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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149660 | Drive apparatus, method of informing possibility of handling and operating recording medium, control method of handling and operating recording medium, and recording medium A drive apparatus that handles and operates a recording medium attached with a memory tag, the drive apparatus include: a recording medium mounting part on which the recording medium is mounted; an information readout part configured to read information out of a mem... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8077569 | Methods and devices for controlling access to an optical disc A device for controlling access to an optical disc includes a control word calculator and a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO). The control word calculator is arranged to calculate a control word corresponding to a radius where the optical disc is accessed. In ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7911901 | Magnetic and optical rotating storage systems with audio monitoring A control system for a rotating data storage device includes a drive module configured to at least one of (i) process data, (ii) store data, and (iii) control operation of the rotating storage device; and an audio monitoring module configured to (i) communicate with... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7855942 | Method and apparatus for determining a recordable position of a writable disk According to an embodiment, an apparatus for recording data in a recording medium, includes a reading/recording unit recording or reading data on or from the recording medium, the read data including a position information, the position information indicating a last... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7804749 | Optical information storage medium and method of and apparatus for recording data thereon An optical information storage medium and a method of recording thereon. The optical information storage medium has a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out area, and data indicating a maximum and/or a minimum writing speed, maximum and minimum writing speeds... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7800995 | Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction speed of an optical disk A method and apparatus for controlling reproduction speed of an optical disk are provided. The method for controlling reproduction speed of an optical disk includes checking whether a read command has been received, and examining whether the received read command is... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7706224 | Information recording medium, information reading apparatus and information recording apparatus In an information recording medium, positions of pits are modulated in a direction intersecting a direction of reading of pits, so that a predetermined information is recorded. In this information recording medium, the whole of the predetermined information or a par... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7697384 | Recording and/or reproducing methods and appratuses In one embodiment the method includes reading speed information from a specific area of the recording medium. The speed information includes one or more speed flags to indicate whether a corresponding speed is applicable to the recording medium. A first speed flag f... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7561505 | Disk apparatus There is provided a disk apparatus adapted to allow the rotational frequency of an optical disk to reach a predetermined rotational frequency soon for shifting to a reproducing operation, when setting up the rotation of the optical disk, even if the optical disk may... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7522493 | Recording method and apparatus for optical disk drive A recording method for an optical disk drive is implemented as follows. First, at least one of the level of the focusing error signal, the level of the tracking error signal, a wobble synchronization pattern loss, the error rate of demodulating a wobble signal and t... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7443628 | Storage apparatus, spindle motor control method, and program A default gain table stores values of loop gain of a spindle motor control unit predetermined for each number of media. A loop gain setting unit detects the number of media, reads out a loop gain corresponding to the detected number of media from the default gain ta... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430087 | Method and device for servo frame velocity calculations of a storage media A velocity calculator performs high-order calculations of servo frame velocities of a storage media, particularly tape and disk. The velocity calculator employs a servo frame indexing module for generating a first-order preceding servo frame velocity signal indicati... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426620 | Apparatus and method for memory access of sharing buses An apparatus and a method for memory access of sharing the address and the data buses used in multi-media player, comprising at least one SDRAM, storing the large data and as a buffer in high speed; at least one flash memory, storing the programs, the user's default... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7414643 | Method for compensating for position error in an optical disc apparatus A method for compensating for a position error in an optical disc drive (ODD) is provided. The method compensates for a position error generated by a step error associated with a motor which moves an optical pickup unit across a surface of an optical disc. Error dat... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403459 | Rotational speed control method for a disk player A method is disclosed for adjusting the rotational speed of a disk player based on a calculated variable. The method increases the rotational speed of the disk player when the calculated variable is greater than a first threshold and decreases the rotational speed o... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7382707 | Recording method and apparatus for optical disk drive A recording method for an optical disk drive is implemented as follows. First, at least one of the level of the focusing error signal, the level of the tracking error signal, a wobble synchronization pattern loss, the error rate of demodulating a wobble signal, the ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369344 | Method and apparatus for compensating for offset of disk drive A method for compensating an offset of a disk drive which is accomplished by recording actual spin jitter while performing track following, extracting a DC component from a recorded actual spin jitter, and compensating for an offset of a spindle speed based on an ex... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366641 | Serial interface amplitude selection for a disk drive in an unknown interconnect environment A disk drive including a disk, a signal measurement circuit to measure amplitudes of signals received from the host, and a processor for controlling operations in the disk drive. The processor under the control of a program in conjunction with the signal measurement... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362670 | Optical disc drive An optical disc drive that can carry out recording data to an optical disc such as a format procedure of the optical disc in a relatively short time is provided. An optical disc drive 1 has a rotation driving mechanism for rotating a loaded optical disc 2 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352684 | Information medium and information recording and reproducing device The information medium of the present invention is provided with a lead-in region and a data region in which information signals can be recorded, wherein the lead-in region has a recordable portion in which information signals can be recorded. An identifier I1 ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349300 | Optical disk apparatus having variable reproduction speed function An optical disk apparatus which varies a rotational speed of an optical disk through use of a sound volume controller. A controller of the optical disk apparatus causes a sound volume controller to act as a rotational speed controller upon receipt of a READ command ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345972 | Rotation control method and storage apparatus A storage apparatus rotates an optical recording medium at two or more kinds of rotational speeds. The rotational speed is decreased when a read or write margin becomes less than or equal to a first predetermined value or, when a frequency of generation of a servo a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345971 | Method for detecting stable rotation speed of a spindle motor, and optical disc drive that performs the method An optical disc drive includes a spindle motor, a control unit, and a detection device. The spindle motor is adapted for rotating an optical disc. The control unit controls rotation of the spindle motor. The detection device is coupled to and is controlled by the co... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342856 | Recording medium, recording apparatus, and reading apparatus In a recording material, physical characteristic information of the recording medium, and more specifically, material information representing the material of the disc, is recorded. Accordingly, a recording apparatus and a reading apparatus easily and accurately det... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342859 | Optical recording system capable of switching from a constant angular velocity recording mode to a constant linear velocity recording mode In an optical recording system, according to a wobble sync signal obtained from a wobble signal associated with a physical track of a recording medium being recorded with input data by a recording module operated in a default constant angular velocity (CAV) recordin... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7330639 | Method of playing optical recording media An optical recording medium playing apparatus and method thereof to play an optical disc includes a signal processor to process signals read from the optical disc as a reproduced signal. A timer counts a preset time from when the key is entered a first time a... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330326 | Recordable disk rotational speed error correction circuit An error correction circuit for determining an error in rotational speed of a recordable disk of a disk drive includes a sinusoidal error calculation portion adapted to generate a true oscillation error signal, and a summation portion adapted to combine the true osc... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7301867 | Method and apparatus for changing a recording speed of a disk device The present invention relates to a recording speed determining method of a disk device. The present method, when data record is requested from a host through an interface, a disk device can receive size information about data to be recorded and/or the present time f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298678 | Rotating recorder with dual encoder arrangement having eccentricity compensation A rotating recording device, such as an electron beam recorder, is provided with a dual encoder arrangement. A first encoder is employed as a spindle motor controller and located at a first end of a spindle. A second encoder is mounted at a turntable adjacent to a r... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286453 | Rotation control device, method thereof, program thereof, recording medium storing the program, and information processing apparatus A temperature sensor (131) detects a temperature of a spindle motor (121) of a rotary drive unit (120) for rotating a disk-shaped recording medium (1), and a temperature information acquiring unit (134A) acquires the temperatures a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7263047 | Method for erasing a re-writable disk The present invention discloses a method for erasing a re-writable disk. The method includes determining whether the write fail occurs in a program area of the re-writable disk when fully erasing the re-writable disk and a write fail occurs. If the write fail occurs... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257761 | Method for preventing read errors in optical disc drive A method for improving data accuracy and data flow of a disc servo system to read data on a disk. First of all, a read mode of the disc servo system is determined. If the read mode is an audio/video play mode, a first read procedure to read the data on the disk is e... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257061 | Method and apparatus for determining a recordable position of a writable disk The present invention relates to a method of searching for a recordable position of a writable disk, the method comprising the steps of (a) reading data recording information of the writable disk, the data recording information indicating a position of a last track ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251201 | Method of searching new writable address for optical recordable medium A method of searching a new writable address (NWA) for an optical recordable medium includes providing an optical pickup head and setting a first search starting point thereof; determining if NWA is located at the latest track and setting a search finishing point of... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246302 | Disk player for allocating pointers to frames of CD data and storing pointers in memory and method of processing reproduced data of disk player Disk players for allocating pointers to the respective frames of CD data and storing the pointers in a memory, and methods of processing reproduced data of the disk player are provided. According to one aspect, a disk player includes a pointer controller, which allo... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7234067 | Autonomous thermal management The present invention provides both a peripheral device that regulates its own temperature by adjusting its power consumption, and a method to accomplish the same. The method generally includes monitoring the temperature of the mass storage device and reducing power... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7203143 | Slew rate limiting circuit and optical disc apparatus In a slew rate limiter, a slew rate is limited so as not to pass a signal varying more abruptly than a wobble signal included in a difference signal generated by a differential amplifier, and this limited slew rate is used to process the difference signal to be outp... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200082 | Method and apparatus for optical disk recording capable of reducing settling time and generating an accurate channel clock signal An optical disk recording apparatus includes a first comparator, a second comparator, a third comparator, a selection circuit, a control voltage generator, a voltage control oscillator, and a control circuit. The first comparator compares frequency-divided signals t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200083 | Speed control method for recording data on an optical disk A speed control method used in an optical disk drive for recording data onto an optical disk includes the following steps: detecting an allowable maximum recording speed of the optical disk and an allowable minimum recording speed of the optical disk, calculating a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196988 | Method of controlling rotating speed of an optical drive The present invention discloses a method of controlling rotating speed of an optical drive. After a plurality of reading requests are issued by a host, the rotating speed of a spindle motor is increased if the time interval between any two reading requests is less t... | 03/27/2007 |
