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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144551 | Reproducing control device having resuming function A battery charger includes: a resume information table for storing resume information about contents to be started to be reproduced with a portable player being connected to the battery charger; a writing unit that writes resume information about a tune being reprod... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8094526 | Information recording device and method, and computer program An information recording apparatus comprising: a writing device capable of writing record information onto an information recording medium comprising first and second recording layers; a first controlling device for controlling said writing device to continuously wr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8027226 | Optical disc recording device, data recording method, and data recording program An optical disc recording device includes: an optical disc device to record optical recording data onto an optical disc; a recording data assigning unit to divide a recording region on the optical disc into multiple divisions, part as a data region, assign optical r... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7957229 | Optical disc controller and optical disc drive system using error correction codes An object of this invention is to provide an optical disc controller and an optical disc drive system which reduce the proceeding time for supplementing data that is deficient at the time of writing to the optical disc. The present invention relates to an optical di... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7907478 | Drive device A drive apparatus of the present invention includes: a recording/reproduction section, a drive control section and a memory circuit. The drive control section performs a process including: receiving a recording instruction specifying at least data to be recorded; st... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7881162 | Information processing apparatus and reading control method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, has a reading unit which, if a transfer delay address is found, stores data in the transfer delay address, in a memory, and stores data in a range from the transfer delay address to an additional addr... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848184 | Reproducing method for reproducing real time data from a disk-shaped information recording medium A standard reproduction model for ensuring real time reproducing on a disk-shaped information recording medium, includes a pickup (102) that reads the real time data from the information recording medium, a buffer memory (103) that temporarily stores t... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7830754 | Optical disc drive capable of playing fast rolling music using first and second buffers A method for playing a fast rolling music disc is provided. A music disc is read at an accelerated rate and played at a standard rate by discretely buffering data blocks into a ping pong buffer. Playing of a first data block stored in the first buffer, and buffering... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7821882 | Recording and reproducing apparatus and recording method According to the present invention, there is provided a recording and reproducing apparatus including: a reproduction memory that stores compressed data read out on a sector basis from a recording medium containing the compressed data compression-coded on a block ba... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7755983 | Optical disc reproducing apparatus and recording medium An optical disc reproducing apparatus comprising: a buffer memory configured to store data read from sectors of an optical disc when information is reproduced; a controlling unit configured to cause the buffer memory to store first data read from a first sector and ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738325 | Reading and writing methods and apparatus for Blu-Rays discs Blu-Ray reading and writing methods are provided. In a reading procedure, a first plurality of recording frames are sequentially read from a Blu-Ray disc and stored in a memory array along a first direction to assemble a first LDC block comprising a plurality of dat... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733746 | Playback device Disclosed is a playback device capable of audio playback with little or no interruption. Yet, there is no need of increasing the memory capacity of the playback device and sacrificing the usability of the playback device. The playback device stores, to its internal ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729209 | Recording and playback apparatus using harddrive for ripping digital audio data Audio data which are read out from a compact disc drive are written into a hard disk drive (6) at a rate that is higher than an audio playback rate. The written audio data are read out at a rate which is higher than the audio playback rate, and than output to... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7663983 | Optical information storage medium and optical information storage medium reproducing apparatus An optical information storage medium includes a light transmitting layer, a first information storage layer, an intermediate layer mainly made of resin, a second information storage layer, and a substrate. The light transmitting layer, the first information storage... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7652955 | Audio encoding method and apparatus for electronic shock protection function in audio player An audio encoding method and apparatus for electronic shock protection (ESP) function in an audio player. A method of generating a frame structure for an electronic shock protection function of an audio player, includes: encoding original data of a frame and locatin... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7643384 | Method for controlling an optical pick-up for reading data streams for simultaneous reproduction Optical discs may support “Out Of Multiplex” formats, meaning that different presentation components, like video, audio and subtitles, are stored on different files on the disc, e.g. Blu-ray discs. The different data streams are read by a single pick-up, requiri... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7529160 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous recording and reproducing information recording medium therefor In order to perform simultaneous recording of a plurality of pieces of real time data, a large capacity of buffer memories were required. In addition, it was difficult to reproduce data which was recorded by a different apparatus. The present invention has an object... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7512040 | Method and apparatus for recording real-time data into an optical disc A standard reproduction model for ensuring real time reproducing on a disk-shaped information recording medium, includes a pickup (102) that reads the real time data from the information recording medium, a buffer memory (103) that temporarily stores t... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7483342 | Method and system for reconditioning optical storage media to write updated information An optical storage reconditioning module extends the life of re-writable optical medium, such as DVD+RW optical storage disks, by writing random information to recondition commonly used portions of the optical medium before re-writing information to those portions o... