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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190000 | Recording apparatus, recording method, and recording program A recording apparatus capable of multiplexing video data and audio data and recording the video data and audio data in multiple record units as one file on a recording medium includes a data receiving unit, a recording instruction receiving unit, a packet generating... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8125863 | Integrated circuit, information recording/reproducing apparatus, and signal processing method An information recording/reproducing apparatus including an optical pickup unit for generating an RF signal performs signal processing to acquire, at a restart of recording after a halt of recording, a data ID to be used as a reference for specifying a recording res... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7859957 | Optical disc system An optical disc apparatus includes a pause circuit for pausing data encoders upon receiving a pause signal so that a write operation may be paused without writing dummy data, thereby maintaining data succession. The optical disc apparatus also includes a circuit for... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848191 | Optical disk apparatus An optical disk apparatus is provided with a recording/reading unit that records data and reads recorded data with respect to an optical disk. Further, the optical disk apparatus is provided with a control unit that judges whether an account name recorded on the opt... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7660214 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing section picking up any signals compressed in a plurality of different compression methods from a recording medium. The recording medium records the signals compressed in a plurality of different compression methods and ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656759 | Information recording and reproducing device suppressing erasure of data when power interruption occurs during data recording In a record operation mode, a nonvolatile memory stores a record end address. In a restoring operation mode, the record end address stored in the nonvolatile memory is read, and a record end address in an FDCB is read and is compared with the record end address read... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7505380 | Apparatus and method for preventing writing error from occurring on optical disc An apparatus for preventing a writing error from occurring on an optical disc. The apparatus includes an interpolation ATIP sync signal detector, a number determiner, and a writing speed adjuster. The interpolation ATIP sync signal detector receives a wobble signal ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7397749 | Optical writing apparatus and method for controlling execution time of writing thereof A method of controlling an optical writing apparatus and an optical writing apparatus utilizing the method to control its write execution time include a pickup to write write data onto a writing medium, a servo driving portion to control the drive of the pickup, a c... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7362669 | Optical disc apparatus An optical disc apparatus includes a pause circuit for pausing data encoders upon receiving a pause signal so that a write operation may be paused without writing dummy data, thereby maintaining data succession. The optical disc apparatus also includes a circuit for... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333406 | Apparatus and method for reproducing information recorded on information storage medium including improved reproduction halt and restart capabilities, and recorded program media for controlling the same When halting reproduction of an optical disc, the work memory stores identification information of the optical disc and halt position information thereof, and a contents data memory section stores information of reproduction contents. When resuming reproduction, a d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7304666 | Remote configuration of menus Methods and apparatus for configuring a menu of an image-capturing device are provided. The methods include entering data into a first computer, receiving the data at a second computer that is located remotely of the first computer, transferring the data to the imag... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295499 | Wobble signal reproducing circuit The present invention has an object to stably reproduce wobble signals of all disks of CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM by one wobble signal reproducing circuit. In the wobble signal reproducing circuit, an AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL) circuit for equating a push-pull ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286747 | Digital video apparatus user interface A method of controlling a system for processing stored information on a storage medium includes the following steps. Stored information is played back during a play mode of operation. A user is provided an opportunity to select a bookmark representing a correspondin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283444 | Method and device for determining disk size and stopping a rotating disk without using frequency generator signals A method and device for determining the presence or absence of a disk and/or a disk size without using FG signals, are provided. The method includes placing a pickup at a first zone on the optical recording medium, the first zone located between an outer radius of a... | 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 |
| 7280043 | Apparatus for impeding counterfeiting, impeding stealing and managing optical disk stock An apparatus for impeding counterfeiting, impeding stealing and managing optical disk stock is described. The radio frequency identification (RFID) system is applied in an apparatus for impeding counterfeiting, impeding stealing, and managing optical disk stock. The... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7254721 | System and method for controlling an intergrated circuit to enter a predetermined performance state by skipping all intermediate states based on the determined utilization of the intergrated circuit A computer system has multiple performance states. The computer system periodically determines utilization information for the computer system and adjusts the performance state according to the utilization information. If a performance increase is required, the comp... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249106 | Information processing method and apparatus and program storage medium for prohibiting duplication of contents in large quantities A contents database 114 memorizes the discriminating information for discriminating contents and the temporal information as to the time of content duplication associated with the discriminating information. A recording program 113 acquires the discrim... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242651 | Disk reproduction device The invention provides a disk playback device wherein a disk (1) is irradiated with a laser beam from an optical head (4) to reproduce signals from the disk, and which comprises an external synchronizing signal producing circuit (8) and a delay ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233552 | Optical disk device capable of recording information data according to ZCLV format An optical disk device for recording data in an optical disk under ZCLV control is provided. The optical disk device divides the optical disk into a plurality of zones, and drives said optical disk at a linear velocity fixed in each zone but varied among the zones. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7234102 | Data recording method for optical disk drive A data recording method for an optical disk drive is implemented by the following steps. First, one or more data blocks are encoded and recorded sequentially, and it detects if a buffer under run occurs. If a buffer under run occurs, the recording does not stop imme... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230891 | Optical disk device recording data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk by setting a recording velocity and a recording power for each of zones on an optical disk An optical disk device record data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk. After a pause and a restart in the constant angular velocity (CAV) method occurs predetermined times due to a cause of a recording error such as a buffer underrun, the data-recording by t... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227820 | Method for taking messages in a DVD player A method of taking messages for a DVD player is provided. The DVD player includes input device, memory, a DVD play module, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module. Firstly, recording the message in the memory of the DVD layer. Thereafter, waiting for a prede... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228376 | Recording of information on recording medium having temporary space area An apparatus for recording information includes an information recording unit which records data on a recording medium having a user data area for recording of user requested data and having a predetermined spare area for reallocating a defect present in the user da... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224648 | Optical recording and reproduction apparatus including stable and inexpensive servo control mechanism Regions A–F of photodetectors output electric signals a–f respectively, in accordance with an amount of reflected light from an optical disc 1. The electric signals a–f are input to A/D converters through an RF amplifier unit respectively. An arithmetic... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218586 | Intermittent optical disc recording method and optical disc drive splitting data Because a series of data is recorded continuously, the recording quality of data recorded in course of recording cannot be evaluated. Accordingly, the laser output cannot be controlled properly and there are a deterioration and dispersion of the recording quality. F... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215614 | Control method of recording speed in optical disc drives The present invention discloses a control method of recording speed in an optical disc drive. Firstly it is determined whether the recording speed is higher than a data transfer rate from the host to the data buffer in the optical disc drive. If so, the recording sp... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215617 | Optical disc drive for erasing the power calibration area of an optical disc An optical disc drive that can surely erase the trial writing data recorded in the Test Area is disclosed. The optical disc drive of the present invention has a rotation driving mechanism for rotating a loaded optical disc, and an optical pick-up capable of recordin... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212473 | Method and device for adjusting focus bias in optical disc apparatus A method and device are provided for adjusting a focus bias of an objective lens of an optical pickup for an optical disc using a level of a tracking error signal. The level of the tracking error signal outputted when the optical disc is rotated and driven is detect... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213155 | Recording medium, recording and/or reproducing method for record medium, and recording and/or reproducing device for recording medium A recording and reproducing method for a record medium including the steps of reading type information from the record medium when data is recorded to or reproduced from the record medium on which the type information is recorded; reading type information from a rec... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196990 | Information recording scheme for preventing recording failure resulting from impact or vibration An information recording apparatus includes: an information recording part performing information recording on a recording medium divided into a plurality of sectors each including a plurality of information units; a prediction part detecting or predicting an occurr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184376 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus for detecting a reproduction stop date when reproduction of image data is stopped in the past, and for determining a reproduction start position in the image data on a basis of the reproduction stop date, and further for starting the reproduc... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184379 | Optical disk recording/reproducing method and apparatus in which recording properties of the disk are detected when recording speed is changed An operation for recording a recording signal onto a disk (1) is interrupted, when an amount of signal data stored in a buffer RAM (11) for temporarily storing the recording signal is less than an interruption setting value during performing of the rec... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177248 | Optical disc system and method for managing shock during data record/play An optical disc system and a method of managing shock while recording or playing data in the optical disc system are provided. The optical disc system includes an optical pick-up unit for applying a laser beam to a track of an optical disc and detecting reflected li... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170841 | Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method, and reproduction method An information recording medium is provided, which comprises a plurality of recording layers and a first disc information area for storing parameters relating to access to the plurality of recording layers and formats relating to the plurality of recording layer. Th... | 01/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7161878 | Recording apparatus for an optical disk The present invention relates to a recording apparatus for improving operability of a DVD camcorder that performs recording in a video format. When an instruction for starting recording is given at a time T11 and then an instruction for stopping the recording... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158458 | Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing information with respect to optical recording medium A method and an apparatus are provided, which enable a user's standby time to be shortened or utilized effectively in the course of recording/reproduction of information with respect to an optical disk. Information recorded on a disk is reproduced preferentially, an... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154829 | Optimal recording method for optical recording media and optical recording medium stored with information about optimum recording conditions Disclosed is an optimal recording method for optical recording media which is capable of recording information about optimum recording conditions on an optical recording medium in order to allow a subsequent recording of data at an optimum recording power, based on ... | 12/26/2006 |
