Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 05/06

20060109751 - Data recording apparatus, initialization method of recording medium, and storage medium: Initialization information including the number of areas to be produced on a recording medium, the capacities of the respective areas, and the types of the formats is produced. The recording medium is initialized in accordance with the initialization information. The initialization information is saved after the initialization processing. The saved...

20060109752 - Direct connection of a data storage device and a consumer electronic device: An optical data storage device (10) adapted to act as a “host” or master on a peripheral interface (14) (e.g. Universal Serial Bus) allows easy (automatic and single button activated) storage of data from a consumer electronic device (16) such as Digital Still Camera (DSC) directly connected to the device...

20060109754 - Electronic camera apparatus with moving-image picking-up function and moving-image recording method: Before a moving image is picked up, a data write speed of set recording media 20 is measured or acquired (steps S2-S5, S6). The speed performance of the recording media (represented by “high”, “medium” and “low”) is determined based on the measured or acquired data write speed (step S7). In...

20060109753 - Monitor for showing high-resolution and three-dimensional images and method: A display system or monitor arrangement and method for stereoscopic displaying of images includes a pair of displays for providing respective left eye and right eye images and arranged in intersecting planes, a polarization sensitive beam splitter for combining the images from the displays in a common light path, and...

20060109755 - System, method and apparatus for searching for and automatically recording broadcast programmes: A system comprises a recordable medium (50) and a recording apparatus for recording programs on the recordable medium (50). The recordable medium (50) comprises a recorded search instruction (51). The recording apparatus comprises a receiver (10) which is able to receive receivable programs (IS), and a comparator (30) which compares...

20060109756 - Track determination: A light beam is scanned on a track of a recording medium, the track having a first track region and a second track region, each track region having a physical property that has recurring deviations. A wobble signal is derived from the light beam, the wobble signal having information associated...

20060109757 - Automatic focusing apparatus, laser processing apparatus, and laser cutting apparatus: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a laser processing apparatus that can use the shape of a plurality of reflected light fluxes to adjust the position of workpiece relative to an optical system, where the laser processing apparatus facilitates both the viewing of the workpiece and a focusing...

20060109758 - Optical disk apparatus: A conventional optical disk apparatus detects the amount of shift of an objective lens with a tracking error signal and an RF signal, and controls, when an optical pickup is moved, the shift amount for performing high-speed seek and high-speed access. The problem here is that this apparatus cannot be...

20060109760 - System and device for audio visual information transfer and storage: A device that incorporates video cassette, audio cassette, CD and DVD record, play and copy functions includes at least one video cassette tape slot, one audio cassette tape slot, and at least one CD/DVD slot so that information and data on a video cassette tape can be transferred and copied...

20060109761 - Disk playback apparatus and disk playback method: This relates to a disk playback apparatus and a disk playback method in which an operating frequency of a demodulation circuit is reduced. The disk playback apparatus reads the data recorded on the disk and generates playback data, the apparatus being characterized by including a synchronous detection circuit (21) for...

20060109762 - Method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information: The invention described relates to a method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on an information track of an information disc. The method comprising the steps of: a) directing a read-write-head to a current radial position along of the information disc, b) rotating the information disc about a point...

20060109759 - Method for determining optimum recording power using gamma curve: A method for determining an optimum recording power by using the analysis of a gamma curve, includes the steps of receiving a data recording start command; determining an area to conduct an optimum power control (OPC) procedure by examining a count area in a power calibration area (PCA) of an...

20060109763 - Optical power calibration at the outer edge of an optical storage carrier: A CD-R/RW drive (optical storage carrier player) includes an access device for writing data on a CD (optical storage carrier). The CD includes a central portion, an inner power calibration area which can provide the optical power calibration 100 times, a data storage area for data writing by a user...

20060109765 - Method for testing assembling quality of optical storage devices and optical storage device for using such method: The present invention discloses a method for testing the assembling quality of optical storage devices. The step (A) is to compute a traveling distance along the focus direction of a lens of an optical storage device, and a first travel time T1 for moving the lens from its lower limit...

20060109764 - Storing control information using spacers: A record carrier has a track pattern of substantially parallel tracks. Control data packs are stored repetitively in several control locations (32) for protection against damage and contamination. The control locations (32) are separated at spacer positions (33) by one or more spacers (34,35). The length of the spacers (34,35)...

20060109766 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup which can remove birefringence due to the non-uniformity of an optical recording medium by using a polarization beam splitter. The optical pickup includes a light source emitting a laser beam, a beam splitter reflecting part of incident light and straight transmitting the remaining light to change a...

20060109767 - Optical disc device: An optical disc device includes means for recording and reproducing information using a reference write strategy or an alternative write strategy in which pulse widths of 3T, 4T and 5-14T marks are individually varied, when the information is recorded using 1T strategy. The device also includes means for measuring a...

20060109768 - Electronic information table and method of creating same: A method and apparatus for creating a table of information stored on a disk is disclosed. A first track is located on a hard disk which is unaffected and immune to changes in an operating system or any programs using the operating system. The table of information contains a unique...