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7417929 | Optical disk data processing device and data recording/reproduction device having interruption and restart of write processing on the recording medium The objective of this invention is to provide a type of data processing device and a type of data recording/reproduction device that can restart data write processing correctly from an interruption position after data write processing on a recording medium is interr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359299 | Recording medium and reading system A medium judgment program is recorded on an information recording medium. The program causes a computer to judge whether the medium is authorized. The judgment may be based on information on a unique value preformed in the medium in regard to each of the media. If t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352661 | Information-signal recording and reproducing apparatus A recording medium has first and second areas on which first and second information signals are recorded respectively. The first information signal has a size Ya. The second information signal has a size Yb. A head operates for reproducing the first and second infor... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343544 | Optical disk playback apparatus and data playback method therefor An optical disk playback apparatus for playing back or reproducing main data and its associated sub-code which are read from an optical recording medium comprises an interleave RAM for storing the main data. The optical disk playback apparatus performs a predefined ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339862 | Optical disc driving system and method for determining rotation speed of optical disc A novel optical disc driving system and method for determining the rotation speed of an optical disc are provided, which allow to determine the highest rotation speed optimal for reading out audio and video data in the optical disc in accordance with the environment... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7312390 | Automatic music playing apparatus and computer program therefor An external storage device stores automatic music playing data files, each file including data of a progression of musical notes constituting a performance of a music piece, and registration data files, each file including data of a set of parameters to determine th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301855 | Apparatus and method for storing ROM and RAM data into magneto-optical recording medium An optical disk apparatus records new information related to the ROM information into RAM at a position linked with the ROM information of an optical information storage medium while continuously regenerating the ROM information of the optical information storage me... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284651 | Conveyor system and method of conveying elements The method of conveying elements on a conveyor system of this invention includes conveying an element on a first continuously moving conveyor in a first direction at a first height, then lifting the element from the first conveyor upwardly to a second height and sim... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280446 | Optical disk drive responsive to internal temperature change There is provided an optical disk drive capable of appropriately effecting recording and reproducing operations without being affected by offset values and a laser output value, which are set at startup of the disk drive, even when changes have arisen in the interna... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277368 | Playback method, playback control circuit and playback apparatus for a recording medium Stable playback performance is assured and data loss due to out-of-step synchronization is reduced even when playback signal quality deteriorates due to such cause as a recording medium defect. The playback method applies to a recording medium to which data is recor... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266052 | Method for operation optical disc changer using virtual memory A data processing method of a virtual optical disk applied in an optical disk system is provided. The method includes steps as follows: Firstly a sound source determining procedure is executed. If the sound source is not from a virtual optical disk, a pre-processing... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266724 | Apparatus and method for interruption of read and write operation and program storage medium for storing read and write procedure program A method and an apparatus for performing high-quality read and write operations through a simple operation without being affected by an interruption even when the interruption has occurred in the course of a read/write operation between information storage media. Wh... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254056 | Apparatus for optically pre-programming electrically-programmable phase-change memory devices In an embodiment, a phase change non-volatile memory includes a number of memory cells. The memory cells include a phase change material which may transition between two memory states. The phase change material has different electrical properties in different states... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251204 | Optical disc reproducing apparatus According to the optical disc reproducing apparatus relating to the present invention, DSP detects a beat from an audio signal from the optical disc, and in a beat search mode, every time when the jog 28 is clicked once, the microcomputer traces one by one, t... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236436 | Controller for data recorder A controller for controlling interruptions and restarts when writing data to a recording medium by emitting a laser beam against the recording medium. The controller prevents buffer underrun errors. The laser beam is emitted at a high power level when writing data o... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233551 | Optical disk control device for time-division-multiplexing and A/D conversion An optical disk control device comprises a playback signal detection unit for detecting data recorded on a disk by irradiating the disk with a converged light beam; a signal switching unit for successively selecting plural data signals obtained by the playback signa... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228487 | Data buffering system and method for optical recording device The present invention is a data buffering system for buffering information from an optical recording medium into a buffer memory. The information comprises a main data and a subcode. The system comprises a main target comparator, a correction target comparator and a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225310 | Method for successively recording data in hybrid digital recorder A method for successively recording data in a hybrid digital recorder. If an optical disc has no redundant area when a hybrid digital recorder in which an optical disc recorder and an HDD recorder, etc. are integrated in one body records an input data stream on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
