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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43179 | Optical disk drive for discriminating types of optical disks After an optical disk drive according to the present invention has been loaded with an optical disk and before the operation of recognizing the type of the given disk is finished, the drive presumes one of multiple types of candidate optical disks, from/on which dat... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8031571 | Signal drive apparatus and optical pickup apparatus using the same A signal drive apparatus includes a first buffer circuit where a signal converted into an electric signal from a first light signal is amplified; a second buffer circuit where a signal converted into an electric signal from a second light signal is amplified; a cont... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027236 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, method of calculating temperature characteristic compensation operation coefficient, and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus is provided, which includes a rotary drive unit, an optical pickup unit, an adjustment unit which compensates for changes in characteristics of the laser light caused by changes in temperature, a temperature detection unit which... | 09/27/2011 |
| RE42584 | Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus for performing a formatting process as a background process and a method for formatting an optical disc by a background process An optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus can record data, which is provided in a packet having a fixed length, on an optical disc without waiting for a long time for a completion of a formatting operation. The optical disc is formatted by a formatting pro... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978580 | Calibrating optical drive write parameters during writing A model is derived for write parameters of a laser in an optical drive. A parameter range for the write parameters is set based on a recordable medium. A number of test runs are recorded on the recordable medium while varying the write parameters. Write performance ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961579 | Information reproduction apparatus When a medium selection button 101 is operated, an optical disc reproduction apparatus 1 recognizes which medium is selected according to inputted medium selection information, and then opens a tray 104. Next, when a medium selection button 1... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7813246 | Method and apparatus for recording BCA to optical disc using multiple turntables The BCA recording and reproducing apparatus performs recording of data onto an optical disc placed on a recording turntable, reproduction of data recorded on an optical disc placed on a reproducing turntable and ejection of an optical disc placed on an exchanging ta... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804753 | Optical disk drive for discriminating types of optical disks After an optical disk drive according to the present invention has been loaded with an optical disk and before the operation of recognizing the type of the given disk is finished, the drive presumes one of multiple types of candidate optical disks, from/on which dat... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7787342 | Information processing unit, information processing method, program for the same, recording medium for recording the program therein, and reproducing unit The present invention provides an information processing unit with improved operability. A reading section (10) reads information recorded in an optical disk, and outputs a read signal. A DSP (20) detects the read signal and processes to a reproducible... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7760608 | Reproducing apparatus A recording/reproducing unit for recording/reproducing information data on/from a recording medium, an initialization unit for initializing the recording medium in one of a first initialization mode in which information data recorded in all recording areas of the re... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760609 | Optical disc apparatus An optical disc apparatus comprises an optical pickup with a thread load, a thread motor for moving the optical pickup, and an inner circumferential switch. When the optical pickup is moved to an innermost circumference of an optical disc to turn on the switch, the ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7755994 | Optical disc device and hybrid optical disc When it is determined that the disc loaded on a player is a hybrid next generation DVD, the DVD layer is reproduced with a red laser light. In parallel with this reproduction process, a process for notifying the presence of the HDDVD layer is performed. That is, det... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7619956 | stability of a write control signal A calibration method for improving stability of write control signal during writing can be applied in a CD recorder. The CD recorder has a pickup device having a laser diode, and a write control device for outputting a write control signal. A first relationship curv... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7602688 | Method for determining disc type in optical disc device A method for determining disc type in an optical disc device is provided. The device performs a disc initialization procedure for a disc loaded into the device, assuming that the loaded disc type is a preset disc type, and checks whether or not the initialization pr... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7573796 | Information recording apparatus Provided is an information recording apparatus including: a memory for storing image pickup data; a recording circuit for intermittently recording the image pickup data stored in the memory on a disc-like medium from the memory; a setting circuit for setting an ejec... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7512048 | Method and apparatus for reading optical discs having different configurations A player is provided that is capable of playing discs of either a first or a second configuration. Both types of discs can be double-sided optical discs formed with data tracks. In one configuration, the tracks on one side follow one spiral while the tracks on the o... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7477586 | Optical disk apparatus for distinguishing recording media including single-layer and double-layer H-L media and L-H medium The present invention provides an optical disk apparatus in which a first, second, third, and fourth optical disks are selectively installed, the first and second optical disks having different recording film characteristics and both having a single-layer recording ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7440365 | Recording method for recording data on a storage medium A recording method includes the steps of detecting whether unique information is recorded in a storage medium outside a predetermined area managed by a management data that manages data in a data area on a storage medium; generating unique information when in the de... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433283 | Hybrid switching method of spindle motor of optical disc drive A hybrid switching method of spindle motor of optical disc drive analyze a disc position status for write/read in said optical disc drive, according said optical disc drive speed to detect a switch mode, and determine said optical disc drive of write/read mode to go... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420903 | Electronic equipment, highlighting method, and program installed in the equipment Disclosed is electronic equipment enjoying improved ease of use, and a highlighting method and a program to be implemented or installed in the electronic equipment. For example, a user performs manipulations so as to reproduce a content up to the middle of the conte... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7397749 | Optical writing apparatus and method for controlling execution time of writing thereof A method of controlling an optical writing apparatus and an optical writing apparatus utilizing the method to control its write execution time include a pickup to write write data onto a writing medium, a servo driving portion to control the drive of the pickup, a c... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391694 | System and method for embedding optical drive compatibility information in optical media Compatibility information embedded in an optical medium modifies actions allowed by predetermined non-compatible optical disc drives on the optical medium, such as optical disc drives that may suffer damage if certain actions are performed on the optical medium. For... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7369464 | Editing device capable of changing the displaying mode of management information Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369472 | Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the o... | 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 |
| 7362684 | Recording/reproducing device The present invention relates to a recording-reproduction apparatus and a program adapted for use in recording data on and/or reproducing the same from an optical disk having two recording layers on one side thereof. In such a dual-layer optical disk, one recording ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362691 | Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the o... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355945 | Optical pickup adjusting apparatus and adjusting method An adjustment apparatus for adjusting an optical pickup capable of recording and/or reproducing optical discs of different sorts. The adjustment apparatus is an adjustment optical disc having a first signal recording layer of a physical format in common with a CD an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355930 | Method of opening/closing a disk tray in a disk drive A method for opening/closing a disk tray of a disk drive. The method includes the steps of when a first event occurs, sending a load/unload command to the disk drive, to which the disk drive responds with a second or third event, and resends the load/unload command ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355940 | Optical disk apparatus and waiting method thereof An optical disk apparatus including a waiting position determining circuit which detects physical properties of each region in an optical disk after recording or reproducing processing is finished and decides a waiting position of an optical head according to the de... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349296 | Write control in response to tracking error A method for controlling writing on a data carrier device, at least including: writing data on the data carrier device with a data writer device; obtaining a tracking error signal corresponding to a position of the data writer device with respect to a track on the d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336573 | Method for handling interrupt request in optical storage drive When an optical storage drive executes a control procedure or operation, a method of handling an interrupt request includes utilizing the optical storage drive to receive an interrupt request from a control circuit; checking whether the interrupt request is a read c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330410 | Information recording method and apparatus, information processing apparatus, information recording system and computer-readable storage medium using dummy data An information recording method records information in an information recording medium by acquiring driving power supply information related to a driving power supply of an information recording apparatus which records the information in the information recording me... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330413 | Smart burn method for optical drive The present invention is smart burn method for optical drives. When the laser pick-up head bears great oscillations along the vertical and horizontal directions, the laser light cannot focus on the track accurately that causes the failure of writing. The present inv... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7327641 | Editing device capable of displaying logical positions of tracks Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 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 |
| RE39953 | Recording apparatus and method, and reproducing apparatus and method A reproducing apparatus for reading, or a recording apparatus for writing, data from or to a disc having pre-formed thereon a pair of concentrical or spiral tracks adjacent to each other and to which a common address is given, is adapted to control the time at which... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301860 | Recording disc and apparatus and method for reproducing recorded information A recording disc and recorded information reproducing apparatus and method for immediately starting reproduction of information when a push-pull based tracking control is employed to reproduce recorded information from the recording disc. The recording disc comprise... | 11/27/2007 |