20060109769 - Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing multi-level information: The present invention provides a multi-level information recording/reproducing method of recording or reproducing multi-level information by virtually setting cells at constant regular intervals on a track of an optical information medium where information is recorded or reproduced with a light spot and by varying an information pit width in a...

20060109770 - Optical disc recording/playback apparatus: An optical disc recording/playback apparatus is provided with a first AD converter 35 for shaping a push-pull signal 14 detected from an optical disc medium 1 by a light difference signal shaping circuit 21, and converting the signal into a digital sampling signal 38 using a sampling clock 37 synchronized...

20060109771 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device, including: first, second and third light sources performing recording and/or reproduction of information for information recording surfaces of first, second and third optical information recording medium each having a protective substrate with a thickness t1, t2 and t3, respectively; a first objective optical system for guiding...

20060109772 - Optical pick-up apparatus and method for multi-optical disk type recording/reproducing: An optical pick-up apparatus including an optical source module having a CD optical source and a DVD optical source, a diffracting grating dividing a light beam from the optical source module to at least three divided light beams, a first optical divider changing a path of the divided light beams...

20060109773 - Objective optical system for optical recording media and optical pickup device using it: An objective optical system for focusing light from a light source onto optical recording media includes an objective lens formed of, arranged in order from the light source side along an optical axis, a plastic lens element having a diffractive surface on its light source side and a glass lens...

20060109776 - Disc-shaped recording medium, method and apparatus for manufacturing same and data recording method: An optical disc (200) according to the present invention has a recording area divided into 28 zones of from a zone Z0 to a zone Z27. In a given zone, the number of waves of a wobble is set so as to be equal, that is, the number of waves...

20060109777 - Information recording medium: In an information recording medium comprising at least a substrate, a recording layer, and a resin layer, the substrate is formed with at least a pit corresponding to a read only area 31 and a groove corresponding to a recording/reproducing area 32 without overlapping with each other. A reflectivity of...

20060109774 - Optical information recording medium: An optical information recording medium having a structure in which irregular reflection of information light and recording/reproducing light from the reflective layer of an optical information record medium is prevented, thereby reducing the noise appearing on the reproduced image. The optical information recording medium for recording information by holography comprises...

20060109775 - Using spot differentials to determine mark quality: A method comprising; installing a written media that contains marks and un-written areas, scanning the written marks and un-written areas concurrently, and determining the quality of the marks by determining a delta optical density....

20060109778 - Recording medium, information recording and reproducing method, and recording and reproducing apparatus: Conventionally, as in the case of switching between a DVD-R and a DVD-RAM, when the method of record mark arrangement in a track is changed, the physical format of the disk is also changed. This makes it difficult to ensure compatibility between pieces of data recorded by a plurality of...

20060104162 - Method for driving an actuator, actuator drive, and apparatus comprising an actuator: An actuator driver circuit comprises a drive signal source (60) and an electrical damping element (100) having a negative resistance connected in series with the drive signal source (60). A controllable switch is provided for selectively switching said electrical damping element (100) into or out of a signal path from...

20060104163 - Optical disk apparatus and method for tracking thereof: An optical disk apparatus and method having a pick-up part for emitting a light onto a recording surface of an optical disk and receiving the light reflected from the recording surface of optical disk and a driving part for controlling the pick-up part. The apparatus and method comprise an error...

20060104166 - Combination of lens and lens holder and optical pickup unit having the same: This invention provides a combination of an optical element and a holder for holding the optical element and an optical pickup unit including the combination. The optical pickup unit used in an optical storage system includes a light source, a focus device, and an optical detector. The light source generates...

20060104164 - Effecting dynamic measurement of low mass devices: A low mass device is disclosed. The low mass device includes a body member defining a surface and a retroreflective pattern formed in the surface of the body member....

20060104165 - Pickup head feeding apparatus: An apparatus for feeding a pickup head in a radial direction of a disk includes a guiding device, a driving source, a feeding screw, a connecting base, and an elastic member. The guiding device slidingly engages with the pickup head and defines a moving direction of the pickup head. The...

20060104167 - Device for playing optical discs: A disc drive apparatus (1) for optical discs (2) comprises: a frame (3); a sledge (10) displaceably mounted with respect to said frame (3); a lens actuator (43, 21) displaceably mounted with respect to said sledge (10); and a control unit (90) for generating a control signal (SCL) for the...

20060104168 - Optical head and optical device provided with optical head: An optical head according to the present invention is used for a storage medium having at least two tracks with different reflectances. The optical head includes light receiving means. The light receiving means includes a plurality of light receiving areas, which receive a first type of reflected rays where zero-order...

20060104169 - Optical disk drive, information processing apparatus and control method of optical disk drive: An optical disk drive includes a pickup main body that radiates a laser beam to a surface or a region of an optical disk, where no track information is present, thereby recording and/or reproducing predetermined information on the surface or the region, and that is movable in a radial direction...

20060104170 - Method for performing servo control for blank discs: A servo control method for blank discs is provided. When an optical disc is loaded, servo control suitable for the type of the loaded disc is performed. When the optical disc is a blank disc, data of a specific size is recorded in a predetermined area of the optical disc...

