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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164992 | Optical disc medium and data recording method and apparatus An optical disc medium and corresponding optical recording method and optical recording apparatus. The optical disc medium comprises a substrate on which a shape according to modulated information data has been formed, and a coating film formed on the substrate. Kno... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154963 | Method of writing data to a disc, disc drive The invention relates to a method of writing data to a disc (OD). The method comprised: a) performing a plurality of writing actions in which a plurality of data portions are written to the disc, b) performing a plurality of verification actions in which written dat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149658 | Method of erasing data from optical disc A method and device for erasing data from an optical disc, are discussed. In an embodiment of the present invention, the area of the optical disc where data has been written is overwritten with arbitrary data using a beam spot spanning over two or more radially adja... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8036073 | Storage medium managing device, storage medium managing program, and computer-readable medium A storage medium managing device is provided which can employ a set of management information containing suitable information from a plural sets of management information contained in the storage medium. An optical disc apparatus (1) manages an optical disc (... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7965596 | Defect management for real-time information A device for recording records blocks of information on logical addresses on a record carrier at corresponding physical addresses. The logical addresses are translated into the physical addresses in dependence on defect management information that includes defect in... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7936649 | Method of managing overwrite and method of recording management information on an optical disc write once A device and method of reproducing and/or recording data onto a write once recording medium, the recording medium having a data area and a management area, the data area having a spare area. The recording method include: performing a replacement-recording by recordi... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936648 | Method and apparatus for overwriting data on recording-medium and the recording medium In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a user data area on which one or more recording ranges are allocated and a management area. The method of recording on the recording medium includes receiving an overwriting command to record data on a recorded area o... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7898913 | Device for and method of recording information on write-once record carrier A device for recording blocks of information on logical addresses on a write once record carrier at corresponding physical addresses. The logical addresses are translated into the physical addresses by addressing means (31). Allocation means (32) defin... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7876651 | Method of writing data to a disc, disc drive The invention relates to a method of writing data to a disc (OD). The method comprising a) performing a writing action in which a first data portion is written to the disc; a2) deciding to perform b) or not and b) verifying at least part of the first data portion th... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7859958 | Information-recording apparatus, information-recording method, program storage medium and program An information-recording apparatus is disclosed wherein FSes can be optimized. The information-recording apparatus includes an FS extraction section for extracting a plurality of FSes from a plurality of FS-recording areas on a recording medium; an FS synthesis sect... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848192 | Data recorder and data recording method, and computer program Additional recording is performed on a recording medium without using a VAT technique. An area including the 256th logical sector is reserved at disc initialization time, and additional recording is performed from this reserved area and after. Additional reco... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7830760 | Recorder and method for recording information on a write once recording medium The continuous update of the Recorded Area Indicator on a DVD+R disc leads to a loss in performance of the recorder. If the update is not continuous, the Recorded Area Indicator on the disc may not accurately reflect the status. In order to ensure that the Recorded ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7738330 | Information recording method and apparatus, information reproducing method and apparatus, information recording medium, program storage medium and program Congested rewriting in the same area is to be evaded to suppress the tendency towards occurrence of defective areas. When a stream 1 has been recorded, the last written address, representing the last written position, is stored. When recording a stream 2 | 06/15/2010 |
| 7652959 | Optical disk device An optical disk device includes a BE control means which issues a request for recording of data upon an optical disk. Furthermore, this optical disk device includes an FE processing means which, upon receipt of the recording request from the BE control means, irradi... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7539095 | Selection device for reading and/or recording devices for inscribable digital versatile disks (DVD) A selection device for a reading and/or writing device for a rewritable Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) includes a selector for selecting a specified complete and limited data area of a plurality of such data areas present on the DVD after a Lead-in Area, and a represe... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7486599 | Recording method, recording apparatus, reproducing method and reproducing apparatus In the case where data are recorded in a medium, after a specific type of a medium in which recording is performed is set, if it is detected that information is recorded on an address of specific position at which decoding information is to be located, then data at ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7477579 | Recording apparatus and method, and recording medium and program used therewith A recording apparatus includes an acquiring unit for acquiring, from an optical disc, disc-state information including at least information of an optical disc type, information of a recording format, and information indicating whether the optical disc has already be... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7457211 | Disc apparatus and recording method thereof An optical apparatus calculates, based on the information data recording time, a recording area recording information data and an area to be finalized that is expected to become an unrecorded area after the information data is recorded, and alternately repeats recor... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7440365 | Recording method for recording data on a storage medium A recording method includes the steps of detecting whether unique information is recorded in a storage medium outside a predetermined area managed by a management data that manages data in a data area on a storage medium; generating unique information when in the de... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7356142 | Secure compact disk and player A method for recording data on an optical medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first plurality of frames of data at a Cross Interleave Reed-Solomon Code (CIRC) encoder, encoding the first plurality of frames of data by the CIRC enc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349301 | Write-once recording medium on which portion of the data is logically overwritten A recording medium that is a write-once recording medium with data rewritability, thereby increasing the usability of the write-once recording medium, is provided. In a write-once recording medium, a main data area has a normal record and playback sub-area (a user d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7302158 | Data recording/reproducing apparatus and method When second material data is inserted into first material data, in point and out point are set in the first material data and the second material data to generate editing processing information. On the basis of the editing processing information, there are prepared ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296142 | Multi-tiered retry scheme for reading copies of information from a storage medium Minimal and maximal numbers are established defining two levels of retry attempts to read system information from a storage medium. Multiple copies of the system information are stored on the storage medium. Attempts are made to successively read the copies until ei... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289393 | Music jukebox Disclosed is a music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library therein. The music jukebox includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for outputting audio signals, and a da... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286451 | Copy control using digital speed bumps A digital media recorder and a method of controlling such are provided. During attempts to copy media content, sub-sequences are extracted from an input media sequence. A digital fingerprint of the sub-sequence is calculated and compared with at least one first refe... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7269110 | 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... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263051 | Storing audio-centered information with a multi-level table-of contents (TOC) mechanism having redundant sub-TOCs Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by using a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism that specifies an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In particular, each one of a set of one or more Track Areas gets at least two mutually ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260037 | Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method and information-processing program A minimum buffer data amount and a minimum reproduction delay time are found from a line approximation graphic form approximating a media read line and used as a basis for determining whether or not data can be reproduced in a real-time manner from a recording mediu... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7239585 | Information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, information recording program and information reproducing program, recording medium and information recording medium An information recording apparatus encodes distributed information, which is inputted via a network, in an encoding scheme for allowing decode by a plurality of types of players to obtain encoded distributed information, and when the distributed information is distr... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231731 | Information record medium having two phase pit areas of mutually different depths and groove track area On an information record medium (1), information is optically recorded and reproduced while a servo control is performed with respect to the information record medium by a push-pull method. The information record medium is provided with: a record/reproduction... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233667 | Record medium, record medium manufacturing device, computer readable record medium on which program is recorded, and data presentation device A record medium comprises an original data obtained by superimposing a presentation target data, to which an error correction encoding is performed and an identification information. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230893 | Method of formatting optical recording medium A method of formatting a rewritable optical recording medium includes registering defective blocks in a primary defect lists (PDL) and performing a slipping replacement corresponding to the number of PDL registrations, determining whether an error has occurred in th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230898 | Reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus This invention relates to a reproducing apparatus compatible with a storage medium storing copyright-protected and copyright-unprotected files, the reproducing apparatus being capable of reproducing any one of the files stored on the medium, the reproducing apparatu... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230892 | Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information utilizing a selection command that selects recorded information There is provided an apparatus for recording and reproducing information. The apparatus comprises a reading device to read out information recorded on a recording medium, a first recording device in which the information read out by the reading device is written, an... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224545 | Methods and systems for overwrite protected storage media According to one aspect of the invention, methods and systems for operating a magnetic storage media drive to perform read/write operations to magnetic storage media in an overwrite protected mode are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a write req... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
