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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8000191 | Method for collecting text from musical disc A method reads text data from a musical disc in a disc drive. The musical disc includes a plurality of blocks each including a plurality of packs. Each pack is given a block number and a sequence number and written to a ring buffer of a disc drive including a first ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7813238 | Method and system for buffering data file to buffer memory This invention provides a method and a system to read and buffer an audio data file from an optical storage medium into a buffer memory. The data file comprises blocks sequentially stored in the medium. Each block comprises a subcode block with encoded subcodes and ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804748 | Method and system for time stamp in optical media manufacturer allocated area An optical medium storage device improves the usable life of re-writable optical storage mediums, such CD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM disks, by adjusting write parameters to compensate for time between an initial write on the optical storage medium and the current time, ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7573791 | Recording medium, method of recording identification information thereof, and recording/reproducing method thereof The present invention provides a method of recording identification information in an optical disc, by which specified disc identification information can be uniformly applicable to efficiently cope with the recording/reproducing of the optical disc. The present inv... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7522492 | Circuit and method for detecting address in pre-groove (ADIP) signal in wobble detection system of optical disc apparatus An ADIP (address in pre-groove) signal detection circuit is capable of correctly and quickly detecting discontinuous points in a wobble signal, and has a simple configuration in a wobble detection system of an optical disc device such as a DVD+R/RW, and an ADIP sign... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7443773 | Information storage medium and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data An information storage medium having a lead-in area, a user data area, and a lead-out area, wherein information regarding whether additional information is recorded as wobbling pits is recorded in at least a portion of at least one of the lead-in and the lead-out ar... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433280 | Method and system for buffering data file to buffer memory This invention provides a method and a system to read and buffer an audio data file from an optical storage medium into a buffer memory. The data file comprises blocks sequentially stored in the medium. Each block comprises a subcode block with encoded subcodes and ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7411889 | Optical disc with wobbled tracks and apparatus using this optical disc Address information is formed by M wobbles (integer M is the number of wobble waves) per bit as a basic unit, and is NRZ-recorded. Also, a sync signal used in sync detection of the address information is formed by N wobbles per bit as a basic unit (integer N is the ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411878 | Apparatus and method for reproducing audio file A method of reproducing an audio file includes: applying a reproducing mode established based on an attribute information; obtaining at least a part of the audio file under the established reproducing mode; and determining whether the audio file is reproducible unde... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7382699 | Recording device, playback device, and contents transmission method An extracting circuit for extracting meta information from information forming contents is provided. The meta information extracted by the extracting circuit is recorded in a recording medium together with the contents and is used as management information. With thi... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372784 | Optical head apparatus The present invention proposes an optical head apparatus provided with light-blocking structure that can reliably prevent nonessential light from reaching the photo detector, without being an impediment to miniaturization and flattening, moreover, without increasing... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366972 | Dynamically mediating multimedia content and devices A mediator having at least a ranking component, a listening component, and a control component, selectively controls a group of devices from a plurality of network devices in a network environment to reproduce multimedia content. The mediator correlates the multimed... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366076 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362677 | Information record medium and information writing/reading apparatus An information writing/reading apparatus that cooperates with an information record medium including a ROM area and a RAM area, either the RAM area or the ROM area having in advance control information recorded thereon used to limit reading and/or writing of informa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362692 | Method and system of mass producing double-sided optical discs Double-sided optical discs, such as a DVD-18 disc, are mass produced with data tracks on each layer. The tracks on one side of the discs are oriented along one spiral while the tracks on the other side are oriented along a different spiral, the two spirals being ori... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350133 | Error correction encoding apparatus and method and error correction decoding apparatus and method An error correction encoding method including generating error correction code data, which is a predetermined number of bytes long, by error-correction-encoding user data in a predetermined manner; generating burst indicator subcode data, which is a predetermined nu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349297 | Method and apparatus for acquiring an index mark A method and apparatus for reading an index mark pattern. The pattern may be formed on an optical disc medium. The optical disc medium may include a set of data arranged in a data field, and an index mark pattern for identifying a relative location of the data field... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345970 | Recording medium, method of configuring control information thereof, recording and/or reproducing method using the same, and apparatus thereof A method of recording writing speed information and per writing speed write strategy information within disc control information is provided. The standardized disc control information can be uniformly applied to efficiently cope with the record/playback of the optic... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345969 | Information storage medium and method of recording and/or reproducing with respect to the medium An information storage medium includes an area in which updated disc-related information and recording-related information updated with a change in at least one of a disc version number and a recording speed is recorded along with existing disc-related information a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7304923 | Disk drive and detection method using pre-pit detection and push-pull signal generation A push pull signal is detected from a disk-shaped storage medium on which wobbling grooves are formed as recording tracks and address information is recorded by forming pre-pits on lands between adjacent grooves. The detected push-pull signal is compared with a refe... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301865 | Method and system for time compensation of re-writeable optical media write parameters An optical medium storage device improves the usable life of re-writable optical storage mediums, such CD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM disks, by adjusting write parameters to compensate for time between an initial write on the optical storage medium and the current time, ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7283454 | Information storage medium and method of recording information thereon An information storage medium (a disc) includes an area and a user data area. The area includes a recordable zone having a drive & disc zone in which information on a drive and information on a state of the disc are recorded. The drive & disc zone includes a plurali... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274627 | Record carrier and apparatus for scanning the record carrier A record carrier has a servo track indicating an information track intended for recording information blocks, which servo track has a variation of a physical parameter, referred to as wobble. The wobble is modulated for encoding record carrier information, such as a... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272096 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272087 | Circuit and method for detecting address in pre-groove (ADIP) signal in wobble detection system of optical disc apparatus An ADIP (address in pre-groove) signal detection circuit is capable of correctly and quickly detecting discontinuous points in a wobble signal, and has a simple configuration in a wobble detection system of an optical disc device such as a DVD+R/RW, and an ADIP sign... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269121 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 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 |
| 7260050 | Apparatus for detecting physical marks from wobble signal and method thereof An apparatus for detecting physical marks from a wobble signal includes a matching value operation unit, a threshold value generator and a physical mark indicator. A wobble signal is converted into a matched signal by the matching value operation unit according to t... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260582 | Information recording apparatus, method, information reproduction apparatus, and method An information recording or reproduction apparatus and method in which a transport packet for padding is not inserted and a limited recording space is used effectively when performing data editing to delete a mid-stream of the moving picture file consisting of an MP... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248546 | Data slice generation method and apparatus for optical disk drive A data slice signal generation method of an optical disk drive, which uses a disk including header areas and data areas of different materials, includes the following steps. First, a data slice signal is generated according to the RF signal read by the optical picku... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242654 | Data recording medium, data recording method and apparatus and data reproducing method and apparatus A data recording medium has plural recording areas. The recording medium includes a first recording area for recording data allocated with address data, a second recording area for recording data having allocated address data different from the address data allocate... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239591 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230889 | Startup procedure of optical drive after recording or erasing on optical disc The present invention discloses a startup procedure of optical drive after recording or erasing on an optical disc. After disc writing, startup procedure begins, a chipset reads the recorded data on the disc directly using the track information and focus servo param... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7228481 | Optical disk and method of recording data to the same A method of recording data to an area including a defective ECC block of a DVD+RW, and an optical disk written in the recording method are provided. In the method, when data is recorded to an area including a defective ECC block, data recording ends at an ECC block ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7209641 | Decoder A decoder having improved accuracy for reading data. The decoder decodes reproduced data including preamble data, to which a first synchronization pattern is added, and information data, which follows the preamble data and to which a second synchronization pattern i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206272 | Method for recording asynchronously produced digital data codes, recording unit used for the method, method for reproducing the digital data codes, playback unit used for the method and information storage medium A recording and reproducing system is broken down into a recording unit for producing a digital audio data signal from MIDI music data words asynchronously produced at irregular intervals and a playback unit for reproducing the MIDI music data codes from the digital... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196976 | Accessing audio-centered information using a multi-level table-of-contents mechanism and directory structures Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism for specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In addition to the TOC mechanism a file-based access mechanism to the information is assigned... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196993 | Copy protection system for optical discs A system for copy protection of record carriers for digital data is described according to which at least one predetermined repetitive bit pattern which encodes into channel bits having an accumulated digital sum value that exceeds a first predetermined limit and th... | 03/27/2007 |