20060104171 - Actuator: An actuator, comprising at least one beam capable of generating flexural oscillations, at least one pair of electric supply terminals (23, 24) which supply oscillation-inducing electric power to the beam(s), and a holding mechanism which holds the beam(s), the holding mechanism including at least one holding member (12) to hold...

20060104172 - Authenticatable media and method of authenticating: One method for playing a disk, comprises illuminating a first portion of the optical article with a first laser to obtain a first optical signal, wherein the first laser has a first wavelength, illuminating a second portion with a second laser to obtain a second optical signal, wherein the second...

20060104173 - Method of detecting focus error signal of optical head and optical head and optical recording/reproducing apparatus utilizing the same: The invention relates to a method of detecting a focus error signal of an optical head to be used for adjusting the position of an objective lens for converging a light beam on an optical recording medium and to an optical head and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus employing the method....

20060104174 - Method of enhancing multimedia: The present invention relates to a method of enhancing multimedia data (24) contained on an information carrier (23). A recording and/or reproducing device (20) is able to read the information carrier (23) and to communicate with a remote unit (10) via a network (15). The information carrier (23) contains additional...

20060104175 - Method of selecting recording speed and recorder thereof: A recorder including an optical pick up head and a processor can provide a number of recording speeds for recording an optical disc. The optical pick up head is for recording the optical disc while the processor for controlling the optical pick up head to perform an optimum power calibration...

20060104177 - Defect detection circuit: A defect detection circuit capable of accurately and rapidly detecting a defect regardless of the operating speed of an optical disk unit. During high-multiplied-speed operation of the optical disk unit, an output duration t1 of a mono-multi signal MM1 output from a mono-multi circuit (11) for turning on a switch...

20060104176 - Method of determining type of optical disc, and data recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor: A method of determining a type of an optical disc loaded into a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus, which includes a plurality of laser diodes and records data onto and/or reproduces data from diverse types of optical discs, and the data recording and/or reproducing apparatus for implementing the method. The...

20060104178 - Optical disc device: An optical disc device measures lengths of each mark and each land recorded using a reference write strategy and an alternative write strategy in which at least one parameter is varied in two or more combinations of marks and lands. A deviation value of each of the marks and lands...

20060104179 - White dot out detecting device: A white dot out detecting device according to the present invention comprises a recording/reproduction control signal generator for generating a recording/reproduction control signal showing a recording state or a reproducing state of an optical disk, a variable gain amplifier for amplifying and outputting an information signal read from the optical...

20060104180 - Optical head, and information recording-and-regeneration apparatus: An optical head is provided which can be restrained from becoming larger, even if it is used for an optical-information recording medium that includes a plurality of information recording layers. In this optical head, a collimating lens is formed by a concave lens disposed on the side of a light...

20060104184 - Chromatic aberration-correcting element and optical pickup device using the same: The present invention is related to a chromatic aberration-correcting element which allows the adoption of BDs even when DVD/CD light beams are incident. The chromatic aberration-correcting element has a diffractive structure formed thereon, which can correct chromatic aberration in BD wavelength light beams in addition to adopting DVD/CD wavelength light...

20060104181 - Optical device and light control method: In order to prevent a spectrum of a wavelength channel from becoming narrower, a device according to the present invention includes a light dividing section capable of dividing a wavelength spectrum in an input light beam and outputting a plurality of divided light beams, which are spatially separated and have...

20060104183 - Optical disc recording/reproduction device: There is provided an optical disc recording/reproduction device capable of accurately performing the focus offset and spherical aberration correction even for an optical disc having no data recorded. The optical disc recording/reproduction device includes: an optical pickup having a spherical aberration corrector for correcting the spherical aberration of an objective...

20060104185 - Optical information processor: An optical information processor reads information from a storage medium or writes information on a storage medium by irradiating it with light radiated from a light source. The processor includes: the light source for radiating the light; a condensing element for converging the light, radiated from the light source, toward...

20060104182 - Optical pickup head and information recording and/or reproducing device incorporating same: An optical pickup head for an information recording and/or reproducing device compatible with two types of optical recording media is provided. The pickup head includes a first light source (1a) emitting a first wavelength beam, a second light source (1b) emitting a second wavelength beam, a photo detector (2) receiving...

20060104186 - Optical pickup apparatus employing a grating and a hologram that generate multiple beams detected by a photodetector: An optical pickup apparatus is characterized in that the optical pickup comprises a light emission part 60 for emitting first and second laser beams having different wavelengths from each other, a grating 62 for generating a pair of sub-beams from the laser beam emitted from the light emission part, and...

20060104187 - Optical head device and optical recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical head device and an optical recording and reproducing apparatus using this optical head device, which can record information and reproduce the recorded information at any of optical recording media, such as a next generation optical recording medium, in which the wavelength of the light source is made to...

20060104191 - Apparatus and method to transfer information from a first information storage and retrieval system to a second information storage and retrieval system: A method is disclosed to transfer information from a first information storage and retrieval system to a second information storage and retrieval system. The method provides a first information storage and retrieval system comprising a first track size and a plurality of first tracks, and a second information storage and...

