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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7907486 | Rotation responsive disk activation and deactivation mechanisms Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7835239 | Method for reading/writing data for a disk drive A method for reading/writing data of a disk drive that includes a spindle motor for rotating a disk and a head for reading/writing data from and to the disk. The method includes the steps of; (i) adjusting a position of the head for the first time to space apart the... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7800996 | Rotation speed control for recording information A disc recording device has a mode control unit for switching the device either to a read mode or to a write mode. Reading and writing can be alternated for simultaneous recording and reproducing of video. A rotation speed control unit sets the rotation speed of the... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800997 | Method and apparatus for generating frequency-multiplied frequency generator signal used in optical drive An optical drive servo control system comprises: an optical pickup, for accessing an optical disc and generating an optical signal; a spindle motor, for rotating the optical disc and outputting a FG signal and a spindle motor synchronous signal; a frequency-multipli... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7684295 | Recording medium, method of recording control information on a recording medium, method of recording/reproducing data using control information, and apparatus for recording/reproducing data using control information The present invention provides a method of recording disc control information in a recordable optical disc including at least one recording layer, and more particularly, a method of recording information indicating a specific location of disc control information wit... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7423942 | Optical disc device for recording different types of optical discs and data recording method for optical disc device In an optical disc device comprising: a pickup 3 having a laser diode and generating a laser beam for recording onto an optical disc 1; a disc motor 2 that drives the rotation of an optical disc mounted thereon; a stepping motor that moves the p... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408855 | Disk drive with an adjustable motor and method for adjusting rotation speed of the motor A method for adjusting rotation speed of a driving motor in a disk drive prior to power on of a computer, includes: (i) inputting an external signal into the disk drive; (ii) converting the external signal into a predetermined value in such a manner to replace a def... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7369474 | Method of and apparatus for differentiating between writable disc types A plurality of types of writable discs on which wobbles having a predetermined frequency containing absolute addresses and/or various pieces of information on the writable discs can be discriminated by controlling only focusing and using an amplitude of a wobble sig... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366061 | Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and method and system for recording and reproducing information in a plurality of levels of recording units High speed access to an information recording medium is possible by preparing information relative to a lower level recording unit, e.g., a fragment, which is set smaller than a higher level recording unit, e.g., a session. A fragment identifier, typically, a fragme... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349299 | Method of optical disc discrimination A method for discriminating between different types of optical discs is intended to apply to an optical storage device with a pick-up head having three beams. A main beam push-pull signal and a sub-beam push-pull signal, both acquired by means of the photo-detector ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7327648 | Player with rotational control for double-sided optical discs A double-sided optical disc, such as a DVD-18 disc, is formed with data tracks on each layer. The tracks on one side are oriented along one spiral while the tracks on the other side are oriented along a different spiral, the two spirals being oriented in opposite di... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319646 | Focus operation for an optical disk device A disk device in which at the recovery job of a focus pull-in operation, a CPU supplies servo control means with the respective correction values of the rotational speed of an optical disk and the moving speed of a lens which are described in the data table of a RAM... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319651 | Recording apparatus and recording method The amount of light reflected from a disk is detected, and it is determined according to the amount of reflected light whether the disk is a recordable disk or a rewritable disk. The disk is controlled according to the result of determination such that it is rotated... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319649 | Recording apparatus and recording method The amount of light reflected from a disk is detected, and it is determined according to the amount of reflected light whether the disk is a recordable disk or a rewritable disk. The disk is controlled according to the result of determination such that it is rotated... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319650 | Recording apparatus and recording method The amount of light reflected from a disk is detected, and it is determined according to the amount of reflected light whether the disk is a recordable disk or a rewritable disk. The disk is controlled according to the result of determination such that it is rotated... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313064 | Optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus and method for determining optimal power thereof Disclosed is an optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus and a method for determining an optimal power of a laser beam. The present invention performs recording tests using combination tables, which are formed with a combination of values of parameters for d... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304926 | Motor control system having output clamp function and method of the same A motor control system comprises a motor controller and a clamp apparatus and is used for controlling a motor apparatus. The motor controller is used for generating a motor control output according to a reference signal and a feedback signal from the motor apparatus... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301873 | Information recording medium, information recording device and method therefor, and computer program product and storage medium therefor On a recording medium, the version information indicating a version of the recording standard to which the information recording medium is adapted is recorded. Moreover, the normal recording condition information for recording information at a normal recording speed... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289395 | Optical pickup device of micro optical disc drive An optical pickup device of a micro optical disc drive comprises: a tracking actuator hinge-coupled to a deck rotatably in a tracking direction; a tracking arm coupled to the tracking actuator; a focusing arm connected to the tracking arm rotatably in a focusing dir... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289407 | Methods for establishing audio track digital audio extraction speed A method for recording audio data to optical media is provided. The method includes obtaining a number of audio tracks on a source optical media and setting a source optical media device to a maximum read speed for the source optical media device. Also included is r... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7276274 | Optical recording medium and method for recording and reproducing data An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a light transmission layer and a plurality of recording layers between the substrate and the light transmission layer and capable of recording data in the plurality of recording layers and reproducing data recorded i... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274645 | Reproduction signal processing apparatus and optical disc player including the same A reproduction signal processing apparatus includes: a reproduction unit, an A/D converter for sampling a reproduction signal to obtain a multi-bit digital signal, a phase-locked loop controller for outputting a reproduction clock that is in phase with clock compone... | 09/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7234181 | Incline sleeper for an infant An incline sleeper for an infant has a base and a resilient insert adapted to fit in the base within a peripheral lip. The resilient insert and the base cooperate to support a top surface of the resilient insert at an angle with respect to a lower surface of the bas... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231649 | Optical recording medium and method for optically recording data in the same An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a first recording layer formed on the substrate and containing an element selected from the group consisting of Si, Sn and Ge as a primary component, and a second recording layer located in the vicinity of the first ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7215625 | Optical disk recording apparatus that records a visible image on an optical disk An optical disk recording apparatus is provided that includes an optical pickup, an image encoder that generates data corresponding to a visual image to be drawn in a recording region of an optical disk, an LD control unit that controls the optical pickup and record... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206269 | Optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus with reduced resume time The present invention shortens a time to be elapsed from a recording interruption to a recording restart, thereby realizing a reliable recording restart. In one embodiment, an optical disk apparatus comprises an optical pickup and a processor, which includes a repro... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200080 | Optical disk recorder with reproduction quality control A method is designed for writing data originally recorded in a source disk medium with an original reproduction signal quality, into an object disk medium by means of an optical recording apparatus having a machine parameter settable to control a reproduction signal... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7161881 | Method and system for optical drive write strategies embedded in an optical medium An optical drive writes information to an optical medium by obtaining a write strategy for the optical medium from a write strategy table embedded in the optical medium. A write module in the optical drive reads an optical drive identification code from the optical ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158458 | Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing information with respect to optical recording medium A method and an apparatus are provided, which enable a user's standby time to be shortened or utilized effectively in the course of recording/reproduction of information with respect to an optical disk. Information recorded on a disk is reproduced preferentially, an... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149178 | Method and format for reading and writing in a multilevel optical data systems A system and method for reading and writing in a multilevel optical data system is disclosed. The system provides control signals for timing acquisition, level calibration, DC control, AGC, equalizer training and data synchronization. The user data is ECC protected ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7116622 | Optical storage device rotation speed control apparatus and method A method for controlling the rotation speed of an optical storage device. In the first mode, a first signal is produced, and in the second mode, a second signal is produced. In one mode, a first pulse of a first voltage and a second pulse of a second voltage are sen... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113462 | Method for adjusting the writing speed of a CD drive A method of adjusting the write speed of a CD drive includes writing data from a CD drive to a disk at a first speed during a first preset time. If, at the end of the first preset time, the data error rate at the first speed is larger than the error allowance upper ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113475 | Optical information storage medium and recording/reproducing method for the optical information storage medium An optical information storage medium includes information on recording layers having the same reproduction channel characteristics or different reproduction channel characteristics. Nominal recording speed information is recorded in a read-only zone, and maximum an... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110337 | Method and device for determining disk size and stopping a rotating disk without using FG signals A method and device for determining the presence or absence of a disk and/or a disk size without using FG signals, are provided. The method includes placing a pickup at a first zone on the optical recording medium, the first zone located between an outer radius of a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110340 | Method and apparatus for recording data on an optical recording medium An optical recording apparatus and method thereof form a mark and a space by radiating a laser signal corresponding to a recording pulse having a peak level and a bias level onto an optical recording medium. The optical recording apparatus includes a recording pulse... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106674 | Reproduction apparatus In a multi-session disc including both audio session and data session, the data session is correctly recognized and accessed. The reproducing apparatus is a reproducing apparatus of a multi-session disc mixing a session of first type recording first data and a sessi... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089410 | Program boot method for hard disk controller, hard disk controller and hard disk drive, and control program for hard disk controller Prior to the loading of a main program, the rotation speed of a disk provided in a hard disk drive is increased to a common rotation speed adapting to all types of hard disk drive. At the common rotation speed and a common recording density, a main program is read f... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088380 | Labeling apparatus and method for disk storage media A label printer system includes a disk storage medium including a thermally-sensitive layer formed on at least a portion of an upper surface. A rotational drive rotates the disk storage medium and a transverse drive moves a laser substantially transversely with resp... | 08/08/2006 |
