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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154958 | Recording apparatus using control information and virtual reference information An information recording apparatus includes a first acquiring element that acquires both control information for controlling the order of recording or reproducing recorded information and virtual reference information that can be determined by the control informatio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8059500 | Optical disc device It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical disc device that achieves more accurate time search. Thus, in a DVD playback device including time search function of performing playback from specified time, control is performed so that, when the speci... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7965587 | Record reproducing system, record reproducing method and record reproducing program A recording and reproduction system includes a recording system and a reproduction system. The reproduction system reproduces (simultaneous reproduction) data of content while the data is being recorded by the recording system. The recording system records informati... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7903505 | Optical disc, optical disc drive, optical disc recording/reproducing method, and integrated circuit An address format for appropriately controlling the recording linear density and the number of information recording layers is provided in order to increase the recording capacity of an information recording medium such as an optical disc or the like in a range in w... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889605 | Information reproducing apparatus The present invention provides an information reproducing apparatus which can directly and intuitively designate a reproduction point, as desired by a user, on the basis of a change in level of a visually-provided information amount. An optical disk reproducing appa... | 02/15/2011 |
| RE42023 | Method and apparatus for setting recording parameter on non-used area of optical recordable disc When setting a recording power for use in recording optical information on a DVD-R, by using any one of sectors provided on the DVD-R as a PCA, whether a predetermined special detected signal is detected or not in the sectors is checked (Step S2), a non-used ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7830753 | Optical disc, optical disc drive, optical disc recording/reproducing method, and integrated circuit In an optical disc, a track on which data is recordable is divided into a plurality of blocks, and each block includes L pieces of sub blocks. On each sub block, M-bit first digital information specifying a block address of a block including the each sub block and N... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7609592 | Reproduction apparatus and method capable of calculating error between designated time point and time stamp When an operation unit receives a designated time point, a controller calculates an error between time point information and a reproduction time point of a tentative start packet, which is a start packet provided if packets were each reproduced for an average value ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7532550 | Apparatus for setting a recorded parameter on non-used area of an optical disc When setting a recording power for use in recording optical information on a DVD-R, by using any one of sectors provided on the DVD-R as a PCA, whether a predetermined special detected signal is detected or not in the sectors is checked (Step S2), a non-used ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7366733 | Method and apparatus for reproducing play lists in record media There has been a problem that play list reproduction cannot be performed at a data processing level of a CD player and so on which cannot interpret a play list file in an HTML format. A recording and reproducing system has a CD-RW medium 15 of holding ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349296 | Write control in response to tracking error A method for controlling writing on a data carrier device, at least including: writing data on the data carrier device with a data writer device; obtaining a tracking error signal corresponding to a position of the data writer device with respect to a track on the d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340156 | Information storage medium with aggregate attribute information, and apparatus for reproducing the same An information storage medium includes: a plurality of unit audio information to be reproduced independently of each other; aggregate audio information each including one or more of the unit audio information; unit attribute information indicating attributes of the ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7304929 | Optical information recording medium, an optical information recording apparatus, an information processing apparatus, program and information recording method An optical information recording apparatus can maintain a stable recording quality when recording information on an optical information recording medium having a recording layer of a multilayer structure. An optical information recording medium of a rotating type ha... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7263049 | Semi-synchronous receiver and apparatus for reading information A receiver is described for delivering a data sequence (ak) at a data rate 1/T from an analog signal (Sa), the receiver comprising: a) converting means (40) for generating a received sequence (rn) by sampling the analog signal (Sa) with a sample rate of 1/Ts,... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249147 | Combination compact disc recorder and player system The combination recorder and player system includes a recorder/player unit and a remote control unit. The recorder/player unit includes a recorder/player computer system and recorder/player software that is operable to cause the recorder/player to record, play, and ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7187627 | System for controlling recording and reproducing data using management information on the medium An information reproducing/recording system has a reproducing apparatus which reproduces program information from a first recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus which records program information on a second recording medium or reproduces program informa... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7149156 | Editing apparatus for optical reproducing device A highlight of a representative track of each album stored in a recording medium and a highlight of each track of a designated album are pre-set. Highlights of representative tracks of albums are successively reproduced from album 1. As a result, albums are s... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7134876 | Sound system with dedicated vocal channel A karaoke sound system had a mixer that combines the singer's real-time voice signal from a microphone with the pre-recorded background song/music signal from a player, an amplifier that receives the mixed signal from the mixer to provide amplification or gain boost... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7103261 | Consumer friendly error correcting formating method for white book 2.0 video compact disc with CD-DA red book audio tracks Consumer friendly compact disc which employ MPEG 1 video data for DVD players, computers, and CD-DA tracks for Compact Disc players with traditional playback identified by these independent machines. DVD playable MPEG 1 video time will not alter CD audio playability... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085201 | Optical disc drive and method of checking optical disc An optical disc drive 1 of the present invention can record and/or reproduce data including audio data and non-audio data onto and/or from a multi-session optical disc 2 when the optical disc is loaded into the optical disc drive. The optical disc driv... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7069092 | Digital audio signal filtering mechanism and method Essentially all of the processing parameters which control processing of a source audio signal to produce an encoded audio signal are stored in an audio processing profile. Multiple audio processing profiles are stored in a processing profile database such that spec... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050362 | Editing apparatus for optical reproducing device A highlight of a representative track of each album stored in a recording medium and a highlight of each track of a designated album are pre-set. Highlights of representative tracks of albums are successively reproduced from album 1. As a result, albums are s... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7031243 | Beat density detecting apparatus and information playback apparatus A beat density detecting apparatus and an information playback apparatus are provided to detect distinctive characteristics that music or the like has and to provide the same as a novel information volume. Playback data read out from an information recording medium,... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6967912 | Method and apparatus for determining a recordable position of a writable disk The present invention relates to method and apparatus for recording new data in a writable disk such as a once-writable disk CD-R and a rewritable disk CD-RW after previous recording to the disk is interrupted abnormally. A method of determining a recordable positio... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967906 | Circuit and method for detecting mirror signal for optical disc apparatus A circuit and a method of detecting a mirror signal for an optical disc apparatus, the method includes detecting a bottom envelope from a radio frequency signal and providing a bottom envelope signal thereof, amplifying the bottom envelope signal according to a cent... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6831881 | Equalizer-effect media system and method A piece of media, apparatus and method are provided wherein the piece of media may store the audio data as well as equalizer settings that permit the audio data to be equalized. In one embodiment, the piece of media stores equalized audio data and the equalizer sett... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6762979 | Method and apparatus for reproducing first and second digital audio signals This invention relates to a reproduction method and also to a reproduction apparatus adapted to transmit a first digital signal for main data of a piece of music and additional data accompanying the main data and including the number of the piece of music and the el... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6744703 | Continuous recording apparatus by interpolating the audio signal during seeking operation In an apparatus for recording continuous information of sound or the like, when a disk device generating a seek sound is used as recording means, such state is prevented that seek sound is mixed as noise and is recorded. In an input processing system of an audio sig... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6735153 | Method and apparatus for setting recording parameter on non-used area of optical recordable disc When setting a recording power for use in recording optical information on a DVD-R, by using any one of sectors provided on the DVD-R as a PCA, whether a predetermined special detected signal is detected or not in the sectors is checked (Step S2), a non-used ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6614732 | Record and playback apparatus and recording method A recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a program data reading-out device, a classification information storage device, a program data storage device and a controlling device. The program data reading-out device reads out program data from a recording... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6377525 | Optical disc apparatus and method for reading information The objective of the present invention is to prevent the occurrence of crosstalk between adjacent pregrooves, even if the light beam is applied across the adjacent information recording layers in accordance with the increase in a storage density of the op... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6327228 | Disk device A disk device for recording data onto a disk in accordance with a predetermined layout containing a footer portion. In the disk device, upon receipt of a record command entered by a user, a CPU reads out a TDB of a track finally subjected to data recordin... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6122239 | Pre-mastering, archival optical recorder that provides extended recording time A pre-mastering, optical recorder and a logging workstation both receive and condition an analog signal. Both the recorder and the workstation then digitize the conditioned signal storing the digitized data thus obtained in a buffer, preferably either a l... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6034942 | Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information recording medium is reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus for controlling a reproduction of record information based on a search control information recorded together with the record information. The medium includes: processed ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5982723 | Data recording and reproducing method for multi-layered optical disk system A data recording and reproducing method for an optical disk data storage system to record data compressed at different data compression rate according to an operator's specification, and to reproduce the recorded data by decompressing. According to the op... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5980262 | Method and apparatus for generating musical accompaniment signals at a lower storage space requirement In a method and apparatus for generating musical accompaniment signals corresponding to a musical program, there is provided a recording medium which has an audio storage unit and a lyric storage unit separate from the audio storage unit. The audio storag... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5963530 | CD recording device with auxillary input A device for recording onto a compact disc signals received from another compact disc is provided including a compact disc player adapted to removably receive a compact disc via a first slot formed in the housing and play the same. Further included is a c... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5951710 | Method and apparatus for checking compressed data errors Double error correction is attempted on the data for which error detection is once performed on compressed data both in the error detecting circuit and in the error correcting circuit after it is read out in sectors from the target disc medium and the rel... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5936925 | Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information recording medium is reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus for controlling a reproduction of record information based on a search control information recorded together with the record information, The medium includes: processed ... | 08/10/1999 |