20060104188 - Film for optical component, winding laminate of film, optical component, and optical disc: A film for optical parts exhibiting high transmittance of short-wavelength light on the order of 400 nm, low birefringence, and excellent flexibility in which warping can be prevented after use for a long term, and a coiled film laminate using the film for optical parts, and an optical parts and...

20060104189 - Rewritable optical record carrier: A rewritable optical record carrier comprising a first substrate carrying a first recording stack of layers, which recording stack comprises, a first dielectric layer, a recording layer comprising a phase-change recording material, a second dielectric layer, and a metal mirror layer. In order to achieve a maximum R*M said first...

20060104190 - Secure optical media storage: An optical recording medium is provided for distributing content through a portable medium which can be transported by hand from one media player to another media player. The optical recording medium includes a read-only zone and a writable area. Copy control information is stored in the read-only zone. The copy...

20060104192 - Optical media with control data in wobble: An optical medium has auxiliary information and control data encoded in wobble. The control data specifies action that a drive is permitted or required to take with the auxiliary information. For example, the control data may be used to specify whether a drive reading the medium is permitted to output...

20060104193 - Recording medium, information recording apparatus, information recording method, information recording medium, and recording program: In a DVD-R on which information is to be recorded by an information recording apparatus, prior to the recording of the information therein, there are recorded in advance at least identification information for identifying the information recording apparatus for recording the information onto the DVD-R, and recording parameter information containing...

20060104194 - Optical information-recording medium: An optical information-recording medium, which is provided with a substrate and a light-absorbing layer formed of a dye material on the substrate, includes a user information area in which a concave/convex pattern including spiral-shaped or concentric grooves are formed, and BCA which is provided on an inner circumferential side of...

20060098536 - Preheating bulk erase device for optical recording medium, preheating bulk erase method for optical recording medium, and optical recording medium: When carrying out magnetization, annealing, and initialization of a recording film by applying a laser beam to the recording film while rotating an optical recording medium 10 by a motor 11, light of a strong visible-light lamp 15 is projected as parallel light to a reflecting mirror 14 via a...

20060098537 - All kinds of printing materials be recorded in all kinds of recordable materials for sale: All kinds of printing materials; books, indexes, dictionaries, telephone directories, catalogs, magazines, newspapers etc are recorded in all kinds of recording materials; discs, magnetic/non magnetic disks, CDs, DVDs, CD-ROM, compact disks, (formatted) disks, cassettes, tapes, cards, all forms of recordable sheets or films etc for sale will reduce traditional publication...

20060098538 - Information disk apparatus and information disk apparatus installing direction detection method: A control means (116) measures the number of track crossings when a reading means (104) is moved by a driving means (109) in a direction corresponding to the radius of an optical disk (102) for a predetermined period of time, and judges a direction in which a DVD-ROM player (101)...

20060098539 - Track jump method for a recording medium: A track jump method for an optical recording/reproducing medium is provided. In the track jump method, once a track jump command is input, a track jump operation is held until a falling edge of a header mask signal is detected. The track jump starts at the falling edge of the...

20060098540 - Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus comprising spherical aberration mechanism: After a spherical aberration generation amount is adjusted, gains K1 and K2 in an arithmetic operation means are adjusted....

20060098541 - Recorder, recording method, reproducer, reproducing method, and recording medium: Redundancy of data recorded on a CD is lowered. For example, a bit pattern of coupling bits to be recorded on CD is determined in accordance with sub data. The coupling bits whose bit pattern is determined in this manner are inserted in recorded/encoded audio data (and subcodes) at predetermined...

20060098543 - 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 processing block for outputting read signals corresponding to...

20060098544 - Method of detecting sync signals: A pattern of an input sync signal is compared with sub patterns in a first sync pattern. The sub patterns in the first sync pattern are equal to the patterns of true sync signals, respectively. When the pattern of the input sync signal agrees with none of the sub patterns...

20060098542 - Optical disc device: In an optical disc device that records information on a recordable optical disc having a power calibration area (PCA), recording operation is started with an input of a recording command. If an operating environment changes largely along with the recording operation, in order to perform an optimum recording power control,...

20060098545 - Optical disk recording apparatus and optical disk recording method: According to the present invention, it is intended that the recording can be executed normally even against small vibrations to which a servo error signal detecting circuit cannot respond. A recording apparatus according to the present invention includes an optical head (12) for receiving a reflected laser beam (LREF) obtained...

20060098546 - Information recording medium, method of and apparatus for evaluating information recording medium, and information recording medium manufacturing method: In an information recording medium evaluating method of evaluating an information recording medium in which the address of a guide groove wobbling at a specific frequency is recorded by modulating the wobble of the guide groove, an address reproduction error rate is estimated from both of the amount of fluctuation...

20060098547 - Information recording device and information recording method: Based on a recording signal, a recording pulse signal, which includes a top pulse located at a front end portion and having a first magnitude, a last pulse located at a back end portion and having the first magnitude, and an intermediate bias portion located between the top pulse and...

20060098548 - Low power dissipation information recording apparatus: The invention relates to an information recording apparatus intended to record information on an optical medium by forming series of recorded marks whose length between leading edge and trailing edge corresponds to a binary value by irradiation means with a beam of light. According to the invention, said irradiation means...

20060098549 - Optical disk apparatus and optical disk evaluation method: An optical disk apparatus irradiating a laser beam to an optical disk and receiving reflected light of the laser beam changed by marks recorded on the optical disk to perform evaluation of the optical disk based on a regeneration signal corresponding to an amount of light of the reflected light,...

20060098550 - Electron beam irradiation apparatus, electron beam irradiation method, and apparatus for and method of manufacturing disc-shaped object: An electron beam irradiation apparatus and method capable of easily curing at least part of a surface layer and/or a resin layer composed of materials that are hard to be cured by irradiation of ultraviolet rays. A disc-shaped object manufacturing apparatus and method capable of efficiently forming, on the disc-shaped...

20060098551 - Optical comparator and method to compare biometric information: This invention relates to an apparatus for optically comparing data stored in a holographic medium with data stored in a holographic database. The apparatus includes a beam emitter and a holographic database. The beam emitter emits a reference beam onto the holographic medium and projects a holographic image that corresponds...

20060098553 - Beam splitter and optical pickup device: A beam splitter, comprises: a light source light entering side prism to which a light from a light source enters; a reflected light entering side prism to which a reflected light from an information recording medium enters; a multi layer film provided between the light source light entering side prism...

20060098552 - Optical information processing apparatus, optical pick-up device and optical recording disc system: An optical pick-up device includes a laser diode, an objective lens for focusing a light beam emitted from the laser diode on an optical disc, an optical detector for receiving a reflected beam from the optical disc, a beam splitter for causing the light beam emitted from the laser diode...

20060098554 - Chromatic aberration-correcting optical system and optical pickup device using the same: Provided is a chromatic aberration-correcting optical system which corrects chromatic aberrations in light beams for a high-density recording medium using a large numerical aperture in addition to allowing the universal adoption of light beams for high- and low-density recording media....

20060098555 - Objective optical system for optical recording media and optical pickup device using it: An objective optical system focuses light from a light source onto at least two different types of optical recording media having different substrate thicknesses in order to record or reproduce information on the optical recording media by using a variable refractive power element and an objective lens. The variable refractive...

20060098556 - Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive including a fixed output voltage regulator: A disk drive system includes a fixed output voltage regulator including an output terminal that provides a substantially fixed output voltage. A pluralities of loads are connected in parallel. A resistor is connected in series between the output terminal of the voltage regulator and the plurality of loads. The resistor...

20060098557 - Optical detection system and method to detect storage areas of an optical storage medium: The present invention is an optical detection system to detect various areas of an optical storage medium. The optical detection system comprises a pickup head, a signal adder and an adding comparator. The pickup head have a light source for providing an incident light beam to the data area and...

20060098558 - Disc-shaped recording medium, disc driving device and disc producing method: With the disc-shaped recording medium, or the disc manufacturing method according to the present invention, for both the single-layer disc and the multi-layer disc, a recording layer L0, which is to be the first layer, is at the same distance, along the direction of disc thickness, from the surface of...

20060098560 - Information storage medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, recording/reproducing method, and host using the same: An information storage medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus using the same, and a recording/reproducing method using the same. The information storage medium includes a data area in which replacement information is managed for data replacement due to a defect of recorded data or data replacement by logical overwrite (LOW) due to...

20060098559 - Optical recording medium and optical recording medium recording device: An optical recording medium such as DVD has a data recording area (103) in which data can be rewritten and a write-once area (104) in which data can be written only once and not be erased. A medium specific ID (105) which is specific to an optical recording medium is...

20060098561 - Optical recording medium, and method and apparatus for optical recording and reproducing thereof:

20060098562 - Information recording medium: In an information recording medium according to the present invention, a recording layer, a first layer, and a second layer are formed so that a thermal conductivity of the first layer that contacts one surface of the recording layer and a thermal conductivity of the second layer that contacts another...

20060098563 - Information recording medium: An information recording medium according to the present invention includes a recording layer that is formed of a single layer of a single type of recording material and is directly sandwiched by a pair of resin layers, the information recording medium being constructed so that at least one resin layer...

20060098564 - Information recording medium, information recording and reproducing apparatus and method for adjusting phase of recording track: An information-recording medium of write once or rewritable type designed to have narrow tracks is provided, in which the wobble signal amplitude is scarcely fluctuated by crosstalk. The medium includes recording tracks formed in a spiral form and meandering at a predetermined wobble cycle T, and a plurality of zones...

20060098565 - Recording medium, wobble cycle detection method, wobble information detection method, wobble information detection circuit, and information recording/reproduction device: The present invention is structured so that a track of a recording medium is divided into a carrier wave area that is continuously wobbled by a carrier wave wobble of a specific carrier wave cycle, and an address area that is wobbled by a special wobble that has a cycle...

20060098566 - Method for generating a circular periodic structure on a basic support material: The present invention is directed to a method for the generation of periodic curved structures in a basic support material such as the basic layer for the magnetic bit cells of a magnetic storage device. The method includes the steps of generating a number of diffraction masks such that each...

