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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7961563 | Media processor and control method of media processor A media processor such as a CD publisher functions as a media library. The CD publisher takes out media from a media storage unit, sets the media in a media drive, performs writing of data, and stores the media in a writing-completed media storage unit if there is a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7706215 | DVD changer API's Application program interfaces for controlling an external media changer from a computer are provided. The application program interfaces allow for loading and identification of discs in a media changer. The application program interfaces can further allow for contr... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7697378 | Information reproducing device An information reproducing device includes an information recording medium housing portion 8 for housing an information recording medium 7 that is detachably attached, a pickup 75 for reading information recorded at least on the information reco... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7684288 | Information processing apparatus and control method of information processing device According to one embodiment, a control method of an information processing device, includes measuring a movement amount of a body with a sensor, invalidating an operation of a switch which ejects an optical disc held in an optical disc drive, in a case where the mov... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7652956 | Disc drive operative with both large-diameter and small-diameter optical discs, and method of controlling same There is provided a disc drive adopting a slot-in loading by which an optical disc (2) is loaded into or ejected out of the device body through a disc slot. The disc drive can have loaded therein a large-diameter optical disc (2A) and small-diameter op... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7639572 | Playback apparatus Disclosed herein is a disc playback apparatus with a built-in disc drive which performs hand-close process. The control unit 60 has the A/D input port P which is given the voltage of the terminal of the loading motor 78, after voltage reduction by the ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7623418 | Reproducing apparatus having an opening operation A reproducing apparatus comprises an open key for inputting an open command for causing a loading unit to move a medium holding member from a closed position to an opened position, a setting unit arranged to set the open key press duration, required for the loading ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7613079 | Tray load/unload control system and method A load/unload control system for a tray, the load/unload control system includes a control module and a drive module. The control module is used for controlling a voltage, the control module includes a storage unit for storing instructions and an output unit constru... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7583567 | Information retrieval device An information retrieval device having an insertion slot for inserting a medium having data to be retrieved includes an input unit for sending a signal upon accepting an input, an eject unit for ejecting the medium in the insertion slot and a control unit for contro... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7411871 | Optical disk drive An optical disk drive including a sliding portion, which moves a sub frame upward or downward against a main frame; a sensor, which includes tension members which are provided in both sides of the sliding portion so that the tension members are elastically deformed ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7372783 | Optical information storage apparatus and optical information storage system The present invention provides an optical information storage apparatus incorporates in a housing: a medium storing section in which optical storage media are stored; an information access section that makes an information access to the optical storage medium; and a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363425 | System and method for securing drive access to media based on medium identification numbers A method for securing access to a data medium comprises recording a unique identification number assigned to each medium in at least a portion of a data library, and commanding at least one selected data transfer element in said library to only accept media having p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350217 | Method for loading and unloading disk-shaped recording medium and disk drive device A disk drive device is arranged so as to swing a traversing mechanism which has an optical pickup and a spindle motor mounted thereon. In a shift mechanism of the optical pickup, its outer end in the radial direction of the optical disk is provided to extend beyond ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350218 | Optical-disk drive and optical-disk ejection control method An optical disk drive comprises a drive body, a spindle motor, an optical pickup device, a sled motor, a tray, a loading motor, and a controller. When the loaded optical disk is ejected, the controller controls the sled motor and the loading motor so that the return... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345962 | Disk drive device There are provided: an optical pickup feed mechanism (12) that detects a disk signal; a disk loading mechanism (11) that feeds a disk D by means of a loading roller (11b) that is driven by a loading motor (11a); a mechanism ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333403 | Carousel changer including a turntable having a plurality of trays A turntable provided in the carousel changer has a plurality of trays provided around its rotating shaft. The turntable is provided with an annular rib including a plurality of recessed portions and a plurality of raised portions. A sensor is provided to have the ri... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7310713 | Storage system having dynamic volume allocation function An object of the present invention is to allow access to a plurality of logical devices regardless of the number of ports provided in a storage system and the number of logical devices that can be allocated to a single port, and thereby to improve the usability of t... | 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 |
