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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149675 | Recording apparatus, recording method, program, and recording medium The present invention relates to a recording apparatus, a recording method, a program, and a recording medium whereby data is reproduced from a two-layer optical disk that has yet to be formatted completely. A control section 51 divides a recording area of a ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130619 | Method of recording information to and reproducing information from an optical information storage medium A method of recording information to a read-only optical information storage medium comprising a plurality of areas, including: recording data in at least one of the plurality of areas in the form of pits in a first pit pattern; and recording data in others of the p... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8102746 | Method of recording data, method of manufacturing read-only optical disc, and read-only optical disc A method of recording data includes: a first recording step of recording data in a condition that, within a certain error correction block in a data format in which error correction blocks with n rows and m columns including at least main data, error detection code,... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102745 | Information recording medium, method of configuring version information thereof, recording and reproducing method using the same, and recording and reproducing apparatus thereof In one embodiment, the method includes reading control information including version information from a specific area of the recording medium. The version information includes a first version information and a second version information. At least one of the first ve... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094537 | Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additiona... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077577 | Information recording device and method, and computer program An information recording device can record a plurality of pieces of recording information, for instance, at different times, in an information recording medium provided by stacking first and second recording layers. A writing control element controls a writing eleme... | 12/13/2011 |
| RE43019 | Encoding recording data on optical disks An encoding method for recording gap regions or sectors having repeated data is disclosed. At least one sector is entirely encoded and stored in a memory buffer of the optical recording system. If the currently encoded are gap regions or sector having repeated data ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072865 | Multi-layered high-density recording medium and optical power adjusting method therefor A multi-layered high-density recording medium and an optical power adjusting method therefor. A multi-layered high-density recording medium includes multiple recording layers each of which contains optical power related information for all layers. An optical power a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059512 | Information recording medium, recording method, data structure, information recording apparatus, program, and recording medium A disk-shaped rewritable information recording medium having at a first recording layer and a second recording layer is disclosed. The information recording medium includes a first data area situated in the first recording layer, the first data area having a plurali... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8027237 | 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... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8000201 | Information recording system with information recording and reproducing apparatus having a data recorder An apparatus for processing information is disclosed. The apparatus requests for recording of user data into an information-recording apparatus for recording in an information-recording medium having multiple recording layers, each of the layers having a data area f... | 08/16/2011 |
| RE42585 | Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method, reproduction method and defect management method Information recording media 101 and 102 usable for either a first recording density D1 or a second recording density D2 each include a user data area 106 in which user data is to be recorded, a first defect management information a... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978581 | Multi-layered high-density recording medium and optical power adjusting method therefor A multi-layered high-density recording medium and an optical power adjusting method for use with the same. Control information is pre-recorded in a specific area of at least a specific recording layer among the multiple recording layers, wherein the control informat... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978582 | High-density recording medium and method and apparatus for controlling data playback thereof Disclosed herein are a high-density recording medium and a method and apparatus for controlling data playback thereof. Playback control information, such as channel bit length information, is recorded in a burst cutting area (BCA) of a high-density optical disc in a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965605 | Recording medium, method of recording identification information thereof, and recording/reproducing method thereof The present invention provides a method of recording identification information in an optical disc, by which specified disc identification information can be uniformly applicable to efficiently cope with the recording/reproducing of the optical disc. The present inv... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957245 | Recording medium, recording method, and computer program A recording medium (100) is provided with: a first recording layer (L0) and a second recording layer (L1) to record therein record information, and a control area (102, 118) in said recording layer and a control area in said second recording layer to r... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7944792 | Information recording medium, data structure, and recording apparatus A video object (26) contains a cell (31) which can be appropriately read and reproduced and a dummy cell (32) which cannot be appropriately read or reproduced. Video title set information (21) contains a plurality of program chains (40... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940626 | Recording device and recording method, and computer program A recording apparatus includes: a recording device for recording record information onto at least one of (i) a recording medium including: a first recording layer and a second recording layer in which the record information is recorded by irradiating laser light the... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924675 | Information recording apparatus, imaging device, information-recording controlling method, and computer program An information recording apparatus for recording data on an information recording medium includes a logical-format-image manager configured to generate logical-format-image data; a logical-format-image storage unit configured to store the logical-format-image data g... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916607 | Optical disc drive In a recordable data storage medium on which property data was recorded after having been modulated and on which data that is decodable by a cryptographic key to be generated from the property data was recorded, the property data was preferably modulated by a differ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916606 | Information recording medium, mastering device, identification information recording device, identification information reproduction device, mastering method, identification information recording method, and identification information reproduction method Identification information is recorded by irradiating a laser beam to a predetermined area of an information recording medium by securely changing a land to a pit. A pair of land and pit is formed in the predetermined area of the information recording medium.... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911912 | Optical disc recording apparatus and methods using pseudo-random number sequence for recording auxiliary information An optical disc recording apparatus that uses a pseudo-random number sequence for recording auxiliary information, wherein a sequence of data based on auxiliary information is modulated by a signal represented by a combination of a sequence of pseudo-random numbers ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907492 | Data storage medium with improved multi-session recording format A data storage medium, and an apparatus and method for formatting the same. The medium is preferably characterized as a hybrid or recordable optical disc, and includes a pre-recorded storage area and a recordable storage area. The pre-recorded storage area stores fi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903522 | Mastering device, disc manufacturing method, disc-shaped recording medium, disc reproduction device, and disc reproduction method Second digital information serving as copyright protection information can be stably and reliably read without any effect of a defect or pit missing on a disk-shaped recording medium. Second digital information is recorded onto a disk-shaped recording medium by wobb... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898921 | Optical disc, optical disc recording apparatus, and optical disc recording method Drive information is updated to always include the recording/playback conditions determined from the most recent learning process on a data recording medium. The data recording medium has a data recording area for recording data, and a drive information area for rec... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881173 | Optical information recording method, optical information recording device and optical information recording medium The present invention provides an optical information recording apparatus and method capable of effectively determining appropriate recording parameters in a short time with favorable efficiency, when recording information onto an optical disk having different infor... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7864649 | Information storage medium having additional data areas and method of recording/reproducing the same An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additiona... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864648 | Information storage medium having additional data areas and method of recording/reproducing the same An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additiona... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859969 | Resilient data storage on optical media A data resilience component ensures data integrity by storing a data file and a copy thereof in non-overlapping sectors along the spiral information track of an optical storage medium. The number and location of sectors of the optical storage medium are determined, ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852730 | Optical disk medium, and data recording method and device A molding and film forming apparatus 700 molds a disc substrate from a stamper 330 formed from an optical disc disc-master 320 and forms a coating film, for example, a reflective film onto the disc substrate, thereby forming a recorded optical d... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848202 | Apparatus for manufacturing information record medium, information record medium, information recording apparatus and information recording method On an information record medium (10, 11), record information can be recorded one time or a plurality of times by a predetermined record format. An apparatus for manufacturing the information record medium by using a stamper (27, 28) is provided with an... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7839749 | Recording apparatus and recording method, reproducing apparatus and reproducing method, and program The present invention relates a recording apparatus and a recording method, a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method, and a program that make it possible to easily judge whether data was recorded in a recording medium by an apparatus of own model. An own mod... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835247 | Backup method of record information and method for reading backed up record information A backup method includes reading record information of an optical disc; when the reading operation fails, utilizing an optical disc drive to read backed up record information at a plurality of specified positions in the lead-out area; checking a status of a session ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830767 | Recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data in/from the recording medium A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data in/from the recording medium are disclosed. The recording medium includes one or more recording layers, and a management area including management information, wherein the management infor... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830769 | Recording apparatus and recording method A recording apparatus that performs at least recording on a recording medium including a user-data recording area, a first temporary-management-information recording area, one or plural second temporary-management-information recording areas, and area-use-state pres... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830768 | High-density read-only optical disc, and optical disc apparatus and method using the same A high-density read-only optical disc, and an optical disc apparatus and method using the same. The apparatus and method record data on a lead-in area of a high-density read-only optical disc such as a BD-ROM (Blu-ray disc ROM (Read Only Memory)) in the form of pre-... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7817523 | Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method, and computer program A recording medium (100) is provided with: a first recording layer (L0) including a first area; and a second recording layer (L1) including a second area, wherein an edge on one side of the second area is located at a position obtained by shifting to an other... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813248 | Method and apparatus for protecting data when a recording process has failed When a data recording process fails to normally complete on an information recording medium, for example, because of a power interruption, a record controlling apparatus resumes recording immediately when power is turned back on, while protecting data that was recor... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808875 | Data recording apparatus A data recording apparatus automatically displays a GUI for suggesting the finalization process when the apparatus ejects a disk which has not been finalized. Since the user can eject the disk after he determines if he will make the apparatus perform the finalizatio... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804756 | DVD−R/RW and DVD+R/RW recorders A method and apparatus for recording data at specific locations on a DVD includes selectively detecting the occurrence of wobble sync during a window computed from previous occurrences of wobble sync and eight-to-fourteen modulation sync. The method and apparatus al... | 09/28/2010 |