20060092771 - Automated method and system for creating an image storage device for playback on a playback mechanism: An automated method for creating an image storage device such as a disk, and more particularly a DVD, CD, or CD-ROM for playback on a playback mechanism entails initiating a device with a processor. A user is instructed to connect a digital image capture device to the device, wherein digital...

20060092772 - Dvd recording: A DVD recorder including a multiplexer that stores multiplexed audio data and video data in a memory device, and a data scrambler that reads the multiplexed data from the memory device and scrambles the multiplexed data to generate scrambled data, in which the scrambled data has a bit sequence that...

20060092773 - Media device with retractable earpiece: A media device includes a media player and an earpiece attached to the media player by an electric cord. The media player can be configured to play one or various audio media sources and/or formats, such MP3's and the like. The media player includes an audio signal generating module for...

20060092774 - Audio data processing device: An audio data processing device disclosed herein comprises: a first processor; and a second processor which is connected to the first processor, wherein the first processor comprises: an audio data acquisition which acquires audio data of digital data; an omitting section which omits a bit corresponding to low volume which...

20060092775 - Content receiving apparatus and method: Technology is disclosed that allows a viewer to estimate the value of unknown content, and pay a fee relative to the estimated value. A cost corresponding to the value of each section is output for each of a plurality of sections that compose the received content. The recipient estimates the...

20060092776 - High performance storage device access for non-linear editing systems: Disclosed are systems and methods for storage device access control initiated by a non-linear editor (NLE). In one embodiment, a storage device access controller can include: a storage device configured to store clips, such as audio, graphics, or video clips, arranged in frames; an NLE coupled to the storage device...

20060092777 - Defocus detection device, defocus detection method and optical disk unit using the same: Defocus detection device and method capable of detecting a defocus accurately during recording of information to an optical disk having a plurality of recording layers and an optical disk unit using the device and method are provided. A temporal restriction is imposed on defocus detection and besides, in comparison with...

20060092778 - Method of detecting focus error signal of optical head and optical recording/reproducing apparatus utilizing the same: The invention relates to a method of detecting a focus error signal of an optical head to be used for controlling the focus position of an objective lens for converging a light beam on an optical recording medium and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus. The invention provides a method of detecting...

20060092779 - Method for correcting influence of thickness unevenness of recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus using the same method and optical head unit: An optical disk unit of this invention includes a defocus detecting system for detecting a defocus of an objective lens, a thickness unevenness detecting system for detecting a thickness unevenness of a transparent resin layer provided nearest the objective lens of a recording medium, and a thickness unevenness correcting mechanism...

20060092780 - Method for correcting influence of thickness unevenness of recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus using the same method and optical head unit: An optical disk unit of this invention includes a defocus detecting system for detecting a defocus of an objective lens, a thickness unevenness detecting system for detecting a thickness unevenness of a transparent resin layer provided nearest the objective lens of a recording medium, and a thickness unevenness correcting mechanism...

20060092781 - Method for correcting influence of thickness unevenness of recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus using the same method and optical head unit: An optical disk unit of this invention includes a defocus detecting system for detecting a defocus of an objective lens, a thickness unevenness detecting system for detecting a thickness unevenness of a transparent resin layer provided nearest the objective lens of a recording medium, and a thickness unevenness correcting mechanism...

20060092782 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus decides a reading time parameters to be set in a tracking error signal generation part at the reading time by applying a laser light of record power to an optical disk. A state where the laser light of record power is applied to the optical disk...

20060092783 - Disc drive for an optical scanning device: The invention relates to an optical disc drive that comprises rotating means, defining a rotating axis for an optical disc, and an optical scanning device, for scanning said optical disc with a light beam. These optical scanning means themselves comprise a first light source, for producing said first light beam,...

20060092784 - Systems and methods for writing data to optical media using plural laser heads: A method for writing data on optical media includes sequentially outputting the same data to an array of laser heads over time so that the laser heads generate laser beams to write the same data to approximately the same location on the media....

20060092785 - Information-recording apparatus, information-recording method, program storage medium and program: An information-recording apparatus is disclosed wherein FSes can be optimized. The information-recording apparatus includes an FS extraction section for extracting a plurality of FSes from a plurality of FS-recording areas on a recording medium; an FS synthesis section for synthesizing the FSes extracted by the FS extraction section into one...

20060092786 - Optical disk recording and reproducing device: Prior to a start of tilt regulation measurement and when a discriminated region is a mixed region, a photodetector is moved by a predetermined amount. And then, when the tilt regulation measurement is started, an objective lens of the photodetector is tilted to an inner end and an outer end...

20060092787 - Recording method and apparatus for optical recording medium: The recording method for an optical recording medium with a laminated structure with a ROM layer, from which data having been recorded beforehand can be read out, and a RAM layer, from which data is read out and in which data is recordable, includes: emitting laser light that has two...

20060092788 - Method for reading an optical disc: A method for reading data from the optical disc at a reading speed. The method includes the steps of (a) reading the data according to a preset amplified signal corresponding to the reading speed; (b) determining if the reading is successful: if so, terminate the method; otherwise, proceed to the...

