Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 04/07

20070091731 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information recording and reproducing apparatus: A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091733 - Reproducing device with repetitive reproduction function, repetitive reproduction program and repeating range resetting method: Disclosed are a reproducing device, and a repeating range resetting method and a repetitive reproduction function control program to be carried out by the device having a repetitive reproduction function of repetitively reproducing a repeating range and capable of carrying out a reproducing procedure for reproducing a single or plural... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070091732 - Information recording medium with prepit and recording/reproducing apparatus and method using the same: An information recording medium that can be rapidly finalized, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method using the same are provided. In the information recording medium, a prepit is pre-formed in a finalization area. Since the portion that has to be filled with data in finalizing the information recording medium is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070091734 - Apparatus and method for accurately converting groove/land polarity upon groove/land track change on optical medium: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for accurately converting a groove/land polarity upon a groove/land track change on an optical medium, by way of initially deciding a reference groove/land changing point or a decoded PID of any one specific sector formed on the optical medium. By counting a... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070091735 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091736 - System and method for storing and managing digital content: A system and method for storing and managing digital content is disclosed. Uncompressed digital content is obtained and automatically stored on a memory device, such digital content becoming immediately available to a user from the memory device. Imperceptibly to the user, the digital content is compressed, the compressed content is... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070091737 - Apparatus and method for providing uninterrupted continuous play during a change of sides of a dual-sided optical disk: An apparatus and method for providing continuous uninterrupted playback of a dual sided optical disk during side-to-side changing of the optical disk. The point at which a dual-sided optical disk will be switched between sides is determined. At some point prior to the switching of sides of the disk, a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070091738 - Light producing digital audio signal player: A digital audio signal player includes a microprocessor, a light producing ring, a digital audio signal processor, a dynamic RAM, and a manually-operated turning plate; the dynamic RAM is used to store music data; the light producing ring can produce light of several different colors, and it is joined to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070091740 - Optical pickup actuator with a magnetic driver having focus, track and tilt coils: An optical pickup actuator includes focus coils, track coils, and tilt coils disposed on opposite sides of a bobbin to drive the bobbin in a focus direction, a track direction, and a tilt direction and leaves the other opposite sides of the bobbin as empty sides on which the focus,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091739 - Optical pickup device and optical disk drive: An advantage of the present invention is that it provides an optical pickup device including a first condensing member that condenses light from a first light source; a second condensing member that condenses light from a second light source; a holder that has the first and second condensing members attached... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070091742 - Ce to rro cancellation for sled control: An apparatus comprising a center error creation circuit, a center error controller, and a center error repeatable run out circuit. The center error creation circuit may be configured to generate a center error signal in response to photo-diode signals. The center error controller may be configured to adjust a lens... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070091741 - Center error mechanical center adjustment: An apparatus comprising a center error creation circuit, a center error offset injection circuit and a center error controller. The center error creation circuit may be configured to generate a center error signal in response to one or more photo-diode signals. The center error offset injection circuit may be configured... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070091743 - Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing data on/from a recording medium: There is provided an apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from a recording medium including: a pickup unit including an objective lens and a solid immersion lens(SIL) to allow a light to be incident onto a recording medium; a photoelectric element for receiving the light reflected from the recording medium to output... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070091745 - Information storage apparatus: An information storage apparatus records, reproduces and/or erases information with respect to a recording medium. The apparatus includes a servo error generation detector for detecting a generation of a servo error based on at least one of servo signals including a focus error signal and a tracking error signal which... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070091746 - Optical disc for simplified data backup: An optical disc having a read-only portion and a writable portion is provided. The read-only portion comprises computer-readable instructions including a backup application. When the optical disc is inserted into an optical drive of a data source, such as a personal computer, the operating system of the data source automatically... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070091747 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus for enhancing time resolution of an RF sum signal. A reproduction sum signal (a signal A+a signal D) on the leading side and a reproduction sum signal (a signal B+a signal C) on the following side, which have been output from a four-quadrant photodetection section of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070091744 - Method of activating a data phase locked loop during track-seeking and apparatus of operating the same: A method of determining whether an optical pick-up of an optical device passes through a data track of a storage device during track-seeking based on a radio frequency (RF) signal, a radio frequency zero cross (RFZC) signal radio and a track-seeking signal of the optical device. When the optical pick-up... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091748 - Optical disc recording and reproduction apparatus having automatic gate signal generation modes: An optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data in and from an optical disc by the use of the optical disc as a recording medium, comprises analog processing means including a binarization unit for subjecting a signal read from the optical disc to binarization and a... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070091749 - Method and apparatus for compensating for offset of disk drive: A method for compensating an offset of a disk drive which is accomplished by recording actual spin jitter while performing track following, extracting a DC component from a recorded actual spin jitter, and compensating for an offset of a spindle speed based on an extracted DC component.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091750 - Optical disk device: An optical disk device includes an optical pickup which irradiates laser light upon an optical disk including CAPAs and detects the reflected light, and a spindle motor which rotates the optical disk. Furthermore, the optical disk device includes a CAPA signal generation means which, from the reflected light detected by... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070091751 - Optical disk apparatus and optical disk control method performing optimum power calibration: In OPC where test writing is performed in a power calibration area of an optical disk by changing laser power in a plurality of levels to obtain optimum laser power based on the result, the optical disk apparatus prepares two change patterns of the laser power and uses them alternately.