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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179759 | Information storage medium and recording/reproducing apparatus and method using the same An information storage medium and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method, the information storage medium includes: an area for recording information regarding a predetermined function applied thereto, wherein the information regarding the predetermined functio... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8144558 | Hidden patterns on a data storage medium Apparatus and method for providing hidden data to a data storage medium. The hidden data are written by selectively adjusting at least one access parameter of the medium, and preferably by selectively adjusting multiple such parameters. The presence of the hidden da... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139458 | Recording medium for storing write protection information and write protection method thereof To provide write protection of a disc in a bare state that is usually used in a cartridge having a recognition switch for write protection, such as a DVD-RAM, write protection information is recorded in a Lead-in area, a Lead-out area or a recording information area... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130614 | Optical storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproducing apparatus An optical storage medium can be provided by which illegal usage of the optical storage medium involving an infringement on the copyright can be prevented effectively without impairment of the functions for reproducing physical format information and optical storage... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125868 | Optical disc, optical disc recording apparatus and method, optical disc reproducing method The present invention provides an optical disc recording method of irradiating an optical beam to an optical disc including a basal plate made of synthetic resin which has a concavo-convex pattern formed in advance on one surface thereof, and a reflective coat made ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8107337 | Image processing apparatus and data erasing method An image processing apparatus and data erasing method make it possible to unrecoverably erase encrypted data recorded in an auxiliary storage device at high speed while reducing the load put on the CPU. Upon reception of a data erase request from a data utilizing pr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8089839 | Method and system for fluid mediated disk activation and deactivation 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... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089840 | Reproduction system To limit the time capable of reproducing a plurality of contents as a whole recorded on a recording medium. Provided herein are a recording medium on which a plurality of contents and reproduction-enabled time which is a period of time for allowing a user to freely ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8077572 | Recording medium with restricted playback feature and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, capable of preventing unauthorized duplication of data streams, written thereon, onto another medium, such as a BD-RE or BD-R, which includes physical mark information, and... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064307 | Reproducing device, reproducing method and program used in the same There is provided, according to the present invention, a reproducing device capable of preventing illegal duplication and reproduction, as well as of reproducing content without degrading the quality of the audio and visual contents. The reproducing device ( | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054722 | Disk operation protection method and disk controller A disk operation protection method and a disk controller are disclosed herein. The method includes: receiving a request for a disk operation; obtaining, by a disk controller, operation control parameters corresponding to the current disk area to be operated, and det... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7983129 | High data capacity storage medium with protection code, method for obtaining the protection code and respective data reading apparatus The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, and a data layer disposed on the substrate layer, the data layer comprising data being arranged in tracks as marks and spaces. A protection code is coded in one of the tracks or a part of a track which code com... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974166 | Information recording device and information recording method generating a copy preventing structure User data is recorded onto a DVD by the incremental recording method and by using padding when closing a recording zone, read error data is recorded onto the DVD. The read error data is generated by making a sector error detection code or a PI/PO error correction co... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969845 | Optical recording apparatus, recording method for optical recording medium and optical recording medium Disclosed herein is an optical recording apparatus which may record post pre-format recording information on an optical recording medium which has a guide portion formed in advance for guiding a light beam and a plurality of address portions for specifying individua... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965599 | Information recording medium, data structure, and data reproducing method Content data (11), handling limit data (12), and a check program (13) are provided in a data group (10) recorded on an information recording medium (1). The check program (13) causes a reproducing device to read the content ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7929392 | Optical disk apparatus and optical disk processing method According to one embodiment, an optical disk apparatus is provided with a read section which reads data from an optical disk to output read information, a determination section which determines presence/absence of an error of the read information to output an error ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924672 | Optical-disk recording medium, playing apparatus and method for same, and recording apparatus and method for same In an optical disk, a substrate has main data recorded in the form of a combination of pits and lands on one side thereof, and at least a reflective layer and cover layer are stacked on the substrate to cover the pits and lands on the substrate. To the optical disk,... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916595 | Reproducing apparatus, program and recording medium A reproducing apparatus provided with identifying information acquisition means to read recording medium identify information recorded on a recording medium and a storage unit to store the recording medium identify information acquired by the identifying information... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7898920 | Header region protection apparatus and method of optical storage medium A header region protection apparatus of an optical storage medium. The apparatus comprises an encoder, a header location generator, and a header protector. The encoder converts user data to an EFM signal and a write enable signal according to a write clock. The head... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889612 | Information carrier comprising access information and dummy information An information carrier for holding user information includes access information for accessing the user information, the access information being stored in a pre-determined first region on the information carrier. The information carrier further includes at least one... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885158 | Information recording apparatus, recording medium, and information recording method for recording information including characteristic information in correspondence to medium type information A system controller is provided so as to record the second disk type information having the same content as that of the first disk type information, which is recorded in a DVD-R in advance, in a DVD-R in which the first disk type information is recorded as well as t... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7876657 | Information recording apparatus, an information recording system, a program, and a recording medium An information recording apparatus, an information recording system, a program, and a recording medium are disclosed, by which contents are legally recorded to another information recording medium. Copy-once contents stored in a first optical disk are written to the... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7855943 | Optical disk device and method for processing optical disk According to one embodiment, the invention provides an optical disk device having a drive and a control section. The drive applies recording processing and reproduction processing to an optical disk. When the optical disk is an unformatted blank medium, if the drive... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7817517 | Disc recording and reproducing device and disc recording and reproducing method A disc recording and reproducing device and method record video data using a new file system other existing device cannot recognize. However, when a disc thus recorded is loaded in the existing device, the user is prevented from being instructed to format the disc (... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7808867 | System with read protecting function The present invention relates to a system with read protecting function that comprises a record medium, having a data substrate with a control data zone and a data zone thereon, wherein the control data zone has a plurality of blocks, and every block has a plurality... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801002 | Optical disk reproducing device An reproducing device for reproducing information recorded on an information recording medium includes: a system controller that decides whether a user operation is inhibited or permitted when there is the user operation during reproducing the information of the inf... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796485 | Method and system for fluid mediated disk activation and deactivation 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... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792001 | Copy protection system for optical disc having a confusion pattern User information is encoded on a record carrier in accordance with a first record carrier standard, the encoding of the user information also being in accordance with a second record carrier standard. Also, format information is provided on the record carrier for pr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7760602 | Hybrid type optical disc and manufacturing method for hybrid type optical disc A stamper which has a region information according to a destination is set to the resin molding machine for HDDVD and the resin molding machine for DVD, respectively. The contents information (contents A) of the same program is held in each stamper. The region infor... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7733754 | System and method for disc labeling An optical disc drive reads identification information from an optical disc inserted in the drive in a label orientation having a label side presented to the optical disc drive laser by reading codes marked at the opposing storage side in a transparent region or mar... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7701825 | Apparatus for and a method of authenticating recording media A digital recording medium such as an optical disc is recorded using an encoding process this is modified to cause a peak or rapid change in the digital sum value in the encoded data for part of the recording data. This provides the corresponding part of the recorde... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697389 | Recording medium for storing write protection information and write protection method thereof A recording medium storing a write protection information, and a write protection method for protecting data recorded on a recordable and/or rewritable disc from unwanted overwriting or erasing. In order for write protection of a disc in a bare state that is usually... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693019 | Information recording device, method of controlling recording operation of said device, and program for controlling recording operation of said device An information recording device having a recording head for recording information on a recording medium includes: an inherent ID generator that generates an inherent ID for the recording medium; an inherent ID recording unit that records the generated inherent ID on... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7643393 | Systems and methods for optical media modification Theft, distribution, and piracy of digital content on optical media (software, video, audio, e-books, any content of any kind that is digitally stored and distributed) is often accomplished by copying it directly to another disc using commonly available copy tools a... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7609598 | Hybrid optical disc Hybrid optical disc has a DVD layer and a HDDVD layer in a laminating direction. When regional assignments as shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B are applied to these layers, regional information in the DVD layer contains “1” in the bit position corresponding... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7609597 | Apparatus for recording or reproducing record medium and method for controlling data output A data outputting controlling method in which content identification information for discriminating the content of content data is held each time the content data is read out and output from a recording medium, having at least the content identification information ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606130 | Information recording medium, and information reproducing apparatus and method On a disc master DS, a record mark having a variable length according to the first data is formed at a displaced position to which the record mark is displaced, in a direction crossing the reading direction thereof, according to a wobble signal obtained by modulatin... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7570560 | System and method for logical shredding of data stored on WORM media Files are encrypted and stored on a WORM media device along with their encryption keys, the binary values of which are stored as a combination of written and unwritten sectors in a key storage portion of the media. To shred a file, the associated key is destroyed si... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7551535 | Reproducing apparatus utilizing recording medium identifier A reproducing apparatus provided with identifying information acquisition means to read recording medium identify information recorded on a recording medium and a storage unit to store the recording medium identify information acquired by the identifying information... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7522503 | Information recording medium having first and second synchronization signals recorded thereon, and information reproducing apparatus and method On an optical disc, a record mark having a variable length according to pit data DP is formed at a displaced position to which the record mark is displaced, in a direction crossing the reading direction thereof, according to a wobble signal WB obtained by modulating... | 04/21/2009 |