20060092789 - Method for detecting servo error, apparatus therefor, disk which maintains quality of servo error signal, method of controlling servo of disk recording/reproducing apparatus, method of detecting tracking error, and method of detecting tilt error: An apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from the disk in which a recording area is divided into sectors, includes a reproducing signal generator for generating a reproducing signal including sum signals V1 and V2 of radial pairs, a sum signal RF_sum, and a push-pull signal RF_pp from...

20060092790 - Reproducing apparatus: A reproducing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to generate a reproduced signal containing information data recorded in a track using a reflected light of an optical beam, a clock generation unit configured to generate a clock having a frequency associated with a wobbling cycle of the track, and a...

20060092791 - Inspection apparatus for optical disk having phase modulated wobble tracks and optical disk apparatus for driving the optical disk: An inspection apparatus for inspecting a phase modulated wobble track of an optical disk is provided. A radial push-pull signal (a wobble signal) of an optical disk is supplied to a low pass filter where a phase boundary portion of the wobble signal is smoothed, and then binarized by a...

20060092792 - Laser power calibration in an optical disc drive: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on a computer-readable medium are provided for calibrating a laser power in an optical disc drive. In one embodiment, a range of reflectivity of an optical disc in the optical disc drive is established. A calibration pattern of marked segments is written to the...

20060092793 - Laser power calibration in an optical disc drive: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on a computer-readable medium are provided for calibrating a laser power in an optical disc drive. In one embodiment, a plurality of marked segments of a calibration pattern are created on a label surface of an optical disc with a laser in the optical...

20060092797 - Optical disk reproducing apparatus: In performing the balance regulation of focus error signal, the balance of the focus error signal is changed in a predetermined range. Then, the level of the RF signal is measured while continuously changing the balance of the focus error signal and the balance of the focus error signal is...

20060092798 - Optical disk players and methods for detecting burst cutting area (bca) data in a constant linear velocity mode: Optical disk players include a disk spinning system that is configured to spin an optical disk at a constant linear velocity and a burst cutting area decoding system that is configured to decode data in a burst cutting area of the optical disk, while the optical disk is spinning at...

20060092794 - Information-recording apparatus, information-recording method, program storage medium and program: An information-recording apparatus is disclosed wherein an area to be allocated to a new FS can be set when an area allocated to FSes has been all consumed. The information-recording apparatus includes a track division means. When a track set on a recording medium as a track allocated to FSes...

20060092796 - Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information: A recording medium for storing start position information for each zone, a method of managing data using the information, and an apparatus for recording the information and controlling recording and reproduction of data based on the recorded information. In a disc having a plurality of zones which form a group,...

20060092795 - Recording medium having spare area for defect management and information on defect management, and method of allocating spare area and method of managing defects: A recording medium having a spare area for defect management and the management information of the spare area, a spare area allocation method, and a defect management method. When a primary spare area is allocated for slipping replacement and linear replacement upon initialization, and a remaining portion of the primary...

20060092800 - Disk apparatus: A disk apparatus includes: a kind discrimination unit for discriminating the kind of a loaded disk; a designation unit by which the user designates the prior order for discriminating the kind of the disk; and a frequency of use of storage unit for counting and storing a frequency of use...

20060092799 - Method for reading burst cutting area (bca) data from optical disc and an optical disc apparatus: Disclosed are a method for reading data recorded on a burst cutting area (BCA) of an optical disc and an optical disc apparatus applying the method. The method comprises the steps of calculating a first driving voltage for driving a spindle motor corresponding to a speed required to read data...

20060092801 - Disc drive apparatus: An optical disc drive apparatus (1) for writing and/or reading information into and/or from an optical disc (2) comprises: a controllable motor (4) for rotating a disc (2); a laser (31); temperature measuring means (50) for generating a measuring signal (ST) indicating a temperature (T) of said laser; a control...

20060092802 - Drive signal optimization in optical recording systems: A method and apparatus is disclosed for controlling and optimizing an optical drive laser driver signal for use in media recording. To obtain high precision optic signal output for reading, writing, re-writing, or erasing optic media, precision control of the signal provided to the optic signal generator is required. Use...

20060092804 - Digital data reproducing apparatus and method: A signal processing circuit on a stage previous to a maximum likelihood decoder is more stably automatically controlled to have an optimum characteristic. A pre-equalizer, an offset control unit, an asymmetry control unit, an amplitude control unit, an analog digital converter, an adaptive equalizer, and a maximum likelihood decoder are...

20060092805 - Optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus capable of recording data early: Recording is started in an INC mode at the time of start of initial data recording (step S1). Next, it is determined whether recording onto an unrecorded region is possible in the INC mode (step S2). If it is determined that the recording is impossible, next, temp lead-out is recorded...

20060092803 - Optical disk apparatus and optical disk reproduction method: A pre-learning section pre-learns whether or not a signal characteristic has been changed by use of at least data in a plurality of data areas, and obtains an optimum equalization coefficient of an adaptive equalizer for the data areas after the signal characteristic has been changed, and then stores the...

20060092806 - Contents recording medium compensation system, contents recording and playback devices, and contents recording and playback methods: A contents recording medium compensation system comprises a contents player which reads contents from a contents recording medium for playback and a contents server which is the provider of the contents recording medium and, when accessed by the player over a network, provides it with defect information indicating the presence...

20060092808 - Disk-like recording medium, disk recording apparatus and disk recording method, and disk playback apparatus and disk playback method: Disclosed is a disk-like recording medium, a disk recording apparatus and a disk recording method, and a disk playback apparatus and a disk playback method. Disk ID is recorded over a circle of a burst cutting area on an optical disk. The circle is divided into n blocks, each of...

20060092807 - Optical disk recording apparatus, optical disk recording method, optical disk reproducing apparatus, and optical disk capable of interlayer crosstalk reduction: An optical disk recording apparatus is configured to record information on a multilayer optical disk having a general information recording area for recording general information and a management information recording area for recording management information which manages general information recorded on this general information recording area. In this optical disk...

20060092809 - Recording medium for storing version information for maintaining recording and/or reproducing compatibility, and method and apparatus for managing the same: A method of recording read/write compatibility information on an optical disc and a recording medium employing the method. Extended part version information, latest part version having recording capability, and latest part version having reproducing capability are stored in n.xy form on 6 bytes of a reserved zone of a physical...

20060092810 - Optical disk device and data recording device therefor: An optical disk device records data on an optical disk in which a recording layer which is at an upper position with respect to a side from which a light beam is irradiated, and a recording layer which is at a lower position, are formed in multiple layers. After replay...

20060092811 - Recording/reproducing apparatus: In a recording/reproducing apparatus having a large number of probes, being still usable continuously when several pieces of the probes are in trouble, wherein a plural number of probes are so disposed that they can make recording and/or reproducing onto the same recording area, which is in charge of the...

20060092812 - 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 central frame plate and bent substrates (3b) bent from the central...

20060092813 - Optical pickup apparatus and method of combining submount and optical bench of the same: An optical pickup apparatus and a method of combining a submount and an optical bench of the optical pickup apparatus are provided. The optical pickup apparatus includes an optical bench, a submount installed on the optical bench, a light source mounted on the submount, a lens unit joined to the...

20060092814 - Aberration compensation element, and optical system and optical device provided with the same: The optical system of the present invention comprises a three-wavelength hologram module in which a three-wavelength light emitter/photodetector and a hologram are integrated, a collimate lens, an aberration compensation element, an aperture selector, and an objective lens. The aberration compensation element has glass substrates and a liquid crystalline layer interposed...

20060092815 - Objective lens, optical pickup apparatus and optical disc driving apparatus: An objective optical lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus, includes: an optical surface divided into at least two areas including: a central area including a first diffractive structure; and a peripheral area including a second diffractive structure, the objective lens is a single lens and is commonly used...

20060092816 - Objective optical system and optical pick up apparatus:

20060092817 - Ferroelectric recording medium comprising anisotropic conduction layer, recording apparatus comprising the same, and recording method of the same: Provided is a ferroelectric recording medium including a ferroelectric recording layer formed of a polarization reversal ferroelectric material and an anisotropic conduction layer that covers the ferroelectric recording layer and changes into a conductor or a non-conductor based on external energy....

20060092823 - Apparatus and method for manufacturing optical disks, apparatus and method for recording data on optical disks, apparatus and method for reproducing data from optical disks, and optical disk formed with pit strings and mark strings: Described herewith is an optical disk manufacturing apparatus for reading recorded digital data from an optical disk, comprising an encryption unit (22, 23) for encrypting entered digital data according to a plurality of key information; an optical disk substrate manufacturing unit 2 for manufacturing an optical disk substrate 4 on...

20060092821 - Multi-layer optical recording medium and method for evaluating optical recording system: A multi-layer optical recording medium in which an effect of an interlayer crosstalk can be accurately measured and a method for evaluating a recording system using the same are provided. The multi-layer optical recording medium has a signal intensity measuring region formed in advance such that each recording layer having...

20060092818 - Multiple format compact disk: The invention teaches a compact disk (CD) that is adapted to accommodate multiple CD standards. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It...

20060092820 - Optical disc and optical disc device: A single-sided dual-layer optical disc comprising an optically transparent layer; a first recording layer accessed by a first laser beam; an intermediate layer; and a second recording layer accessed by a second laser beam, wherein the optically transparent layer, the first recording layer, the intermediate layer, and the second recording...

20060092819 - Rite-once high density optical information recording medium: A write-once high density optical information recording medium, with the recording medium made of a material having a formula of AxByCz, is formed by a special thin film coating process. There is a good contrast for optical reflectivity between the recorded marks and the non-recording areas, and the recorded marks...

20060092822 - Session description message extensions: Session description message extensions include information describing a multimedia presentation or a single media presentation. The session description message is typically sent from one device to another device to which the multimedia or single media presentation will be streamed. Several extensions are described that extend the information that can be...

20060092824 - Information recording medium, information playback method, and information recording method: According to this invention, an information recording medium has the first and second sides. The information recording medium includes the first information recording layer which includes the first reflecting layer reflecting incident light with a predetermined intensity from the first side, the second information recording layer which includes a second...