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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189447 | Optical disc drive and method of controlling the same An optical disc drive for reading or writing information on a multilayer optical disc having three or more recording layers by irradiating the disc with a light beam includes an optical pickup for irradiating the disc with the light beam, a recording state detector ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189432 | Data storage system and linear tape Disclosed herein are aspects of optical tape technology, tape manufacturing, and tape usage. Methods and systems of tape technology disclose optical tape media including: configurations, formulations, markings, and structure; optical tape manufacturing methods, syst... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188983 | Touch panel, and electro-optic apparatus and electronic device having the touch panel A touch panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate; an annular seal material that adheres peripheries of the first substrate and the second substrate to each other so as to set a gap between the first substrate and the... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189439 | Data recording method and apparatus for re-verifying correctness of recorded data on optical storage medium An exemplary data recording method of an optical storage medium includes following steps: during a current recording operation for recording first data onto the optical storage medium, detecting if a fatal recording error occurs; and when the fatal recording error i... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184091 | Driving method of electrophoretic display device, electrophoretic display device, and electronic apparatus A driving method of an electrophoretic display device, including a pair of substrates with an electrophoretic element which is interposed between the substrates and contains electrophoretic particles, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at an electrophoretic elem... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184518 | Optical disc apparatus and method for controlling the same In recording or reproducing data on or from an optical disc with recording multi-layers, the focusing is likely to be out of control when an inter-layer jumping is carried out for changing a recording layer on or from which data is to be recorded or reproduced to an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184512 | Optical disk drive with embedded test medium Embodiments provide an optical disk drive that includes an embedded test medium for testing the optical performance of an optical head in the optical disk drive. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179756 | Optical disc drive apparatus, control method thereof and optical disc drive system An optical disc drive apparatus includes: a plurality of optical heads reading out data recorded on an optical disc; and a control section respectively controlling a readout operation and a seek operation for the data of the optical heads. The control section includ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179772 | Data storage medium and method for scanning a storage medium A data storage medium stories data in the form of marks, said marks being written and/or read by an array of probes. The storage medium further includes a plurality of data fields, each field including an area of the storage medium which, in use, is scanned for read... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179750 | Optical pickup device and optical disc device An optical pickup device includes a plurality of laser light sources emitting laser beams of different oscillation wavelengths, and a plurality of objective lenses on which the laser beams in the form of diverging beams emitted by the plurality of laser light source... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174954 | Optical information recording and reproducing method and optical information recording and reproducing apparatus An optical information recording and reproducing method for recording or reproducing information by irradiating pulsed laser diode light from a laser diode (LD) light source in which the resistance value of the LD light source is measured in an operating state, the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174950 | Optical tape embossing drum and optical tape embossing drum shim Disclosed herein are aspects of optical tape technology, tape manufacturing, and tape usage. Methods and systems of tape technology disclose optical tape media including: configurations, formulations, markings, and structure; optical tape manufacturing methods, syst... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169865 | Information storage medium and method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing pointing information An information storage medium includes areas of disk-related information having disk-related information to record or reproduce data with respect to the information storage medium, wherein the disk-related information includes common disk-related information and cha... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169403 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus comprises a display module, a control module and a scroll wheel module. The display module is used to display a digital image. The control module is connected to the display module for controlling the display module and conducting image... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169877 | Optical disc apparatus An optical disc apparatus for use of an optical disc including a plurality of recording layers sets an amount of correction of spherical aberration for each of the recording layers of the disc during a focus sweep. A photodetector portion produces a signal in respon... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160311 | System and method for detecting facial gestures for control of an electronic device A control system enables a user to control an electronic device by moving parts of the face, including the eyes. Optical emitters and optical detectors are used to reflect light from the relevant parts of the user's face. Pattern matching or approximation of a point... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149659 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method and information storage medium therefor A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149657 | Optical waveguide clad material An apparatus includes a waveguide having a core layer and first and second cladding layers on opposite sides of the core layer, wherein the cladding layers comprise a binary oxide composition. In another example, the cladding layers include a ternary or quaternary c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144556 | Optical disc recording apparatus and method, and computer program An information recording apparatus (1) is provided with: a recording device (102) for recording information onto an information recording medium (100) by irradiating the information recording medium with a recording laser beam (L); a controlling... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139465 | Optical disc recording device, method, and computer program An information recording apparatus (1) is provided with: a recording device (102) for recording information onto an information recording medium (100) by irradiating the information recording medium with a recording laser beam (L); a controlling... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139023 | Brightness adjustable electrical apparatus A brightness adjustable electrical apparatus is disclosed. The electrical apparatus comprises a lighting module, a control unit and at least one light emitting diode (LED). The control unit is electrically connected to the lighting module for lighting control. The L... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139450 | Amplifier circuit and optical pickup device An amplifier circuit and an optical pickup device supporting multi-layered optical discs and hi-speed play mode. The amplifier circuit includes photodiodes 11 to 15; operational amplifiers 21 to 25; feedback resistors 31 to 34; | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134904 | Information recording method and information recording apparatus for recording medium A recording method for recording data in basic reproduction unit to a recording medium having a first recording layer and a second recording layer, includes detecting a size of an unrecorded region of the first recording layer while recording data in the basic repro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130626 | Recording apparatus, recording control signal generating apparatus, method of manufacturing imprint mold, imprint mold, and magnetic disc Blanking by a blanking control unit is eliminated by making the tangential direction movement velocity of the substrate and the deflection velocity of the beam faster in the segment, in which the recording pattern is sparse, and making and slower in segments, in whi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130608 | Coupled ring oscillator and method for initializing the same In a coupled ring oscillator including q ring oscillators each including p inverter circuits connected together to form a ring shape, and a phase coupling ring including (p×q) phase coupling circuits each of which is configured to couple an output of one of the p i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125863 | Integrated circuit, information recording/reproducing apparatus, and signal processing method An information recording/reproducing apparatus including an optical pickup unit for generating an RF signal performs signal processing to acquire, at a restart of recording after a halt of recording, a data ID to be used as a reference for specifying a recording res... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125878 | Touch panel and display device using the same A touch panel includes a substrate, a transparent conductive layer, and a number of electrodes. The substrate includes a first surface. The transparent conductive layer is formed on the first surface. The transparent conductive layer includes a number of carbon nano... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115742 | Touch panel and display device using the same A touch panel includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate separated from the first electrode plate. The first electrode plate includes a first substrate and a first conductive layer located on a lower surface of the first substrate. The second elec... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111245 | Touch panel and display device using the same An exemplary touch panel includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate separated from the first electrode plate. The first electrode plate includes a first substrate and a first conductive layer disposed on a lower surface of the first substrate. The... | 02/07/2012 |
| RE43126 | Optical pickup head and information recording/reproducing device An optical pickup head is provided with a light source, a diffracting means for creating a plurality of diffracted beams, a converging means for focusing the diffracted beams onto an optical storage medium, a beam branching means for branching the plurality of beams... | 01/24/2012 |
| RE43105 | Tracking error detection method and optical disc reproduction apparatus using the same An object of the present invention is to improve a conventional DPD method having a problem that a tracking servo becomes unstable due to a reduction in the accuracy of detecting a phase difference between short mark signals at an edge, in a case where the amplitude... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085627 | Lens position control method, lens position control apparatus, cutting method, and cutting apparatus A lens position control method is disclosed. Either an objective lens or a master disc having a resist material film on its substrate is moved, thereby changing a distance between the objective lens and the master disc surface. A return laser beam transmitted throug... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8072849 | Optical integrated module and optical pickup device An optical integrated unit according to the present invention is an optical integrated unit, including: a semiconductor laser acting as a light source; at least one light-receiving element; a light-separating section for separating light emitted by the semiconductor... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059513 | Data storage device container A method of storing a data storage device includes but is not limited to emplacing a data storage device in a container, the container having surfaces; and writing storable data to the data storage device by transmitting energy through a surface of the container. In... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059506 | Digital video recorder wide dynamic range optical power calibration A method and apparatus are presented for optimizing write operations for optical storage media. A determination is made, at least in part by iteration, of a next power range and a current score for a current power range. If it is determined that the current score is... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059507 | Data storage device container A method of storing a data storage device includes but is not limited to emplacing a data storage device in a container, the container having surfaces; and writing storable data to the data storage device by transmitting energy through a surface of the container. In... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050169 | Optical scanning device and method for determining focus position The optical scanning device [10] is arranged for scanning a record carrier [1]. The record carrier has an outer face [7]. The scanning device comprises a radiation source [11] for generating a radiation beam [12] and an objective s... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7529162 | Wobble demodulation for high density optical recording media The present invention relates to a method for the demodulation of the ADIP data of a wobble signal of an optical recording medium, whereby the wobble signal is modulated using two different methods, and to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical reco... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7460461 | Optical storage system having integrated laser driver signal processor An optical storage system includes an optical pickup unit movable across an optical medium. The optical pickup unit has a light detector, a laser diode, and a laser driver signal processor circuit. The laser driver signal processor circuit includes a detected signal... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460449 | Recordable optical recording medium containing preinstalled information, the method of reading the same, and the circuit thereof This specification discloses a recordable optical recording medium containing preinstalled information, the method of reading the preinstalled information, and the circuit thereof. The recordable optical recording medium containing preinstalled information is a subs... | 12/02/2008 |
