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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189438 | Control apparatus, control method, access apparatus, access method, program and write-once recording medium A control apparatus is provided for controlling an access means for accessing a recording medium containing at least one area so that the access means accesses the at least one area. The apparatus comprises a means for determining whether or not at least one first r... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179755 | Adaptive high fidelity reproduction system Audio is adaptively associated with speakers, depending on the speaker configuration that is present. Each speaker it receives an audio assignment based on its individual spectral characteristics. As more speakers are added, content is adaptively associated with tha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8139451 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method An information recording apparatus for recording additional content on a medium on which a title including one or more files is already recorded, includes means for designating a title to be added on the medium; means for transmitting disc package information, the d... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130605 | Driving device and method, program, and recording medium A driving device includes an optical pickup unit that irradiates a disc having a plurality of recording surfaces with a laser beam used for recording or reproducing information, and a generating unit that generates a focus control signal used for controlling a focus... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8089836 | Differential phase detector A phase detector comprises a first slicing circuit that generates a first digital signal corresponding to a logic state of a first generally continuous signal. A second slicing circuit generates a second digital signal corresponding to a logical state of a second ge... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8077567 | Recording and reproducing apparatus and recording and reproducing method A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a drive unit that reads data from a first medium and a drive unit control unit that controls the drive unit. The apparatus includes a second medium in which the same amount of data as the amount of data recorded in the ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059505 | Data writing control device, data writing control method, and data writing control program for writing to an optical disc A data writing control device enables quickly writing data to optical discs. A reading process unit 62a, 62b reads data in predetermined read units from a storage device (hard disk drive 14) that has a head and stores the data. A s... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050155 | Disc playback apparatus A disc playback apparatus includes a decoder 15 for decoding audio files respectively corresponding to different data formats, which are stored in a storage unit, on the basis of a file attribute preset thereto, and for playing back the decoded audio files, a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040767 | Optical disc drive It is provided an optical disc drive for playing data from a loaded optical disc medium. A controller of the optical disc drive judges whether the processing command has been received and whether a reset command has been received, measures a time between a reception... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031568 | Disk device and disk drive controlling method A disk device includes a main control unit controlling the operation of a controlled object on the basis of an error signal calculated from a target signal of the controlled object and an observation signal of the controlled object, a repetitive control unit samplin... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031567 | Data recording method and data recording device for write-once type recording medium In a data recording method for a write-once type recording medium capable of pseudo overwrite, it is judged whether data to be recorded in the write-once type recording medium exists. If it is judged that data exists, it is judged that the data is to be recorded fro... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009530 | Information providing system, reproduction device and method, information providing device and method, recording medium, and program There are provided an information providing system, a reproduction device and method, an information providing device and method, a recording medium, and a program capable of comparatively freely utilizing the content recorded on a disc according to the user prefere... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000190 | Optical disk device and optical disk processing system An optical disk device which flexibly and efficiently executes verification of recorded data is provided. A drive controller sets an area to be verified and a mode of verification according to a command which is supplied from a host device. For the area to be verifi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990821 | Optical disk playback device An optical disk playback device includes a control means (an LSI 5 for system control) for performing a track search according to contents information, comparing a current track start point position at the time after performing the track search with a target ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983124 | Optical recording/reproducing method, system, and program A data recording/reproducing system (1) reads a recording signal written on a recording track of a recording medium (3), by using light, which is modulated by a drive signal wherein a frequency signal is superposed for scanning the signal along the rec... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7916588 | Control apparatus, control method, access apparatus, access method, program, and write-once recording medium A control apparatus is provided for controlling an access means for accessing a recording medium containing at least one area so that the access means accesses the at least one area. The apparatus comprises a means for determining whether or not at least one first r... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903510 | Apparatus and method for reproducing audio file A method of reproducing an audio file includes: identifying a type of audio data in the audio file based on an extension information of the audio file separated from but associated with the audio data of the audio file; and determining whether the audio file is repr... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7830761 | Optical disk apparatus An optical disk apparatus according to the present invention includes: a rotation driving section on which an optical disk is to be mounted and which drives the optical disk so as to be rotated; a light source; an objective lens for converging light from the light s... | 11/09/2010 |
| RE41429 | Write strategy for optical record carrier The invention provides a reliable write method of data on an optical record carrier without changing the conventional configuration of an information recording apparatus. The invention uses the errors occurred in reading ATIP codes and/or the reflected signal from t... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7619953 | Recording and playback apparatus, recording and playback method, and program A recording and playback apparatus for recording data on a recording medium that allows additional writing includes a recording device configured to record first data on the recording medium; a random-number generator configured to generate a random number; and a ca... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7593296 | Optical disk, program, recording medium, information recording apparatus and recording method A method for recording information in a rewritable optical disk having plural recording layers is disclosed. The method includes the steps of selecting either a first recording mode dedicated to recording the information in an order applicable for recordable type op... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7561503 | Clock signal generating device and an optical disc apparatus incorporating the device A clock generating circuit includes: a clock data extracting circuit extracting a clock data signal from a wobble signal detected from an optical disc by passing frequencies around a central frequency, which is changed responsive to the frequency of the wobble signa... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7522491 | Apparatus and method for reproducing audio file A method of reproducing an audio file includes: determining whether the audio file is reproducible by checking whether a part of the audio file constructs a specific format stream corresponding to a predetermined audio type; and controlling for selectively reproduci... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7447127 | Method and apparatus for disc playback In a disc playback apparatus for playing back audio signals recorded on a disc medium, a system controller detects a channel format of the audio signals that can be outputted from the playback apparatus. When content is recorded on a disc so as to be played back in ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7417925 | Method and apparatus for characterizing and improving optical drive performance A system and related methods for characterizing and improving optical drive read performance is presented. The system includes an innovative audio file stored on optical media (characterization file), and an optical drive characterization agent, implemented on a com... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411878 | Apparatus and method for reproducing audio file A method of reproducing an audio file includes: applying a reproducing mode established based on an attribute information; obtaining at least a part of the audio file under the established reproducing mode; and determining whether the audio file is reproducible unde... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7394735 | Apparatus and method of updating filter tap coefficients of an equalizer An apparatus, a method, and a computer readable recording medium thereof to update filter tap coefficients of an equalizer include a defect signal detection unit and a coefficient updating unit. The defect signal detection unit receives a sampled input signal reflec... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386770 | Information reproduction apparatus for reproducing defect management information from defect management area sets, and an information recording apparatus for replacing defect management information An information storage medium according to an aspect of this invention comprises a rewritable area, the rewritable area comprises a user area to store user data, and a defect management area to store defect management information used to manage defective areas on th... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382699 | Recording device, playback device, and contents transmission method An extracting circuit for extracting meta information from information forming contents is provided. The meta information extracted by the extracting circuit is recorded in a recording medium together with the contents and is used as management information. With thi... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372790 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing optical disks, apparatus and method for recording data on optical disks, apparatus and method for reproducing data from optical disks, and optical disks, and optical disk formed with pit strings and mark strings Described herewith is an optical disk manufacturing apparatus for reading recorded digital data from an optical disk, comprising an encryption unit (22, 23) for encrypting entered digital data according to a plurality of key information; an optical disk subst... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369625 | Apparatus and method for slicing RF signal and compensating for the slice level of RF signal in disk drive An apparatus and method for slicing an RF signal and compensating for the slice level of an RF signal reproduced from a disk, which minimizes a block error rate by optimizing the slice level of the RF signal according to variations in symmetry of the RF signal when ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366070 | Storage medium including a burst cutting area (BCA) According to one embodiment, a storage medium includes a burst cutting area at an inner periphery, wherein the burst cutting area has includes plural burst-cutting-area data areas. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366963 | Data recording/reproduction device, data recording/reproduction method, and digital camera The present invention is directed to a data recording method of notifying degree of deterioration of recording medium thus to perform stable recording operation. Even in the case where uncorrectable address read error does not exist, deterioration information is dis... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362677 | Information record medium and information writing/reading apparatus An information writing/reading apparatus that cooperates with an information record medium including a ROM area and a RAM area, either the RAM area or the ROM area having in advance control information recorded thereon used to limit reading and/or writing of informa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355935 | Method of recording physical address information on optical disc and optical disc having the same An optical disc and method of recording physical address information on the optical disc, the optical disc including a first recording area ranging from an innermost circumference to a predetermined position, and a second recording area ranging from the predetermine... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355950 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, disk manufacturing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method, disk manufacturing method, and information recording medium using recording and/or reproducing unit blocks having different sizes in different areas A recording and/or reproducing apparatus including a signal processing unit that performs signal processing of a first and a second address to distinguish a first area disposed in a data recordable area of an information recording medium from a second area disposed ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352682 | Storage medium including a burst cutting area (BCA) According to one embodiment, a storage medium includes a burst cutting area at an inner periphery, wherein the burst cutting area has includes plural burst-cutting-area data areas. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349303 | Information recording method and apparatus In an information recording method and apparatus, a sequence of sync frames indicative of data is recorded onto tracks of an optical recording medium. In the recording medium, prepits are formed on lands between the tracks at given intervals, and sync patterns, prov... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339880 | Method of recording information to and reproducing information from an optical information storage medium A method of recoding information on a reproduction-only optical information storage medium, including: forming a plurality of areas and at least one transition area on the reproduction-only optical information storage medium. Each transition area is located between ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339868 | Information recording method, information recording device, information system, program, and recording medium An information recording method records information to a multilayer recording medium in which a number of record layers are laminated and recording of information to each record layer is possible. When an amount of the information being recorded to the medium does n... | 03/04/2008 |
