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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8023370 | Apparatus and method for converting groove/land polarity upon groove/land track change on optical medium An apparatus for converting a groove/land polarity on an optical medium, comprises a physical identification (PID) detector for detecting a first PID value from a first sector, a sector information unit for providing an information which includes a second PID value ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7613087 | Apparatus and method for accurately converting groove/land polarity upon groove/land track change on optical medium The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for accurately converting a groove/land polarity upon a groove/land track change on an optical medium, by way of initially deciding a reference groove/land changing point or a decoded PID of any one specific se... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7515511 | Optical disk drive system with quasi-parallel tasking and servo control method An optical disk drive system with quasi-parallel tasking comprises a decode/interface module, a servo control module and a procedure switch module. The decode/interface module receives and decodes at least one instruction to generate at least one corresponding proce... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7440366 | Optical disk drive for driving copy-controlled CD An optical disk drive for driving an out-of-specification disk such as a CCCD. When the out-of-specification disk, such as a CCCD (Copy-Controlled CD), is loaded in the optical disk drive, a system controller of the optical disk drive reads TOC data in a first sessi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436756 | Record carrier and apparatus enabling seamless playback A record carrier stores audio data as audio tracks in audio files and associated management information. To avoid annoying clicks at the end or beginning of live recorded audio tracks, if those tracks are not played back seamlessly but by suppressing of introductory... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7371959 | System, method and computer program for ensuring secure use of music playing data files In the system of the invention, a music playing data file is extracted from a given musical work resource such as an electronic music score data file, a printed sheet of music and an audio signals of a musical performance, to be utilized for playing music automatica... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7355957 | Optical disc medium having a system information recording area of low recording density In order to stably carry out reproduction of information in an optical disc medium (10) using a PRML (partial-response maximum-likelihood) method for reproducing the signal, the optical disc medium (10) has not only a data recording area (14) wh... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7327640 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, and storage medium When the user designates the reproduction of searching audio data, the designated searching audio data and audio volume data are read from a searching data recording portion. The searching audio data is reproduced corresponding to the audio volume data. When the use... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305527 | Recording apparatus A recording and/or playback apparatus for recording data read out from a first storage medium into a second storage medium, includes a recording device for recording data read out from the first storage medium into the second storage medium, an input unit for inputt... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7269106 | Power efficient scheduling for disc accesses A device for scanning a record carrier has a head for scanning a track for reading and/or writing information. A disc scheduler controls receiving requests for accessing the record carrier, the requests including streaming requests regarding real time information an... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260035 | Recording/playback device In simultaneous stream recording and playback, after playback catches up with real time live broadcast, a playback speed changing unit 2 smoothly changes a playback speed to single speed. Nevertheless, an output switching unit 4 continues to perform si... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251204 | Optical disc reproducing apparatus According to the optical disc reproducing apparatus relating to the present invention, DSP detects a beat from an audio signal from the optical disc, and in a beat search mode, every time when the jog 28 is clicked once, the microcomputer traces one by one, t... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7230900 | Optical disk apparatus and computer readable recording medium storing program An optical disk apparatus for forming an image on an optical disk according to dot data which defines density of dots of the image, the optical disk apparatus includes: a framing unit which makes a frame data by grouping a plurality of unit data, wherein when the do... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221628 | Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program and recording medium with the program recorded therein After the DVD-Audio (1) is set and a signal for automatic reproduction is read out, or after a signal for reproduction generated in response to an input operation by a user in an operating section (73) is recognized, whether image output on a monitor i... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7206792 | Data management apparatus The present invention is concerned with a data management apparatus, in which data recorded by dubbing from a CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) to a hard disc drive (HDD) (31) as a second recording medium are supervised by a hard disc recording and/or reprod... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203147 | Storage medium initialization method, and recording and reproducing method and apparatus A storage medium initializing method includes the steps of detecting a mode corresponding to a recording format to be loaded on a storage medium; and initializing the storage medium according to the mode detected in the detecting step. A recording and reproducing me... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184378 | Storage system and controlling method thereof, and device and recording medium in storage system A first storage device control device stores, when a first data write/read request is received, correspondences between first logical units and second logical units referenced when determining whether or not storage regions identified by first logical units set in t... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7154822 | Optical disc recording control method, drive, and recording system for recording data in a pre-gap, all tracks, a lead-out area, a lead-in area, and a program memory area According to an optical disc recording control method, a drive, and a recording system of the present invention, in a drive of an optical disc, when data transfer from a host computer is interrupted while data transmitted from the host computer is being recorded in ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149163 | Recording technique with particular sunchronization data Disclosed is a disk-like recording medium, a disk recording apparatus and a disk recording method, and a disk playback apparatus and a disk playback method. Disk ID is recorded over a circle of a burst cutting area on an optical disk. The circle is divided into n bl... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143947 | Method and apparatus for accessing electronic data via a familiar printed medium The disclosed methods and apparatus relate generally to the electronics media industry, such as cable television (CATV), home shopping services, on-line computer services and computer memory applications. These methods and apparatus allow a user to access and make u... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7121468 | Method of developing an application program for running on a wireless portable data terminal (PDT) A method of developing an application program for running on a wireless portable data terminal (PDT), comprising the steps of (a) during the development of an application program for running on a wireless PDT supported by a first operating system, generating user in... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116898 | DVD auto-changer capable of setting all-repeat-mode A DVD auto-changer includes a controller, and in the DVD auto-changer, an all-repeat-mode that a plurality of disks stocked are exchanged to be successively reproduced can be set. The controller determines whether the all-repeat-mode is set or not, and unconditional... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7088906 | Information reproducing apparatus In an information reproducing apparatus, when a car is travelling, it is inhibited that the image information played back by a DVD reproducing apparatus is displayed on a display device, or the map information outputted from a navigation system is displayed. Further... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076625 | Multimedia storage device having digital write-only area A multimedia storage device such as a hard disk drive has an unrestricted area that is accessible to client devices outside the device such that digital multimedia stored on the unrestricted area may be accessed by the client devices. Also, the device has a restrict... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072362 | Real time communications of musical tone information A musical tone data communications system having a unit for generating MIDI data of a musical performance by a player, a unit for transmitting the generated MIDI data over a communications network and a unit for receiving the transmitted MIDI data and reproducing mu... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7065417 | MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a reproducing method thereof Disclosed is an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing sound data compressed using the MPEG method. The inventive system includes power supply means for supplying operational power to the system, the power supply means being realized thr... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7043440 | Play back apparatus When the quick traverse play back command (or, quick returning play back command) of the audio information by the compression audio information is given to the play back apparatus, by the control of the control section, the special audio according to the temporarily... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035183 | Optical disc recording and reproduction apparatus having automatic gate signal generation modes An optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data in and from an optical disc by the use of the optical disc as a recording medium, comprises analog processing means including a binarization unit for subjecting a signal read from... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035530 | Recording medium reproduction apparatus having reproduction restriction information In an apparatus for reproducing a DVD 800 in which recorded data and a region code (DC) for restricting the reproduction of the recorded data is recorded, the apparatus is arranged to include a recording means in which a player region code (PC) related to the... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031477 | Voice-controlled system for providing digital audio content in an automobile A voice-controlled system for providing digital audio content in an automobile is presented. The system comprises a CPU unit that includes a microprocessor programmed to decode and deliver digital media such as MP3s and ebooks to a listener. The CPU unit also includ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7015933 | Graphic data file for displaying graphic data, methods for generating the same, computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for playing the same A graphic data file containing instructions for displaying graphic data on a display device, the graphic data file having a header identifying the start of the graphic data file, a plurality of portions of instruction data following the header and each portion of in... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012864 | Optical disk recorder for writing data with variable density An optical disk recording apparatus operates on an optical disk having circular tracks which are provisionally written with an index signal used for securing a constant linear velocity of the optical disk from an innermost circular track to an outermost circular tra... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010371 | Digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record In a digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record, a high frequency alternator is provided, which is connected to the microprocessor, and constantly sends out a high-frequency signal; the alternator has an output terminal electrically connected to ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6993567 | Recording/reproducing apparatus, data reproducing method, and data recording/reproducing method Although music program data has been recorded on a disc, imperfect index data or a signal has been recorded so that music program data is prohibited from being reproduced. To allow music program data to be reproduced, the index data is rewritten to perfect index dat... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6969794 | Music playback apparatus and music playback system The data of the same musical pieces are stored in the same order in each of a plurality of music playback apparatuses. When one music playback apparatus is instructed to finish musical-piece playback, it generates musical-piece playback information indicating the pl... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961879 | Apparatus and method for counting error rates in an optical compact disc storage system A method and system are disclosed for counting error rates occurring within an optical compact disk system as data is read from an optically encoded compact disk. In a preferred embodiment error flag data are generated as errors occur within the optical compact disk... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958966 | Control device for optical disk player that corrects rotational frequency data based on input data An optical disc player having an optical pickup records and retrieves information on an optical disc while the optical disc is rotating. A rotation pulse is generated each time the optical disc rotates through a prescribed angle. A rotation frequency data representi... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957440 | Methods for translating and reading optical disks The present disclosure provides apparatus and methods for reading optical disks. Some implementations are particularly well suited for automatically playing both sides of a dual-sided optical disk. By coordinated delivery of disks between a disk reader, a disk trans... | 10/18/2005 |
