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| 8189437 | Optical disc playback device and control method thereof An optical disc playback device is capable of being transitioned to a sleep mode in consideration of an optical disc status or an optical disc drive device status. An optical disc playback apparatus includes a main controller to transmit a sleep mode transition comm... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174942 | Data recording method capable of replacing defective data on different location in spare areas Disclosed data recording techniques prevent extremely decreasing writing/reading speed due to consecutive defects, which often occur when using a disk of large storage capacity, while allowing the size of a spare area used for alternate processing of a recordable op... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174943 | Optical disk device An optical disc apparatus according to the present invention includes: a laser light source for emitting multiple light beams, of which the wavelengths are different from each other and include a first wavelength and a second wavelength that is longer than the first... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8144554 | Method of and apparatus for recording data on write-once disc, method of and apparatus for reproducing data from write-once disc, and write-once disc therefor A method and apparatus recording and/or reproducing data on/from a write-once disc, and a write-once disc therefor, the write-once disc having at least one recording layer including: a plurality of update areas in which predetermined updated information is recorded;... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134896 | Write-once optical disc, and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the optical disc A write-once recording medium structure and an apparatus and method for recording final management information on the recording medium, are provided. The recording medium includes a temporary defect management area (TDMA) and a defect management area (DMA). The meth... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8121002 | Multi-layered information recording medium, recording apparatus, and recording method A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, whe... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107332 | Drive apparatus for recording a write-once medium A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: determining a first track of the plurality of tracks, based on the physical address correspondin... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098549 | Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method An information recording medium is provided that includes a data area for recording user data and a defect management area for recording a defect list for managing N number of defect areas existing in the data area, where N is an integer satisfying N≧0. The defect... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098550 | Information recording medium, information recording method, information recording apparatus, information reproducing method and information reproducing apparatus including writing information on rewritable information recording medium If a defective cluster in a spare area is managed with a defect entry, the size of a DFL will increase as the size of the spare area increases with an increase in the number of recording layers stacked in a disc. An information recording medium according to the pres... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077566 | Systems and methods for testing unformatted optical recording media Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and/or data structures to test and evaluate unformatted optical media such as optical tape and optical discs. Advantageously, testing and evaluation can be performed earlier in the manufac... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072853 | Optical disc of write once type, method, and apparatus for managing defect information on the optical disc A method and device for managing a recording medium including a non data area having a final defect management area and a data area having a user data area and a spare area. The method includes: (a) recording a defect list onto one or more recording-units of a tempo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068390 | Information recording device An information recording device is provided, which is capable of performing physical reformatting at a high speed while avoiding unnecessary substitution processing after the physical reformatting. A disc recording and reproduction drive 1020 records informat... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059504 | Optical pickup apparatus, optical recording medium driving apparatus, and signal recording/reproducing method An optical pickup apparatus capable of irradiating an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers on which a signal is recorded with laser light includes a light source emitting the laser light, a light-concentrating element concentrating the las... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054717 | Defect detection design A system and method are provided to detect defects in a data storage medium by sampling data read from the data storage medium. Time referenced samples of data read from the data storage medium are equalized to mediate the effects of channel noise and the equalized ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045430 | Write-once type optical disc, and method and apparatus for managing defective areas on write-once type optical disc using TDMA information A recording medium of writable once type, and a method and apparatus for managing a defective area on the recording medium are provided. The method includes detecting an existence of a defective area within a data area of the recording medium once data are written o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8009529 | Multi-layered information recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording apparatus, reproduction method, and recording method A multi-layered information recording medium comprising a plurality of recording layers, a user data area for recording user data, provided in at least two of the plurality of recording layers, and a defect list storing area for storing a defect list. When at least ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009528 | Method for recovering management information of a recording medium and apparatus therefor A method for recovering disc management information of a recording medium. (a) When the recording medium is not closed, a readable TDMS which is included in an in-use TDMA of TDMAs of the recording medium and is readable is searched for. (b) It is determined whether... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7990820 | Optical disc verification method and optical disc medium An optical disc verification method according to the present invention includes the steps of: writing data on first, second and third radial locations on an optical disc at a writing speed V1 and reading the data written there, thereby measuring read signal q... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983123 | Methods of defect management and reproduction, program and recording medium, and apparatuses for information recording and information reproduction A method of defect management for managing on a block-by-block basis a defective area in an information-recording medium is disclosed. The medium has a user-data area, a sparing area, and a defect-management information are. The block is of a predetermined size. The... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7961569 | Information recording device capable of high speed physical reformatting and recording An information recording device is provided, which is capable of performing physical reformatting at a high speed while avoiding unnecessary substitution processing after the physical reformatting. A disc recording and reproduction drive 1020 records informat... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957236 | Device and method for recording information with reorganization of defect management information A device for recording information records blocks having continuous logical addresses on a record carrier at corresponding physical addresses. The logical addresses are translated into the physical addresses in dependence of defect management information, which incl... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952967 | Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replac... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7940613 | Drive device A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section at least performs a process including: performing an RMW process of reproducing data recorded in an original ECC cluster inclu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933178 | Apparatus for recording/reproducing data from a data are including a spare area for defect management allocated in reverse order from rearmost units of data area A recording medium having a spare area for defect management, and a method and apparatus for allocating and assigning the spare area. A plurality of zones are formed as one group without prescribing the relationship between a zone and a group. Spare areas include a ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929388 | Recording medium for storing linking type information and method of processing defective area using the same A recording medium storing information indicating that linking is applied immediately after the defective area, distinguishing a linking type which occurs in a general incremental recording mode from a linking type which occurs after the defective area. Defective ar... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924666 | Drive device A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section at least performs a process including: receiving a recording instruction at least specifying a location at which data is to be... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916587 | Method of and apparatus for recording data on write-once disc, method of and apparatus for reproducing data from write-once disc, and write-once disc therefor A method and apparatus recording and/or reproducing data on/from a write-once disc, and a write-once disc therefor, the write-once disc having at least one recording layer including: a plurality of update areas in which predetermined updated information is recorded;... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911894 | Recording medium having spare area for defect management and information on defect management, and method of allocating spare area and method of managing defects A recording medium having a spare area for defect management and the management information of the spare area, a spare area allocation method, and a defect management method. When a primary spare area is allocated for slipping replacement and linear replacement upon... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911898 | Drive apparatus for performing a sequential recording and reproduction on a write-once recording medium, and method of reproducing same The drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section determines a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the determined track of a write-on... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911896 | Write-once recording medium preserving data-recording status, method of preserving data-recording status of a write-once recording medium, medium including computer readable code for the same, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor An apparatus for reproducing a recording medium having a recorded defect management area. The apparatus includes a pickup reading data from a recording medium and a controller controlling the pickup to read data on the recording medium and determining whether the re... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911897 | Recording medium for storing defect management information for recording real time data, defect managing method therefor, and real time data recording method A recording medium for storing defect management information to record real time data, a defect managing method therefor, and a method of recording real time data. The recording medium stores information representing use or non-use of linear replacement defect manag... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911895 | Method for restoring data stored on an optical disc and optical disc drive suitable therefore The current invention is directed to a method and optical storage media reading device for restoring data stored along a data storage path of an optical storage media, the data being stored on the optical storage media and being at least in part unreadable by a conv... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7881169 | Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replac... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869315 | Write-once optical disc having update area and access area A write-once disc, an apparatus for recording information thereon, and a method of reducing access time thereto the write-once disc including at least one record layer. The write-once disc also includes at least one update area in which updated predetermined informa... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859960 | Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replac... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848193 | Disc device The present invention provides a disc device capable of normally reproducing recorded information on a disc type recording medium while complementing the recorded information in a damaged portion of the recording medium with complementary information, and capable of... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843780 | Write-once recording medium preserving data-recording status, method of preserving data recording status of a write-once recording medium, medium including computer readable code for the same, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor A method of reproducing a recording medium having finalized recorded data. Data is read from the recording medium and a determination is made whether the recording medium is further recordable based on whether a temporary defect management area includes repetitions ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835238 | Method for reducing access time of a write-once disc A write-once disc, an apparatus for recording information thereon, and a method of reducing access time thereto the write-once disc including at least one record layer. The write-once disc also includes at least one update area in which updated predetermined informa... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7813236 | Information recording medium, information recording method and information recording/reproduction system An information recording medium including a plurality of sectors of the present invention includes: a first spare area including a spare sector for replacing a defective sector among the plurality of sectors; a defect management information area for managing the rep... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7800994 | Method of overwriting data in write-once information storage medium and data recording and/or reproducing apparatus for write-once information storage medium A method of overwriting data in a write-once information storage medium and a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus provided for overwriting data in such a write-once information storage medium. In the data overwriting method, a command to overwrite new data i... | 09/21/2010 |