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070091752 - Operation condition setting system: The present invention makes it possible to set an operating condition enabling the best recording characteristic to be obtained for any kind of recording media, even in the case where the recording medium is combined with any kind of drive devices. According to the present invention, even in the case... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091753 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and recording/reproducing method with write-protection function: An information recording medium for use in a recording/reproducing apparatus and a recording/reproducing method includes a first area having a write-protection information for preventing writing of data to the information recording medium, and a second area having a status information field including status information of the first area, wherein recording... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070091754 - Servo control signal generation device and an optical disk device using the same: A servo control signal generation device for discriminating a kind of an optical disk, changing over between top and bottom envelope signals of an RF signal, and generating a defect signal and a mirror signal includes an RF generator for generating the RF signal from reflected light of an optical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070091755 - Disk drive appratus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to a disc drive apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program that can securely execute tracking control. The coefficient switching controller 152 inquires of the coefficient register 153 about coefficient values based on disc information supplied from a controller 161 and showing a type... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070091756 - Method and apparatus of calibrating parameters utilized for determining servo signals: A method and related apparatus for calibrating at least a parameter utilized for determining a servo signal of an optical disc drive. The method includes: (a) adjusting the parameter; (b) generating a first signal according to detecting signals outputted from one side of a photo detector; (c) generating a second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091758 - Generating optical contrast using thin layers: A recordable medium includes a recordable structure having a transmissivity with respect to a read beam that increases upon application of an energy. In some examples, the transmissivity of the recordable structure before and after application of the energy can be greater than 50%. In some examples, the recordable structure... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070091757 - Multiple recording structures for optical recording: A recordable medium includes a first recordable structure, a second recordable structure, and a spacer layer positioned between the first and second recordable structures. The first recordable structure has a transmissivity with respect to a read beam that increases upon application of a write power to the first recordable structure.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070091759 - Recording strategy in multilevel recording: An optical information recording method includes the steps of irradiating laser light onto cells provided on a track of an optical information recording medium, recording on the optical information recording medium n-level multilevel information including information of level 0 for which no information pit is formed, by changing, for each... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070091760 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091761 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091762 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091763 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091764 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091765 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091766 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070091767 - Holographic reading device: The invention relates to an optical holographic device for reading out a data page recorded in a holographic medium (202). The data page comprises data bits. The device comprises means (200) for producing a radiation beam having an intensity, means (201) for directing the radiation beam towards the holographic medium... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070091768 - Optical recording apparatus and optical head: Upon recording information, a movable lens of an expander lens 104 is positioned in an information recording position. In an information fixing process, the movable lens of the expander lens 104 is positioned in a fixing-process position. In this case, a range of irradiation to the recording medium with the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070091769 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a light source to emit a laser beam, an information light beam irradiation unit to irradiate a medium with an information light beam, a reference light beam irradiation unit to irradiate the medium with a reference light beam so as to form a specific... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091770 - Optical system for collimating elliptical light beam and optical device using the same: An optical system (20) for efficiently collimating an elliptical light beam includes a light source (21), a first lens (22), and a second lens (23). The light source is adapted for providing an elliptical light beam defining different diverging angles in different directions, wherein any cross-section of the elliptical light... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070091771 - Demodulator: HMW demodulation is effected more reliably with a simple configuration. A reproduced wobble signal is caused to pass through a BPF previously set to a center frequency 2fwob, to thus enhance a second harmonic component. The wobble signal having passed through a BPF is multiplied by a second harmonic signal.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070091772 - Gain setting method for optical disk reproducing apparatus: A gain setting method for setting a gain in an amplifier that amplifies signals obtained from an optical disk, which comprises: a measuring step for measuring an output level of the amplifier; and a gain setting step for setting the gain as the value of the output level/target level, when... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070091773 - Information storage medium, information playback apparatus, information playback method, and information playback program: According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus includes an advanced content playback unit configured to play back an advanced content, and the advanced content playback unit includes a navigation manager unit configured to manage playback of video information and audio information which form the advanced content, and an AV... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091777 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091778 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091779 - Information storage medium, recording method, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus: An information layer 0 comprises a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area, an information layer 1 comprises a system lead-out area, data lead-out area, data area, and middle area, an end position of the data area of layer 1 is positioned outer than a start... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091774 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091775 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091776 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091780 - Multi-layer optical recording medium: In a multi-layer optical recording medium having an extremely thin recording layer for further multilayering, good recording/reproducing characteristics are realized. Specifically, a multi-layer optical recording medium includes a first recording layer L1 having a groove and a second recording layer Li having a groove deeper than that of the first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070091781 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091782 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091783 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091784 - Storage medium, reproducing method, and recording method: According to one embodiment, a storage medium includes a burst cutting area at an inner periphery, wherein the burst cutting area has includes plural burst-cutting-area data areas.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086277 - Cd card: A CD Card for packaging card like information and digital information in the basic dimensions (length and width) of a business, credit or collectors card. The CD Card is made up of one, two, or three major components. The first component is a small compact disc with dimensions small enough... Agent: Serious Usa, Inc.

