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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098561 | Optical disk device and optical receiver IC A first optical receiver circuit in an optical receiver IC, which composes an optical disk device, generates a first voltage signal VS1 indicating an amount of light of a laser beam oscillated in a multimode. A second optical receiver circuit generates a seco... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8027239 | Data recording and reproducing device, camera device, and data recording and reproducing method A data recording and reproducing device includes: a light emitting element that generates light and emits the light toward an optical recording medium; a light emission control section that feedback-controls an emitted light quantity from the light emitting element;... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7327470 | Spatial and spectral wavefront analysis and measurement A method and apparatus for wavefront analysis including obtaining a plurality of differently phase changed transformed wavefronts corresponding to a wavefront being analyzed which has an amplitude and a phase, obtaining a plurality of intensity maps of the plurality... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7304936 | Method and apparatus for controlling power of laser diode in optical disc drive A method of and an apparatus for controlling a power of a light emitter in an optical disc drive to stabilize a servo control operation by efficiently compensating a slow tail effect occurring in a photodiode monitoring outputs of the light emitter are provided. The... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292407 | Disk drive with support structure for disk-vibration capacitive sensors A data recording disk drive has one or more capacitive sensors for sensing out-of-plane vibration of the disk or disks. The sensors are attached to a support structure that is attached to the disk drive housing. Each sensor is associated with a disk and faces a surf... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7281175 | Readout controlling apparatus, reproducing apparatus, recording apparatus, and readout controlling method A readout controlling apparatus for controlling reading conditions at the time of reading data coded in units of predetermined code blocks from a recording medium capable of performing error correction at a high reliability even when the playback conditions are poor... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7256590 | Capacitance sensor type measuring apparatus A measuring apparatus having a probe that faces a surface of a target and is configured to supply AC current to the surface, measuring a voltage drop through a space between the probe and the surface, and obtaining a distance between the probe and the surface in acc... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256586 | Method and device for measuring the repeatable and non-repeatable runout of rotating components of a spindle motor The method and a device to measure the repeatable and non-repeatable runouts of a rotating component of a spindle motor with the aid of at least one probe measuring changes in the distance between the probe and the rotating component depending on the angle of rotati... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7233781 | System and method for emergency notification content delivery A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7209900 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200337 | Optoelectronic transceiver having dual access to onboard diagnostics An optoelectronic transceiver includes first and second controller ICs. Each controller IC includes logic, a memory, an interface, and at least one input port. Each memory is configured to store digital diagnostic data and has a unique serial device address to allow... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7184668 | System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a fiber optic transceiver A single-chip integrated circuit, sometimes called a controller, controls operation of a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conver... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7162160 | System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a fiber optic transceiver A single-chip integrated circuit, sometimes called a controller, controls operation of a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conver... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149430 | Optoelectronic transceiver having dual access to onboard diagnostics The optoelectronic transceiver includes first and second controller ICs. Each controller IC includes logic, a memory, an interface, and at least one input port. Each memory is configured to store digital diagnostic data and has a unique serial device address to allo... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139235 | Optical element with diffraction grating, semiconductor device, and optical information recording device employing the same An optical semiconductor device comprising an emitted beam branching section (61) which branches an emitted light beam from a laser device (51), a reflected light beam branching section (71) which branches a reflected light beam from an informat... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130134 | Optical scanning device The invention relates to an optical scanning device (1) for scanning an information layer (2) by means of a radiation beam (4). The device includes: a radiation source (6) for providing said radiation beam, a lens system (7) for tr... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7079775 | Integrated memory mapped controller circuit for fiber optics transceiver A controller for controlling a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conversion circuitry for receiving a plurality of analog signals... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7058310 | System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a fiber optic transceiver A single-chip integrated circuit, sometimes called a controller, controls operation of a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conver... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054256 | High capacity digital data storage by transmission of radiant energy through arrays of small diameter holes A storage media for storage of data thereon is provided. The storage media including: a first layer, the first layer being substantially transparent to a predetermined radiant energy used for reading the data; and a second layer formed on the first layer and being s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050720 | Integrated memory mapped controller circuit for fiber optics transceiver A controller for controlling a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conversion circuitry for receiving a plurality of analog signals... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6957021 | Optical transceiver with memory mapped locations A controller for controlling a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conversion circuitry for receiving a plurality of analog signals... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952531 | System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a fiber optic transceiver A single-chip integrated circuit, sometimes called a controller, controls operation of a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conver... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6941077 | Memory mapped monitoring circuitry for optoelectronic device Circuitry for monitoring operation of an optoelectronic device having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver includes analog to digital conversion circuitry for receiving a plurality of analog signals from the laser transmitter and photodiode receiver, conver... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934234 | Calibration method for slice level of zero cross signal and method of producing track-crossing signal A calibration method for a slice level of zero cross signal and a method of producing zero cross signal are disclosed. In this invention, the positive cycle and the negative cycle of the zero cross signal are sampled to obtain an error value related to the slice lev... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6366335 | Polarization-sensitive beam splitter, method of manufacturing such a beam splitter and magneto-optical scanning device including such a beam splitter A polarization-sensitive beam splitter comprising at least one transparent wedge-shaped element of a birefringent material is made by providing each one of two substrate plates with an orientation layer, whereafter the substrate plates are arranged with t... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6072523 | System and a method of three-dimensional imaging There is provided a three-dimensional imaging system (2), including a first camera (6) and a second camera (8), both facing a field of view of two-dimensional images and a normally open, fast gating device (12) interposed between the second camera (8) and... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6072765 | Optical disk readout method using optical coherence tomography and spectral interferometry An optical coherence tomography(OCT) and spectral interferometry imaging probe for the automatic screening and diagnosis of cervical and skin cancer in vivo. The probe eliminates the old techniques of having to perform Pap smears followed by a biopsy, kno... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5881043 | Optical pickup with a first detector to receive reflected data component signal and a second detector to receive reflected other component signal An optical pickup irradiates a record surface of an optical storage medium with light and receives the light reflected by the record surface. The reflected light includes a data signal light corresponding to data recorded on the optical storage medium and... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5764614 | Laser intensity gain control for detecting oscillation in the feedback circuit In laser feedback systems of an optical memory the most suitable feedback gain value depends on the type of optical disks used. According to the invention a system and a method is provided which finds by way of an iteration a suitable maximum feedback gai... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5708647 | Laser power supply circuit as well as option recording and/or reading device comprising such a laser power supply circuit A laser power supply control circuit may, when the power supply is initially turned on, temporarily permit an excessive supply voltage which may damage the laser. To prevent that, but without restricting the operating range or speed of response of the con... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5674583 | Optical recording medium and manufacturing method thereof An optical tape including an optical recording layer for permitting information to be optically recorded thereon and a light-reflective magnetic layer; the light-reflective magnetic layer which reflects light projected onto the recording layer, also permi... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5648952 | Phase-change optical disc recording method and apparatus, and information recording apparatus and recording pre-compensation method A trial writing operation is performed on a phase-change optical disc using write and erase light-emitting powers, which together are varied according to predetermined variation ratios respectively. Signals relevant to said trial writing operation are rep... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5633846 | Positioning device for optical disc apparatus A positioning system of an optical disc apparatus includes focus error detecting part for detecting a focus error signal as a focal shift of a light spot related to an information recording surface of an optical disc, light spot moving part in the directi... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5583841 | Apparatus for improved search on information storage member rotating at constant linear velocity In a data reproducing apparatus, an optical pick-up is radially movable with respect to, and recovers information from, an information storage member. A motor rotates an information storage member. A spindle servo controls the speed of rotation of the mot... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5570335 | Reproducing waveform correction circuit for optical information recording/reproducing system According to an aspect, to realize a transient correction circuit capable of performing a high-speed operation without being affected by low-frequency noise and allow to remove only the low-frequency noise without changing a reproducing waveform, an outpu... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5563870 | Optical write/read head with laser power control An optical write/read head is provided with apparatus for monitoring the output of a read/write laser so that the laser power may be appropriately adjusted to maintain a desired level. The apparatus features a partially reflective, partially transmissive ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5550800 | Pick-up with adaptation In an optical recording apparatus light is directed to and reflected from a recording medium to recover recorded information. The intensity of direct and reflected light is measured and the ratio of the measured values is used to control the intensity of ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5544144 | Optical head structure having compactly arranged parts An optical head structure, employed in an optical device, in which light radiated from a predetermined light source is projected onto a predetermined recording medium through a light splitting member is disclosed. Part of the light is directed to the outs... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5537383 | Optical data storage system with differential data detection and source noise subtraction for use with magneto-optic, write-once and other optical media An apparatus and method for providing differential detection and source noise subtraction in data signals read from magneto-optic (MO), write-once (WO) or other types of optical storage media using an incident radiation beam. A source monitor signal is ge... | 07/16/1996 |
