a plurality of recording layers, each having a user data area, on which data can be recorded by a ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254104 | Optical disk and optical disk drive device An optical disk physical has a recording region divided into zones, each zone including physical tracks adjacent to each other. An integer number of sectors are provided in each physical track. The angular recording density is higher in the more outward zones such t... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251202 | Substrate for optical recording medium, optical recording medium, master disc, master disc recording apparatus, and signal generating apparatus A substrate for an optical recording medium includes recording tracks formed in guide grooves on a disc and an address section having an address pit sequence formed between the recording tracks in the guide grooves along an information reading direction of the recor... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7227815 | Optical disk and optical disk drive device An optical disk physical has a recording region divided into zones, each zone including physical tracks adjacent to each other. An integer number of sectors are provided in each physical track. The angular recording density is higher in the more outward zones such t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221382 | Medium with embedded information A medium includes an energy sensitive layer that changes appearance when energized to create a media label. The medium also includes pre-recorded data containing embedded information about the medium that includes printing characteristics of the energy sensitive lay... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221637 | Multi-level optical recording medium, multi-level recording method, and multi-level reproduction method A multi-level optical recording medium according to the present invention is a multi-level optical recording medium (1) which is capable of recording record data according to multi-level recording that defines light reflection ratios of recording portions ( | 05/22/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7209637 | Image reproducing apparatus having skip function An image reproducing apparatus reproducing image information, having a reproduction processor reproducing the image information stored in the recording medium, a key input section having a skip key, a first skip processor, when the skip key is pressed one time, skip... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206106 | Holographic ROM reader having servo control A holographic ROM reader having a servo control is disclosed. The holographic ROM reader includes an objective lens for focusing light reflected from a storage medium, a pinhole plate provided with a pinhole, a diffraction grating, embedded into the pinhole of the p... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200093 | Method and related apparatus for decoding information carried by wobble signals An apparatus for generating a wobble clock includes an operation circuit for receiving a wobble signal and counting cycles of an oscillating signal during a cycle of the wobble signal to derive a cycle value and for comparing the cycle value with a preset cycle valu... | 04/03/2007 |
