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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7502293 | Information recording apparatus for controlling recording power of a recording medium having a constant linear density, an information recording method, an information recording program, a recording medium that can be read and written to by a computer, and circuit parts An information recording apparatus that records information with a substantially constant linear density in a circumferential direction of a recording medium having a disk shape, includes variable velocity recording control means, recording power modification means,... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7471607 | Mixed mode data slicer with auto calibration and method thereof The present invention discloses a mixed mode circuit for data slice with auto calibration and method thereof, which comprises a data slicer for converting an analog signal into a digital signal; a set of current pump for supplying a variable power supply; a micropro... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7463570 | Multi-focus objective lens, optical pickup apparatus and optical information recording reproducing apparatus A multi-focal objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information using a first light flux with a wavelength λ1 on a first and second optical discs, includes a first optical surface including a first diffrac... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460172 | Frame interpolating method and apparatus thereof at frame rate conversion Disclosed is a frame interpolating apparatus and a method thereof used at a frame rate conversion. The frame interpolating apparatus includes a calculation unit for performing a SAD Map calculation among inputted video signals with respect to a previous frame and a ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460181 | Blue stretch using restricted color range and soft transition boundary System and method for increasing the blue component of white and near white pixels while avoiding hard transitions and without affecting flesh-tone colors. Pixels that are bright enough and fall within a detection area in the UV-plane have their blue components incr... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460175 | Supersampling of digital video output for multiple analog display formats An output pipeline for a video processing device provides supersampling of the output data the digital domain to eliminate or reduce unwanted frequency components in an analog output signal. An encoder converts a pixel stream to digital sample values for a target an... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456907 | Method and apparatus for sharing control signals in a television apparatus supporting multi-window capabilities A television apparatus according to the principles of the invention supports two or more display windows but accepts channel changing control signals for changing channels in all windows only from one set of keys from a remote control. The television apparatus inclu... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457216 | Method for recording/reproducing dye-based recordable DVD medium and apparatus thereof A recording and reproducing method, wherein, on recording and reproduction of a recordable DVD medium, which has a recording layer containing an organic dye on a substrate having a guide groove with wobble, wherein linear velocity conditions for CLV recording is rec... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457215 | Method for reproducing data and an apparatus for recording and reproducing data A method for reproducing data according to the present invention is adapted for reproducing data recorded in an optical recording disc including a multi-layered body formed by forming a decomposition reaction layer containing noble metal oxide as a primary component... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453776 | Optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus and a method for determining write strategy thereof An optical recording and reproducing apparatus and a method for determining a write strategy thereof, includes a pickup part to record record data by irradiating a light on an optical disc, a driving part to operate the pickup part to irradiate the light correspondi... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453523 | Noise reduction apparatus A noise reduction apparatus includes a subtracter receives a motion video signal and finds a difference signal indicative of a difference from a motion video signal preceding by 1 frame and from which noise is removed, a first multiplier executes multiplication so a... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453520 | Method and apparatus for processing a plurality of input video signals in display device An apparatus and method of processing a plurality of video input signals in a display device by sensing a new video signal, aside from a presently displayed video signal, input through a video interface, and automatically displaying a menu of display options for the... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453522 | Video data processing apparatus When one video image (e.g., second video image) is blended or synthesized to video image (e.g., main video image), time base correction is made between both video data. A video data processing apparatus comprising a first video generator generating a first video dat... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453783 | Information storage apparatus An information storage apparatus records, reproduces and/or erases information with respect to a recording medium. The apparatus includes a servo error generation detector for detecting a generation of a servo error based on at least one of servo signals including a... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453780 | Information recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus and information management method There is provided an information management apparatus which can make it impossible to read out data recorded on a write-once type recordable optical disk as required and the usefulness thereof is enhanced. When recorded data is destroyed on the write-once type recor... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453785 | Method for generating a holograrm on a disc surface A method for generating a hologram on a disc surface provides for the use of calibration spots burned onto a disc with an accuracy greater than one half wavelength of light. ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450181 | Bit-depth extension with models of equivalent input visual noise A method for extending bit-depth of display systems. The method includes creating pseudo-random noise from human visual system noise. When applied to the image data, the noise causes spatiotemporal dithering. The pseudo-random noise is combined with image data, prod... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450628 | Processor, modulators and transceivers for spread spectrum, CDMA, CSMA, OFDM, TDM, TDMA cross correlated and filtered systems Processors for processing, modulating, transmitting and receiving spread spectrum, CDMA, CSMA, OFDM, TDM, TDMA, filtered and cross-correlated signals. A first processor and filter for processing and filtering spread spectrum signals and a second processor for proces... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450484 | Reproducing and/or recording apparatus and method determining whether sessions are open for a medium for reproduction and/or recording An optical disc player and method reproducing data from an optical disc. The optical disc player may include a data reproducing module irradiating a laser signal onto the optical disc to reproduce a predetermined radio frequency signal corresponding to the data, and... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450482 | Method for optimizing write parameters of optical storage medium and recording device therefor A method for optimizing write parameters of an optical storage medium is provided. The method is adapted for a recording device using the optical storage medium. The method includes loading the optical storage medium having a test area into the recording device, det... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450184 | Circuits and methods for detecting 2:2 encoded video and systems utilizing the same A method of detecting a stream of video data generated utilizing a pull-down technique includes receiving a sequence of fields of interlaced video data. For each pair of a plurality of pairs of the fields of interlaced video in the sequence, pixel values correspondi... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447280 | Iterative decoding This invention provides an iterative process to maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. The iterative process uses an auxiliary function which is defined in terms of a complete data probability distribution. The auxiliary function is derived based on an expectation max... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447139 | Light-receiving element, optical head, optical recording/reproducing apparatus, and method of optical recording and reproduction The invention relates to a light-receiving element for receiving a reflection of laser light irradiated to a rotating multi-layer recording medium having a plurality of information recording layers stacked one over another and for converting the light into an electr... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447123 | Optical pickup device An optical pickup device comprising a plane-parallel plate beam splitter that reflects a laser beam emitted from a laser beam source, an objective lens that focuses the laser beam from the plane-parallel plate beam splitter so as to irradiate the focused beam into a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446815 | Image conversion device and image conversion method A first video signal generation circuit newly generates pixels between pixels in a first progressive video field signal outputted by a first progressive video generation circuit, and outputs a third progressive video field signal. A second video signal generation ci... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447140 | Ferroelectric probe storage apparatus An apparatus comprises a ferroelectric storage medium, and a transducer for reading data from the ferroelectric storage medium and for writing data to the ferroelectric storage medium, wherein the transducer includes a substrate and a probe coupled to the substrate,... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443448 | Apparatus to suppress artifacts of an image signal and method thereof An apparatus to suppress artifacts in an image signal. The apparatus includes a differential value calculation unit to calculate a differential value between adjacent pixels with respect to an input image signal, a diffusion amount calculation unit to calculate an a... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440030 | Method and apparatus for interlaced display of progressive video content A method is provided for displaying progressive video content on an interlaced display device. The method comprises vertically phase shifting video lines of the progressive video content to correctly position the video lines with respect to a video field of the inte... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440528 | Timing recovery apparatus and method A timing recovery apparatus and method is provided. The apparatus includes: a symbol synchronizer for determining a bandwidth of a timing recovery loop by a lock step control signal, which is outputted depending on a convergence degree; a timing lock detector for ju... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440390 | Information recording carrier and information reproducing apparatus for the same Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440386 | Optical device and method of manufacturing the same A copper frame plate (2) has a central frame plate (2a) and a pair of side frame plates (2c) bent from both ends of the central frame plate. A flexible substrate (3) has a central substrate (3a) covering the ce... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440006 | System for gracefully aging inactive areas of a video display When a video display system displays an image having an aspect ratio that differs from the aspect ratio of the system's display monitor, the image spans only an “active” portion of the available display area on the monitor. The display system sets the luminance ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440370 | Method for determining a reproducing power of a laser beam and an apparatus for recording and reproducing data A method for determining a read power of a laser beam includes a step of setting a power of a laser beam to a recommended recording power Pw′ and forming a recording mark train including at least one of a recording mark having a length shorter than a resolution li... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440363 | Method and apparatus for slip protection of DVD-RAM drive's seek control The present invention is provides a method and apparatus for slip protection of DVD-RAM drive's seek control, comprising a slip end velocity controller, a re-seek controller, and a slip detector. Among them, the slip end velocity controller is used for providing a f... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440362 | Optical disc drive which uses a train of pulses to shift the focus of a focusing section An optical disc drive includes: a light source; a focusing section; a focus shifting section for shifting the focal point of light by changing the position of the focusing section perpendicularly to a data storage layer of a given optical disc in accordance with a c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440038 | Liquid crystal television and liquid crystal display apparatus There is disclosed a liquid crystal display apparatus including a main body and a swivel mechanism, where the main body is capable of smoothly swiveling. A countersunk hole is formed in a bottom plate member as follows: When a through-hole for inserting a screw is f... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436751 | Optical pickup head and information recording and/or reproducing device incorporating same An optical pickup head (100) for a high density recording and/or reproducing device compatible with three types of optical recording media. The pickup head includes a first light source (11a) emitting first beams with a first wavelength, a secon... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436455 | De-interlacing device having a pattern recognizing unit and method therefor A de-interlacing device having a pattern recognizing unit and a method therefor for receiving an interlaced image and outputting a non-interlaced image. The de-interlacing device includes a first de-interlacing unit, a second de-interlacing unit and a pattern recogn... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436460 | Easy-to-find remote control for television or other devices An embodiment of the present invention for the first time includes a television and a remote control for the television, with an activator installed in the television at the time of manufacture, and with a locator signal generator, which may be a beeper, a flashing ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436752 | Method and apparatus for signal equalization in a light storage system A method and apparatus for signal equalization in a light storage system is disclosed. The method includes observing run length of an RF signal read from the optical disc; classifying run lengths into sets; calculating the mean of certain run lengths; comparing the ... | 10/14/2008 |
