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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE42711 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7990822 | Sound recording/reproducing method and apparatus Recording/reproducing apparatus records attribute information on sound data of a music piece onto a recording medium, and creates a rule table associating the attribute information and DSP program parameters. The recording/reproducing apparatus acquires, from the ta... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7961570 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple audio streams recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses A recording medium having a data structure for managing reproduction of multiple audio streams is discussed. The recording medium according to an embodiment includes a data area storing at least multiple audio streams in at least one portion thereof, the multiple au... | 06/14/2011 |
| RE42342 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 05/10/2011 |
| RE42341 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 05/10/2011 |
| RE42322 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 05/03/2011 |
| RE42320 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 05/03/2011 |
| RE42321 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 05/03/2011 |
| RE42323 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 05/03/2011 |
| RE42297 | Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7813237 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple audio streams recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The recording medium includes a data area storing at least multiple audio streams in at least one portion thereof. The multiple audio streams are multiplexed, and each audio stream is a transport stream stored as one or more packets. Each packet has a packet identif... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7630282 | Disk for audio data, reproduction apparatus, and method of recording/reproducing audio data An audio disk has a first audio zone and a second audio zone. In the first audio zone, both of a plurality of tracks each including a single piece of music and a first management information including first control information for allowing each track to be reproduce... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623423 | Apparatus and method for recording data in different formats on a multilayer optical disk, and storage medium having a program stored thereon to enable a computer to perform such method An information processing apparatus for executing a process of recording data on a multilayer optical disk. The information processing apparatus includes: an encoding unit for encoding data to be written; a modulation unit for modulating the encoded data to generate... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7548494 | Audio system, and disc reproduction device and audio output control device for use therein Players 2A and 2B are each capable of outputting data read from a disc such as a CD or an SACD in any of signal formats including an IEEE 1394 format, an analog format and a digital format. An AV amplifier 3 includes a first output system for se... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7408851 | Pseudo multi-channel play-back apparatus Compressed audio data for 5.1 channels stored in the DVD-ROM 11A is read by the AC-3 decoder 12 of a pseudo multi-channel stereo play-back apparatus and, after expansion, stored temporarily in a buffer 13, channel by channel. Among stored audio ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406008 | Recording medium and system for recording and reproducing the recording medium using control information that represents the number of sets of information composing the multiplexed audio information A recording medium has a first recording area on which multiplexed audio informations are recorded as sets of one or more information units, a second recording area on which control information for controlling recording of the multiplexed audio informations are reco... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406022 | Optical recording medium An optical recording medium has a user data area and a lead-out area each having grooves and lands formed thereon. Wobbles are formed on at least one lateral surface of the grooves of the user data area and the lead-out area, and configured such that wobble characte... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7382700 | Recording medium and signal processing apparatus A digital signal recording disc has a first area storing an audio title set. The audio title set has data representing audio information and data representing a still picture. The audio title set is void of a pack of data for playback control. The first area also st... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7359615 | Method and device for ensuring storage time for digital broadcast When a digitized broadcast is recorded in a storage medium, a required capacity of the storage medium is firstly calculated on the basis of a bit-rate of digitized broadcast data and a recording time which is known in advance. If the remaining capacity of the storag... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340272 | Mobile communication terminal having a three-dimensional surround sound effect and its control method A mobile communication terminal with three-dimensional surround-sound effect system has a data processing section for coding and modulating a transmitting signal or demodulating and decoding a receiving signal, and an audio processing section for reproducing an audi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336574 | Apparatus for detecting abnormal states of laser diode power in an optical disc recording/reproducing device An apparatus for detecting abnormal states which prevents damage to a laser diode or data recorded on a disc and swiftly correcting the abnormal state. An overflow/underflow detector detects whether overflow or underflow of the laser diode occurs, by comparing a las... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333408 | Demodulator, disk drive device, and phase adjustment method In a demodulation process of a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal, phase adjustment is automatically performed by generating, in response to demodulation results, an optimum phase value of a second internal reference wave for demodulating the secon... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7319653 | Methods for recording data to optical media A method for recording data to optical media is provided. A selection of files to record from a source to a destination optical media is received, and an enumeration of the data files to record to the destination optical media is generated. The enumeration of data f... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7304523 | Clock generating apparatus and method in optical storage system A clock generating apparatus and clock generating method of an optical disc drive for calibrating a clock signal according to an input signal. The clock generating apparatus includes a frequency detector for detecting sampling times in a duration when the clock sign... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7251337 | Volume control in movie theaters A motion picture soundtrack reproduction system has a center front soundtrack channel and a plurality of other soundtrack channels. A volume control adjusts the gain of all the channels. The volume control has a range of settings from a minimum to a maximum, the gai... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7227821 | Information recording, information reproducing and copying apparatuses, and information recording medium for recording and reproducing music The present invention provides an information recording medium in which at least one set of an audio data portion and a music block, which represent a piece of music, is recorded. The audio data portion includes first audio data. The music block includes first music... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220911 | Aligning and mixing songs of arbitrary genres A “music mixer”, as described herein, provides a capability for automatically mixing arbitrary pieces of music, regardless of whether the music being mixed is of the same music genre, and regardless of whether that music has strong beat structures. In automatica... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221625 | Multi-channel acoustic apparatus with DVD reproduction function In a multi-channel acoustic apparatus with a DVD reproduction function, comprising a DVD reproduction control unit for controlling the reproduction of a DVD, and a system control unit for controlling the overall acoustic apparatus and controlling the reproduction of... | 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 |
| 7203142 | Multi-source surround audio apparatus A DVD audio signal reproducer reproduces a DVD to generate a DVD reproduced audio signal. A reproduced signal determiner determines whether the DVD reproduced audio signal is a 5.1-channel digital surround audio signal or a 2-channel digital audio signal, and genera... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196983 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method The present invention provides an information recording method and an information recording apparatus, which are capable of recording reproduction controlling information in information recording medium such as DVD. An operation portion designates a division timing ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7167429 | Method for defect management of an optical storage medium with a sorting process A method for recording a plurality of data sets onto an optical storage medium by utilizing a temporary storage device in an optical storage system. The optical storage medium contains a plurality of data blocks and a plurality of spare data blocks. Each data block ... | 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 |
| 7161883 | Information recording method and optical disk apparatus When user data is recorded on a write-once medium, linking variations can be reduced that are produced as management information for managing the user data is updated by additionally recording on and off, thereby assuring the reliability of the reproduction compatib... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151724 | Disk recording apparatus and disk recording method A disk recording apparatus for recording data to a disk includes: a reading and writing element for emitting a read beam onto the disk to read out recorded data therefrom while emitting a plurality of write beams simultaneously onto the disk to record data thereto i... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136712 | Digital acoustic reproducing apparatus, acoustic apparatus and acoustic reproducing system In a digital acoustic reproducing apparatus 10 for selecting and outputting one sound information from a sound information source 11 having plural kinds of sound information with at least the number of channels or different data formats, there are prov... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136239 | NRZ pipeline servo while reading or writing A data storage device exhibiting reduced pad regions includes a read/write channel to convert transduced waveforms from a storage medium into recovered digital information. The recovered digital information is communicated from the read/write channel to a controller... | 11/14/2006 |
