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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169865 | Information storage medium and method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing pointing information An information storage medium includes areas of disk-related information having disk-related information to record or reproduce data with respect to the information storage medium, wherein the disk-related information includes common disk-related information and cha... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164993 | Method and apparatus for detecting land pre-pits Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for detecting land pre-pits. The method can adaptively adjust a threshold for detecting the land pre-pits in order to improve the correctness of detecting. The method for detecting land pre-pits can include extracting a lan... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149659 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method and information storage medium therefor A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8111598 | Optical disk apparatus and emission control method An optical disk apparatus according to the present invention includes a spindle motor that rotates an optical disk on whose information recording surface a plurality of addresses is recorded, an optical pickup that records/reproduces an information signal on/from th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111597 | Data recording apparatus When a blank DVD-RW disk is loaded into an optical disk drive, a host computer issues a FORMAT command to the disk drive. The optical disk drive having received the command performs quick formatting pursuant to a standard. Subsequently, the host computer issues a WR... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102740 | Offset loop for wobble An automated capability is provided in which an offset correction is automatically determined and routinely updated in order to reduce or otherwise eliminate data retrieval errors that may be caused by low level distortion in optical disc data storage recording, re-... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8036074 | Information recording medium, information recording device and method, and computer program An information recording medium (10) is provided with: a first area in which first data is recorded, first data region information being assigned to the first data; a second area in which second data is recorded, second data region information being assigned ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7995434 | Method and apparatus for generating absolute time in pregroove data An apparatus and a method for generating ATIP data is provided. The apparatus generates ATIP data from a wobble signal of a re-writable compact disc. The apparatus includes a frequency demodulator for demodulating the wobble signal to generate an original ATIP data ... | 08/09/2011 |
| RE42431 | Optical disc having uniform structure An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data are... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957237 | Recording medium and method and apparatus for recording data A recording medium and a method and apparatus for recording data are disclosed. The recording medium includes a data area in which data is recorded, a lead-in area arranged radially inwardly of the data area, and a lead-out area arranged radially outwardly of the da... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940614 | Method and an apparatus for recording information, and an information recording medium In a method for recording information on an information recording medium having a data recording area for storing user data and a test area used for test recording by a recording apparatus, it is detected whether the test area is unusable when executing the test rec... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936650 | Attenuation-amount adjusting circuit, optical disk drive device, attenuation-amount adjusting method, and address-information acquiring method An attenuation-amount adjusting circuit includes: a light irradiating unit that alternately irradiates a laser beam of a writing level and a laser beam of a readout level on an optical disk that has a groove formed by a wobble pattern and plural markers indicating p... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7843781 | Disc drive with rotational driving and optical pickup Disclosed is a disc drive apparatus. The disc drive apparatus includes a rotational driving unit rotating a disc-shaped recording medium having a plurality of addresses recorded on an information recording surface of the disc-shaped recording medium; an optical pick... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7821889 | Offset loop for wobble An automated capability is provided in which an offset correction is automatically determined and routinely updated in order to reduce or otherwise eliminate data retrieval errors that may be caused by low level distortion in optical disc data storage recording, re-... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7791995 | Image information detecting apparatus An image information detecting apparatus is disclosed that comprises: a semiconductor laser that emits a laser light beam; a light receiving unit that receives a reflected light beam of the laser light beam applied to a color changing layer of an optical disc, the c... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791996 | PLL circuit operating based on output of delta-sigma modulator, and optical disk device including PLL circuit A PLL circuit includes a wobbling detector for detecting a wobbling signal based on reflection light of an optical disk having a wobbled track, and a VCO that an oscillation frequency of its output varies according to its input. The PLL circuit controls the VCO base... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7778125 | System and method for generating output signal indicating specific area on optical disc A system for generating an output signal indicating a specific area on an optical disc is disclosed. The system includes: a detecting circuit, a header signal generator, a protection circuit, a counter and an output signal generator. The detecting circuit detects pr... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7755989 | Enhanced reproduction of optical discs In performing reproduction of optical discs, when a request to perform a data reproduction operation is received, it is detected whether finalization data is written to a finalization indicator region of an optical disc, and a record-related servo adjustment operati... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751287 | Recording medium, recording method, recording apparatus, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus A recording medium is disclosed. In the recording medium, address information is recorded in advance, one bit of the address information recorded is represented by a modulated wobble signal obtained by modulating each of a predetermined number of modulation unit sec... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7719933 | Apparatus for manufacturing information record medium, information record medium, information recording apparatus and information recording method On an information record medium (10, 11), record information can be recorded one time or a plurality of times by a predetermined record format. An apparatus for manufacturing the information record medium by using a stamper (27, 28) is provided with an... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7701819 | Recording medium, method of configuring control information thereof, recording and reproducing method using the same, and apparatus thereof A data structure of a control information for use with a computer-readable recording medium having multiple recording layers. The control information includes first information unit for a first recording layer and second information unit for a second recording layer... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7623424 | Apparatus for identifying address in pregroove of Blue-ray disc An apparatus for identifying the address in pregroove (ADIP) of a Blu-ray disc is described. The apparatus uses a statistical scheme or distance-finding scheme to find the position of a predetermined minimum shift keying (MSK) mark or the first MSK mark, i.e. a bit ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7623425 | Method of recording and/or reproducing pointing information A method of recording data to an information storage medium includes arranging a plurality of areas of disk-related information, each area comprising common disk-related information and corresponding changeable parameter information according to information about ch... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7496010 | Disk drive and pre-pit detection method A push-pull signal is detected from light reflected 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. A fundamental amplitude variatio... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7453775 | Method for dynamically adjusting header region RF gain while accessing header regions of DVD-RAM disc and apparatus thereof A method for dynamically adjusting a header region RF gain of a variable gain amplifier while accessing header regions of a DVD-RAM disc, and apparatus thereof. The method includes the following steps: irradiating a light spot on the DVD-RAM disc with a pickup head;... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7440367 | Land Pre-Pit data detection apparatus and method thereof An apparatus and method has a capable of precisely detecting Land Pre-Pit (LPP) data recorded on an optical medium loaded into an optical drive. The apparatus includes an LPP data detecting unit that detects LPP data, from which a wobble frequency is removed, from a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436740 | Wobble detection for playback of optical recording media The present invention relates to a method and a device for detecting the type of wobble on an optical recording medium. According to the invention, a programmable digitally tuned oscillator is provided for detecting the wobble at different frequencies and the wobble... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433285 | Disk having unique code for identifying its type for optical disk player and method for discriminating types thereof A BCA (Burst Cutting Area) code including a unique disk code indicating the type of a disk is written in a BCA code area of the disk. If the disk is mounted into the optical disk player, the optical disk player reads data written in the BCA code area, extracts the d... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423956 | Optical disc having uniform structure An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data are... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7411879 | Optical disk device An optical disk device which drives an HD-DVD or the like. When recording or reproducing data with respect to an optical disk of HD-DVD, the address information is demodulated by an address decoding circuit and is supplied to a system controller. The system controll... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408853 | Reproduction-only recording medium, reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and disk manufacturing method A ROM disk having a block data format provided with linking areas as with a rewritable disk. Main data recorded in a main data area and linking data recorded in a linking area in each block are scrambled by identical scrambling data. The scrambling data is generated... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400560 | Optical disc An optical disc includes a read-only area having a first wobble, which is a data wobble formed in the read-only area for only reading, a readable/writable area having a second wobble, which is different from the data wobble, and a connection area between the read-on... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397748 | Optical recording medium, recording method and apparatus for optical recording medium and reproducing method and apparatus An optical recording medium having a track including plural pits formed based on first data and lands defined between neighboring pits, these pits are deformed as they are recorded based on second data. The first and second data are synthesized and reproduced to rea... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397739 | Method and apparatus for detecting position of blank area of optical disc An apparatus for detecting position of blank areas for an optical disc in an optical disc drive according to a wobble signal and a blank signal includes an address decoder for generating a physical address value according to the wobble signal; a counting device coup... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7385908 | Record carrier including a servo track having first and second modulated parts representing a data type and a word sync type, respectively, and an apparatus for scanning the record carrier A record carrier has a servo track (4) indicating an information track (9) intended for recording information blocks. The servo track (4) has a periodic variation of a physical parameter at a predetermined frequency and modulated parts for encod... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379414 | Optical disc An optical disc includes a read-only area having a first wobble, which is a data wobble formed in the read-only area for only reading, a readable/writable area having a second wobble, which is different from the data wobble, and a connection area between the read-on... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379400 | Method and apparatus of accessing BCA data An optical data recording/reproducing system comprises a data slicer and a data extractor, wherein the data slicer receives the analog RF signal from the identification area and generates a digital mask signal and a digital pulse signal, and the reference clock gene... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376061 | Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and contents recording method In the reproducing apparatus of the present invention, only such audio data which is recorded on a first recording area among audio data recorded on a recording medium is reproduced, linked to recording data recorded on a second recording area. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376071 | Optical disc having uniform structure An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data are... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376057 | Disk recording apparatus and disk recording method The disk recording apparatus and method are arranged to specify a recording address and a recording position on an optical disk with a wobble PM (phase modulation) format through the use of a wobble reproduced signal and a track reproduced signal. The recording appa... | 05/20/2008 |