20070086279 - Methods and apparatus for creating and playing a playable unfinalized recordable disc: Methods, apparatus, and systems for writing a playable unfinalized disc. The method generally includes the steps of (a) recording data to the disc, (b) calculating a length of metadata based at least in part on a writing position on the disc, (c) determining a content of the metadata based at... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070086280 - Video jukebox apparatus and a method of playing music and music videos using a video jukebox appartus: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the... Agent: Cherskov & Flaynik

20070086282 - Information storage medium, information recording method and apparatus, and information reproducing method and apparatus: The embodiment includes a data replacing area secured in preparation for a defect in a data area, a current DMA set for recording defect management information of a replacement process using the data replacing area, a plurality of unused DMA set areas for replacing a current DMA set, a current... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086283 - Management data double-side unified recording function and recording/reproducing device provided with the same: The invention provides a recording/reproducing device which records management data unifying front and back sides. A management data input/output processing section reads data from a front side of an inserted recording medium, a management data creation section creates management data on the front side and temporarily stores it in a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070086281 - Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method: The present invention enhances the usability of a write-once recording medium having a plurality of recording layers. The write-once recording medium has a plurality of recording layers each including a regular recording reproduction area, an alternate area, a first alternate-address management information area and a second alternate-address management information area... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086278 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086284 - Storage medium initialization method, and recording and reproducing method and apparatus: A storage medium initializing method includes the steps of detecting a mode corresponding to a recording format to be loaded on a storage medium; and initializing the storage medium according to the mode detected in the detecting step. A recording and reproducing method and apparatus are configured to detect a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086285 - Disk holder, disk alignment mechanism and disk drive: The disk drive comprises a disk holder 10 that comprises a plurality of holder plates 11 that individually hold disks D, a drive unit 62 that plays back disks D, disk selectors 41A and 41B that form a space above and below a desired disk D by raising and lowering... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20070086287 - Information recording medium having a wobbling groove structure: An information recording medium having at least a read only area and a recording and reproducing area is composed of at least: a substrate; a recording layer formed on the substrate so as to record and reproduce information; and a light transmission layer having transparency formed on the recording layer.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070086286 - Wobble signal synthesizer and method for generating synthesized wobble signal synchronized with physical wobble signal through comparing phases of both land pre-pit signal and synthesized wobble signal with a reference clock: A wobble signal synthesizer for generating a synthesized wobble signal synchronized with physical wobble signal is disclosed. The wobble signal synthesizer includes a variable-period signal generating module for generating the synthesized wobble signal; a first period calculating module, electrically coupled to the variable-period signal generating module, for calculating the number... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070086288 - Optical pickup apparatus equipped with optical system correcting spherical aberration, and information recording and reproduction apparatus using the same: The present invention provides an optical pickup apparatus which can prevent an offset to a focus signal and can satisfactorily correct spherical aberration generated by difference in substrate thickness while achieving the formation of a thinner type of the apparatus. In the present invention, a parallel flat plate for correcting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070086289 - Information recording medium having a wobbling groove structure: An information recording medium having at least a read only area and a recording and reproducing area is composed of at least: a substrate; a recording layer formed on the substrate so as to record and reproduce information; and a light transmission layer having transparency formed on the recording layer.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070086290 - Information recording medium having substrate with microscopic pattern and reproducing apparatus therefor: A recording medium includes a substrate having a microscopic pattern, which includes a shape of continuous substance of approximately parallel grooves formed with a convex shaped section and a concave shaped section alternating on a surface of the substrate. A recording layer is formed on the microscopic pattern and a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070086291 - Focus pull-in control device and method thereof: A focus pull-in control device for focusing a light beam on an information recording surface of an information recording medium includes an optical pickup and a control unit. The optical pickup has a light source to emit a light beam, an objective lens to focus the light beam along an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070086292 - Information recording medium, and information recording apparatus 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

