Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 12/06

20060291337 - Optical disc having small access units and address information modulation method therefor: An address information modulation method includes using a first characteristic of a first modulation method and a second characteristic of a second modulation method to modulate address information and/or additional information. Accordingly, a data amount of information, to access a disc, in a predetermined space of the disc is increased,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060291338 - Information recording device and method: There is provided an information recording device for recording record information onto an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers. The information recording device includes: write elements capable of writing record information into the recording layers; control elements for controlling the write elements to write first boundary information... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060291339 - Thickness variation correction on a disc: An optical storage carrier is provided with an entrance face, and information layer and a transparent layer between the entrance face and the information layer. The information layer holds a relief structure representative of readable data that may be read through the transparent layer by focusing of radiation beam. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060291340 - Recording medium managing apparatus and recording medium managing method: A recording medium managing apparatus and method of managing recording medium are provided. To enable identification information for identifying recording medium to be assigned only once to an area for recording a regular signal and manage a content item on the recording medium using this identification information. Disk identification information... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20060291341 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus is adapted to load an optical disc inserted in a slot into a main body and to read and reproduce data stored on the optical disc. The optical disc apparatus temporarily prevents a loading means from loading an optical disc into the main body if a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060291342 - Multi-purpose feeder for office automation machinery: A multi-purpose feeder (MPF) for office automation (OA) machinery includes an MPF tray installed rotatably on a main body panel so that it can be opened and closed. An auxiliary stocker is rotatably installed on the tray by a hinge. An auxiliary stocker pivoting unit automatically pivots the auxiliary stocker... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060291343 - Method and circuit for evaluating a wobble signal: The invention relates to a method for evaluating a wobble signal. Also described is a circuit for performing such method and an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical recording media using such method or circuit. According to the invention the method includes the steps of: determining the sign... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20060291344 - Yoke and objective lens actuator having same: An objective lens actuator includes a base, a suspension apparatus mounted on the base, a holder for holding an objective lens, the holder suspended by the suspension apparatus, and a voice coil motor (VCM) driving the holder to vibrate, wherein the VCM includes a pair of yokes, each of the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20060291345 - Method and related apparatus for deriving a tracking error signal: A method for deriving a tracking error signal based on a first analog detection signal and a second analog detection signal. The method includes summing the first analog detection signal and the second analog detection signal to generate an analog sum signal. An analog delay device is utilized to delay... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060291346 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus includes a pause circuit for pausing data encoders upon receiving a pause signal so that a write operation may be paused without writing dummy data, thereby maintaining data succession. The optical disc apparatus also includes a circuit for accurately determining a write start location by referring... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20060291347 - Information processing apparatus and method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus for executing a process of recording data on a multilayer optical disk. The information processing apparatus includes: an encoding unit for encoding data to be written; a modulation unit for modulating the encoded data to generate a plurality of modulated data blocks corresponding to different recording... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060291348 - Signal drive apparatus and optical pickup apparatus using the same: A signal drive apparatus includes a first buffer circuit where a signal converted into an electric signal from a first light signal is amplified; a second buffer circuit where a signal converted into an electric signal from a second light signal is amplified; a control circuit causing one of the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20060291349 - Signal processing apparatus for reproducing optical disc, optical disc reproducing apparatus and rf signal equalizer gain adjustment method: For every optical disc to be played back, an OFT signal detecting apparatus detects an OFT signal, from which an asymmetric optical disc is identified. Upon identification of such a disc, when written data are asymmetric, an equalizer characteristic changing apparatus changes the equalizer gain setting regarding an RF signal,... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20060291350 - Information recording apparatus: An information recording apparatus such as an optical disc that can avoid an unrecordable condition between a power-on operation and an available state for recording thereby to solve a problem that an image taking chance is missed in a recording step, wherein its constitution is such that: receiving a command... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060291351 - 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 recorded on the substrate, recording starts at a linear... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro Morin And Oshinky LLP

20060291352 - Optical disc recording control method and optical disc recording control apparatus: Before data is recorded in an optical disc, an optimum recording power is calculated in an inner peripheral part and in an outer peripheral part of the optical disc based on OPC learning. Before the data is recorded in the optical disc, the optimum recording power is calculated in at... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060291353 - Method for reproducing optical recording medium: A method for reproducing an optical recording medium includes: determining a kind of optical pick-up device placed to reproduce an optical recording medium; detecting a push-pull signal or a pre-pit signal of an inserted recording medium according to the kind of optical pick-up device; and reproducing the optical recording medium... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060291354 - Method and system for fluid mediated disk activation and deactivation: Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20060291355 - Disc drive apparatus: A method is described for detecting a mechanical shock in a disc drive apparatus (1) of a type comprising: scanning means (30) for scanning record tracks of a disc (2) and for generating a read signal (SR); actuator means (50) for controlling the positioning of at least one read/write element... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060291356 - Information storage medium, reproducing method, and recording method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium includes an organic dye material which records information with a light beam having a wavelength equal to or smaller than 620 nm.... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291357 - Information recording processing device, information reproduction processing device, information recording medium and method, and computer program: A device, a medium, and a method for recording and reproducing additional data difficult to analyze on an information recording medium are provided. When additional data is recorded onto the information recording medium, or additional data such for example as key information applied to a content decryption process, key generating... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20060291359 - Optical disc device and hybrid optical disc: When it is determined that the disc loaded on a player is a hybrid next generation DVD, the DVD layer is reproduced with a red laser light. In parallel with this reproduction process, a process for notifying the presence of the HDDVD layer is performed. That is, determination is made... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060291358 - Optical disk medium recording and reproducing apparatus and method for discriminating optical disk medium type: The invention provides an optical disk medium reproducing apparatus, having shortened the processing time for re-discriminating (estimating) the optical disk medium type when the discrimination of the optical disk medium type fails. In discriminating two types of optical disk media in which a distance from the disk surface to the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060291360 - Information recording and reproduction method and information recording and reproduction apparatus: A recording and reproduction method utilized for multilayer optical disks, wherein a light source for the servo layer and a light source for the recording layer are modulated at different frequencies or made to irradiate by time division onto a multilayer optical disk formed from a combination of a plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060291361 - Information recording device, information reproducing device, information recording medium, method, and computer program: An apparatus for recording additional information hard to analyze in an information recording medium, a reproducer, a recording medium, a method, and a computer program for the same are provided. Bit values set at a plurality of DC control bit information setting positions set in a recording frame are decided... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20060291363 - Objective optical system and optical pickup apparatus: An objective optical system according to the present invention is provided for use in an optical pickup apparatus for recording or reproducing information on an information recording surface of a first optical information recording medium using a first light flux emitted from a first light source. The objective optical system... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060291362 - Optical semiconductor device and method of manufacture thereof: The present optical semiconductor device includes a semiconductor laser, an optical block provided with a hologram element for diffracting a laser beam that has been emitted from the semiconductor laser and reflected by a disk, a photo-detector for receiving the laser beam diffracted by the hologram element and outputting an... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20060291364 - Solid electrolyte probe storage device, system including the device, and methods of forming and using same: A probe storage system, including programmable cells suitable for storing information, and methods of forming and programming the cells are disclosed. The programmable cells generally include an ion conductor, a plurality of electrodes, and a protective layer between the ion conductor and at least one of the electrodes, wherein one... Agent: Snell & Wilmer

20060291365 - Scanning device for optical discs: The invention relates to a scanning device for optical discs, having an optical housing with integrally formed sliding areas for receiving a scanning unit with a carrier with a scanning head arranged thereon, which scanning unit is provided with counter-sliding areas and is adjustable about a virtual axis, the scanning... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20060291366 - Multi-layer optical disc and its manufacturing method: A kind of optical disc consists of the first layer, the second layer and the in-between layer, which lies between the first layer and the second layer. The first layer with its surface undulant includes material used to record information. The second layer with its surface basically flat includes material... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060291368 - Optical recording medium: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical recording medium which exhibits high storage reliability in high-temperature/high-humidity conditions, stable performance at high temperatures, appropriate mechanical properties and high productivity and is capable of reproducing and recording at high speeds. It is an optical recording medium containing a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro Morin And Oshinky LLP

20060291367 - Rom type optical recording medium: A ROM type optical recording medium 1 includes a substrate 2, a light transmitting layer 4, and a reflecting layer 3 formed between the substrate 2 and the light transmitting layer 4 and containing a metal as a principal component and has such a structure that a laser beam is... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291370 - Optical recording medium, and information recording/playback apparatus and method using the medium: In a single-sided, recordable/rewritable phase change optical recording medium having one or more layers, an interface layer adjacent to a phase change optical recording film contains at least Zr (zirconium), O (oxygen), and N (nitrogen), and further contains one or both of Y (yttrium) and Nb (niobium).... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291369 - Recorded master for manufacturing information storage medium and method of manufacturing the master: A recorded master for manufacturing an information storage medium includes a master substrate; a heat absorption layer coated on the master substrate and absorbing heat at a part on which a beam is irradiated; and a separation layer coated on the heat absorption layer, wherein according to a temperature distribution... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285447 - Automatic, lockable and engageable/disengageable media tray: A media handling system, comprising: a media pick means; a media holder that interacts with the media pick means; and a selectable, lockable, automatically movable media tray located substantially adjacent to the media holder, wherein the movable media tray is engageable/disengageable with the media pick means.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060285448 - Physical address detector, optical disc apparatus and method of detecting physical address: A physical address detector capable of detecting a physical address correctly, reliably, and easily even when there are two types of synchronization signal patterns. The physical address detector includes an extraction section for extracting a first and a second segments each including first cycles each having a predetermined cycle and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060285449 - Optical disk drive and method of controlling the same: An area unused for recording the information is detected in an information recording layer that is the layer jump destination of an optical disk having a plurality of information recording layers. In the current information recording layer, a laser beam is temporarily moved to a position corresponding to the area... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060285451 - Apparatus for generating tracking error signals: An apparatus for generating tracking error signals including: an optical detection unit having a plurality of divided light receiving elements to allow beams reflected from a recording surface of the optical disks to be incident; a comparator for outputting after comparing the signals from light receiving elements, which correspond to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060285450 - Optical disc drive apparatus, method of controlling the position of optical pickup unit, method of detecting an innermost positon of an optical pickup unit: An optical disc drive apparatus comprises a turntable body (5) for rotating a data disc, an optical pickup unit (1), a motor (2) for moving the optical pickup unit, and means for determining an innermost position of the optical pickup unit. The turntable body is rotated at a speed lower... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060285452 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus includes: a focus error signal generation unit which generates a focus error signal for detecting a focal point of a beam spot based on a signal that has been read out from an optical disk through an optical pickup; a focus gain detection unit which detects... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060285454 - Method and system for time compensation of re-writeable optical media write parameters: An optical medium storage device improves the usable life of re-writable optical storage mediums, such CD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM disks, by adjusting write parameters to compensate for time between an initial write on the optical storage medium and the current time, with adjusted write parameters fine-tuning signal-to-noise ratios and improving... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20060285455 - Control circuit of optical storage device and method thereof: A control circuit of an optical storage device includes a loop phase calculation unit for calculating a closed loop phase of a servo system according to at least one error signal of the servo system and a system control unit coupled to the loop phase calculation unit for generating an... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060285453 - Method and apparatus for stablizing servo closed-loop gain, pll clock and servo signal through setting appropriate gain value to servo closed-loop gain and holding pll clock and servo signal when power of pick-up head changes: A method for stabilizing a driving signal when an optical disc drive switches a pick-up head between a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The driving signal is utilized for controlling operation of the optical disc drive and is generated according to a read-back signal read by the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060285456 - Optical disc signal processing apparatus and optical disc reproduction apparatus: An optical disc signal processing apparatus is provided which comprises a rotation control section for measuring and outputting the number of edges within a predetermined time for a binary signal obtained from an RF signal reproduced from an optical disc on which information is recorded, a detecting section for detecting... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060285457 - Information recording apparatus and method, and information recording medium: An information recording apparatus for recording information onto an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers, by irradiating the information recording medium with laser light for recording, the information recording apparatus including: a setting device for setting a preferable irradiation condition of the laser light which is preferable... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060285458 - Optical writing apparatus and method of setting write power thereof: An optical writing apparatus that can set a write power for recording information on an optical recording medium and a method of setting a write power thereof are provided. The method of setting a write power of the optical writing apparatus includes calculating a first deviation between a theoretical length... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20060285459 - Method and apparatus for determining an optimum power level: A fast optimum power control method is disclosed, with a laser power level being adjusted in a predetermined sequence at an ADIP/ATIP frame of an optical recording medium. Jitter is measured at each ADIP/ATIP frame in order to obtain an average jitter value for that particular frame, and hence power... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060285460 - Method of managing optimum power control data in lead-in zone of high-density optical disc: A method of managing optimum power control (OPC) data in a lead-in zone of a rewritable high-density optical disc, wherein an OPC back data zone is allocated in the lead-in zone of the rewritable high-density optical disc and OPC data is written in the OPC back data zone so that... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285461 - Evaluation apparatus, evaluation method, and optical disk manufacturing method: An evaluation apparatus for evaluating the recording quality of secondary data recorded on an optical disk recording medium on which primary data is recorded as combinations of pits and lands includes the following elements: a reading unit operable to read a signal on the basis of reflected light information of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20060285462 - Storage apparatus and computer-readable storage medium: A storage apparatus carries out a write verify process to verify whether or not information is correctly written immediately after writing the information in a write target region of a recording medium. The storage apparatus judges whether or not a plurality of defective regions on the recording medium where a... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20060285463 - Lens positioning method, cutting method, positioning method, and cutting apparatus: A lens positioning method is provided. While vibrating an objective lens in the direction parallel with an optical axis, either the objective lens or a master disc in which a resist material has been formed as a film onto a substrate is moved, thereby changing a distance between the objective... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20060285464 - Circuit for detecting recorded area: In a circuit for detecting a recorded area of an optical disk, when unnecessary noise is superimposed on the space portion of the digitized signal (RF) of an RF signal from the optical disk, a counter (20) for detecting a space portion detects the noise and resets a counter (81)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060285465 - Information recording processing device, information reproduction processing device, information recording medium and method, and computer program: A device, a medium, and a method for recording and reproducing additional data difficult to analyze on an information recording medium are provided. When additional data is recorded onto the information recording medium, or additional data such for example as key information applied to a content decryption process, content reproduction... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20060285466 - Method for adjusting write strategy: In a method for adjusting a write strategy, data is written into the optical disc according to a first write strategy in forms of a first type of data storage structures with variable lengths and a second type of data storage structures with variable lengths. A plurality of the first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060285467 - Optical disk apparatus and method of evaluating optical disks: An optical disk apparatus which evaluates an optical disk based on a reproduced signal from the optical disk comprises a delay circuit that has a plurality of first delay elements connected in series which have a binarized signal of the reproduced signal supplied to one end of the series and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060285468 - Optical disk device: Quantization noise due to analog-to-digital conversion may be larger than a noise component of an input signal, and therefore sufficient performance may not be obtained. An optical disk device includes an optical head for reading a signal recorded in an optical disk, an analog equalization circuit having an equalization characteristic... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060285470 - Hologram device and hologram recording/reproducing method: In a hologram device which records information of an interference fringe of signal light and reference light onto a hologram recording medium and which reproduces the recorded information by emitting the reference light onto a recording area of the hologram recording medium, the device includes a recording/reproducing controller performing a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20060285469 - Optical information reproducing method and apparatus: An XY array of sync bits and information bits is recorded in a recording medium through the use of holography. The sync bits are in parallel Y-direction-extending groups having an X-direction minimum inversion interval of 2 or more. The information bits are placed between the parallel Y-direction-extending groups of the... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20060285471 - Pickup for optical recording medium: The invention relates to an optical pickup for an optical recording medium, an electrically controlled diffraction grating suitable for use in such a pickup, and to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical recording media using such an optical pickup or diffraction grating. According to the invention, an... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20060285472 - Objective optical system and optical pickup apparatus: An objective optical system according to the present invention is provided for use in an optical pickup apparatus for recording or reproducing information on an information recording surface of a first optical information recording medium using a first light flux emitted from a first light source, and the objective system... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060285473 - Optical pickup unit: An optical pickup unit is disklosed that comprises a first light-emitting element capable of emitting first-wavelength light; a second light-emitting element capable of emitting second-wavelength light whose wavelength is different from that of the first-wavelength light; a polarizing mirror transmitting or reflecting the first-wavelength light and reflecting the second-wavelength light;... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060285474 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus comprises a photo detector that receives light reflected from a medium; and a housing that is mounted with the photo detector. The photo detector is fixed to the housing with the use of an adhesive to mount the photo detector on the housing. The housing is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060285475 - Semiconductor laser device: A semiconductor laser device according to the present invention includes a mechanism section having a semiconductor laser, a first frame for holding the mechanism section and radiating heat generated in the mechanism section, a control section for controlling the mechanism section, a second frame for holding the control section and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060285476 - Two-beam semiconductor laser apparatus: A two-beam semiconductor laser device 10 includes: a two-beam semiconductor element LDC having a first and a second semiconductor laser elements LD1 and LD2 that can be driven independently and that are formed integrally on a substrate; and a submount 63 having, mounted on a front part thereof, the two-beam... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060285477 - Optical data recording method: The optical data recording method comprising the steps of: modulating data to be recorded, to generate a plurality of recording modulation codes; and emitting a pulse-like light beam to an optical disc, so that a plurality of recording marks and spaces which have lengths corresponding to the plurality of recording... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20060280042 - Apparatus for reproducing copyrighted data: Disclosed is an apparatus for reproducing copyrighted data, in more particular copyrighted sound source data and/or image data The apparatus includes: a data storage unit for storing copyrighted data; a controller for generating a control signal for reproducing the copyrighted data stored in the data storage unit; an output unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060280043 - Optical data storage and retrieval systems utilizing dual energy sources: An optical data storage and retrieval system that includes a phase change storage medium and dual energy sources. The phase change material may store information by undergoing a transformation from one structural state to another structural state through application of energy. The system is equipped with two energy sources, neither... Agent: Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

20060280044 - Recording head for magneto-optical recording device and magneto-optical recording device comprising the same: A recording head for magneto-optical recording in a first-surface recording configuration comprises a transparent aperture (8;22;32), in a plane intended to be substantially parallel to a recordable medium (2), in use. The head is arranged to provide an optical path allowing a bundle of light (6) to pass through the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060280048 - Information storage medium including application for providing metadata, and apparatus for and method of providing metadata: An information storage medium includes application information for performing reproduction with reference to metadata stored in a reproduction apparatus; and additional information for providing the metadata as a user interface provided by a content producer.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060280046 - Picture display apparatus: According to one embodiment, a picture display apparatus includes: a user information acquisition unit that acquires user information that is displayed when the picture display apparatus is powered on next time; a memory that stores the user information at the time of powering off the picture display apparatus, the user... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060280045 - Portable media reproduction system: A portable media reproduction system into which a portable media player can be inserted. The portable media reproduction system includes a docking component wherein the size of the docking component can be adjusted to fit a given portable media player. The portable media reproduction system also includes a video output... Agent: Greenberg-traurig

20060280047 - Writing instrument incorporating a digital audio player: An audio player is provided that includes a digital audio player and a writing instrument incorporated within a housing. Integration of the digital audio player into a pen facilitates transcription. A method for transcribing audio information with the audio player includes playing a digital audio file on the player and... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle & Citkowski, P.c

20060280050 - Copy protection system for data carriers: A copy-protected compact disc includes, within a single session, a table of contents (TOC) and a Video CD index (VI). Each track (T) is prefaced by unrecoverable data (UD) at a track start position (ATOC) indicated by the table of contents (TOC). However, the Video CD index (VI) indicates the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20060280052 - Method and apparatus for ejecting an optical disc: The invention works in an environment where an optical disc, such as a CD, is inserted into an optical disc player. The disc typically has a label that is affixed to an upper surface of the disc. If the label is loose, for instance if a portion of the disc... Agent: Dva / Pioneer Electronics Service, Inc.

20060280049 - Optical disc label printing using optical pickup unit with multiple foci: The present invention provides a system for recording an image onto a label layer of an optical disc. The optical disc also includes a data layer on which a plurality of predetermined address codes is marked. The system essentially includes a multi-focal lens module for dividing a laser beam emitted... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20060280053 - Disc loading method for optical disc apparatus: A disc loading method for an optical disc apparatus, wherein, where a disc having a reproduction-only area is loaded in the optical disc apparatus, if signal quality of the reproduction-only area of the disc is acceptable, a signal adjustment operation on this reproduction-only area is skipped so as to shorten... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060280051 - Handheld audio player with equalizer: A handheld audio player configured to alter the relative amplitude of a selected frequency band or plurality of frequency bands of an audio playback generated by the audio player, the audio player including a housing, a control for operating the audio player and an interface, the interface configured to be... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060280054 - Interface device for optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus: An interface device for an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and playback of an optical disc, wherein the configuration of an interface circuit between a pickup that reads and writes information from/on the optical disc and a radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) for signal processing is simplified.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060280055 - Laser power control and device status monitoring for video/graphic applications: Signals, such as the +5V signal, the HPD signal, and LOS output from DDC, CEC, or HDMI signals are dynamically monitored, whereby a stand-by mode is entered in the absence of signal activity in any of the above-mentioned dynamically monitored signals. Such a monitoring architecture reduces power dissipation and allows... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20060280057 - Integrated type optical head with sheet waveguide and light coupler: An integrated optical head is provided. In the integrated optical head, a light source emits light. A waveguide guides the light. An input coupler is located at one edge of the waveguide, and couples light emitted from the light source and transmits the coupled light to the waveguide. An output... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060280056 - Optical integrated module and optical pick up 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 laser from light reflected by an optical disc and for reflecting the... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060280058 - Optical disc device, circuit for optical disc device, wobble signal reproduction method, and land pre-pit signal reproduction method: A mark S/H circuit (66) samples, for example, a signal A generated as a photodetector (20) detects a return beam from marks of an optical disk (10), a space S/H circuit (68) samples a signal A generated through detection of a return beam from spaces, and amplifiers (70 and 72)... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060280060 - Objective-lens driving device: A lens holder is configured by coupling an upper piece and a lower piece. First bobbin portions around which respective tracking coils are wound are provided in one of the upper and lower pieces, and second bobbin portions a round which respective focusing coils are wound are provided in the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20060280059 - Optical pickup device: An embodiment includes an optical pickup device wherein a beam of light emitted from the light source is converted into parallel beams of light by the collimator lens and is incident on the objective lens at a first divergent angle through the divergent angle changing optical system to be converged... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060280061 - Objective lens and optical information read/write device: An objective lens, for an optical information read/write device that performs read/write operations on each of a plurality of optical discs using a corresponding one of three laser beams having first, second, and third wavelengths λ1, λ2, and λ3 (nm) satisfying a relationship λ1<λ2<λ3, respectively, includes a phase shift structure... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20060280062 - Optical disc apparatus: When an optical disc is mounted therein, an optical disc apparatus measures a tilt angle of an objective lens for an outer radial position on the optical disc, i.e., an outer tilt angle. Based on the outer tilt angle as measured and a preset inner tilt angle, the apparatus calculates... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060280063 - Optical disk drive, optical disk apparatus, and method for driving the apparatus: An optical disk drive includes a light source, a light focusing element, a light-focusing-element moving mechanism, a detecting unit, a holding unit, and first and second control units. The light focusing element arranged so as to be opposed to a disk on which a signal is recordable is capable of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060280064 - Method and related apparatus for deriving a tracking error signal: A method for deriving a tracking error signal based on a first analog detection signal and a second analog detection signal. The method includes summing the first analog detection signal and the second analog detection signal to generate an analog sum signal. An analog delay device is utilized to delay... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060280065 - Optical pickup device: A first laser source is arranged on a transmitting side of a polarizing beam splitter, while a second laser source is arranged on a reflecting side of the polarizing beam splitter. The splitting surface of the polarizing beam splitter has a film characteristic of substantially transmitting s-polarization component of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20060280066 - Information storage medium, medium processing apparatus, and medium processing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium includes a light incident surface from which a recording/playback light beam enters, a reflecting layer which reflects the light beam entering from the light incident surface, a recording layer which is arranged between the light incident surface and the reflecting layer, and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060280067 - Audio data search control device: In a multi-session disk, a microcomputer of an audio data search control apparatus judges whether or not a search operation for a last audio data file in an optional session during the search operation in the session (Step S11), forcibly moves an optical pickup 11 during a required forcible-movement time... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060280069 - Multi-level information reproducing method: A multi-level information reproducing method is provided which can increase the degree of separation between distributions of cell boundary values to thereby improve the accuracy of reproduction. Specifically, in a method of reproducing multi-level information recorded on a track of an optical information recording medium by virtually providing cells at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060280068 - Virtual write protection system: An optical medium containing virtual write protect information can be recorded in drives and systems without first changing the write protection from on to off by receiving valid user input The virtual write protection may also be enabled of disabled by additional information on the disc.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060280073 - Optical disc apparatus: When an apparatus is in a stop state after a reproducing operation or a recording operation with respect to an optical disc is over, the stop state is detected by stop-state detecting means, which then makes the optical disc rotate at a low speed. A predetermined time after the detection... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060280074 - Image storing apparatus, control method for image storing apparatus, and control program for image storing apparatus: In an image storing apparatus (photostorage), files are enabled to be certainly copied (or moved) without overlapping by the fairly simple operation. When image data is read out of a recording medium connected through a slot and stored into a high capacity storage unit, a management table in which a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060280075 - Information record medium, information record device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing control si: On an information record medium, there are recorded: a plurality of content informations; and a plurality of play list sets each including a plurality of play list informations defining reproduction sequence thereof. The plurality of content informations, whose reproduction sequences are defined by the plurality of play list informations in... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060280076 - Optical disc: An optical disc (2) is provided with a memory chip (60) mounted thereon, the memory chip containing session information. Also, an optical disc drive apparatus (1) for reading optical information from optical discs is described, the optical disc drive apparatus being capable of reading (step 303) session information from said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060280077 - Disk recorder: A disk recorder for data reading and writing operations to a disk includes an access-mode switcher and an accessor. The access-mode switcher selects between a random access mode and a sequential access mode in respect to a mode for data writing and reading to and from the disk. The accessor... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060280078 - Tracing discrete spiral path relative to optical disc: As an optical disc is being rotated within an optical drive, an optical mechanism of the optical drive traces a discrete spiral path relative to the optical disc. As the discrete spiral path is traced by the optical mechanism of the optical drive, the optical mechanism selectively writes to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060280072 - Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus: In a memory 23, types of a write strategy patterned into a plurality of patterns are stored. Prepit information in a land of an optical disc 25 includes a parameter of a recommended write strategy. Upon recording on the optical disc 25, a parameter of a recommended write strategy is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060280070 - Radiation source driving device and method for driving a radiation source: The invention pertains to a radiation source driving device for controlling a voltage fed to a radiation source in an information reproducing system comprising a radiation source controller for controlling the voltage fed to the radiation source, and a power supply for providing a working voltage to the radiation source... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060280071 - Recorder, a disc and a method for recording information on a disc: When recording information in tracks or in a two-dimensional pattern care must be taken not to irradiate the adjacent tracks or pits. This results in a loss of data density on the recording medium because of the track pitch or pit distance that must be observed. A reduction in track... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060280080 - Apparatus and method for automatic power control: An apparatus and method for automatic power control is disclosed. An optical recording apparatus utilizes a low-speed, peak-hold circuit to obtain and output a maximum of a front photodiode output signal during a predetermined window or plurality of windows of a total duration long enough to allow maximum peak-hold signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060280079 - Optical recording apparatus and method for searching for recording power of the same: An optical recording apparatus uses a method of searching for a recording power, where the method includes: searching for a first optimum recording power; recording data on an optical disc at the first optimum recording power; determining whether recording environments are changed when a user desires to re-record the data... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060280081 - Recording medium, recording apparatus, and reading apparatus: In a recording medium, the physical characteristic information of the recording medium, and more specifically, the configuration (shape and size) and the moment of inertia of the disc, is recorded. This enables a recording apparatus or a reading apparatus to easily and correctly determine the physical characteristics of the disc,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060280085 - Warpage angle measurement apparatus and warpage angle measurement method for optical recording medium: A warpage angle measurement apparatus and a warpage angle measurement method are provided that can measure an angle of warpage of an optical disc and a cartridge for the optical disc caused by a rapid environmental change such as a temperature change or a humidity change in a short time.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060280082 - Disk discriminating method and optical disk apparatus: The number of the layers of a disk is determined based on focus search to be performed after at least two kinds of spherical aberration correction quantities are set.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060280083 - Method of determining type of optical medium, and optical medium driving system and recording medium therefor: A method of determining the type of an optical medium loaded into an optical medium driving system, the optical medium driving system, and a recording medium therefor. The method includes determining the type of the loaded optical medium by selecting the type of an optical medium to be determined based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060280084 - Recorder and recording medium: Each record of a file recording management table has three fields: Type, Contents, and Next Record Number. The Type field indicates whether the record is a “file name record” that has file name information in the Contents field or a “consecutive recording area record” that has position information on a... Agent: Nath & Associates

20060280086 - Optical disk reproducing device: An reproducing device for reproducing information recorded on an information recording medium includes: a system controller that decides whether a user operation is inhibited or permitted when there is the user operation during reproducing the information of the information recording medium, and controls a reproduction to be temporarily stopped when... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060280087 - Method for recovering data from optical disc with damaged toc: The present invention provides a method for recovering data from an optical disc with a damaged table-of-contents (TOC) zone by the use of an optical disc drive. The method is, first, to identify a latest valid TOC block from the TOC zone and to find a last known session in... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20060280088 - Rotation responsive disk activation and deactivation mechanisms: Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control... Agent: Searete LLC

20060280089 - Flexible multipulse generator: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for providing flexible multipulse strategies. In specific embodiments, a plurality of multipulse location registers are dedicated to storing multipulse location information. Each of a plurality of different mark-lengths that can result in at least one multipulse is mapped to one... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20060280090 - Optical disk recording method and an optical disk apparatus: In a CAV recording of an optical disk, when a plurality of zones are provided, a write strategy is matched for a change in recording linear velocity in the zone so that recording quality can be assured, and recording power is controlled. The write strategy (pulse timing and power ratio)... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060280091 - Information recording medium including a predetermined pattern for detecting and rf signal, a method of determining an optimal recording condition using the predetermined pattern, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus using the information recordin: An information recording medium for use with a recording/reproducing apparatus that records/reproduces information to/from the information recording medium on which a predetermined pattern is recorded to generate a predetermined pattern signal with periodically repeating nT pulses and intervening mT pulses to allow for a detection of levels of an RF... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060280092 - Reproducing apparatus and related computer program: In a PLL circuit, a phase error of a reproduced signal is extracted in either a way based on a zero-cross timing or a way based on a self-running timing. A decision is made as to whether the reproduced signal is in a continuous-wave interval where an inversion period of... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20060280093 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus, evaluation method, and information recording and reproducing medium: An evaluation method for calculating an identification signal by using PRML, comprises a table storing true patterns and ideal signals thereof, false patterns corresponding to the true patterns and ideal signals thereof, and Euclidean distance between the true pattern and the false pattern, a calculating unit, when a recording signal... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060280096 - Erasing holographic media: The present invention relates to embodiments of a process for subjecting a holographic storage medium to illuminative treatment to: (1) enhance or optimize recording of holographic data; (2) enhance or optimize reading of recorded holographic data; and/or (3) erase recorded holographic data. The present invention also relates to embodiments of... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20060280095 - Holographic recording medium, its manufacturing method, and holographic recording/reproducing system: In a holographic recording medium, noise is prevented from being generated by servo light in a recording layer without scarifying recording regions. A holographic recording medium 12 has a servo layer 16 formed on a recording layer 14 on a substrate 13 via a spacer layer 15. The servo layer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060280094 - Holographic recording method and apparatus: When recording on a holographic recording medium by using a recording beam, the time required for an asking servo control to recover is reduced to increase the data transfer rate. In the holographic recording apparatus 10, a laser beam from a laser light source 16 is formed into a collimated... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060280097 - Apparatus using light-attenuating element for optically reproducing and recording information: An apparatus for optically recording information in a recording medium and for optically reproducing the recorded information includes a semiconductor laser, an objective lens that focuses light beams from the laser on the recording medium, and a light-attenuating element for attenuating an amount of light of the light beams. The... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060280098 - Diffraction element and optical disk device: A diffraction element may include a grating region where a plurality of groove parts and a plurality of protruded parts are alternately formed on a surface of the diffraction element and flat regions where the surface of the diffraction element is formed to be a flat face. The flat regions... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060280100 - Liquid crystal lens element and optical head device: A liquid crystal lens element which changes a focal length of light transmitted through a liquid crystal 16 according to the magnitude of the voltage applied to the liquid crystal 16 sandwiched between a pair of transparent substrates 11 and 12, which comprises transparent electrodes 13 and 14 provided on... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060280101 - Optical head device and optical information recording/reproducing device: In an optical head device and an optical information recording/reproducing device using the optical head device, by driving a liquid crystal panel 4a, the liquid crystal panel 4a produces wave aberration for light on a going path and light on a returning path likewise. Accordingly, when the substrate-thickness deviation or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060280099 - Optical element and optical pickup apparatus: An object of the invention is to suppress adherence of dust or stain due to the environment and provide an optical element that can maintain optical characteristic for a long period of time, and achieve high durability and reliability. It is also another object of the invention to provide an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060280102 - Optical disk drive with micro-sil: A small form factor optical disk drive is provided that incorporates a SIL/objective lens assembly. A laser for the small form factor optical disk drive has a coherence function having maxima spaced apart by intervals. The optical disk drive is configured such that a roundtrip optical path through the SIL/objective... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20060280103 - Near-field light emitting device and data recording/reproduction apparatus: A near-field light emitting device includes a deflecting unit that deflects electromagnetic waves propagated through a core toward a base. A propagating unit arranged on the base emits near-field light from an outlet. By providing a magnetic head on a side opposite to the base, a distance between the magnetic... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20060280104 - Demodulation of a focusing error signal during a focus search for a lens focusing control in an optical disc system: A method for demodulating a focusing error signal in an optical disc system, comprising the steps of (A) generating a beam strength signal and the focusing error signal, (B) sampling the beam strength signal and the focusing error signal at an appropriate sampling rate, (C) removing a static offset from... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20060280105 - Optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus for executing recording and reproduction of an optical disc on which a loop-shaped antenna coil having an IC chip has been arranged and communicating with the IC chip by an electromagnetic wave is disclosed. An antenna coil of a reader or writer apparatus... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20060280107 - High-density multi-layer optical disc and method for managing layer formatting thereof: A high-density multi-layer optical disc and a method for managing layer formatting thereof. A high-density multi-layer optical disc such as a Blu-ray disc rewritable (BD-RE) dual layer includes management information, additionally recorded in a lead-in area, needed for identifying formatting status of a plurality of recording layers. After the management... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060280106 - Optical record carrier: The range of spatial frequencies of the information areas in an optical record carrier (130) that can be read by conventional means can be increased substantially by providing the information layer (1134) with a birefringent diffraction grating (136) and using a read beam (b) that comprises two mutually perpendicular polarised... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060280108 - Optical disc: The invention has an object to reduce the time required for setting of a circuit for reproduction in use of the PRML system, thereby shortening the time until the readout of an optical disc becomes possible after mounting the disc. The invention will achieve the above-mentioned object with the following... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060280109 - Optical information recording medium, optical information recording method, optical information record/reproduce apparatus and semiconductor circuit: The object of the present invention is to make an appropriate determination of whether recording is prohibited or not depending on the type of record/reproduce apparatus. To achieve the object, optical disk 1 of the present invention that can record or reproduce information through irradiation with laser light comprises a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20060280110 - Sheet for manufacturing optical disk and optical disk: Optical disc manufacturing sheet 1 comprising protective sheet 12 and curable adhesive layer 11 with a pre-curing storage elastic modulus of 103 to 106 Pa and a post-curing storage elastic modulus of 107 to 1011 Pa is laminated on reflective layer 3 formed on optical disc substrate 2. In the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20060280111 - Optical storage medium and optical recording method: Data is recorded in an optical storage medium with a beam having a wavelength in a 650-nm band. The medium has a substrate, a first laminated layer structure formed on the substrate and having at least a first reflective film and a first recording film, and a second laminated layer... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20060274611 - Apparatus for focusing plasmon waves: An apparatus comprises a thin film metallic layer, a first dielectric layer arranged on a first side of said thin film metallic layer and having a first index of refraction, a second dielectric layer arranged on the opposite side of said thin film metallic layer from said first dielectric layer,... Agent: Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP

20060274610 - Optical pickup device and recording and/or reproducing apparatus: An optical pickup device includes an objective lens (2), with a numerical aperture (NA) being not less than 1, having a solid immersion lens (1) which is made up by a spherical portion (1a) and a flat portion (1b) parallel to a surface (101a) of an optical disc (101). The... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274612 - Recording medium, apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof, apparatus for storing data and method thereof: A recording medium, apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof, apparatus for storing data and method thereof are disclosed, in which the recording medium is reproduced using data in a persistent storage data. The present invention includes identifying a provider directory for a content provider of a recording medium in a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060274613 - Optical disk reproducing apparatus: An optical disk reproducing apparatus that plays back information recorded on an optical disk, includes: a system controller; and a controller that is operated in accordance with an instruction of the system controller, wherein: when a user operation of skip up/skip down is performed during reproducing of information recorded on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060274614 - Management of use of information that is recorded on an optical disk: PHNL031053 An apparatus for processing data from an optical disk (20) generates a data signal by decoding information from the track (21) and a track position signal that is indicative of the radial position and/or depth of the track (21), and/or jitter in the position of edges of bit signals... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060274615 - Method for setting laser power of optical disc device: A method for setting laser power of an optical disc device is provided. It is determined whether or not power curve data is present in a memory. If no power curve data is present, laser power self-setting is performed, and detected power curve data is stored in the memory, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274616 - Opc-performing method restudying optical source drive characteristics after opc recording and opc measurement and optical recording/reproducing apparatus using the same: An optical recording/reproducing apparatus and an OPC-performing method are provided for restudying drive characteristics of an optical source after performing OPC test recording and OPC measurement to ensure accurate optimum power control (OPC) for recording data on an optical disc, particularly, when the drive characteristics vary according to temperature changes... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060274617 - Techniques for forming burst cutting area mark: A BCA mark is applied prior to molding of optical recording media. A stamper including a BCA code is formed. The stamper including the BCA code is used in the molding of optical recording discs. This technique can be used in manufacturing of read-only type discs, recordable discs, rewritable discs,... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20060274618 - Edge analysis in video quality assessment: The present invention applies edge detector techniques as are known per se in the art to the field of automated video quality assessment by providing a method of and system for video quality assessment which employs any known edge detection algorithm as the basis of an edge detection stage for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060274619 - Method and apparatus for controlling record and reproduction of optical record medium: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for controlling the record and reproduction of optical record medium in which plural non-record regions having different phase are arranged between recordable data regions for the distinction in the shape of the data region. The method and apparatus performs the servo using focus error... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274620 - Processing an information carrying signal: An automatic gain control (AGC) controls the signal amplitude at the input to an analog to digital converter (ADC) input by applying a gain that produces a desired overall amplitude resolution of the patterns actually presented by the signal delivered by the ADC converter. Short RLL patterns will have sufficient... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20060274621 - Light guiding unit, light guiding unit assembly, and lighting device including the same: A light guide unit, a light guide unit assembly, and a lighting device are provided which can efficiently use light emitted from a light source and uniformly radiate light from an elongate rectangular radiating surface. The light guide unit has at least one radiation direction in a direction perpendicular to... Agent: Cermak & Kenealy, LLP

20060274622 - Motor power controller for a disk drive, disk drive comprising a motor power controller and method for controlling the motor power of a disk drive: The present invention relates to a motor power controller for a disk drive. Further on, the present invention relates to a disk drive comprising a motor power controller and to a method for controlling the motor power of a disk drive. Portable computers like laptop computers or portable audio/video systems... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060274623 - Flexible write strategy generator: Methods and system are provided that enable unique write strategies to be selected without having to provide custom chips. Specific embodiments allow a user to specify which combinations, of total possible combinations, of space-to-mark lengths and mark-to-space lengths can have unique timing parameters defined in a portion of timing memory... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20060274624 - Information recording method and information recording apparatus: The mark-length recording system whereby information is recorded by changing the lengths of a recorded portion and an unrecorded or erased portion has a problem that, when new information is recorded in an already recorded region, the newly recorded information may deteriorate in reliability because the length and width of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274625 - Recording medium data recording method and device: A data recording method according to the present invention is a method for recording data as edge position information, including marks and spaces of multiple different lengths, on a storage medium by irradiating the storage medium with a pulsed energy beam. The method includes the steps of: (A) generating a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20060274626 - Recording apparatus and recording method: A recording apparatus performs recording on an optical disc recording medium which has a plurality of recording layers and is capable of having data rewritten thereon. The recording apparatus includes recording means for performing data recording on each recording layer of the recording medium and recording controlling means for controlling... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274627 - Optical disc device: When a hybrid type next-generation DVD is loaded in the optical disc device, first, a red laser is turned on and parameter value and a lead-in information with respect to a DVD layer are acquired. The acquired information is stored in a memory. Next, a blue laser is turned on,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060274628 - Method and apparatus for image forming capable of accurately detecting displacement of transfer images and image density: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, an image forming mechanism, a seamless belt-like intermediate transfer body or a transfer material carrier, a detection mechanism, and an optical detecting apparatus. The optical detecting apparatus includes at least a printed board, and a plurality of photodetectors formed of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060274629 - Data storage device: A data storage device includes a first read mechanism, a second read mechanism, and a data storage medium movable with respect to the first read mechanism and the second read mechanism. A first reference patch containing reference bits is positioned near a first corner of the data storage medium. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060274630 - Apparatus and method for compensating wobble in holographic digital data storage system: A holographic digital data storage apparatus detects a wobbling in a disc shaped storage medium, wherein the apparatus includes a beam generator and finding means, the disc including therein one or more holographically generated patterns. The beam generator projects at least two wobble detection beams to the holographically generated patterns,... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20060274631 - Optical recording/reproducing apparatus: An optical recording/reproducing apparatus featuring stable information signal detection ability and reduced number of components. The optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes: a plurality of light sources emitting lights with different wavelengths for use in recording/reproducing information onto/from various types of optical recording media of different recording densities, in which at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060274632 - Output voltage adjusting method for laser power monitoring: To make the output voltage of a laser power monitor circuit (12) equal to a predetermined value at a predetermined laser power, adjustment is performed by changing an external variable resistance for output voltage adjustment. To achieve this, adjustment is performed by changing the variable resistance so that the difference... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060274633 - Multi-stack information carrier: The invention relates to an information carrier comprising at least two information stacks. Each stack comprises a first electrode (11, 15), a second electrode (13, 17) and an information layer (12, 16) between the first and second electrodes. The information layer comprises molecules which can be rotated when a suitable... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060274634 - Recording medium, recording apparatus, and reading apparatus: In a recording medium, the physical characteristic information of the recording medium, and more specifically, the configuration (shape and size) and the moment of inertia of the disc, is recorded. This enables a recording apparatus or a reading apparatus to easily and correctly determine the physical characteristics of the disc,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274635 - Recording medium, recording apparatus, and reading apparatus: In a recording medium, the physical characteristic information of the recording medium, and more specifically, the configuration (shape and size) and the moment of inertia of the disc, is recorded. This enables a recording apparatus or a reading apparatus to easily and correctly determine the physical characteristics of the disc,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274636 - Shape-limitless optical media: The present invention provides a optical media with no shape limitation and, by deposing a position mark in a recording layer and reflection layer, an encryption setup and a special shape can be obtained for more diversification in use.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20060274637 - Wavelength selective coatings for optical disc security: An optical disc for data storage includes a layer of color-shifting material. Light passing through the color-shifting layer will have a color determined by the various constructive and destructive interference of the various wavelengths after they have passed through the material, diffracted while passing through the material, and are reflected... Agent: William F. Lang, Iv Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC