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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085632 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus having a reproduction means to play digital data from a recording medium recorded with that digital data and retrieval information, a recording means to write the digital data reproduced by the reproduction means and record the retrieval inform... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8059503 | Backup device and one-key data backup method for the same A backup device and a one-key data backup method for the same use a backup device having ability to retrieve a memory card and an optical disc. The backup device is connected to an external computer. A backup application is installed having backup conditions configu... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7969837 | Dubbing device for dubbing data The present invention is a dubbing device for dubbing data from a portable first recording medium such as a CD-DA (compact disc digital audio) to a second recording medium such as a hard disk drive (HDD), in which dubbing to the second recording medium with a large ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965595 | Secure digital recording A controller for secure digital recording apparatus and apparatus adapted for secure digital recording. The controller including a receiver for receiving at least one input signal from at least one element of a recording apparatus, monitoring means for monitoring a ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7746738 | Data processing method, information recording medium manufacturing management system, recording data generation apparatus and method, and computer program In a process for manufacturing an information recording medium, a configuration is provided in which strict information management and an information recording medium manufacturing process are realized. In a configuration in which master data as original data of rec... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7706221 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus Disclosed herein is an information recording/reproducing apparatus that includes a first and a second recording/reproducing modules, a buffer memory to store information temporally, and a control module that switches between a first mode and a second mode when the i... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7672203 | Dubbing device for dubbing data The present invention is a dubbing device for dubbing data from a portable first recording medium such as a CD-DA (compact disc digital audio) to a second recording medium such as a hard disk drive (HDD), in which dubbing to the second recording medium with a large ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7616540 | Apparatus for and method of recording and reproducing information An information recording and reproducing apparatus (S) is provided with: a first reproducing device (11) for reproducing audio information from a first information record medium (DK), in which the audio information is recorded; a recording device (28) ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7599261 | Removable storage media with improved data integrity A technique for storing or backing up data to a removable media such as a CD or DVD with an enhanced probability that such data can be successfully read or recovered from such media subsequent to the writing/storing/backing-up of the data. This enhanced probability ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7567487 | Content moving device, content moving method, computer program, recording medium, and content moving system To provide a highly user-friendly content moving device which prevents unauthorized copying of content and, when content that has been irreversibly converted and moved to a recording medium is moved back to a move source, can use the content in its form before irrev... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7539094 | Multi-bit stream of multimedia data processing A system for processing multimedia data outputs multiple digital data streams of different compressed ratios or types to adapt to multiple limitations of storage spaces and transmission bandwidths, and thus reduce the repetition for processing the digital data strea... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7522488 | Method and apparatus for reproducing content according to information embedded in the content In an apparatus that carries out reproduction control on the basis of digital watermark information embedded in a content, for the purpose of providing a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method in which reproduction stoppage in the middle of reproduction acco... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7483348 | Recording/reproducing apparatus A video/audio data is recorded in a first storage region of a first recording medium. The video/audio data is decoded and converted into the video/audio data with a prescribed bit rate. The video/audio data is encoded in a format of a second recording medium and rec... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7471598 | Apparatus and method for copying data The present invention relates to an apparatus for copying the data content of a source multi-session DVD-storage medium to a destination multi-session DVD-storage medium, wherein the data content is organized in sessions and files, and each session contains a file a... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7447126 | Recording device, and related control method, computer program and system LSI A recording device executes unattended recording after suspending dubbing when a preset recording time draws near during the dubbing, and saves dubbing-status information showing the suspension position of the dubbing. The recording device reads the dubbing status i... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440376 | Operation condition setting system The present invention makes it possible to set an operating condition enabling the best recording characteristic to be obtained for any kind of recording media, even in the case where the recording medium is combined with any kind of drive devices. According to the ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434265 | Information signal recording/reproducing system, information signal recording device, information signal reproducing device and information signal recording/reproducing process When digital image signals inputted through an inputting terminal are recorded on a disc, a medium-related information (a serial number in an TOC) of the disc, read from the disc, with a medium-related information reading section is spectrum-spread in an SS addition... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7414930 | Method of accessing data on a copy protected data carrying disc The method and apparatus described utilise the fact that CDs manufactured from the same master will have distinctive physical characteristics attributable to the physical manufacturing process of the master to distinguish counterfeit CDs from genuine discs. For a ge... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406177 | Recording medium, recording method, recording apparatus, and reproduction method A recording medium, comprising a lead-in area, a data recording area that is formed on an outer periphery side of the lead-in area and in which a plurality of pieces of content data is recorded, and a lead-out area formed on an outer periphery side of the data recor... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7391685 | Method for limited recording of an information signal, system for controlled recording of an information signal, and information signal recording apparatus A recorder provides to a recorder/player via a high-speed bus content-related information such as a digital audio signal as information, a content ID being identification information on the digital audio signal and a standard playing time of the digital audio signal... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7372964 | Method and apparatus for recording information including secret information and method and apparatus for reproduction thereof An information recording method for recording content information in a recording medium having at least re-readable area, comprising converting, based on a first conversion rule φ1, first information including a first component for obtaining content control ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366071 | Data recording method and device, data recording medium, data reproduction method and device The present invention provides a DSV normal controller and a DSV special controller. In only a predetermined region designated on an optical disc, the DSV special control is performed. The DSV special control causes the absolute value of the DSV to increase so that ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366907 | Information processing device and method and program storage medium An information processing device and method as well as a program storage medium, in which to determine whether or not contents can be recorded on a recording medium, the presence or absence of digital watermark information distributed associated with the contents is... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366887 | System and method for loading programs from HDD independent of operating system A method for booting into computer memory a non-operating system (O.S.) program from a hard disk drive (HDD) prior to booting into memory an O.S. from the HDD. The method includes establishing a table of contents (TOC) on the HDD that contains entries for special O.... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362681 | Recording medium type determining apparatus and method for determining presence of wobble on a recording medium A push-pull signal Spp fetched with tracking open is smoothed to a smoothing signal Spp to remove signal components generated wobbling due to radial runout, and the smoothing signal is binarized to compute an autocorrelation value in the autocorrelation computing ci... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355929 | Magneto-optical disk and recording and/or reproducing method and recording and/or reproducing apparatus using the magneto-optical disk A magneto-optical disk having a small-sized diameter and a large capacity and able to record and reproduce disk discrimination information, and a recording method and a reproducing method of the same, wherein a recording layer including a main recording region in wh... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356514 | Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method of digital video signal or audio signal A reproduction method and apparatus for reproducing video data and/or audio data from a recordable medium having video data and/or audio data recorded thereon. The video data and/or audio data is generated by superimposing information concerning an attribute of a vi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356142 | Secure compact disk and player A method for recording data on an optical medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first plurality of frames of data at a Cross Interleave Reed-Solomon Code (CIRC) encoder, encoding the first plurality of frames of data by the CIRC enc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350238 | Data transfer system, data transfer apparatus, data-recording apparatus, data management method and identifier generation method A data transfer system provided by the present invention is capable of executing proper management of content transfers with a high degree of efficiency. In a data transfer apparatus employing a primary recording medium, rights to transfer contents stored in a prima... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344823 | Transient optical state change materials useful in copy-protected compact discs A copy-protected optical medium comprising transient optical state change security materials that demonstrating an optical state change when exposed to the wavelengths of from about 770 nm to about 830 nm. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342859 | Optical recording system capable of switching from a constant angular velocity recording mode to a constant linear velocity recording mode In an optical recording system, according to a wobble sync signal obtained from a wobble signal associated with a physical track of a recording medium being recorded with input data by a recording module operated in a default constant angular velocity (CAV) recordin... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342864 | Optical disk reproduction apparatus and optical disk reproduction method There are provided a wobble signal reading unit configured to read a signal corresponding to a wobble formed at a predetermined track from an optical disk on which address information is recorded by applying phase modulation to the wobble formed at the track, an add... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340778 | Method and apparatus for ensuring the copy protection of digital data When digital data is to be copy protected at a processing station, for example, prior to its encoding and recording onto an optical disc, it is necessary to control a compliant encoder to utilise copy protection files to perform the copy protection routine. To ensur... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336786 | Reproduction apparatus Information or contents cannot be reproduced even from a regular storage medium which is encrypted in accordance with a predetermined encryption system, due to erroneous detection of watermarks. Detection of the watermarks and restriction over reproduction depending... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336887 | Content play back, information processing, and play back restriction Provided is a content play back apparatus including: a play back means for playing content including audio or video; a play list managing means for managing a play list which is a list of identification information on content previously played by the play back means... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337321 | Digital content protection using invisible and visible watermarks A technique for distributing digital contents capable of effectively protecting copyrights and the like on the basis of invisible electronic watermark information and electronic watermark information is to be provided. On the sending side, additional information inc... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330977 | Apparatus, system, and method for secure mass storage backup An apparatus for securely backing up data using a cryptographic module includes a mass storage device having a first accessible portion and a second encrypted portion. The mass storage device is initialized to only decrypt the encrypted portion on the system that fi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327645 | Dubbing apparatus for dubbing data The present invention is a dubbing device for dubbing data from a portable first recording medium such as a CD-DA (compact disc digital audio) to a second recording medium such as a hard disk drive (HDD), in which dubbing to the second recording medium with a large ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327934 | Data reproduction apparatus, data recording apparatus, circuit element, data reproduction method and data recording method A circuit element is disclosed which restricts reproduction of an illegally duplicated recording medium and prevents illegal duplication of a recording medium. The circuit element is incorporated in a data reproduction apparatus or a data recording apparatus and inc... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325247 | Information management method using a recording medium with a secure area and a user-use area An information management method restoring electronic data using backup information upon the loss of electronic data stored on a recording medium. Information stored in a predetermined area of the recording medium having medium-specific information is encrypted usin... | 01/29/2008 |