| 7305682 | Sensor mechanism for detecting tray in/out motion The present invention relates to a sensor mechanism of an optical disc device for detecting tray in/out motion, which comprises a swing bar having a actuating bar, a spinning center and a protrusion portion; a gear for driving the protrusion portion to rotate the sw... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296278 | Disk drive A disk drive includes a main frame; a cartridge slidably installed in the main frame; a plurality of trays stacked in the cartridge and slidably installed therein; an elevation unit for controlling a height of a turn table; a tray selecting unit for locking each tra... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277733 | System and method for providing web content provision service using subscriber terminal in exchange system System and method for providing a Web content provision service using a subscriber terminal in an exchange system. The Web content provision service system comprises the subscriber terminal generating content request information containing user information in respon... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269746 | Method of transmitting identification data from an option pack to a main unit before the option pack is fully powered A Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or handheld device comprising a main unit and an option pack, wherein the option pack stores all of the application software and drivers. Upon insertion, the hardware interface invokes a device manager on the main unit that interro... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7228342 | System for utilizing an incentive point system based on disc and user identification A system and method for awarding incentive points utilizing unique disc identification to provide access to disc storage media includes a disc storage medium with a permanently recorded disc identification, a user console with a set identification, a network, and a ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7216156 | Incentivizing software sharing thru incentive points A method for incentivizing sharing of a software product through awarding incentive points utilizing unique identifiers including removable storage identification, user console identification and user identification. The granting of access permissions and the awardi... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7184278 | Electronic apparatus and shielding structure for heat dissipation openings An electrical apparatus includes a housing, a shielding plate, a first elastic element, and a second elastic element. In this case, the housing has at least one heat dissipation opening. The shielding plate has at least one first hole, a first sidewall and a second ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184372 | Apparatus and method for ejecting/loading tray of optical disk player An apparatus and method of ejecting/loading a tray of an optical disk player using a digitizer connected to a personal computer (PC) or a keyboard, even though an EJECT button is not installed on a control panel of an optical disk includes using a optical disk contr... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180840 | Method for checking disk loading status in optical disk driver A method for checking a disk loading status in an optical disk driver including the steps of: discriminating a loading status of an optical disk during multiple loading stages of the disk; transmitting information to a host connected through an interface to the opti... | 02/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7165714 | Networked business system A method of procuring goods and/or services using a merchant server coupled to a computer network is disclosed. The network (100) comprises at least one smart card (120) having a memory device (122) programmed with access information correspondi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7152234 | Disk device The object is to keep the system safety even if the disk tray of the disk device is drawn out from the PC main body and led to a structurally dangerous state, and to prevent the disk tray from wrong operation beforehand. In addition, in a recording and playback syst... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145841 | Programmable self-operating compact disk duplication system A system for the duplication of binary data onto CD-R disks, the system including a copy unit, a host computer and computer software, the software being installed in the host computer to provide a user interface and to direct the transfer of data from the host compu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7127725 | Disc collator A disc collator includes a series of collating trays for collating multiple discs. A disc can be deposited in any one of a number of trays according to where a user desires the disc to be placed, allowing prompt and timely retrieval of CDs. Motion of the disc collat... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123554 | Disk apparatus A disk apparatus includes a slot. A magnetooptical disk is attached to the slot. When the slot is closed, a system controller inputs a corresponding signal to a CPU. The CPU applies a read-out command of disk information to the disk controller. The disk controller d... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7092320 | Medium handler and organizer A compact disc processing system allows for more efficient processing of compact discs. The system included a transporter mechanism that can grip and transport more than one compact disc at a time. As such, a second disc can be gripped while a first disc is being pr... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7072570 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus and control method thereof Provided are: a turn table for storing a disk shaped recording medium Dn to be vertically placed; a disk drive unit disposed at the center part of the table, the disk drive unit mounting a recording medium Dn to record and/or reproduce an information signal SIN; dis... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7036131 | Printing optical disc player/recorder This disclosure provides a stand alone printing optical disc player/recorder for use in connection with CD's, DVD's, and Mini-Discs. In a particular embodiment the printing player/recorder has a combined player/recorder unit and an inkjet printer. Using a platter tr... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7007141 | Archival data storage system and method A disk-based archival storage system including a storage unit configured to store archival data, the storage unit including at least one spindle of disks configured to magnetically store archival data, an interconnect; and a control unit configured to process reques... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6974294 | Article handling system and method An article handling system and method for holding articles and moving selected articles individually from and/or to the article handling system. A plurality of vertically spaced article holding trays are mounted for independent rotation, each tray having a plurality... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6967791 | Illumination systems and methods System and method for illuminating a target area with a desired illumination pattern. According to preferred embodiments of the invention, a cartridge-engaging assembly may be positioned adjacent a data cartridge, light may be emitted from at least one light source ... | 11/22/2005 |
