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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7502284 | Methods for optical disc sector verification A method for verifying sectors on an optical disc is provided. The method includes writing user data to unverified sectors of the optical disc and verifying the sectors of the optical disc with the user data. The sectors of the optical disc are verified by reading t... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7391690 | Apparatus to record data on a write once disc A write once disc allowing management of a data area, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation information which indicates whether at least one section of the data area is al... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7366068 | Method for recording data to a write once disc A write once disc allowing management of a data area, a method of managing the data area of the write once disc, an apparatus recording data on the write once disc, an apparatus and method of reproducing data from a write once disc. The write once disc, includes a l... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362675 | Apparatus for recording data to and/or reproducing data from a write once disc A write once disc allowing management of a data area, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation information which indicates whether at least one section of the data area is al... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352629 | Systems for continued verification in non-volatile memory write operations Temporary lock-out is provided while programming a group of non-volatile memory cells to more accurately program the memory cells. After successfully verifying that the threshold voltage of a memory cell has reached the level for its intended state, it is possible t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349296 | Write control in response to tracking error A method for controlling writing on a data carrier device, at least including: writing data on the data carrier device with a data writer device; obtaining a tracking error signal corresponding to a position of the data writer device with respect to a track on the d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339871 | Method for accurate positioning of marks and spaces on an optical disc An optical disc has spatial features (notches, bumps, etc.) that intentionally distort the analog Read Data signal. For a mark or space that is centered on a spatial feature, the distortion does not affect the resulting binary Read Data signal. If an edge of a mark ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330409 | Disc with temporary defect management area, and disc defect management method and apparatus therefor A write once disc with at least one record layer includes a temporary defect management area in which temporary defect information regarding only defect detected during a corresponding recording operation, and temporary defect management information for managing the... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327655 | Write once disc, disc drive therefor, and method of managing disc defect considering compatibility with rewritable disc drive A write once disc, a disc drive therefor, and a method of managing disc defects on the write once disc using the disc drive in consideration of the compatibility of the write once disc with a rewritable disc drive, the write once disc includes a single record layer ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313066 | Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and method for reproducing data from write once disc A write once disc allowing management of a data area, a method of managing the data area of the write once disc, an apparatus recording data on the write once disc, an apparatus and method of reproducing data from a write once disc. The write once disc, includes a l... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307887 | Continued verification in non-volatile memory write operations Temporary lock-out is provided while programming a group of non-volatile memory cells to more accurately program the memory cells. After successfully verifying that the threshold voltage of a memory cell has reached the level for its intended state, it is possible t... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304921 | Recording control device, recording control method, program and recording system To provide a recording control device able to control a data recording so as not to use a defective sector free from a sector test before a shipment thereof, which controls a data recording with respect to a plurality of sectors in a recording region of a recording ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7283446 | Recording medium for storing write protection information and write protection method thereof A recording medium storing a write protection information, and a write protection method for protecting data recorded on a recordable and/or rewritable disc from unwanted overwriting or erasing. In order for write protection of a disc in a bare state that is usually... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7227824 | Information reproducing apparatus, method of correcting reproducing program, and information recording medium An information reproducing apparatus, in which a disk having correction data recorded thereon is placed, acquires region information indicative of a region corresponding to the correction data after load processing is performed by a ROM loader. Then, under the contr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215619 | Method of scanning a recording disc for defects, and recording device for recording information on a disc-shaped recording medium A method and a DVR video recorder for recording real time video signals on a DVR disc, include detecting large spot disc defects. The integrity of predetermined test tracks is assessed on the basis of a tracking signal. When a defective test track is found, the prox... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7161877 | Method and circuit for generating a tracking error signal using differential phase detection A circuit for generating tracking error signal using differential phase detection, comprising a quadrant photodetector for receiving optical signal and inducting splitting signal A, splitting signal B, splitting signal C and splitting signal D, two adders for genera... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7145840 | Methods for optical disc sector verification A method for verifying sectors on an optical disc is provided. The method includes writing user data to unverified sectors of the optical disc and verifying the sectors of the optical disc with the user data. The sectors of the optical disc are verified by reading t... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133339 | Data storage apparatus that either certifies a recording medium in the background or verifies data written in the recording medium A data storage apparatus, which can format a recording medium in the background, that verifies data written in a designated region of the recording medium if the designated region has not yet been certified in the background, and writes the data in an alterative reg... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7080296 | Method for managing defects on an optical disk A method comprises utilizing an optical disk drive to manage defects on an optical disk. When a targeted block is defective, the method writes all data in an original packet to an alternative packet without temporarily storing the data in a memory of the optical dis... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6992958 | Phase-locked loop circuit for reproducing a channel clock In PLL circuits for reproducing a channel clock in synchronism with data read from a disk-shaped recording medium driven for rotation, the frequency dividing ratio of frequency dividers provided in desired signal paths is made changeable according to the reproduced ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6982942 | Data recording and/or reproducing apparatus for demodulating data from a reproduction signal In a data recording apparatus, values of parity bits to be additionally provided every one predetermined length block in data obtained by demodulating the original data are determined so as to satisfy a part of or an entire the predetermined run length limitation ru... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6973014 | Methods for optical disc sector verification A method for verifying sectors on an optical disc is provided. The method includes writing user data to unverified sectors of the optical disc and verifying the sectors of the optical disc with the user data. The sectors of the optical disc are verified by reading t... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970407 | Recording medium for storing write protection information and write protection method thereof A recording medium storing a write protection information, and a write protection method for protecting data recorded on a recordable and/or rewritable disc from unwanted overwriting or erasing. In order for write protection of a disc in a bare state that is usually... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6959411 | Intelligent error checking method and mechanism An intelligent MP3 error check detection method and apparatus. The claimed invention discloses an apparatus and method where all MP3 files are initially assumed to have compatible error checksums. A parameter W is initialized to zero. The parameter W is not constant... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6631108 | Method for accurate positioning of data marks and spaces on an optical disc An optical disc has spatial features (notches, bumps, etc.) that intentionally distort the analog Read Data signal. For a mark or space that is centered on a spatial feature, the distortion does not affect the resulting binary Read Data signal. If an edge... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6144627 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus and method with phase error detection Even if an external disturbance resulting from a defect on a magneto-optical disk disturbs a loop for generating a reference clock and consequently a phase error is increased, it is possible to prevent data from being recorded on a magneto-optical disk by... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5883865 | Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a recording medium with editing functions The present invention is to provide an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a recording medium which comprises recording and reproducing means for recording or reproducing data on or from a recording medium in which management information for record... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5619481 | Information recording/reproducing method An information recording/reproducing operation is performed in accordance with a command from a host computer via a small computer system interface on an information recording medium having a plurality of tracks, each of which has a plurality of sectors a... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5590112 | Track jump controller for correcting information read errors A rotation control section rotates a compact disk about twice as fast as a reproduction speed. Data read out by a pickup section are stored into a cache memory and then sequentially read out by a reproduction address generation circuit at a predetermined ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5291467 | Disc recording apparatus for recording a signal without losing the signal during an occurrence of a track jump An apparatus for recording a signal on a disc medium driven by a servo circuit comprises, device for generating a laser beam for recording the signal on the disc medium, device for detecting a track jump of a scan of the disc medium by the laser beam, dev... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5058089 | Memory disk and apparatus for recording information on memory disk An optical disc device includes an optical head for recording/reproducing information to and from an optical disc. The optical disc has two primary recording areas. On a first recording area of the two primary areas, the optical head records information s... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4833663 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus for handling defective sectors on an optical disk Disclosed is an information recording/reproducing apparatus which uses a rewritable recording medium having a sector structure, and in which a data writing gate signal and a data erasing gate signal are reproduced on the basis of an ID detection signal of... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4730290 | Defect detecting optical apparatus enabling recording in an alternate sector or track An optical recording/reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information along tracks on an optical disc by irradiating the optical disc with a laser beam comprises a tracking error detecting circuit for detecting the digression of the laser b... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4682312 | Disc player with search noise suppression A disc player, for reproducing program information from a disc on which the information is recorded as digital program information data accompanied by digital address data, comprises an optical reader for reading program information data and address data ... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4592036 | Disc player with search noise suppression A disc player, for reproducing program information from a disc on which the information is recorded as digital program information data accompanied by digital address data, comprises an optical reader for reading program information data and address data ... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4417330 | Optical memory system providing improved focusing control A laser optical system including a reading beam for reading optical data recorded in one or more tracks of a rotating disk optical recording medium. The disk includes a plurality of preformatted headers spaced along the track wherein each header includes ... | 11/22/1983 |