20070086293 - Method and apparatus for determining writing power for recording data: A method and apparatus for determining an optimal writing power for recording data on a recording medium such as an optical disk, are discussed. The method according to an aspect of the present invention includes (a) performing an optimal power calibration (OPC) operation on a first area of the recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086294 - Optical recording medium and information recording method: An optical recording medium has a multi-layer structure recording layer structure recording layer portion including plural recording layers provided with tracks for guiding a recording light and being adapted to record data, where recording condition information and recording layer identification information for the recording layers are recorded on the tracks... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070086295 - Data storage disc track centering: The invention is directed to methods and apparatus for repositioning a data storage disc on a spindle assembly, to reduce eccentricity of data on the disc. The eccentricity can be identified and be reduced automatically by determining the magnitude and direction of an eccentricity vector that representing a misalignment of... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070086297 - Disk discrimination method and apparatus of optical disk system: A disk discrimination method and apparatus of an optical disk system may be provided. The disk discrimination method of an optical disk system may include measuring a frequency of a tracking error signal during tracking control of a disk to be discriminated; and discriminating a type of the disk according... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070086296 - Method for writing optical disc: An optical disk writing method including determining a writing scheme for recording information on the optical disc based on received tracking error signals. The method also includes moving an optical pickup across tracks of the optical disc while the optical pickup emits a laser beam, counting a number of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086298 - Wobble signal detection: Wobble detection for detecting data in a wobble signal modulated with a base signal includes sampling the wobble signal at a substantial maximum and a substantial minimum of a base signal within a wobble period, producing a value of the wobble signal at the substantial maximum of the base signal... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070086299 - Information storage medium, recording method, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus: An information layer 0 comprises a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area, an information layer 1 comprises a system lead-out area, data lead-out area, data area, and middle area, an end position of the data area of layer 1 is positioned outer than a start... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086300 - Method and system for optical drive write strategies embedded in an optical medium: An optical drive writes information to an optical medium by obtaining a write strategy for the optical medium from a write strategy table embedded in the optical medium. A write module in the optical drive reads an optical drive identification code from the optical medium to select a write strategy... Agent: Robert W. Holland Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070086301 - Disk evaluating device and disk evaluating method: A disk evaluating device includes a PR equalizer that equalizes reproduced signals from a disk to a response waveform of a partial response of a predetermined class, a maximum likelihood detector that performs maximum likelihood decoding on output signals from the PR equalizer, and an evaluating unit that classifies binary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086302 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086303 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086304 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086305 - Information storage medium and method of recording and/or reproducing with respect to the medium: An information storage medium includes an area in which updated disc-related information and recording-related information updated with a change in at least one of a disc version number and a recording speed is recorded along with existing disc-related information and recording-related information. The existing disc-related information and recording-related information are... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070086306 - Data reading device with a switch locatable anywhere, and related system and method: An electronic device for reading data from a removable storage medium includes a switch to generate a signal that circuitry of the device receives. The switch is connected to the circuitry and disposed outside a housing of the device. Or, in another embodiment, the switch is connected to a circuit... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086307 - Holographic device: The invention relates to an optical holographic device for recording data bits in a holographic medium (106). The device comprises a light modulator (103) with addressable elements (301), each having an area and at least one optically active sub-area (302) smaller than said area, means for directing a radiation beam... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070086308 - Systems and methods for imaging: An optical disc comprises a data layer defining a data side of the disc, the data layer being writable or readable with a data laser tuned to a first wavelength, and an imaging layer on the data side of the disc, the imaging layer comprising a colorformer and a developer.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086309 - Method and device for high density optical disk data storage: This invention describes a novel coding and implementation techniques for high-speed high-density optical disk data storage. Multiple narrowband spectral beams, either coherent or non-coherent, are combined together by optical fiber couplers or lenses assembly and are then focused into a photosensitive film with diffraction limited spot size through a specially... Agent: New Span Opto-technology Inc.

20070086310 - Optical head device and optical information apparatus using this optical head device, and computer, optical disk player, car navigation system, optical disk recorder and optical disk server using this optical information apparatus: Providing an objective lens with a large numerical aperture (NA), the present invention records or plays conventional optical disks such as CDs and DVDs at high light usage efficiency, using an optical head capable of recording or reproducing high-density optical disks. A diffraction optical element (8) is disposed in a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070086311 - Photodetector circuit, method for deriving laser light emission amount control signal, optical pickup device, and optical disk apparatus: First and second photo detector cells are independently provided. At the time of a disk reproducing laser power, an addition output of electric signals subjected to opto-electric conversion from the first and second photo detector cells is derived as a control signal of a laser drive circuit by a first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070086312 - Sync frame structure, information storage medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information reproduction apparatus: To improve the sync code detection reliability while simplifying the sync code position detection process, when a first pattern as a combination of three successive sync codes is compared with a second pattern in which the allocation of sync codes is shifted by one code from the first pattern, two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086313 - Sync frame structure, information storage medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information reproduction apparatus: To improve the sync code detection reliability while simplifying the sync code position detection process, when a first pattern as a combination of three successive sync codes is compared with a second pattern in which the allocation of sync codes is shifted by one code from the first pattern, two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086314 - Sync frame structure, information storage medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information reproduction apparatus: To improve the sync code detection reliability while simplifying the sync code position detection process, when a first pattern as a combination of three successive sync codes is compared with a second pattern in which the allocation of sync codes is shifted by one code from the first pattern, two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086315 - Optical disc apparatuses: Optical disc apparatuses. The apparatus comprises an optical pickup and a data recovery unit. The optical pickup irradiates laser light onto a disc, receives light reflected from the disc, and generates an RF signal in response to the received light. The data recovery unit comprises a first configuration and a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070086316 - Information recording/reproducing method and apparatus for same: When external and internal environmental variation factors (characteristics of medium, variation in voltage, deterioration of medium and the like) occur, a reproduced signal is varied. In a learning system for reproduction of a voltage layer selection type multi-layer optical disk which making recording or reproducing by irradiation of energy, a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070086317 - Thin optical disc having remote reading capability: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a thin optical disc having remote reading capability is provided. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, the optical disc includes a central clamping area that defines a central aperture operable to be engaged by a spindle mechanism... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070086319 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information recording and reproducing apparatus: A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086320 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information recording and reproducing apparatus: A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086324 - Information storage medium, information reproduction apparatus, information reproduction method, and information recording method: An information storage medium according to an aspect of this invention comprises a rewritable area, the rewritable area comprises a user area to store user data, and a defect management area to store defect management information used to manage defective areas on the rewritable area, the defect management area comprises... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086322 - Information storage medium, recording method, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus: An information layer 0 comprises a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area, an information layer 1 comprises a system lead-out area, data lead-out area, data area, and middle area, an end position of the data area of layer 1 is positioned outer than a start... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086325 - Multi-layered information recording medium, recording apparatus, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, wherein when the user data area includes at least one defect region, the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070086318 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086321 - Sync frame structure, information storage medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information reproduction apparatus: To improve the sync code detection reliability while simplifying the sync code position detection process, when a first pattern as a combination of three successive sync codes is compared with a second pattern in which the allocation of sync codes is shifted by one code from the first pattern, two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086323 - Sync frame structure, information storage medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information reproduction apparatus: To improve the sync code detection reliability while simplifying the sync code position detection process, when a first pattern as a combination of three successive sync codes is compared with a second pattern in which the allocation of sync codes is shifted by one code from the first pattern, two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081427 - Light delivery module and heat-assisted magnet recording head employing the same: A light delivery module having a structure in which components can be precisely aligned and be integrated as a single unit, and a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head employing the light delivery module. The light delivery module includes: a base having a first groove; a light source mounted on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081426 - Near field light generating device and heat assisted magnetic recording head with the same: A near field light generating device generating near field light from incident light by using a solid immersion mirror and a heat assisted magnetic recording head with the same are provided. The near field light generating device includes a light source; a waveguide core which transmits light; and a solid... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081428 - Transcribing dictation containing private information: Private information is removed from dictation so that the transcriptionist never has access to the private information. A software program is used to first extract the private information and then later (after the transcription is completed by, for example, the transcriptionist) reinsert the removed private information back into the final... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070081429 - Data management information obtaining method for obtaining data management information including information concerning part of data areas as information concerning a pseudo area: On an information recording medium, a recording area is divided in a plurality of data areas, and data is recorded on each of the data areas. In response to a request for obtaining data management information concerning a recording of the data recorded on each of the data areas, a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070081430 - Information recording apparatus, imaging device, information-recording controlling method, and computer program: An information recording apparatus for recording data on an information recording medium includes a logical-format-image manager configured to generate logical-format-image data; a logical-format-image storage unit configured to store the logical-format-image data generated by the logical-format-image manager; and a recording controller configured to exercise control so that the logical-format-image data stored... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081431 - Optical pickup: A grating (3) including first and second regions (B1 and B2) through which the light beams, having wavelengths λ1 and λ2, respectively, pass, each of the regions including a region having diffraction grooves whose concavoconvex pitches are partially shifted so that a pattern is provided to cause each of the... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070081432 - Optical disk having wobble patterns representing control information: On an optical disk medium according to the present invention, address information is recorded along a wobbling track groove 2. The track groove 2 is made up of a plurality of unit sections 22, 23. Each of these unit sections 22, 23 has side faces that are displaced periodically in... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070081433 - Tilt adjustment system and method of optical disk device: The present invention discloses a tilt adjustment system and method of an optical disk device with a pickup head, which includes a decoder for decoding the encoded information from an optical disk and checking whether error occurs during decoding. A decoding error calculator calculates a statistics corresponding to the decoding... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070081434 - Apparatuses and related methods of writing quality control for optical recording: Apparatuses and methods for controlling the quality of writing an optical storage medium in an optical storage system having an accessing logic for steering data to be written onto or read from the optical storage medium. The apparatus contains a halting controller, an evaluation device, a recording tangential velocity (RTV)... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070081435 - Optical disc apparatus: Some conventional optical disc apparatuses must continuously perform a recording operation if they continuously receive data from the host apparatus, which eliminates the opportunity for them to perform necessary internal adjustments during the recording operation. Other conventional optical disc apparatuses can perform internal adjustments even if they continuously receive data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070081436 - Read and write power control methods and system for optical recording device: The present invention discloses read and write power control methods and system for an optical recording device that records information on an optical disk having read-only areas. The read and write power control methods respectively introduce the steps of determining a specific level of a former power control signal output... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070081437 - Optical disc: A recording layer close to a disc surface is divided into at least two recording areas, a main information recording area D1A and an auxiliary information area (BCA) D1C. Grooves are formed in the main information recording area D1A. Marks M are formed in barcode form representing identifying information in... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070081438 - Dvd-r/rw and dvd+r/rw recorders: A method and apparatus for recording data at specific locations on a DVD includes selectively detecting the occurrence of wobble sync during a window computed from previous occurrences of wobble sync and eight-to-fourteen modulation sync. The method and apparatus also uses a phase-locked loop to recover the wobble signal, including... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070081439 - Multilayer holographic recording medium and manufacturing method of the same, multilayer holographic recording an reproducing method, multilayer holographic memory reproducing apparatus, and multilayer holographic recording and reproducing apparatus: A multilayer holographic recording medium in which a recording density and a data transfer rate are largely improved, a manufacturing method of the same, a multilayer holographic recording and reproducing method, a multilayer holographic memory reproducing apparatus, and a multilayer holographic recording and reproducing apparatus are provided. A multilayer holographic... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070081440 - Optical integrated unit, adjusting method therefor, and optical pickup: In an integrated optical unit of the present invention, a photo detector (12) and a holding member (17) that sustains a semiconductor laser (11) are provided on a polarizing beam splitter (14). This makes it possible to reduce a deviation from a designed value due to tolerance, and adjust a... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070081441 - Optical pickup device and information recording/reproducing apparatus: An optical pickup device according to the present invention having two light sources is capable of emitting lights having different wavelengths from each other for recording/reproducing information on/from an optical recording medium by using a light from the light source; wherein the two light sources both are capable of emitting... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070081442 - Method and apparatus for modulating data in optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus: Provided are a method and apparatus for modulating data in an optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus. The method of modulating data may include modulating source data by using a modulation table including a plurality of modulation rows, wherein each of the plurality of modulation rows may include a plurality of modulation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070081443 - Super-resolution optical recording medium and method for recording information on super-resolution optical recording medium: A super-resolution optical recording medium has at least a recording layer and a super resolution layer on a substrate. In the recording layer, a minimum recording mark is formed with spaces within a beam spot of a laser beam in recording. The minimum recording mark has a size of a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070081444 - Information storage device: An information storage device includes a substrate and a shape memory alloy film established on the substrate. The shape memory alloy film may receive, supply, and store digital information. One or more thermoelectric modules is/are nanoimprinted between the substrate and the shape memory alloy film. The thermoelectric module(s) is adapted... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070081445 - Optical recording medium, multi-layered optical recording medium, and optical recording method and recording apparatus using the same:

20070081446 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, information reproducing method and information recording method: An information recording medium includes a user information storage area which stores user information, a test write area which is extendable and for test write of information, a spare area which is extendable and capable of alternatively storing user information, and a recording position management information area including recordable range... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081447 - Medium, system, and method for a common optical data storage medium depression depth: A medium, system, and method are disclosed for a common data storage medium depression depth. An optical data storage medium comprises a plurality of spacer layers and data surfaces. A wavelength for a radiation beam such as the emission of a laser diode is identified. The index of refraction for... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070076533 - Magnetization detecting method and apparatus: A detection method and apparatus for reading magnetization information recorded in high density. A metal probe is brought close to the surface of a magnetic recording medium, in which information is recorded as magnetization, with the distance on the order of nanometers. The region is irradiated with an incident light... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070076534 - Method of music data transcription: The present invention relates to a method of music data transcription, comprising the steps of: (1) as the user connecting a peripheral mobile storage apparatus with a computer, the operation system of the computer being triggered to run the program for music data transcription; (2) the looking module of program... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070076535 - Drive indicating mechanism for removable media: An optical disk system comprises a computer-readable medium containing code for controlling writing by the disk system to a removable optical disk. The optical disk system further comprises an optical pickup unit for reading data from the optical disk and writing data to the optical disk, a spindle motor for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070076536 - Optical disc device and recording method: An optical disc device includes a recording section which records recording information in an optical disk, a reproducing section to reproduce the information recorded in the optical disk, a storage section which stores information Po−n to Po+n or Pb−n to Pb+n of a preceding or succeeding position Po±n or Pb±n... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076537 - Optical media pick and process: A pick for a compact disc controller is provided in which a tip of the pick defines a plurality of flexible outer wall segments. An internal plunger is used to expand the wall segments in a radial direction, thereby retaining a CD onto the outer perimeter of the pick. Upon... Agent: J. Bennett Mullinax, LLC

20070076538 - Disk-storing disk device: A disk-storing disk device includes a mechanism base provided at a position beyond the perimeter of a disk stored in a disk storing region provided vertically within a middle portion of a casing, and a switchover member which moves following an arc path is provided on the mechanism base. Switching... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070076540 - Objective lens actuator: In one preferred embodiment, an objective lens actuator includes a base, a suspension apparatus mounted on the base, a holder suspended by the suspension apparatus for holding an objective lens, a voice coil motor (VCM) for driving the holder to vibrate, and a cover. The VCM includes a first yoke,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070076539 - Pickup unit and disk drive unit provided with such a pickup unit: The invention relates to a pickup unit (1) for reading and/or writing data on a disk (2). The pickup unit comprises a base (5), a lens (3) in a lens holder (4) which is suspended from the base (5) and which is movable in at least a focusing direction of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070076541 - Autofocus imaging optical system and image pickup device: An image pickup device in which reflectance in a central portion of the splitting optical system is configured large and that in a peripheral portion is configured small, to thereby selectively reflect only a light beam for focus detection in focus detection means and transmit the other portions of the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070076543 - Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, information recording method, and information reproducing method: An optical disc apparatus comprises a focus error detector which detects a focus error, a focus adjusting unit which adjusts a focus of a light beam at either of recordable layers based on an output from the focus error detector, a wobble signal detector which detects a wobbled groove and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076542 - Optical disc apparatus and back off control method for objective lens: In an optical disc apparatus, a level of a first signal as a total signal corresponding to an amount of reflected light from an optical disc surface is compared to a threshold that an objective lens can maintain a focus state. Based on a result of the comparison, a second... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070076544 - Optical disc, optical disc apparatus, and manufacturing method of the optical disc: One embodiment of the present invention is based on the following (1) An optical disc has a triple layer structure in which there are a light transmission layer, a first recording layer which is accessed with a first laser beam, and a second recording layer and a third recording layer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076545 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus includes an emitter which emits a laser beam to a optical disc, a divided photodetector including a first dived portion and a second dived portion disposed in a light path of the reflected beam from the optical disc, and producing a first photodetector signal and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076546 - Optical disc apparatus and tracking error signal selecting method: An optical disc apparatus comprises a driving unit which drives an optical pickup head (PUH) for irradiating laser light onto an optical disc in such a manner that laser light is irradiated onto a plurality of positions on the optical disc, a photodetector unit which outputs a photo sense signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076547 - Crossfade of media playback between different media processes: A method of crossfading a plurality of audio files comprising opening a first process, opening a second process hosting an audio renderer in which a first audio file of the plurality of audio files is cross faded with a second audio file of the plurality of audio files.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070076548 - Information recording medium, recoding layer discriminating method ,recording layer discriminating apparatus, optical disk apparatus, information, etc.: An information recording medium is provided with a plurality of information recordable recording layers, and a spiral or concentric tracks are formed on each of the plurality of recording layers. At least a portion of each track has wobbles corresponding to a wobble signal that includes layer information for discriminating... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070076549 - Disk apparatus: There is provided a disk apparatus adapted to allow the rotational frequency of an optical disk to reach a predetermined rotational frequency soon for shifting to a reproducing operation, when setting up the rotation of the optical disk, even if the optical disk may have a large weight. The change... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070076550 - Optical disk device and optimal recording power determination method: An optical disk device includes a format determination unit which determines a format causing an intersymbol interference ratio of not less than a preset value, as a format for power calibration performed on an optical disk, when an intersymbol interference ratio of data to be recorded on the optical disk... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076551 - Data write method and optical disc apparatus: A data writing method includes recording test data to a test writing area of an optical disc at a plurality of test recording power values, reproducing the test data, obtaining an asymmetry values for each the test recording power values on the basis of reproduction signals of the test data,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076553 - Apparatus for reading and/or writing optical recording media: Methods and apparatuses for controlling optical storage appliances which allow a signal to be obtained even in areas of the recording media in which there is no contrast, whose phase angle with respect to a tracking error signal indicates the movement direction of an actuator relative to the tracks and... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070076554 - Information storage method that assures compatibility of writable medium with read only medium: An information recording method performing recording on an information recording medium having multiple rewritable recording layers each having a data area in which user data is to be recorded is disclosed. The method includes a recorded area presence or absence determination step that determines whether a recorded area exists in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070076552 - Parameter updating methods and systems for optical disc accessing: Methods and systems for dynamically updating velocity dependent parameters during optical disc accessing are provided. A velocity estimator estimates a current velocity of a rotating disc. A storage unit stores a plurality set of parameters, each set corresponds to a preset velocity, and a register stores velocity dependent parameters that... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070076556 - Optical disc device and method for detecting defect on optical disc: An optical disc device includes a pickup head which reads data recorded on an optical disc used by an optical beam to output a reproduction signal, an equalizer which equalizes a waveform of the reproduction signal in accordance with an equalization coefficient to output a partial response waveform, a maximum... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076555 - Optical disk device and method for playing optical disk: An optical disk device includes pickup head for irradiating an optical disk with an optical beam and receiving a reflected beam from the optical disk to output an RF signal, first equalizing unit which boosts a frequency band of the RF signal from the pickup head, the frequency band corresponding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076558 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076557 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076559 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076560 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076561 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076563 - Holographic recording medium: This invention is a holographic recording medium including a track in which position information to specify a recording position and a reproducing position of page data is formed. The position information of the track is formed of position detection patterns. The position detection patterns each including a first detection mark... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070076562 - Optical information recording method and optical information recording medium: Provided is an optical information recording method and an optical information recording medium, which can achieve easy duplication in holographic recording. The optical information recording method is for recording information to an optical information recording medium 4 which includes an information recording layer to which information is recorded using holography.... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070076564 - Multi-layered media aberration compensation apparatus, method, and system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for aberration compensation. In one embodiment, a first compensation lens used in conjunction with a second compensation lens to produce a conical beam used to read from, or write to, an optical medium. An Nth order compensation equation is used to optimize aberration... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070076573 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076574 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076575 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076566 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076568 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076570 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076571 - Information storage medium. information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076565 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076567 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076569 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076572 - Optical disk, optical disk recording method and optical disk apparatus: A signal can be detected based on a level slice system and detection delay time can be reduced by setting the recording density of a header field in a linear direction lower (coarse) than that of a user data recording field. Further, a signal can be detected based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076576 - Hybrid optical data carrier having a modified cd layer: The invention relates to an optical data carrier which combines a CD layer with at least one further format, such as a DVD layer for example. If a hybrid data carrier of this kind is to be produced in a thickness of less than 1.7 mm, and preferably in a... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070076577 - Mount structure, electro-optical device, method of manufacturing electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: Provided is a mount structure including: a board; a conductive layer disposed on the board; a protection layer that is disposed on at least the conductive layer, and has first and second apertures disposed within a region in which the conductive layer is disposed; and an electronic component that is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070076578 - Information carrier comprising a data layer and a detection layer: The invention relates to an information carrier comprising:—a mask layer (ML) defining a data pattern,—a detection layer (DL) stacked on said mask layer (ML) and comprising at least one segment made of organic photosensitive material embedded between electrodes for detecting said data pattern. Use: Optical storage... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070076579 - Optical storage medium: e