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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7933172 | Method for playing contents using master and slave optical disc Various disc enhancement systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods comprise retrieving information from a master optical disc; retrieving a data structure from a slave optical disc; using the information from the master optical disc to modify t... | 04/26/2011 |
| RE42146 | Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave DVD 1′ has recording information areas VOR, AOR in which recording information is recorded and reproducing procedure information recording areas VNA, ANA in which reproducing procedure information indicating reproducing procedures of the recording informati... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7525881 | Recording apparatus having playlist editing function A recording apparatus comprising a recording portion for recording moving image data on a recording medium, a recording instruction portion for instructing start and temporary stop of recording the moving image data, a playlist processing portion for producing playl... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7426158 | Management method and apparatus for a mini disc having recorded index audio data The track information table has: decrypting information corresponding to each track; file pointer information showing one of a plurality of files with headers; and index information showing positions in the files. A function for adding the header to the track of the... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7369464 | Editing device capable of changing the displaying mode of management information Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366744 | File management device and file management method The present invention relates to a data recording/reproducing apparatus (1), which includes a reader (3) for reading content data recorded in a minidisc (2), and a controller (4) for generating one file by gathering a plurality of content... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356778 | Method and system for visualization and operation of multiple content filters A system for operation and visualization of multiple content filters, including a plurality of filter interfaces for setting parameters of corresponding content filters that filter a catalog of assets, each content filter having a lock status being in a locked or an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7339878 | Method and apparatus for recording optical information including dummy data, and optical disk having such data recorded thereon A method of recording data optically to an optical disk having a plurality of sectors, in which each sector has a region to be recorded with data, the data is recorded in units of blocks, and the block includes a predetermined number of sectors and is a data unit in... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336579 | Information storage apparatus that writes data in unrecorded regions of a recording medium An information storage apparatus that stores data in a recording medium, retrieves control information of the recording medium, identifies remaining unrecorded regions in the recording medium based on the control information, stores data only in the unrecorded regio... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327641 | Editing device capable of displaying logical positions of tracks Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317666 | Method of playing optical recording media A method of reproducing information, and more particularly, a method of playing an optical recording medium storing music files by which a user can load only desired directories from the optical recording medium to reproduce the music files contained therein. Direct... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318026 | Encoding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, and recording medium recording apparatus and method An encoding method comprising the steps of forming a difference signal which is the difference between a first channel signal and a second channel signal of an input PCM signal, encoding the difference signal and the second channel signal with a time difference, div... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301856 | Reproduction method and apparatus, and recording method and apparatus Decrypting information corresponding to a selected track, file pointer information, and index information are read out from a track information table having the decrypting information corresponding to each track, the file pointer information showing one of a plurali... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289406 | Writable area detection device for optical recording/reproducing apparatus and method thereof A writable area detection device for an optical recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a waveform rectification unit for comparing an RF signal read from a user data area of a recording medium with a reference signal, and outputting a rectified pulse signal; a pu... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286446 | Track management method and apparatus for managing tracks on a storage medium A track management method includes steps of obtaining track information from a play order table having track information entries arranged in a predetermined play order, the track information corresponds to a track to be deleted and points to a track descriptor in a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283429 | Recording apparatus having playlist editing function A recording apparatus comprising a recording portion for recording moving image data on a recording medium, a recording instruction portion for instructing start and temporary stop of recording the moving image data, a playlist processing portion for producing playl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280742 | Method for recording audio data on a rewritable recording medium and for adjusting data grouping criterion The present invention relates to a method of writing audio data to a rewritable recording medium as grouping the written audio data into each Audio Object Unit (AOBU). This method changes AOBU grouping criterion such as time or size if a bit rate of input audio data... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274858 | Coded data control device Necessary coded data only can be read out at random accessing even with recording medium having coded data recorded thereon but whose code quantity is out of proportion to time. Once a recording medium was loaded into a recorder-player connected with a coded-data co... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274360 | Multiple control system A first controller and a second controller for controlling corresponding electronic devices, which are incorporated in a composite electronic apparatus, are connected in parallel to a display driver via a serial communication line. When the first controller controls... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272080 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus of the present invention includes a management information processing portion for generating management information describing a reproducing procedure for reproducing a series of information data by designating positions of from a head to an en... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263044 | Information storage medium and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the same An information storage medium and a method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the information storage medium. The information storage medium includes a plurality of recording layers, each having a user data area, on which data can be recorded by a ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263038 | Data reproduction apparatus and data reproduction method The present invention includes a condition setting portion configured to set a condition used to select titles to be registered in a play list among a plurality of titles recorded on a recording medium, a retrieval portion configured to retrieve titles corresponding... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263516 | System for and method of storing and elaborating user preferences The invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for storing and elaborating user preferences for objects in response to a user's name. The invention associates a user's name with an entitlement expression that includes a reference to at least o... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249147 | Combination compact disc recorder and player system The combination recorder and player system includes a recorder/player unit and a remote control unit. The recorder/player unit includes a recorder/player computer system and recorder/player software that is operable to cause the recorder/player to record, play, and ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7222183 | Authorized units music distribution system Systems for distributing music to a plurality of customers via the Internet provide each customer with a uniquely identified proprietary device for receiving, playing and recording music. A music server computer system is provided for distributing the music to the p... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215611 | Compressed audio data editing method and apparatus A digital recording system for stereophonic audio signals is disclosed. Included is an MP3 encoder coupled to an ADC for encoding the two channels of digital audio signals into a compressed data stream. Before being directed into a flash memory for editing, the comp... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216178 | System and method for distributing music to customers over the internet using uniquely identified proprietary devices Systems for distributing music to a plurality of customers via the Internet provide each customer with a uniquely identified proprietary device for receiving, playing and recording music. A music server computer system is provided for distributing the music to the p... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206792 | Data management apparatus The present invention is concerned with a data management apparatus, in which data recorded by dubbing from a CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) to a hard disc drive (HDD) (31) as a second recording medium are supervised by a hard disc recording and/or reprod... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197233 | Method of marking digital data A method is proposed introducing a temporarily erased flag in order to indicate a cell to be temporarily erased. In addition, necessary time stamps are set for complete Stream Object Units to be erasable to enable on the fly permanent erasure without any additional ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187628 | Editing device capable of imparting group management information to each recording track Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180849 | Optical storage medium enabling uniform light transmittance, optical read/write apparatus for same, and optical read/write method for same 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 ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167425 | Dubbing apparatus A dubbing apparatus to dub data managed per program like audio data such as a piece of music is provided. In the dubbing apparatus, for passing output data read from a CD through a CD drive for compression of the data and transferring the compressed data for recordi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161887 | Method and apparatus for extracting digital data from a medium A computer-implemented method and apparatus for extracting digital data from a medium. Digital audio extraction techniques are implemented with additional features that improve the quality of the resulting audio playback files. In one embodiment of the invention, a ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149156 | Editing apparatus for optical reproducing device A highlight of a representative track of each album stored in a recording medium and a highlight of each track of a designated album are pre-set. Highlights of representative tracks of albums are successively reproduced from album 1. As a result, albums are s... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145839 | Apparatus for editing management information to be recorded on an information storage medium Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142482 | Audio device capable of playing back audio files from a plurality of sessions An audio device is compatible with a recordable medium such as a CD-R. The audio device manages track files in each session of the recordable medium and displays the session containing the file of an arbitrary track on a display. For example, each session is regarde... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120099 | Laser output circuit for optical disk recording apparatus A disk divided into a trial writing region, buffer region, read-in region, program region, and read-out region disposed from an inner peripheral side toward an outer peripheral side is rotated at a constant angular speed. A test signal is recorded in the trial writi... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116898 | DVD auto-changer capable of setting all-repeat-mode A DVD auto-changer includes a controller, and in the DVD auto-changer, an all-repeat-mode that a plurality of disks stocked are exchanged to be successively reproduced can be set. The controller determines whether the all-repeat-mode is set or not, and unconditional... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113456 | Method and apparatus for playing back a multisession disc A method and apparatus for reading multisession discs in which both standard CD-DA format and compressed music formats, such as MP3, may be utilized on the same disc. High speed reading of data into shock proof memory, analysis of available memory and storage of ana... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7075861 | Reproduction apparatus capable of selecting pieces of information for reproducing An information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information recorded on a record medium. One of reproduce modes of reproducing information recorded on a record medium is selected. A reproduce program for selecting pieces of information recorded on the record me... | 07/11/2006 |
