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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7969846 | Hologram recording and reproducing device and method for recording hologram A hologram recording and reproducing device controls an optical beam output from an external cavity semiconductor laser to improve a diffraction efficiency. The hologram recording and reproducing device includes an external cavity laser, a photodiode, a laser drive ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7948847 | Apparatus and method to write/reproduce data to/from optical disc An apparatus and method to write/reproduce data to/from an optical disc, which are capable of preventing an error from occurring at the time of examination of a writing strategy and searching for an optimum writing condition for a short period of time, by examining ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7755993 | Optical information recording reproduction device An optical information recording reproduction device is disclosed, in which aberration detection is stably performed, so that an excellent record grade can be achieved. An RF signal is subjected to differential operation along a time axis of the signal, the RF signa... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746748 | Optical disc device and reproduction method Due to the axial runout of an optical disc, a frequency of a high-frequency current to be superimposed onto a DC current could not be maintained. In order to solve the problem described above, a drive signal is generated by superimposing a high-frequency signal onto... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724625 | Optical disk apparatus and data reproducing method When the data is reproduced by irradiating a laser beam onto the optical disk, an amount-of-irradiation-beam detection signal is produced according to the amount of the laser beam irradiated onto the optical disk, and the defect on the optical disk is detected on th... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7680007 | Optical state recognizer, information processor, and optical state recognizing method A disc device (100) implements information processing with respect to, for example, a zeroth recording layer of an optical disk by an information processing section (510), and outputs a double-layer main voltage value and a double-layer sub voltage val... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7567489 | Light detector, optical pickup, and optical disc apparatus A light detector includes a light-receiving device that receives a light beam applied from a light source irradiating an optical recording medium with the light beam and that generates detection signals, and a power monitor circuit section that generates a power mon... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7426162 | Method of recording and/or reproducing data with respect to multi-layer information storage medium having optimal power control areas An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition, wherein OPC areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage layers ar... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417940 | Apparatus for and method of controlling photo diode using digital potentiometer An optical pick up, including: a laser diode which outputs a light in response to an input current; a photo diode which receives the light and outputs a voltage; a digital potentiometer which adjusts the voltage output by the photo diode according to a voltage adjus... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406017 | Apparatus for reproducing data from information storage medium having multiple storage layers with optimal power control (OPC) areas and buffer areas An information storage medium and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the information storage medium capable of controlling optimal recording power without an influence of an optimal power control (OPC) area in a layer upon an OPC area in a different layer... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406015 | Information recording medium, method of generating flag, method of producing information recording medium, method of adjusting recording conditions of information recording medium, method of recording for information recording medium and information recording device An 11T single signal and a 3T single signal are recorded on a DVD−RW at the optimum recording power P1 and a recording power P2 of an intensity of 85% with relative to the optimum recording power P1, and then these signals are reproduced to ca... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7379410 | Method for reproducing data from information storage medium having multiple storage layers with optimal power control (OPC) areas and buffer areas An information storage medium and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the information storage medium capable of controlling optimal recording power without an influence of an optimal power control (OPC) area in a layer upon an OPC area in a different layer... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376059 | Method of obtaining optimal recording condition with respect to information storage medium having storage layer with optical power control area An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369475 | Optical disc, information playback apparatus, information playback method, and information recording method An optical disc according to one aspect of this invention has a first field to record first version information, and a second field to record second version information obtained by updating the first version information. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369625 | Apparatus and method for slicing RF signal and compensating for the slice level of RF signal in disk drive An apparatus and method for slicing an RF signal and compensating for the slice level of an RF signal reproduced from a disk, which minimizes a block error rate by optimizing the slice level of the RF signal according to variations in symmetry of the RF signal when ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366077 | High-density optical recording medium and method of recording data on the same A high-density optical recording medium and method of recording data on the optical recording medium. The optical recording medium includes a plurality of data recording/reproducing surfaces having reflectances for light passing through a pit area, a land/groove are... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7339870 | Optical disk apparatus and data reproducing method When the data is reproduced by irradiating a laser beam onto the optical disk, an amount-of-irradiation-beam detection signal is produced according to the amount of the laser beam irradiated onto the optical disk, and the defect on the optical disk is detected on th... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339865 | Method of reproducing data from information storage medium An information storage medium on which data is recorded after performing optimum power control (OPC) and a method and apparatus to record/reproduce data on/from the information storage medium, wherein the recordable information storage medium has a plurality of reco... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336574 | Apparatus for detecting abnormal states of laser diode power in an optical disc recording/reproducing device An apparatus for detecting abnormal states which prevents damage to a laser diode or data recorded on a disc and swiftly correcting the abnormal state. An overflow/underflow detector detects whether overflow or underflow of the laser diode occurs, by comparing a las... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327649 | Method for formatting optical information recording medium, at recording power less than recording power to be used for recording, and recording medium formatted by the method A method for formatting a phase-change optical disk, using an apparatus for formatting phase-change optical disk, which apparatus includes (a) a drive control substrate on which a CPU for controlling an optical disk drive, a ROM for storing data, and an interface ar... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327653 | Information storage medium having storage layer with optical power control area, and recording apparatus to record data with respect to information storage medium An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317674 | Optical pick-up units and laser drivers with increased functionality Optical pick-up units and laser drivers are disclosed, which can be used in various types of information recording/reproducing apparatuses, such as, but not limited to, DVD and CD drives, DVD camcorders, and DVD video recorders. A laser driver integrated circuit (LD... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315508 | Multi-layer optical disk and method of producing multi-layer optical disk A multilayer optical disk including a plurality of information storage layers to/from which information is recorded and/or reproduced by an optical head. The plurality of information storage layers are stacked through intermediate layers and each information storage... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7313075 | Optical information recording method and apparatus An optical information recording method and apparatus which records information on a recording medium by irradiating the recording medium with an irradiation light of a recording power to form a recorded-mark on the recording medium such that reflection coefficient ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301868 | Optical disk recording/reproducing method and recording/reproducing apparatus using the same There provided an optical disk recording/reproducing method and an apparatus thereof capable of constantly forming an optimum mark region while appropriately correcting recording conditions. A sample hold circuit 6 detects and holds the level of a TPP signal ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295500 | Recording condition setting method and information recorder using same A test pattern including a first test mark which is one unit-record-length longer than a shortest mark among modulating codes and a second test mark which is two or more unit-record-lengths longer than the shortest mark is recorded under a plurality of recording con... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286454 | Information storage medium An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286457 | Information storage medium An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286456 | Information storage medium, method and apparatus reproducing data there from An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283445 | Optical storage device and reading method for optical storage medium A signal detection sections detect the light intensity modulated by the phase pits as ROM signals from the return lights of an optical storage medium that has phase pits and a recording layer to simultaneously regenerate data in the ROM and RAM, and detect the RAM s... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274643 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus and information recording medium It is an object of the present invention to provide an information recording and reproducing technique capable of improving the reliability of information recorded on a recording medium. A recording condition comprising amplitude information and the ratio of the amp... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266068 | Optical disk apparatus and method of controlling the optical disk apparatus A light emitting unit is caused to emit a laser beam having a pulse width T1 broader than a pulse width T2 used at a time of recording, and a light receiving unit is caused to receive the laser beam and to output a first detection signal. A first contr... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263046 | Photo-detector amplifier circuit for optical disk device A two-stage amplifier of a first-stage amplifier 21 and second-stage amplifiers 22 and 23 is provided. A writing mode and reproducing modes are switched in the first-stage amplifier 21 by switching a parallel circuit of a feedback capacit... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254101 | Laser beam power modulation pattern decision method, device for recording data onto optical recording medium, and optical recording medium It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for determining a pattern for modulating the power of a laser beam which can determine a pattern for modulating the power of a laser beam so that data can be recorded in a write-once type optical recording... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248553 | Laser power control device A laser power control device for use in an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus that records data on and/or reproduces data from an optical recording medium by driving a laser diode with a laser diode driver. The device includes: a peak power monitor which... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248551 | Apparatus and method for controlling laser power for disc drive A laser power control apparatus and method prevent fluctuation in the level of laser power due to a difference between reaction speeds of an automatic power controller according to write speeds of a disc drive. In the apparatus and method, laser power can be automat... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245580 | Optical recording medium having protective and/or adhesive layers, and method of manufacture An optical recording medium including a substrate having guide groove thereon; a first protective layer located overlying the substrate; a recording layer located overlying the first protective layer; a second protective layer located overlying the recording layer; ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7224653 | Optical disk unit capable of restraining changes in light quantity The present invention relates to an optical head device and an optical disk unit using the same. The optical head device includes a relay lens control unit to control at least one of lenses of a relay lens unit based on an output signal outputted from a first optica... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7209414 | Spherical aberration compensation by wavelength A method for minimizing spherical aberration in an optical read/write drive caused by variances in lens thickness and laser wavelength. The method provides an economic solution that pairs objective lenses with laser diodes such that the spherical aberration caused b... | 04/24/2007 |
