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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154967 | Optical recording medium, recording/reproduction apparatus, recording method, and recording/reproduction method with adjustment data for multiple layers An optical recording medium provided with one or a plurality of recording layers includes an adjustment data recording area for recording therein adjustment data used for adjusting focus or spherical aberration of laser light used for recording/reproduction, the adj... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8077575 | Information recording method that records management information for managing dummy information as a file in a user data area A method of recording information on a recording medium. The method includes determining whether an amount of information recorded in a user data area is equal to or greater than a predetermined value when a finalizing process is performed on the recording medium. T... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8023379 | Defect inspection method and disk drive using same Provided are a disk defect inspection method and apparatus. The defect inspection method includes; determining an independent recording density value for disk defect detection in relation to disk drive component factors excepting a disk of the disk drive, and perfor... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7995440 | Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium An information processing apparatus which detects concomitant information associated with a time at which data satisfying a preset condition is supplied within a continuous period of time from input data that is temporally continuously input is disclosed. The appara... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7907825 | Image recording device and image recording-control method for matching a menu to additional recorded data In an image-recording device using a disk-type recording medium generated under the DVD+RW standard, a disk information-acquisition unit 250 acquires information about a disk 49, a disk-determination unit 260 determines that the disk 49 i... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7724627 | Encoder spokes detection prior to forming image on optically writable label surface of optical disc Whether an optically writable label surface of an optical disc is suitable for having an image formed thereon is determined. A detectable number of encoder spokes on a control feature area of the optical disc is counted as the optical disc is rotated. Where the dete... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7430157 | Recording device, recording method, reproducing device, and reproducing method To enable a physically rewritable disc to be appropriately used as a write-once type. When the rewritable disc is used in rewritable application, the position where writing of a predetermined data unit (for example, an ECC block) in data is started is set to ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428202 | Write-once read-many information recording medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus A write-once read-many information recording medium is provided, which is capable of easily searching for a latest DDS and a latest defect list. At least one disc management working area is sequentially allocated in a predetermined direction on the write-once read-m... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7417941 | Optical disc and method of protecting same An optical disc for storage and retrieval of digital data, and a system and method for protecting the optical disc is disclosed. The optical disc has projections or embossments on one or both major surfaces. When the optical disc is placed on a substantially flat su... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414930 | Method of accessing data on a copy protected data carrying disc The method and apparatus described utilise the fact that CDs manufactured from the same master will have distinctive physical characteristics attributable to the physical manufacturing process of the master to distinguish counterfeit CDs from genuine discs. For a ge... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411889 | Optical disc with wobbled tracks and apparatus using this optical disc Address information is formed by M wobbles (integer M is the number of wobble waves) per bit as a basic unit, and is NRZ-recorded. Also, a sync signal used in sync detection of the address information is formed by N wobbles per bit as a basic unit (integer N is the ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408858 | Information storage medium including a system lead-in area, a connection area, a data lead-in area and a data area According to one embodiment, a storage medium includes a burst cutting area at an inner periphery, wherein the burst cutting area has includes plural burst-cutting-area data areas. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7397744 | Recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus In a write-once recording medium, an optimum updating of the management information and a simple matching processing are to be achieved. To this end, in a system of a write-once medium, rendered accessible at random by employing the write/non-write indicating inform... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372278 | Electric potential measuring apparatus electrostatic capacitance measuring apparatus, electric potential measuring method, electrostatic capacitance measuring method, and image forming apparatus An electric potential measuring apparatus includes a detecting electrode, a modulator for changing an electrostatic capacitance between a measurement object and the detecting electrode by mechanical vibration, a charge detector for detecting the amount of charges el... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366733 | Method and apparatus for reproducing play lists in record media There has been a problem that play list reproduction cannot be performed at a data processing level of a CD player and so on which cannot interpret a play list file in an HTML format. A recording and reproducing system has a CD-RW medium 15 of holding ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366067 | Recording clock signal generating apparatus and recording clock signal generating method for information recording device A combined signal Spc in which a pre-pit signal is superposed on a wobble signal is generated based on a radial push-pull signal Spp with a noise component having been removed therefrom. Based on the combined signal Spc, a wobble signal SWB with the phase... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7352671 | Storage medium, reproducing method, and recording method According to one embodiment, a storage medium includes a burst cutting area at an inner periphery, wherein the burst cutting area has includes plural burst-cutting-area data areas. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345975 | Metrological digital audio reconstruction Audio information stored in the undulations of grooves in a medium such as a phonograph record may be reconstructed, with little or no contact, by measuring the groove shape using precision metrology methods coupled with digital image processing and numerical analys... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339868 | Information recording method, information recording device, information system, program, and recording medium An information recording method records information to a multilayer recording medium in which a number of record layers are laminated and recording of information to each record layer is possible. When an amount of the information being recorded to the medium does n... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340749 | Method and apparatus to detect presence of or a size of a data cartridge A media-detection system for a cartridge-receiving device may comprise, according to one embodiment, a cartridge-referencing member mounted to the cartridge-receiving device. The cartridge-referencing member is resiliently displaceable by a data cartridge received i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330881 | Music-data reproducing system using a download program A data card 101 with music data accumulated therein is inserted into a portable telephone 110 to fetch the music data into the portable telephone, and application software suitable for a music data format prescribed in association with the music data i... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330414 | Method for reconstruction of phonograph records from physical measurement A method for reconstructing the original groove configuration of a phonograph record. The methodology comprises providing an instrument for measuring the entire groove of a phonograph with an instrument in communication with a computer. The computer reconstructs the... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7292511 | Method for reproducing audio file A method of reproducing an audio file includes: reading an extension information of the audio file, the extension information of the audio file being separated but associated with audio data of the audio file; establishing a reproducing mode for reproducing the audi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292512 | System using radio frequency identification (RFID) for copy management of digital media A readable and writable radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is attached to a physical medium such as a CDROM or DVD. Each time a copy of the medium is created, a variable or count stored in the writable RFID is updated. In cases where the mechanism for reading... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289396 | Disk device A driver IC 1 has a bias terminal 20a via which a bias voltage fed from a microcomputer 2 to drive and control a loading motor 4 is fed in and a bias terminal 20b via which a bias voltage fed from a DSP 3 to dr... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289398 | Optical disk apparatus and method for tracking thereof An optical disk apparatus and method having a pick-up part for emitting a light onto a recording surface of an optical disk and receiving the light reflected from the recording surface of optical disk and a driving part for controlling the pick-up part. The apparatu... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286460 | Recording medium for storing version information for maintaining recording and/or reproducing compatibility, and method and apparatus for managing the same A method of recording read/write compatibility information on an optical disc and a recording medium employing the method. Extended part version information, latest part version having recording capability, and latest part version having reproducing capability are s... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266067 | Disk reproducing apparatus and disk reproducing method A disk reproducing apparatus comprises a disk reproducing unit configured to reproduce a disk having a recording management area in which an RZone having navigation data is allocated at a head thereof, a plurality of titles are then recorded in a mode in which there... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266054 | Method and device for recording real-time information In a method of recording real-time information on an information carrier, e.g. audio on an optical disc, the real-time information is compressed to units comprising a variable amount of compressed data, and playback parameters are determined in dependence of the com... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266066 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method An information recording apparatus comprises a reception unit configured to receive image signals, a stream generation unit configured to generate a stream formed by continuously arranging a plurality of pieces of VOBU adhering to a DVD-VR standard from the image si... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7240242 | Apparatus and method to convert data payloads from a first sector format to a second sector format The method forms a plurality of DMA data payloads each comprising a plurality of first sectors, and sends to a sector format conversion device one or more of those DMA data payloads. The method then overlays the (i)th DMA data payload onto part or all of a plurality... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231545 | Apparatus and method to convert data from a first sector format to a second sector format An apparatus is disclosed to convert data from a first sector format to a second sector format. The sector format conversion device includes a processor, and microcode which causes the processor to overlay (N) first sectors having a first sector format onto (M) seco... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231546 | Apparatus and method to overlay (N) first sectors onto (M) second sectors using a data queue A method to convert a plurality of sectors from a first sector format to a second sector format is disclosed. The method provides (N) contiguous first sectors comprising a first sector format to a sector format conversion device which includes a buffer and a data qu... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7219259 | Apparatus and method to preserve data integrity during a power loss A method is disclosed to preserve data integrity during loss of power to an information storage and retrieval system. Applicants' method converts a plurality of sectors having a first sector format to a plurality of sectors having a second sector format. If a power ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215622 | Method and apparatus of determining a recording location on a high-density recording medium The present invention relates to method and apparatus of determining a recording location of a high-density recording medium. The present method determines a targeted recording location on a high-density rewritable or read-only recording medium based on successively... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206908 | Apparatus and method to convert a plurality of sectors from a first sector format to a second sector format A method to convert a plurality of sectors from a first sector format to a second sector format is disclosed. The method provides (N) contiguous first sectors to a sector format conversion device, where those (N) first sectors include a beginning first sector and a ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197452 | Multimodal quality assessment The quality of audiovisual material is assessed by measuring the audio an video quality and computing from these a combined measure. Using a parameter indicative of the degree of motion represented by the video, the computation employs one of a plurality of algorith... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193946 | Information recording apparatus and method The present invention provides simple finalizing that is quicker to be done. To ensure that the finalized recording medium can be replayed by any type of playback apparatus, the invention includes means for additional finalizing that makes the medium the same as pro... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190175 | Orthogonal microwave imaging probe A microwave imaging microscope and associated probe, or a read head. The probe or the read head includes a sensor unit with three fixed electrodes, preferably a stimulating electrode surrounding a sensing electrode and isolated by a grounded electrode. Circuitry cou... | 03/13/2007 |
