Bizarre Patents
A new toilet tank assembly aquarium for housing aquatic creatures.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189446 | Optical record carrier as well as an apparatus and method for reading/writing image data from/at a visually detectable pattern at an optical record carrier A method is disclosed of reading an image data from an optical record carrier with a visually detectable pattern comprising a visually detectable pattern of pixels comprising at least one pattern element comprising an area of size s1 with a relatively low val... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189447 | Optical disc drive and method of controlling the same An optical disc drive for reading or writing information on a multilayer optical disc having three or more recording layers by irradiating the disc with a light beam includes an optical pickup for irradiating the disc with the light beam, a recording state detector ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184518 | Optical disc apparatus and method for controlling the same In recording or reproducing data on or from an optical disc with recording multi-layers, the focusing is likely to be out of control when an inter-layer jumping is carried out for changing a recording layer on or from which data is to be recorded or reproduced to an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179766 | Recording device and method, and computer program A recording device comprises a recording means (213, 214) for recording content data on a recordable recording medium (100) having a first recording layer (110) including a first data area (112) and a second recording layer (120) i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8144563 | Information recording medium, reproducing device and reproducing method An information recording medium according to the present invention includes at least three information recording layers. If the readout power of a laser beam in reading information from an information recording layer L(n) is identified by Pw(n), and if the readout p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144562 | Optical disc apparatus, method of controlling the same, and information storage medium An optical disc apparatus includes an optical pickup for outputting an output signal according to reflected light from an optical disc medium and a comparison signal output unit for outputting a comparison signal indicating whether a level of the output signal is hi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144561 | Multilayer optical recording medium A multilayer recording medium has a three-layered structure for an increased capacity, including an L0 layer, an L1 layer, and an L2 layer in order from the side farthest away from the incident surface of laser light. The recording l... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139460 | High-speed multi-layer optical disc recording An apparatus includes a recorder having at least two optical pickup heads for simultaneously recording at least two bit streams on respective layers of recordable media in one of an opposite track path and a parallel track path. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134904 | Information recording method and information recording apparatus for recording medium A recording method for recording data in basic reproduction unit to a recording medium having a first recording layer and a second recording layer, includes detecting a size of an unrecorded region of the first recording layer while recording data in the basic repro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8107343 | Optical information storage medium and optical information storage medium reproducing apparatus An optical information storage medium includes a light transmitting layer, a first information storage layer, an intermediate layer mainly made of resin, a second information storage layer, and a substrate. The light transmitting layer, the first information storage... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8081551 | Optical recording medium, and optical information device An object of the invention is to provide an optical recording medium and an optical information device that enable to improve the quality of a servo signal and a reproduction signal. In the case where shape-wise thicknesses tr1, tr2, tr3, and tr... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068400 | Method of recording information on a multilayer record carrier, and device for recording on a dual layer record carrier Recordable DVD+R and DVD+R/W optical discs with two (or more) information layers are developed to double the data storage capacity and video recording time. A method and device are proposed to make dual layer DVD disc recordings compliant with the dual layer DVD-ROM... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8054727 | Information recording medium and method for manufacturing the same, and optical information recording/reproducing device An information recording medium of the present invention is an information recording medium characterized by and including a substrate; and a recording unit capable of recording three-dimensionally a recording pit on the substrate; in which the recording unit has n ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054728 | Multilayer optical disk, multilayer optical disk recording apparatus and multilayer optical disk reproducing apparatus A multilayer optical disk apparatus comprises an optical pickup that emits N (N represents an integer of two or more) laser beams of the same wavelength. The optical pickup emits the N laser beams at the same time, focuses the N laser beams on a first recording laye... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054729 | Optical recording medium, and optical information device An optical recording medium and an optical information device that improve the quality of a servo signal and a reproduction signal. In the optical recording medium, when shape-wise thicknesses tr1, tr2, tr3, and tr4 of a cover layer (4... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045441 | Optical disc and optical disc device In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical dis... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036087 | Optical disc and optical disc device In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical dis... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036085 | Recording medium and method and apparatus for recording data on the same AV stream files and original management files are initially recorded in a first data recordable area of an optical disc. After the recordation of the original management files in the first data recordable area, at least one backup management file is recorded in a se... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036086 | Optical disc and optical disc device In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical dis... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031574 | Information recording medium, information supply system, and optical information device An optical disk compliant with both a conventional optical disk such as a BD, HD DVD, and the like and a next-generation high-density optical disk according to a near-field light recording system and the like is provided. An information recording medium inclu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023383 | Recording device, recording method, and computer program A recording apparatus with a device for recording information onto a medium, provided with: (i) a first layer irradiated with laser light to record information on a first area; and (ii) a second layer irradiated with laser light through the first layer and having a ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018812 | Optical disc and optical disc device In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical dis... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014253 | Optical disc and optical disc device In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical dis... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004949 | Optical disc and optical disc device In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical dis... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000202 | Apparatus for recording/reproducing information on/from an optical disc having focus control capabilities The present invention provides a method for recording/reproducing information on/from an optical disc, wherein the optical disc has a first to an n-th recording layers (n is an integer of 2 or greater) laminated on a substrate, each of the first to the n-th layers h... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7986601 | Multi-purpose high-density optical disc An optical recording medium includes a first half-disc and a second half-disc. The first half-disc includes a substrate and an information layer (including a reflective layer) formed on a first side of the substrate. The second half-disc is bonded by an adhesive to ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7948851 | Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948850 | Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948852 | Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940628 | Multilayer optical information recording medium, optical head, and optical drive A disclosed optical recording medium includes multiple recording layer units in each of which one or more recording layers and one or more middle layers are stacked alternately; and one or more spacer layers. In the disclosed optical recording medium, the recording ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933185 | Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933184 | Multilayered optical disc and its recording method In an optical disc having N (N is an integer larger than or equal to 3) information recording layers of rewritable or recordable type, each of the information recording layers includes an test area to adjust conditions for recording and reproduction and the test are... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929394 | 1033Multiplane information storage system and record carrier for use in such a system An information storage system is described which comprises a reading device (6) and an optical record carrier (5) having at least two information planes (1, 2, 3). The radiation from the record carrier is converted in a detection system (15 | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929395 | Multilayer information recording medium A multilayer information storage medium according to the present invention includes: a substrate; at least three information storage layers, which are stacked one upon the other on the substrate; a plurality of transparent layers, each of which is arranged between i... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924676 | Multilayer information recording medium, information recorder, and information reproducer A multi-layered information recording medium used in an information recording/reproducing apparatus applicable to both a single-layer information recording medium and an arbitrary multi-layered information recording medium is provided. The multi-layered information ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924677 | Optical recording medium with power calibration areas and a recording method therefor with optimum power control In an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers on which information can be recorded by irradiating a laser beam from one side thereof, an optimum recording power to each of the recording layers can be determined. The optical recording medium h... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920454 | Optical recording medium, and method and apparatus for optical recording and reproducing thereof An optical recording medium wherein a laser beam at a wavelength λ is irradiated and recording and reproducing of information are performed by optical power modulation of binary or more, and when the refraction index of the first substrate being n1, the ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911913 | Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, information recording method, information reproducing method, and optical information recording medium An information recording apparatus for recording information on a multi-layered optical information recording medium having a recording material, which has light reaction property and which changes quality due to heat generated by an irradiated light, and having an ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911914 | Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7894318 | Optical information recording medium, optical information recording method, and optical information recording apparatus An information recording medium according to the present invention includes a plurality of recording layers, and a test area for determining a recording power of a laser light for each of the plurality of recording layers, in which a first test area of a first layer... | 02/22/2011 |
