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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7916584 | Recording-and-reproducing apparatus and content-managing method A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management f... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7876647 | Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a program, and a recording medium that facilitate, for example, identification of information recorded on an recording medium. In a disc formatting process 211, a disc-metadata-f... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7684287 | Disc changer A disc changer is provided which can perform a disc check in a short time which involves checking whether or not each disc loaded in the disc changer is reproducible in loading CDs on the changer. File system data is selected from management data of a selected disc ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7350715 | Tracking electronic devices Tracking electronic devices that are equipped with tracking tags and that are stored in designated locations. The position of a reading device is monitored as it traverses the designated locations of the electronic devices and is activated to interrogate the trackin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7331869 | Method and apparatus for creating and playing soundtracks in a gaming system A gaming system includes a game console that executes an application that creates and plays soundtracks through the gaming system. The application allows a user to create soundtracks by copying audio tracks from one or more audio sources. A user-created soundtrack c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7307924 | Systems and methods for cartridge identification In one embodiment, a cartridge identification system includes a cartridge type detection station in which a cartridge can be inserted, and apparatus that determines the extent to which the cartridge protrudes from the detection station, the extent of protrusion bein... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7289885 | Dual purpose media drive providing control path to shared robotic device in automated data storage library A dual purpose media drive exchanges data with removable media items. The drive includes at least one port to receive various control signals, including (1) data exchange commands directing the drive to read and/or write data to a media item mounted by the drive, an... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277247 | Library apparatus and cartridge therefor A library apparatus includes an enclosure enclosing at least a storage cabinet. A sound sensor is located within the enclosure. The sound sensor is designed to detect sound within the enclosure. The library apparatus enables detection of sound inside the enclosure o... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266065 | Apparatus for discriminating optical recording medium and method for discriminating optical recording medium It is an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for discriminating an optical recording medium and a method for discriminating an optical recording medium which can reliably discriminate the kind of an optical recording medium even in the case wh... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260678 | System and method for determining disk ownership model A system and method for determining a disk ownership model to be utilized by a storage system is disclosed. The storage system and method determines the individual disk ownership of each accessible disk to the storage system. If the number of disks utilizing a first... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260041 | Disk drive A disk drive includes a plurality of optical heads corresponding to a plurality kind of disks, and a disk distinction device for distinguishing whether a set disk is a first disk or a second disk when a disk is set on a disk tray, a first disk tray conveying mechani... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257826 | Disk changer A disk changer for CD and DVD disks including a rotatable platter with several slots each adapted for receiving a disk generally needs two optical sensors. The first sensor is adapted for detecting the number of a related slot of the platter and for providing a stop... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7224656 | Disc detection device and associated method A disc drive apparatus is provided which determines a recording medium enabling type and recordability for various types of discs. The discs are housed in a cartridge and each cartridge has at least a first and second detection hole formed therein. The second detect... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216802 | Method and apparatus for verifying information A system and method for verifying information and controlling a response function when two or more pieces of information correspond to each other. The system includes an information device and an identification device. The information device has identification infor... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7178156 | Disk cartridge having identification element and disk drive apparatus which recognizes the identification element A disk cartridge has a reflection portion to identify a kind of a disk in the disk cartridge. A disk drive apparatus has an optical detector to identify the kind of the disk by irradiating a beam to the reflection portion and detecting the reflected beam. The disk c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170743 | Electronic apparatus and information processing apparatus There is provided an electronic apparatus that can solve the problem with the prior art that a removable electronic device is removed while the removable electronic device is in operation, leading to unfavorable results. A disk unit is removably attached to the main... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159225 | Disc device with disc changer To achieve a disc device with a disc changer in which number of motors is reduced, and a quiet and stable switching operation, accurate positioning of a sub-tray, smooth clamp and release of a disc are possible, only a first motor for driving a main tray and a secon... | 01/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7123312 | Apparatus having a rewritable display portion A videocassette has a display portion for displaying recorded contents. The display portion is formed with a display device. The display portion is formed with a display device. The display device has a conductive layer, a PDLC (polymer-dispersed liquid crystal) fil... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7103741 | Tape drive apparatus and recording and/or reproducing method A tape cassette of this invention is equipped with a memory capable of accommodating at least management information including identification information unique to each tape cassette. A magnetic tape housed in the tape cassette is written with identification informa... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100010 | Tape drive apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method, and recording medium A tape cassette of this invention is equipped with a memory capable of accommodating management information. Where the tape cassette is used, a MIC mode switch is written to a predetermined area on the magnetic tape held in the cassette. That item of information spe... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7065639 | Utilization of SRAM in an execution of initialization code process upon system start up The present invention provides a computer system with random access memory at power up and a method for providing random access memory for use by the processor during initialization of the dynamic random access memory. A static random access memory unit is provided ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7043744 | Disk cartridge and disk drive apparatus A disk cartridge has a reflection portion to identify a kind of a disk in the disk cartridge. A disk drive apparatus has an optical detector to identify the kind of the disk by irradiating a beam to the reflection portion and detecting the reflected beam. The disk c... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039726 | Dual purpose media drive providing control path to shared robotic device in automated data storage library A dual purpose media drive exchanges data with removable media items. The drive includes at least one port to receive various control signals, including (1) data exchange commands directing the drive to read and/or write data to a media item mounted by the drive, an... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028314 | Media storage system and method for identifying a storage location therein Media storage system and method for identifying storage locations therein. One embodiment of the media storage system may comprise at least one storage library having a storage area therein. At least one access panel operatively associated with the at least one stor... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7007152 | Volume translation apparatus and method A volume translation apparatus and method are provided. The volume translation apparatus resides between host machines and the physical storage devices accessed by the host machines. This volume translation apparatus may perform volume translation for the control pa... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006894 | Interactive medication cassette This invention relates to an interactive medication cassette with a machine readable and writable information strip that contains information corresponding to the medication in the cassette. The interactive medication cassette holds the medication and couples the co... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6947356 | Method for selecting a storage medium A method for providing user-friendly selection of a storage medium, in particular an optical storage disk, from a plurality of storage mediums. The storage mediums are assigned to a playback device, in particular a compact disk changer, for reading out and reproduci... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6934605 | Palletizer system for selectively palletizing individual or pairs of objects moving along a conveyor A palletizer system is described for transferring a object that are conveyed along a conveyor to a rack, the object having a surface, the palletizer system comprising a camera, a robot transfer subsystem and a control module. The camera is configured to generate ima... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6917570 | Medium controller with slot-mounted sensors When a medium is stored or removed manually, all slots must be checked to find any change in medium information, and as a result, updating medium storage information takes a long time. A medium controller, having a plurality of media and a medium transfer unit to ta... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915065 | Data processing system architecture Disclosed is a data processing system architecture, as may be employed in a digital video security system, that provides easy identification of system components such as system and video data hard drives through physical position and orientation, through color and i... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6867701 | Computer-server rack enclosure fault light diagnostic system A computer-server rack enclosure fault light diagnostic system and a method for providing an overall rack level fault indicator of a fault incurred by a unit of electronic equipment housed in the rack. The rack may be an EIA standard rack holding constituent compone... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6791909 | Optical disc reproducing apparatus When an instruction to enter information unqualified for programmed reproduction is accepted, an optical disc reproducing apparatus according to the present invention gives a notification indicating that that information cannot be entered in a program. The di... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6707768 | Randomized playback of tracks in a multimedia player An audio reproduction apparatus randomizes or shuffles the playback order of tracks from a prerecorded media such as a compact disc within a multiple-disc changer. Shuffle sequences are generated using a linear congruential random number generator (LCRNG). The shuff... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6691001 | Diagnostic port between independent robots An automated storage library structure, a structure of at least one robot operating within the automated storage library, and a method of connecting the robot to test equipment to facilitate testing. The robot is operative to move about the automated stor... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6646966 | Automatic storage medium identifying method and device, automatic music CD identifying method and device, storage medium playback method and device, and storage medium as music CD A data reproducing unit reproduces data read by a first reading unit from a storage medium. A storage unit stores added information corresponding to data stored on the storage medium. The added information is read by the second reading unit and reproduced... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6377530 | System and method for playing compressed audio data A portable audio player stores a large amount of compressed audio data on an internal disk drive, and loads a portion of this into an internal random access memory (RAM) which requires less power and less time to access. The audio player plays the data st... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6339561 | Reproduction apparatus and method of displaying data in selected language The present invention is a reproducing apparatus that reproduces data from a record medium on which text information such as a title of a program is recorded in a plurality of languages and identifiers for identifying recorded languages are recorded as co... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6222799 | High-performance information processing apparatus having multitasking functions An information processing apparatus having hardware components that include plural turntables, plural head units, plural decoding units, at least one encoding unit, and a system control unit. These components are adapted in such a manner as to afford (1) ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6157597 | Apparatus for skipping and/or playing tracks on a CD or a DVD One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for skipping a track on a disc in a disc player. Unlike current systems, this system does not rely on identifying tracks to be skipped based upon which slot a disc is located in. Instead, one embod... | 12/05/2000 |
