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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149672 | Optical recording medium, information recording method, and information reproducing method According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7848200 | Method and apparatus of reproducing multilevel information A method of reproducing multilevel information using a light spot. The multilevel information is recorded by defining virtual cells at regular intervals on tracks of an optical information recording medium and varying sizes of information pits in the cells. The meth... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7729222 | Method and apparatus for generating wobble signal A wobble signal generating apparatus of an optical-electronic system. A first operation unit for generating a reference signal in response to a first input signal and a second input signal that are derived from a plurality of light signals reflected from an optical ... | 06/01/2010 |
| RE41090 | Methods and apparatuses for recording information on and reproducing information from a recording medium and the recording medium The present invention relates to method for recording program specific information (PSI) for a recorded data stream in an optical disk such as a high-density digital versatile disk (HD-DVD) and providing the recorded PSI to a presenting device such as a digital tele... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7474601 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method The information recording apparatus irradiates a laser beam on a recording medium such as an optical disk and forms a recording mark corresponding to a recording signal to record information. A recording pulse signal includes a mark period irradiating the laser beam... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7440369 | Information recording device and method, and computer program An information recording device comprising a recording unit that records recording information by applying a laser beam to an information recording medium having a first recording layer for recording recording information by being irradiated with a laser beam and a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436745 | Method and apparatus for establishing manufacturer-specific test writing parameters for writing of writable optical storage media According to an embodiment, there is provided an optical storage media recording/reproducing apparatus for calibrating an amount of light energy output by the recording/reproducing apparatus during a recording operation, the recording/reproducing apparatus comprisin... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430158 | Music player with adjustable pitch controller A media player having variable pitch is disclosed. The player incorporates a memory buffer that is responsive to a user-designated pitch adjustment. The result is that a user can manually control and adjust the pitch of prerecorded CDs and MP3s or other digital medi... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426163 | Method and apparatus for preventing malfunction of disc drive A method and apparatus for preventing a malfunction of a disc drive due to an operation error of a correction function for a minimum pit length by selectively performing the correction function based on an operative state of the disc drive. The method includes a fir... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417930 | Optical recording method An optical recording method of recording information to a phase change optical recording medium with alternate application of peak power and bias power in a pulse manner and with changing a pulse application. interval continuously from an inner part through an outer... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417931 | Information recording method, information recording apparatus and information recording medium An information recording method is provided, which comprises the steps of (a) determining a power level of a pulse sequence, (b) generating the pulse sequence based on the power level determined, and (c) irradiating an information recording medium with light corresp... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417933 | Information recording method and apparatus with suppressed mark edge jitters Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is rec... | 08/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7411877 | Dislike recording media, a method for detecting forged disks, an anti-forgery system for performing a true-false judgment based on information collected from the recording media, and a manufacturing apparatus for recording information in the disks A recording medium includes first information selected from a plurality of information patterns and second information selected from another plurality of information patterns for the true-false judgement. A true-false judging device performs a statistic analysis whe... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391705 | Optical information recording apparatus, information processing apparatus, optical information recording medium, optical information recording method, and computer-readable storage medium An optical information recording method records information with respect to an optical information recording medium having a multi-layer structure recording layer formed by a plurality of recording layers each capable of recording information, and carries out an Opt... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7372799 | Laser diode drive circuit and amplifying circuit for optical disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus A laser diode drive circuit for an optical disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of laser diodes to output laser beams having different wavelengths, a switch circuit for selectively connecting a required laser diode from a plurality of las... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366076 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366074 | Methods and devices for recording marks on a recording surface of an optical record carrier The invention relates to methods and devices for forming marks and lands by applying a radiation beam (32) to a recording surface (301) of an optical record carrier (30). Recording strategies are proposed for recording information at high record... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362682 | Method for recording data in an optical recording disc and an apparatus for recording data in an optical recording disc A method for recording data in an optical recording disc including a substrate and a recording layer formed on the substrate and containing a phase change material as a primary component is constituted so that data can be recorded therein and data recorded therein c... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359303 | Multi-dimensional coding for high-density storage media applications An asynchronous transfer mode digital document delivery system is provided. A customer premise unit is configured to permit a customer to order and receive a data stream. A buffer is coupled to the customer premise unit to store the data stream before transmitting t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342863 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7339872 | Optical disc device An optical disc device of the present invention obtains a reproduction quality that is independent of a mark distortion by receiving a signal that is obtained from an A/D converter for digitizing a reproduction signal of an optical disc medium and an offset correcti... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336581 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336582 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333414 | Rewritable optical recording medium, recording method on the same, and optical disc recording/retrieving apparatus In a rewritable compact disc having a wobble groove on a substrate, crystal and amorphous states of a phase-change recording layer are an unrecorded/erased state and a recorded state, respectively. When the recording layer is exposed to recording light, amorphous ma... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327179 | Pulse generator, optical disk writer and tuner A pulse generator is provided for generating pulses with a selectable variable width and/or delay. The pulse generator comprises an oscillator and a selecting arrangement for selecting how many of a first group of delay elements are connected in series for delaying ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324427 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321548 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321547 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321537 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321535 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321538 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321545 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321546 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321549 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321536 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319653 | Methods for recording data to optical media A method for recording data to optical media is provided. A selection of files to record from a source to a destination optical media is received, and an enumeration of the data files to record to the destination optical media is generated. The enumeration of data f... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319654 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313071 | Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based o... | 12/25/2007 |
