Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 02/07

20070041278 - Disk reproducing apparatus: A disk reproducing apparatus that includes: an acquisition unit that acquires predetermined information recorded on an optical disk; a determination unit that determines whether or not the predetermined information has speaker information; a first audio output unit that, when the predetermined information has the speaker information, outputs the audio signal... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041279 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data, recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording data: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving mixing information, and first mixing a secondary audio stream with a primary audio stream based on the mixing information. The primary audio stream is associated with a primary video stream and the secondary audio stream is associated with a secondary video stream. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070041280 - Device for and method of recording information: A device for recording data and data structures on a write-once storage medium. The device has writing means for recording the data and the data structures and controlling means for generating the data structures and controlling the writing means. The data structures comprise space bit map and defect management structures.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041281 - Method for recording a lead-out on an optical disc: A device for recording information writes marks in a track on a record carrier of a writable type. The device records the information according to a predefined recording format like DVD for constituting a recording area containing user data preceded by a lead-in zone and followed by a lead-out zone... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041283 - Optical recording medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproducing apparatus: In an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers of a double-spiral structure in which information is recorded on both of land tracks and groove tracks, the spiral of a first recording layer (1) is in the forward direction, the spiral of a second recording layer (2) is... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070041282 - Write-once disc, recording apparatus thereto, and method of reducing access time thereto: A write-once disc, an apparatus for recording information thereon, and a method of reducing access time thereto the write-once disc including at least one record layer. The write-once disc also includes at least one update area in which updated predetermined information is recorded; and an access information area in which... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070041284 - Write onece recording medium, recorder and recording method for write once recording method for write once recording medium, reproducer and reproducing method for write once recording medium, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and: A write-once-type recording medium (100) on which record data can be recorded only once, provided with: a data area (108) to record therein the record data; and a shared area (104, 105) to temporarily record therein evacuation data which is record data to be recorded or already recorded at a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070041285 - Optical disk recording and reproducing device capable of high-speed start processing: When entering a mode of executing spin-up processing (start), first the storage unit is accessed and when control information related to previous start processing is stored, a parameter adjustment value as control information recorded in the storage unit and management information of the already read optical disk are read to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070041286 - Optical head: An optical head, in which a spring stopper rib, as formed in a slide base, includes a post portion protruding from the upper face of the slide base, and a spring stopper portion for stopping a spring, and in which the spring receiving portion of an actuator has a recess... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041287 - Optical pickup apparatus capable of detecting and compensating for spherical aberration caused by thickness variation of recording layer: An optical pickup apparatus, including a light source to emit light, an objective lens to form a light spot on an optical recording medium by focusing the light emitted from the light source, an optical division unit, disposed between the light source and the objective lens, to divide the light... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070041288 - Methods and apparatuses for accessing a hybrid disc: The present invention discloses methods and apparatuses for accessing a hybrid disc. The hybrid disc has a plurality of recording layers corresponding to at least two different storage densities. A proposed method includes acquiring a parameter corresponding to accessing of a target recording layer of the plurality of recording layers,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070041289 - Optical disc apparatus: In an optical disc apparatus, the amplitude level of a focus error signal for performing focus search is measured, and in order to bring the measured amplitude level of the focus error signal to a target value, gains of focus servo drive amplifiers which amplify respective detection signals from four... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041290 - Optical head and optical information medium driving device: A semiconductor laser; a light flux separation element that separates a light flux emitted from the semiconductor laser for a first light flux and a second light flux to come out therefrom; an objective lens on which the first light flux coming out from the light flux separation element is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070041291 - Optical disk recording system: When “buffer under run” (BUR) occurs during recording of a visible image on an optical disk, recording operation is interrupted. As in the case of type A, when BUR1 occurs after data have been transferred through an integral multiple of one revolution, data are recorded continuously from a reference angle... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070041292 - Disk reproducing apparatus: A disk reproducing apparatus that includes: a first rotation control unit that applies a constant drive voltage to a spindle motor to thereby rotate an optical disk; a measuring unit that measures the length of the longest bit included in an EFM signal on information data reproduced from the optical... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041293 - Method for optimizing write parameters of optical storage medium and recording device therefor: A method for optimizing write parameters of an optical storage medium is provided. The method is adapted for a recording device using the optical storage medium. The method includes loading the optical storage medium having a test area into the recording device, determining a combination of an original write strategy... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070041294 - Optical recording method, evaluation indicator acquiring method, optical recording apparatus, micro cpu device, and computer program: In certain inventive aspects there are provided an optical recording method, an evaluation indicator acquiring method, an optical recording apparatus, a CPU device, and a computer program, which can save a test time before recording information so as to record information for a short time. An irradiation condition suitable for... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070041295 - Optical disc, optical disc apparatus, and digital work publication: An optical disc is based on the following the distance of the light transmission layer from a light incidence plane to the first recording layer is a minimum of 550 μm. The distance between the first and the third recording layer is a maximum of 72 μm. The distance between... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041296 - Disk finalization systems and methods: Methods and systems for disk finalization are provided. It is determined whether triggering of a disk finalization operation is required by monitoring a recording process for recording or editing data on an optical storage medium loaded in the optical read/write system. If triggering of the disk finalization operation is required,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070041298 - Method for playing digital videos, a method for reading data and a method for smoothly playing pictures: A method for playing digital images is disclosed. The method is applied to a disc player that is electrically connected to a computer, comprises the steps of: reading a disc; judging if the disc has DVD video data; judging that the disc player is in a play mode or in... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070041297 - Method, system, playback device and recorder for duplicating multi layer record carriers: When a multi layer record carrier comprising video information is to be duplicated on another multi layer record carrier the data spread over two recording layers on the source record carrier must also be spread over the layers of the target record carrier. In order to avoid the processing of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041299 - An information recording method an optical information recording medium and an information recording apparatus: An optical information recording method is disclosed, which is for recording information at constant linear density in an optical recording medium that is rotated at a constant angular speed, the recording being carried out by irradiating a laser beam that contains the same number of mark recording periods that consist... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070041300 - Optical disk apparatus and reproduction signal processing circuit: In an optical disk apparatus that uses reproduced signals from a plurality of beam spots to reduce the influence of crosstalk, stable clock generation is implemented. The optical disk apparatus includes a delay adjusting circuit for the reproduced signals from the respective spots outside a PLL loop. With the delay... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070041301 - Optical information recording medium: The invention relates to an optical information recording medium and methods and devices to record and read information thereto and thereof. The optical information recording medium comprises luminescent nano-elements. The nano-element species differ in at least one luminescence wavelength. Therefore, a specific luminescence signal is obtained in accordance with the... Agent: Michael E. Belk U.s. Philips Corporation

20070041302 - Information recording apparatus, and information recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording device for recording the recording information on a recording medium having a recording surface where recording can be performed optically. The information recording device includes a laser light source and a conversion optical system for converting the laser beam emitted from the laser light source into a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070041303 - Information storage medium and apparatus for reproducing the same: An information storage medium stored hologram data images and an apparatus for reproducing data image from the same are provided. The medium includes a line-type servo image formed on one side of a hologram data image in radial direction. The apparatus includes an information storage medium, the first photodetector, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041304 - Optical disc drive: An optical disc drive includes a light source and an objective optical system for condensing a light from the light source onto a recording surface of an optical disc. A chassis which is movable radially of the optical disc supports both the light source and the objective optical system. The... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070041305 - Disk apparatus: A disk apparatus that includes: a first determining unit that determines whether the maximum value of an amplitude of an RF signal is a first reference level or more and the minimum value of the detected amplitude of the RF signal is a second reference level or less; a counting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070041306 - Perpendicular magnetic discrete track recording disk: A method of forming a discrete track recording pattern on a soft magnetic underlayer of a perpendicular magnetic recording disk. In one embodiment, the soft magnetic underlayer is continuous throughout the discrete track recording pattern.... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070041307 - Optical recording medium with different wobble characteristics between the user data area and the lead-out area: An optical recording medium has a user data area and a lead-out area, wherein the user data area and the lead-out area each has grooves and lands formed thereon. Wobbles are formed on at least one lateral surface of grooves of the user data area and the lead-out area, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070041308 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method: A disc-shaped information recording medium includes a first recording layer (L0 layer) having (I) a first trial write area (101P-1) for trial write of first trial write information for calibration of the laser beam along the first track path (TP1) from the inner circumference toward the outer circumference and (II)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070041309 - Rewritable optical data storage medium and use of such a medium: A rewritable optical data storage medium (20) for high-speed recording by means of a focused radiation beam is described. The medium (20) comprises a substrate (7) carrying a stack (2) of layers, which stack (2) comprises, a substantially transparent first auxiliary layer I1 (3), a substantially transparent second auxiliary layer... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070036039 - Method for image processing and image processing apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for image processing and an image processing apparatus which are capable of performing repetitive forming and erasing of high-contrast images at high speeds by forming high-density, uniform images and uniformly erasing images in a short period of time,... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070036040 - Dual wire integrated wamr/hamr writing head: An apparatus comprises a waveguide, an optical transducer for coupling electromagnetic radiation from the waveguide to a point adjacent to an air bearing surface to heat a portion of a storage medium, and a first wire positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface, wherein current in the wire produces a... Agent: Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP

20070036041 - Actuator of optical pickup head with horizontally arranged magnetic filed generator and coil device: An actuator of an optical pickup head for accessing data on a disk includes an object-lens holder, a magnetic field generator and a coil device. The object-lens holder carries an object lens. The magnetic field generator generates a first magnetic field perpendicular to a surface of the disk and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036042 - Methods and systems for in-track optical positioning: Methods and systems for formatting of optical media used for data or information storage.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP (formerly Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP)

20070036044 - Optical recording medium having read-only storage area and writeable storage area and recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor: An optical recording medium having a read-only storage area and a writable storage area and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor. The optical recording medium is a hybrid disc having both the read-only storage area, which is suitable for mass production of information having the same contents, and the writable... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070036043 - Safe recovery in dvd recordable/rewritable realtime recording: An apparatus comprising an encoder, a packet generator, a disc loader, and a rebuild circuit. The encoder may be configured to generate a format data stream in response to an input signal. The packet generator may be configured to generate special packets from extracts of the format data stream. The... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070036045 - Optical disk unit capable of reading out data normally and continuously after suspension of data writing: An optical disk unit includes the following: a storage part temporarily storing data to be written to an optical disk; a processing part processing the data; an encoder part modulating and outputting the processed data; a writing control part controlling writing of the data to the optical disk; and a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070036046 - Optical recording method and apparatus with different recording rates: An optical recording method and apparatus with different recording rates are provided for effectively increasing the average recording rate. The optical recording method includes the steps of: controlling a recording rate with a constant linear velocity (CLV) control mode; recording data; judging whether the recording rate has to be increased... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070036047 - Dual-deck optical disc system and copy method thereof: A dual-deck optical disc system, including a first deck into which a recordable optical disc is inserted, a second deck into which an original optical disc is inserted, and a controller. The controller checks whether contents to be copied from the original optical disc of the second deck are able... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070036050 - Anykey function executing device of optical disc system and method of executing anykey function: A method of executing an anykey function of an optical disc system, the optical disc system including a recording/reproducing deck and a recording deck, the method including determining a type of an enabled deck; determining a type of an optical disc inserted in the enabled deck; and selecting a list... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070036049 - Dual-deck optical disc system and method of controlling the same: A dual-deck optical disc system and a method of controlling the dual-deck optical disc system enable data to be simultaneously recorded and reproduced. The dual-deck optical disc system may include a plurality of decks operable to record data on and reproduce data from optical discs mounted in the plurality of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070036048 - Optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus including at least two optical disk drives, and a digital converter to encode and decode audio/video (A/V) signals reproduced from the at least two optical disk drives. The digital converter is installed at a middle portion between the at least two optical disk... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070036051 - Disc drive apparatus: A disc drive apparatus (1), for writing/reading information to/from an optical storage disc (2), comprises: means (4) for rotating the disc (2) at a variable disc rotation speed; an optical system (30) for generating a scan beam (32); an actuator system (50) for positioning a focus point (F) of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070036052 - Optical recording method, optical recording apparatus, one-chip cpu device, and computer program: There are provided an optical recording method, an optical recording apparatus, a one-chip CPU device, and a computer program, which can save a test time before recording information so as to record information for a short time. Reference data corresponding to a recording condition of a first recording layer, a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070036053 - Information recording medium, information recording device, and information recording method: According to one embodiment, a single-sided multilayered information recording medium having recording layers, wherein an emboss management zone, an inner recordable management zone, a data area, and an outer recordable management zone are sequentially arranged from an inner side of each of the recording layers, and a burst-cutting area is... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036054 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus which reproduces information stored along tracks in recording layers of an optical disk includes a light illuminating medium which illuminates a light beam to a target track and at least one specific track of the optical disk, a reproduction unit which detects a reflected light beam... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070036055 - Device, method and program for recovering from media error in disk array device: In order to provide a device, a method and a program for recovering from a media error even when the media error occurs in a disk array apparatus in a state such that the disk array device lacks redundancy, a disk array control device 100 is provided with at least... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070036056 - Apparatus and method for generating write pulse appropriate for various optical recording media: A control signal generator of a light emitting device includes a driving unit to drive the light emitting device and a voltage divider to divide voltages, outputting a power control signal, wherein the power control signal is provided as an auxiliary power control signal to the driving unit so as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070036057 - Universal media disc cleaning/repairing device: A universal media disc cleaning/repairing device including: a main body having a receptacle for snugly receiving a universal media disc; a driving motor mounted in the main body; a disc driving mechanism rotationally drivable by the driving motor, the disc driving mechanism having a disc driving tray upward protruding from... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070036058 - Method and unit for separating light and optical pickup device and optical recording/playback apparatus based thereon: A method for separating light coming from an illuminated multilayer medium having a plurality of reflective surfaces to reach a light receiver through a focusing lens includes the steps of splitting the light traveling toward the light receiver through the focusing lens into at least two portions along the optical... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070036059 - Light source drive, optical information recording apparatus, and optical information recording method: A light source drive which modulates a light source so as to cause the same to emit a light, includes: a superposition current generation part which generates a superposition current approximately corresponding to a charging/discharging current needed for a capacitance occurring in parallel to the light source for a predetermined... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070036060 - Data recording method, data reproducing method, data recording apparatus, data reproducing apparatus, and information recording medium: A data recording method that records data by carrying out a mark forming process that blows recording mark forming gas onto a surface of an information recording medium substrate and irradiates first recording positions on the surface set corresponding to a content of the data to be recorded using a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070036061 - Information recording carrier and information reproducing apparatus for the same: Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit.... Agent: Gary M. Nath Nath & Associates PLLC

20070036062 - Information recording carrier and information reproducing apparatus for the same: Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit.... Agent: Gary M. Nath Nath & Associates PLLC

20070036063 - Optical recording medium read-only storage area and writeable storage area and recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor: An optical recording medium having a read-only storage area and a writable storage area and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor. The optical recording medium is a hybrid disc having both the read-only storage area, which is suitable for mass production of information having the same contents, and the writable... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070030765 - Initiating playing of data using an alarm clock: An alarm clock device includes a monitor for monitoring a transmission of a selected station, a detector for detecting, in the transmission of the selected station, at least one milestone. A controller operating in response to detection of the milestone is provided to store, in a memory, data of the... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070030766 - Multiple-drive recording and reproduction apparatus: A multiple-drive recording and reproduction apparatus of the invention includes a system controller which, upon duplication of information recorded on a hard disc onto an optical disc, on the hard disc device side, compresses and tentatively reproduces, at a bit rate changed, predetermined time's worth of video data from the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070030767 - Method, system, playback device and recorder for duplicating multi layer record carriers: When a multi layer record carrier comprimising video information is to be duplicated on another multi layer record carrier the data spread over two recording layers on the source record carrier must also be spread over the two layers of the target record carrier. Once an appropriate layer transition for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030768 - Magnetic recording disk drive with switchable rotational vibration cancellation: A magnetic recording disk drive with rotational vibration (RV) cancellation uses the position error signal (PES) and the signal from a RV sensor to determine when to enable and disable RV cancellation. An RV feedforward compensation signal to be summed with the VCM control signal is “switchable”, meaning that it... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20070030769 - Wobble signal reproducing circuit: The present invention has an object to stably reproduce wobble signals of all disks of CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM by one wobble signal reproducing circuit. In the wobble signal reproducing circuit, an AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL) circuit for equating a push-pull circuit output of a wide range and an RF... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070030770 - Optical pickup and optical information processing apparatus: An optical pickup performing recording, reproduction and deletion of information onto an optical recording medium, said optical pickup includes light sources of blue wavelength zone, red wavelength zone and infrared wavelength zone; a single object lens which condenses a light from any of the light sources; and a single aberration... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030771 - Method for automatically correcting an operation type of a disk drive: A method for automatically correcting an operation type of a disk drive sets a number of times of normal track seeking of the disk drive as a standard. When executing track seeking commands, the method also detects whether a number of times of track seeking in the track seeking commands... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030772 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus is capable of performing at least one of recording, reproduction and erasure of information, the optical disc apparatus. An optical pickup device irradiates a light onto an optical disc and receives the light reflected by the optical disc so as to output an output signal. A... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030773 - Information recording device and method, and computer program: An information recording apparatus is provided with: a recording device for recording information onto an information recording medium; a detrack detecting device for detecting occurrence of detrack during the recording of the information; and a controlling device for controlling said recording device to return to a location where the detrack... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070030774 - Disc drive apparatus, and tilt compensation method: A method is described for compensating tilt (0) of an optical disc (2). An optical lens (34), which is pivotably mounted, is pivoted to an optimum pivot position (WoPT) such that the amplitude (ATE) of the push-pull tracking error signal (STE) is maximal. Said optimum pivot position (WOPT) is determined... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030775 - Hdd sector format with reduced vulnerability to defects and burst errors: Modified HDD sector formats have multiple sets of preamble data. The preambles are well separated so that any defect long enough to wipe out both preambles would also overwhelm the ECC.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070030776 - Super-resolution information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and recording/reproducing method: A super-resolution information recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus, and a recording/reproducing method uses an information recording medium provides a super-resolution effect by fluid bubbles. The fluid bubbles are formed in at least a portion of the medium by a light beam radiated to reproduce a signal from the information recording... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070030777 - Digital data reproducing device: An optical disk device which decodes data recorded on an optical disk, comprises a first measuring unit which measure a cycle of a plurality of first synchronous signal regions VFO contained in a reproduction signal from an optical pickup, a cycle comparing unit which compares the measurement result of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030778 - Optical disc apparatus and recording power determining method thereof: A method of determining a recording power used to record information to an optical disc, includes carrying out test recording which records predetermined data to a predetermined area of the optical disc to determine the recording power, and recording predetermined data with a power equal to or more than the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070030779 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070030780 - System and method of estimating the tangential tilt of an optical data carrier...: The invention relates to a system and a method of estimating the tangential tilt of an optical data carrier (302) intended to store a primary data signal (301), said method comprising a cross-correlating step for correlating a first data signal (m) derived from a readout data signal (z) with a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030781 - Tamper resistant security data on optical media: A system and method for writing and extracting tamper resistant security data onto optical media such as for example CDs and DVDs. A unique digital identifier may be embedded onto the lead-in area and/or lead-out area of an optical media, which areas are inaccessible in conventional optical media readers. The... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070030782 - Method and apparatus for supporting fast finalization for a recording medium: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for finalizing a dual layer disc medium. The present invention checks whether particular areas on each recording layer of a dual layer recording medium separated from each other, e.g., the innermost circumference of data zone and around an area of radius... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030783 - Disc drive apparatus, and method for timing reccalibration in a disc drive apparatus: A disc drive apparatus (1) is described, comprising a data engine system (20) and a data processing system (30) in data communication with each other. The data engine system (20) and the data processing system (30) are also in a conferring communication with each other regarding the timing of recalibration.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030784 - Light source driving unit and optical storage apparatus: A light source driving unit includes a modulating signal generating section generating modulating signals based on driving waveform generating information of a light source, a current source selecting section selecting one or more currents output from current sources based on the modulating signals, a light source driving section generating a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030785 - Light source driving unit and optical storage apparatus: A light source driving unit includes a modulating signal generating section generating modulating signals based on driving waveform generating information of a light source, a current source selecting section selecting one or more currents output from current sources based on the modulating signals, a light source driving section generating a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030786 - Method of storing rll encoded information to an optical disc with control of the frequency of the information with respect to the cut-off frequency of the optical system: A method of storing/retrieving information to/from an optical disc by means of an optical system with a cut-off frequency νcut-off, above which frequencies cannot be detected, is disclosed. The invention relates to Run Length Limited encoded information. According to the invention, some frequencies of the encoded information can be higher... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030787 - Data read/write device for holographic storage medium and method thereof: An apparatus writes and reads data with respect to a holographic storage medium. The holographic data writing apparatus includes a laser beam irradiating device irradiating a laser beam onto a storage medium which is capable of writing a holographic data thereon; and a reflective data mask arranged adjacent to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030788 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup has a semiconductor laser, a diffractive optical element that has first diffraction regions and second diffraction regions and diffracts a beam emitted by the semiconductor laser, an objective lens that focuses the diffracted beam on an optical disc, and a detection unit that detects a tracking error... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070030789 - Method and radiation source driving device for controlling radiation power: The invention pertains to a method off controlling radiation power of a radiation source (25) comprising the steps of a) measuring a radiated power of the radiation source (25), b) calculating an error value (e) which is indicative of a difference between the 5 radiated power and a setpoint value... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030790 - Information carrier and system for reading data stored on such an information carrier: The invention relates to a system for reading data stored on an information carrier (201), said system comprising: an optical element (202) for generating an array of light spots (203) from an input light beam (204), said array of light spots (203) being intended to scan said information carrier (201),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030791 - Probe memory device and positioning method therefor: In a probe memory device, a technique of realizing consistency of high-density recording and high-speed reading/writing is provided. A recording medium is placed to a probe array chip on which a plurality of probes are arranged in such a way as to maintain a constant spacing thereto by adopting a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070030792 - Electronic apparatus having a cylindrical storage device: An electronic apparatus comprises a cylindrical storage device and a read/write component. The cylindrical storage device has a top surface, a bottom surface and a cylindrical surface. The cylindrical surface connects the top surface and the bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The read/write component is movably disposed near... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070030793 - Method and radiation source driving device for controlling radiation power: The invention pertains to a method for controlling radiation power of a radiation source (26), comprising the steps of a) driving the radiation source (26) in a first mode comprising the substeps of a1) determining a threshold current (Ithr) at which the radiation source (26) begins to radiate, a2) measuring... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030795 - Optical recording medium, manufacturing method thereof, method for recording data on optical recording medium, and data reproduction method: An optical recording medium 10 according to the present invention includes a supporting substrate 11 on which a groove 11a is formed, a light transmitting layer 12, a noble metal oxide layer 23 provided between the supporting substrate 11 and the light transmitting layer 12, wherein a depth of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030794 - Record carrier for the optical storage and retrieval of information: The invention relates to a record carrier for the storage and retrieval of information, comprising: a substrate (1), an active layer (2) for retention of information, the active layer employing bit-position encoding for the storage and retrieval of information and an energy shielding layer for shielding the energy during writing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070025192 - Optical recording medium: An optical recording medium has a substrate, a first information layer which is provided in a beam incident side of the substrate, and a second information layer which serves as the semi-transparent information layer and is provided in a beam incident side of the first information layer, the second information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070025193 - Recording medium and signal processing unit for recording medium drive: A magnetic film is formed over phase pit sequences in a recording medium. Recording marks are established in the magnetic film in accordance with the direction of the magnetization. A laser beam is utilized to read out information from the phase pit sequences. The laser beam is also utilized to... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070025195 - Controlling power supply to a storage device: A power control apparatus includes a driver for controlling an operation of a storage device, a filter driver for monitoring a state of the storage device, and a management program part for controlling a power supply to the storage device. The management program part is configured to output a control... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070025196 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: an interface unit that receives a storing request for storing a plurality of files onto a plurality of removable storages; and a processing unit that performs a storing process in response to the storing request received by the interface unit, the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070025197 - Information-processing apparatus, recording medium and information-processing method: Disclosed herein is an information-processing apparatus capable of transmitting a content to a portable reproduction apparatus which can reproduce the content, including: a content storage section; a transmission content acquisition section; a deletion completion list acquisition section; a transmission permission/inhibition determine section; and a content transmission section.... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025198 - Content data recording device and recording control method: Electronic device capable of automatically securing a capacity for recording a second content data other than a first content data even in the case of automatically recording to a storage medium the first content data received by a push-type service. For example, a portable audio player receives as an input... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070025200 - Apparatus for reproducing a digital information signal which is recorded on a first and a second layer of a record carrier: The invention relates to an apparatus for reproducing a digital information signal which is recorded on a first and a second layer of a record carrier, the digital information signal being divided into cells, each cell being recorded in at least one sector, the digital information signal comprising a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070025201 - Method for determining a driving force to drive an optical pickup head: A method for determining a driving force to drive an optical pickup head of an optical disc drive includes steps of inserting an optical storage media including absolute address marks into the optical disc drive; sequentially providing a plurality of driving indexes for generating testing driving forces for the optical... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070025199 - Recorder, recording method and recording medium where program is recorded: A controller determines whether an optical disk has been formatted (S1), formats the optical disk by recording a lead-in area in the recording area of the optical disc if the optical disk has not yet been formatted (S2), records content data in a contents area of the optical disk, and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070025194 - System and method for modifying media content playback based on an intelligent random selection: A playlist containing a plurality of tracks is filtered to generate a customized subset or window of tracks for playback. The method includes automatically determining user preference data for each of the plurality of tracks based on the user's conduct when each of the plurality is accessed for playback. The... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070025202 - Apparatus for and method of detecting a wobble signal in accordance with a time shift: An apparatus for and a method of detecting a wobble signal in accordance with a time shift includes comparing a basic wobble signal with reference levels to detect pulses representing the time shift in an analog fashion, and digitally determining a code value for the basic wobble signal on the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070025203 - Optical disk processing apparatus and optical disk processing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a disk apparatus including a reading unit which reads a reflective light from a disk and outputs a read signal, an extracting unit which extracts a wobble signal from the read signal, an upper limit detector which detects an upper limit signal of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025204 - Objective optical system for optical recording media and optical pickup device using it: An objective optical system for optical recording media and an optical pickup device using the objective optical system includes a holographic optical element that includes angularly-multiplexed holograms for correcting spherical aberration and/or coma aberration due to variations in substrate thicknesses of recording media and errors by tilting the holographic optical... Agent: Arnold International

20070025205 - Optical pickup and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the same: An optical pickup, including a light source, an objective lens to focus light emitted from the light source to form a light spot on an optical information storage medium, an optical path changer to change an optical path of the light, a photodetector to receive light reflected/diffracted by the optical... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070025206 - Optical disc drive apparatus and signal recording method: An optical disc drive apparatus includes: a laser beam source; a collector device disposed as facing a disc that can record a signal, which collects a laser beam emitted from the laser beam source onto the disc; a record processing module which records the signal on the disc through the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025207 - Optical pickup and optical disk apparatus: A first laser light source for emitting an optical beam of a first wavelength, a second laser light source for emitting an optical beam of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength and first and second polarizing devices through which the optical beams of first and second wavelengths transmit... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070025209 - Optical disk recording and reproducing device allowing simple and fast setting of an optimum record power: A controller calculates a modulation degree of an RF signal provided from a signal processor, and supplies a record power that exhibits the calculated modulation degree matching with a target modulation degree as an optimum record power to a laser driver. More specifically, a modulation degree measuring portion measures the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070025208 - Lens position control method, lens position control apparatus, cutting method, and cutting apparatus: A lens position control method is disclosed. Either an objective lens or a master disc having a resist material film on its substrate is moved, thereby changing a distance between the objective lens and the master disc surface. A return laser beam transmitted through the objective lens and reflected by... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070025210 - Optical disc, optical disc device, optical disc recording device, and optical disc driving method: An optical disc on which information can be recorded by recording light has a first recording layer (102) and a second recording layer (103) disposed behind the first recording layer as viewed by the recording light; the first recording layer and the second recording layer have respective power adjustment areas... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070025211 - Data sampling and extraction method and system: A sampling rate for extracting information encoded on an optical disk is determined. First and second instances of a signal representing data encoded on the disk is detected, from which a disk rotation speed is determined. Based on the disk rotation speed, a sampling rate is determined.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070025213 - Information reproducing apparatus and information reproducing method: An information reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is capable of reproducing an information storage medium storing BCA information recorded in a first area and RF information recorded in a second area on an outer side of the first area. The information reproducing apparatus includes an optical pickup to... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025214 - Information storage medium, reproducing method, recording method and recording device: According to one embodiment, a disc-shape information storage medium in which a recording mark is formed by a laser beam and light reflectance of a recording mark portion formed by the laser beam is higher than light reflectance before a recording mark formation, comprising a management information area which is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070025212 - Optical disk apparatus and optical disk reproducing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an optical disk apparatus including a detecting unit which reads a reflective light from an optical disk and outputs a read signal, a decoder which decodes the read signal from the detecting unit, an extracting unit which extracts from the read signal the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025215 - Disk reproducing device provided with pickup lens dirt detection function: The invention provides a disk reproducing device capable of automatically detecting dirt on a lens without using any additional members. A pickup unit 5 reads a video signal of a storage medium 2, comparison/judgment means 9a compares an attenuation ratio of an RF signal B amplified by an RF amplifier... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070025216 - Apparatus and method for detecting tracking error signal using multiple phase clocks: An apparatus and method for digitally detecting a tracking error signal using multiple phase clocks. The apparatus includes a phase extractor receiving four divided outputs in response to light reflected from an optical disk and extracting four divided phases, respectively, a phase difference detector detecting phase differences between two phases... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070025217 - Method and apparatus for detecting phase error information in multilevel recording/reproduction system: An optical information reproduction method includes the steps of detecting, in at least two adjacent virtual cells provided in a recording/reproduction area of an optical information medium, at least two cell center signal levels and a cell boundary signal level between the cell center signal levels and acquiring phase error... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025218 - Method of reducing disc lead-in time in optical recording/reproducing apparatus: A method of shortening a lead-in time for loading a disc having a reproduction-only area in an optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes finding and setting a signal value of a rewritable area of the disc to be loaded for recording/reproduction/erasing of the disc in a process adjustment operation, adjusting the signal... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070025219 - Information playback apparatus and information playback method: An information playback apparatus according to the present invention plays back an information storage medium including first and second areas. The apparatus includes a moving unit to move an optical pickup in a diameter direction of the storage medium from the first area toward the second area; a feature signal... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025220 - Optical disc drive and method for driving the optical disk drive: An optical disk drive includes: an objective lens for converging a light beam onto an optical disk with an information storage layer; an actuator for moving the lens perpendicularly to the storage layer; an actuator driver for moving the lens at a predetermined velocity by controlling the actuator's operation; and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070025221 - Optical disc device and hybrid optical disc: When a hybrid optical disc is loaded on a player, the next generation DVD layer is reproduced in preference to the DVD layer. Jump to the DVD layer is appropriately performed based on the content of the reproduction list held in the next generation DVD. The jump to the DVD... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070025223 - Information recording method and information recording device: An information recording method of recording information with a high degree of accuracy on a semitransparent recording layer, which is subjected to severe thermal interference, of a multilayered recording medium. A downward pulse is applied to the back half portion of a prescribed space in the waveform of an energy... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070025222 - Channel synchronization for two-dimensional optical recording: The present invention relates to a method for synchronizing the signals coming from a set of data channels of a two dimensional optical read-out system. Said synchronization method comprises a step of cross-correlating the signals of a pair of adjacent channels for determining a relative phase delay between said adjacent... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070025224 - Optical disk drive: According to one embodiment, a frequency detector detects a frequency error between a frequency of a reproduction signal supplied from an analog to digital converter and a frequency of a clock for conversion. A loop filter controls an oscillation frequency of a voltage control oscillator based on the frequency error... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025225 - Information storage medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus and information recording/reproducing method: An information storage medium on which characters, images, etc., can be optically formed with high visual distinguishability. In the information storage medium for allowing multilayer recording with a laser-emitted face on one side and a label face on the other side, the information storage medium includes: a first recording layer... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025226 - Phase change memory device and method of manufacturing the same: Provided are a phase change memory device and a method of fabricating the same capable of maximizing a contact area of a phase change layer and a heating electrode. The memory device includes a heating electrode and a phase change layer. The heating electrode covers at least one side exposed... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070025227 - Optical head and information recording/reproducing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a diffraction pattern of a diffraction element or hologram polarization element to guide a reflected laser beam divided into a predetermined number is suitably combined as one body in a photodetector, and an optical head unit is easily designed to obtain a focus error signal, a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070025228 - Optical pickup apparatus: There is provided an optical pickup apparatus that can obtain a stable servo signal by reducing stray light generated by diffraction in a recording layer other than a recording layer on which light is condensed. A hologram element provided in an optical pickup apparatus for recording information onto a recording... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070025229 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises an optical unit for projecting a plurality of wavelengths of light, the light including a celadon light, toward a recording medium and receiving the light reflected from the recording medium to thereby detect an information signal and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070025230 - Compensation methods based on laser diode controlling input: Methods for system parameter compensation and temperature detection based on a controlling input of a laser diode (LD). The controlling input of the LD is measured and compared with a reference value measured at a known environment. The comparison result is used to tune a system parameter of an optical... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070025231 - Semiconductor laser device: A semiconductor laser device, which has a protective film at an end surface thereof, is adaptable to demands for higher outputs or shorter wavelengths. The semiconductor laser device according to the present invention includes a dielectric film on at least one end surface of an optical resonator, in which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070025232 - Optical disk apparatus: To detect an MSK modulation mark from an MSK-modulated wobble signal without fail. A wobble signal of an optical disk is supplied to an address decoding circuit. The address decoding circuit performs exclusive-OR operation of a binarized wobble signal and a reference clock signal generated from the wobble signal by... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070025233 - Information carrier having wobble pre-groove: The present invention relates to an information carrier for storing user-data, said information carrier comprising a wobbled pre-groove having stored a wobble information and comprising sinusoidal wobbles. The wobble information is encoded by use of ADIP units, which are formed by sequences of sinusoidal wobbles having embedded patterns of MSK... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070025234 - Write-once type information storage medium (disk structure of recording type information storage medium having structure in which recording layer formed on transparent susbstrate is defined as inside), and information reproducing method or information rec: An embodiment of the invention, to provide a recording method and a storage medium for BCA data with high reliability for a storage medium and a method for reproducing BCA data from the storage medium, and an information recording apparatus and an information reproducing apparatus. In a conventional optical disk,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP