Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7209425 | Drive apparatus for tape-like optical recording medium An apparatus for driving a tape-shaped optical recording medium, which comprises a supply reel (41) for supplying an optical tape (40), a take-up reel (42) for taking-up the optical tape (40), a friction capstan (43) for driving th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7176372 | Interactive digital music recorder and player A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtainin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7169996 | Systems and methods for generating music using data/music data file transmitted/received via a network Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7117179 | Method of recording and reproducing sample data to/from a recording medium and sample data containing recording medium The present invention relates to a method of recording and reproducing sample data to/from a recording medium and a sample data containing recording medium. According to the present invention, contents are recorded on a recording medium with additional sample data w... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102069 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7078609 | Interactive digital music recorder and player A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtainin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076035 | Methods for providing on-hold music using auto-composition Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071402 | Automatic soundtrack generator in an image record/playback device An Automatic Soundtrack Generator permits merger of a sound track that is independent of the external sound source, while either recording or playing a video sequence. The Automatic Soundtrack Generator integrates in a video recorder or player a module that generate... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7026534 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method of adjusting an externally supplied audio signal as part of internally generated music data using a computing system is disclosed. At least one music generation algorithm is provided, which consists of at least one music rule associated with a set of accept... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022906 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015389 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for embedding algorithmic musical data into MIDI format using pitch is disclosed. Program instructions are executed and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6979767 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song employing a musical controller is disclosed. Program instructions are executed, and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for the song. User inp... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977335 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for electronically generating a song is disclosed. At least one parameter value representing a range of note pitch values associated with a musical instrument is accessed and program instructions are executed. One or more music composition algorithms are ap... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6972363 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song in a handheld device is disclosed. A visual representation for a plurality of musical components is provided. The visual representation includes a plurality of lanes, with each lane corresponding to one of the musical components. User inp... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6960714 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song of a particular musical style is disclosed. Program instructions are executed, and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for the song. A plurali... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958441 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method of playing music using a computing system in which MIDI events are synchronized with samples is disclosed. A sequence of MIDI events is provided. At least one of the MIDI events includes delta time parameter data, and the MIDI events are provided to a digit... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6954412 | Medium for recording audio signal, recorder and player A recording medium for a disc having a first recording region in which a first portion of audio signals supplied is recorded and a second recording region in which a second portion of audio signals supplied is recorded. The first and second portions of the audio sig... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6920092 | Seek control method and storage apparatus A seek control method carries out a seek to a target position on a recording medium by moving a light beam spot which is irradiated on the recording medium. The recording medium has a first region in which information recording is made as variations in optical or ma... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916978 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song employing a song data structure is disclosed. Program instructions are executed, and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for the song, and var... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6862685 | OPTICAL DISK, AN OPTICAL DISK BARCODE FORMING METHOD, AN OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, A MARKING FORMING APPARATUS, A METHOD OF FORMING A LASER MARKING ON AN OPTICAL DISK, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL DISK Disclosed is an optical disk barcode forming method wherein, as information to be barcoded, position information for piracy prevention, which is a form of ID, is coded as a barcode and is recorded by laser trimming on a reflective film in a PCA area of an optical di... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6724697 | Layer jump control apparatus of multilayer disk and method thereof The present invention relates to a layer jump control apparatus of a multilayer disk and a method thereof, when a layer jump request between record layers of the multilayer disk is inputted from outside, a sled, a tracking, and a focusing servo are converted into in... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6721768 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, portable recording and reproducing apparatus, data transfer system, data transfer method, and data recording and reproducing method A portable recording and/or reproducing apparatus for receiving and recording and/or reproducing data and management data to and/or from a recording medium having a data area in which data are stored and a management data area in which the management data for managi... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6690639 | Optical tape transport system using focus stabilizer An optical tape transport system including an optical head, tape transport structure and a focus stabilizer element including the stabilizer element including a cylindrical surface section supports the full width of the tape; the stabilizer element being ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6675179 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, portable recording and reproducing apparatus, data transfer system, data transfer method, and data recording and reproducing method A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data to and/or from a recording medium having a data area in which data are stored and a management data area in which management data for managing these data are stored. The appara... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6353173 | Compressed audio data format and file system structures A method for writing compressed audio data to a compact disc media is provided. The method includes selecting songs to be written in a session and reserving a first track. After the first is reserved, the method proceeds to writing a first temporary data ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6260146 | Method and apparatus for securing and authenticating encoded data and documents containing such data A method and apparatus for determining the distance between transitions from a first logical state to a second logical state stored on a medium (i.e., a document). This determination is used to precisely characterize the information pattern in order to au... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6243349 | Method for recording/reproducing optical information recording medium, optical pickup apparatus, objective lens and design method of objective lens An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source for emitting a light flux; and a converging optical system having a first, second, and third divided surface, which are divided in the order named from the vicinity of an optical axis of the converging o... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6118749 | Method for recording/reproducing optical information recording medium, optical pickup apparatus, objective lens and design method of objective lens An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source for emitting a light flux; and a converging optical system having a first, second, and third divided surface, which are divided in the order named from the vicinity of an optical axis of the converging o... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6058091 | Recording apparatus and method for recording information onto a recording medium having a plurality of areas A recording medium to which this invention is applied includes a first recording area 3 where a digital audio signal sampled at a predetermined sampling frequency and quantized by a predetermined number of bits is recorded, a first management area 2 where... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6035351 | Storage of user defined type file data in corresponding select physical format Storing data on a data processing system is done upon generation of a data file by displaying a user interface allowing user selection of storage criteria for the data file. Responsive to user selection of storage criteria for a file determining a physica... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5999508 | Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus A recording medium to which this invention is applied includes a first recording area 3 where a digital audio signal sampled at a predetermined sampling frequency and quantized by a predetermined number of bits is recorded, a first management area 2 where... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5963513 | Methods for recording and reproducing information An apparatus and method for recording and reproducing data with respect to closely spaced magnetically recording areas or tracks of a magnetic recording member such as a card, tape or magnetic disc wherein scanning, tracking and reproduction functions are... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5917835 | Error mitigation and correction in the delivery of on demand audio A method and system for mitigating and compensating for loss of digital audio data transmitted as a stream of packets to a client (30). A server (10) compresses digital audio data corresponding to a digitized analog audio signal. The compressed data are d... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5909422 | Optical disk reading method for multi-layered optical disk system A multi-layered optical disk reading method which makes possible to reproduce encoded data from each data layer by focusing laser beam precisely onto a data layer of the multi-layered optical disk. After a multi-layered optical disk is loaded, a central p... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5903536 | Objective lens device, optical pickup adopting the same and method for manufacturing an objective lens An objective lens for reproducing/recording information from/onto discs having different thicknesses and an optical pickup device adopting the same. The objective lens device includes an objective lens provided along a light path facing a plane of a disc ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5678022 | Storage control system with auxiliary storage and optimized process data length and gap to reduce track and cylinder switching A storage control system with auxiliary storages includes a system information generator which determines an optimum process data length and gap value to minimize switching between cylinders or tracks in reading/writing of data based on device information... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5659528 | Information recording-reproduction method An information recording-reproduction method wherein: upon reproducing, recorded information corresponding to a predetermined number of sectors from the leading sector of each of a plurality of information tracks on an optical disk is preliminarily stored... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5581530 | Digital recorder for processing of parallel data stored in multiple tracks and using cross-fade processing A buffer serves as a sub-memory with respect to a hard disk and performs a data recording/reproducing operation. With this arrangement, even if the access rate of data in the hard disk is not so high, data transfer between the hard disk and an audio I/O, ... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5555230 | Multichannel digital-signal reproducing apparatus for switching access timing relative to reproducing timing An apparatus for reproducing digital information from a recording medium having a plurality of parallel tracks and digital information recorded thereon as n-channel (n being an integer greater than or equal to 2) digital signals. The n-channel digital sig... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5535182 | Optical disk apparatus and recording/reproduction method therefor An optical disk apparatus includes an optical storage medium, an optical head, a head drive section, and a recording data processor. The optical storage medium is rotated at a constant angular velocity. The optical storage medium has a storage area consti... | 07/09/1996 |
