Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 05/07

20070121427 - Media playing device and method: A media playing device and a media playing method are proposed. An interface module of the media playing device is coupled with an external media device and information handshaking is established therebetween such that media contents stored in the external media device can be identified by an identifying module of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070121428 - Information recording apparatus: A multilayer optical recording apparatus excellent in high-speed recording and long-term reliability is realized, the apparatus preventing the lowering of a speed of switching recording layers by preventing an increase in contact resistance attributable to wear of a rolling part or of a sliding part of the apparatus. In a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121429 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121430 - Intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction system: Payment-based audiovisual playback system characterized by comprising a microprocessor unit, primarily including storage means for storing inter alia in digital form the visual and sound information to be used, and associated, through a number of interfaces, with display means for sound playback which provide a multimedia environment. The unit is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070121431 - Method and apparatus for overwriting data on recording-medium and the recording medium: In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a user data area on which one or more recording ranges are allocated and a management area. The method includes receiving a command to record the data on a closed recording range. The closed recording range has no recordable position. An open recording... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070121432 - Apparatus and method for providing secure time, apparatus and method for securely reproducing contents using the secure time, and method of securely transmitting data using the secure time: An apparatus and a method for providing secure time, an apparatus and a method for securely reproducing contents using the secure time, and a method of securely transmitting data using the secure time. The apparatus for providing the secure time includes a clock whose time can be changed, a time... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121433 - Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus: Provided is an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information using holography by irradiating a spatial modulator with a light beam from a first laser light source, separately generating information light and reference light sharing an optical axis, and condensing the generated light beam onto the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070121434 - Actuator for a scanning device for scanning optical discs: The invention relates to an actuator for a scanning device for scanning optical discs which has a focus lens fixed in a lens holder and a damper base permanently connected to a support. The actuator is equipped with a coil and magnet arrangement, arranged on a support, for fine positioning... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070121435 - Objective-lens actuator, and information recording and reproducing apparatus: An overhang type objective-lens actuator includes an objective lens for focusing laser light onto an optical disk, a substantially tongue-shaped lens holder formed of a magnesium alloy and having a circular opening in which the objective lens is mounted, the circular opening being provided near a front end of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070121436 - Optical disc drive: A small-sized optical disc drive includes one voice coil motor magnet within which a tracking coil and two focusing coils are disposed such that the tracking coil straddles the two poles of permanent magnets that are adjacently disposed. The two focusing coils are disposed on either side of the tracking... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121437 - Optical information recording-reproduction apparatus: The recording medium 12 is radiated with light beam from the second light source to obtain servo signal from the reflected light. At least one of the relay lenses 8 in the relay optical system is moved perpendicularly to the optical axis according to the servo signal to follow-up moving... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070121438 - Method of testing an optical information medium and optical information medium testing apparatus: A method of testing an optical information medium and an optical information medium testing apparatus compare a voltage of a tracking error signal generated based on return light from the optical information medium received by an optical pickup and a reference voltage set in advance and judge that a fault... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070121439 - Optical disc drive and method for controlling the position of a lens: An optical disc drive having a lens position motor (24) for control of a lens position relative to a track on a disc (10) and a second (“sledge”) motor (25) for control of the position of the first motor and of the lens radially relative to the disc. An alternating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121441 - Optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus and seek control method thereof: Within a seek control method for moving an optical spot onto an arbitrary track, by moving the optical spot into a radial direction of an optical information recording medium, which is formed with lands and grooves, spirally, on an information recording surface thereof, calculation is made on time from staring... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121440 - Track-jump control system and method for maintaining track-jump stability: A track-jump control system and method are provided. The track-jump control system applied in an optical disc drive comprises a signal generator, a protection device, a velocity estimator, and a controller. The signal generator receives the signal from the PUH and generates a tracking signal and a position signal. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070121443 - Optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus and a focus-servo method thereof: In a focus-servo control method within an optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus, for recording or reproducing information onto/from an optical information recording medium having a track with a land and a groove, which are formed in a spiral manner on an information recording surface thereof, with moving an optical spot from... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070121442 - Tracking control method and optical disk drive: A tracking control method controls an optical disk drive to access an optical disk having a plurality of groove tracks and land tracks, which are alternately interlaced with each other. The tracking control method includes the following steps. First, detecting a track position of the optical disk where the optical... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121448 - Apparatus and method for writing onto an audio cd, and audio cd: Parametric multichannel information is written onto a normal standard audio compact disc, e.g. in the user subchannels, so that the CD enables normal stereo reproduction with a normal reproduction device, or multichannel reproduction with a supplementary device which is easy to connect and which reads out both the stereo information... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070121444 - Optical disc apparatus and information recording and reproducing method: Disclosed is an optical disc apparatus that sets a plurality of virtual zones, which correspond to a plurality of zones that are arranged in the radial direction of an optical disc, for a plurality of recording layers of the optical disc. When a servo signal distortion is detected in a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121447 - Digital data recording method and data recording/reproducing apparatus: The object of the present invention is to curtail the time required from the receipt of a demand for certification processing of a rewritable optical disk from an apparatus of the higher order to the receipt of a demand for recording processing. In order to achieve this object, a digital... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070121446 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc reproducing method: The object of this invention is to provide an optical disc apparatus and an optical disc reproducing method that can realize an excellent reproducing operation by suppressing noise in the optical disc apparatus using an optical attenuator. In order to solve this object, a control voltage of the optical attenuator... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121445 - Optical information reproducing method: Disclosed is a method of reproducing optical information by applying laser light to the medium while rotating a recording medium having concentric information tracks or a spiral information track so that the linear velocity of the medium is constant, and thereby reproducing the information recorded on the recording medium by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121449 - Information recording medium and information recording device and method: An information recording medium includes: a first recording layer to for recording first information; and one or a plurality of second recording layers, disposed on the first recording layer, for recording second information. Each recording layer has a predetermined area in which power calibration is performed to detect an optimum... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070121451 - Recording control method for optical disk recording apparatus and optical disk recording apparatus: In the present invention, the processing sequence of a microprocessor for restructuring the recording parameters when changing the recording system from the CAV system to a CLV system is as follows: (1) interrupt the recording process; (2) calculate linear velocity at a broken point where recording linear velocity becomes constant;... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121450 - Recording method, recording apparatus, program and recording control apparatus: The present invention provides a recording method for recording information on a recording medium under one recording condition of a plurality of recording conditions. The recording method includes the steps of: (a) recording a plurality of test information on the recording medium under the plurality of recording conditions; and (b)... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070121452 - Test disc and drive verification method: Data of capacity of about one-severalth of full capacity of a layer 0 and a layer 1 is recorded in a test disk in a range from the layer 0 to the layer 1, and middle areas of the layer 0 and the layer 1 are expanded accordingly. This test... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070121455 - Device and method of compensating tilt: A tilt compensating device and method of performing normal tilt compensation in the event of a servo emergency which may occur during reproduction of data from an optical recording medium are provided. The tilt compensating device includes: an optical pickup; a tilt adjusting unit that adjusts a tilt angle of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070121456 - Defect signal generating circuit: A defect signal generating circuit comprises a low pass filter circuit which receives an input signal whose signal level is changed from a reference level to a higher level or a lower level corresponding to a dark defect or a bright defect of a optical disk, and outputs a low... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070121453 - Device for recording recordable media and method: The invention relates to a device for recording recordable media, for example recordable DVD media types, a number of which is currently available in the market Upon receipt of a medium and assessment that the medium is a recordable medium, the device attempts to recognize it, i.e. to recognize its... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121454 - Optical disk recognizing method and optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus applying it therein: Within an optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus, in which a beam spot is irradiated upon an optical disk loaded therein, to obtain a reflection light obtainable therewith, and thereby conducting recording or reproducing of information upon an information recording surface of the optical disk, a microcomputer (μ-computer) 9 for controlling the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070121457 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc recording method: The present invention determines accurately whether trial write processing is necessary or not and eliminates unnecessary trial write processing to prevent the degradation of the data transfer rate. A control circuit, if an error is detected during reproduction of recorded data, compares a top value Vtop of an envelope of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121459 - Disk recording apparatus and disk recording method: The disk recording apparatus and method are arranged to specify a recording address and a recording position on an optical disk with a wobble PM (phase modulation) format through the use of a wobble reproduced signal and a track reproduced signal. The recording apparatus operates to detect address information and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070121458 - Synchronicity determining device, and physical address detecting device and method: According to one embodiment, a synchronicity detecting circuit to which a wobble signal reproduced from a recording track is input and which detects a synchronizing signal in the wobble signal, a synchronicity detection flag generating section which generates a synchronicity detection flag of a first level when the synchronicity detecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070121460 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording defect management information on the recording medium: A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording defect management information on the recording medium are disclosed. The method for recording defect management information of a recording medium includes recording a defect entry on the recording medium, wherein the defect entry includes a first field that can identify... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070121462 - Optical disc apparatus and information recording method: To provide a technology for improving the recording quality through edge correction of recording pulse in an optical disc apparatus. An optimum recording power of recording pulse is obtained through OPC processing according to a recording strategy with a first pulse timing; recording is performed by use of recording pulse... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121461 - Recording/reproduction method and recording/reproduction apparatus: The recording/reproduction method of the present invention includes the steps of: repeating one of a recording operation and a reproduction operation for the optical disc n times (n: an integer greater than or equal to 2) while changing a recording/reproduction condition in a stepwise and monotonous manner m times (m:... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070121463 - Optical disk device: A write type optical disk device with the PRML mode allows accuracy in the trial writing to be improved accompanied with the high speed processing while assuring the readout compatibility. A readout signal that has been A/D converted at timing that interposes the edge has its phase compensated with the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121464 - Decoding apparatus and method utilized in an optical storage device: A decoding apparatuses and a method utilized in an optical storage device are disclosed. The decoding apparatus includes: a level slicer for setting a plurality of adjustable boundary values to distinguish a plurality of signal regions, and outputting a set of state values in accordance with signal regions corresponding to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070121465 - Information reproducing method judging a multivalued level of a present cell by referring to judged multivalued levels of a preceding cell and an ensuing cell: A mark representing information of a multivalued level is recorded in each of cells arranged in a recording medium. Upon reproducing the multivalued level from a reproduction signal of the recording medium, the multivalued level of a present cell is judged by referring to a judged multivalued level of a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070121466 - Information recorder, information recording method and recording medium recorded with program: PURPOSE To make it possible to record data such as user definable index information accompanying user data such as content data while keeping it possible to perform playback from an information recording medium also according to the conventional standard. CONFIGURATION The controller 19 records content data in the contents area... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070121467 - Optical disk image forming method, optical disk image forming apparatus, and computer readable recording medium storing optical disk image forming program: Before a host computer transmits image forming data to a CD-R drive, the CD-R drive transmits information of an image forming condition preset in the CD-R drive to the computer. The host computer generates, based on stored original image data, image forming data adapted to the image forming condition on... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070121468 - Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus: Provided is a spatial light modulator SLM and a photodetector element CMOS sensor are placed on the same chip, and the alignment thereof and a relay lens system are eliminated, whereby an optical system is reduced in cost and made compact. Specifically, provided is an optical information recording and reproducing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070121469 - Holographic optical pickup apparatus: Provided is a holographic optical pickup apparatus which can be reduced in thickness and production cost while having a beam shaping unit. To be specific, in a holographic optical pickup apparatus based on a holographic memory technique, a beam shaping prism for extending a short axis of light with elliptical... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070121470 - Objective lens for optical pickup apparatus, objective lens unit for optical pickup apparatus and optical pickup apparatus using the same: The present invention relates to an objective lens, an objective lens unit and an optical pickup apparatus. The objective lens is provided for an optical pickup apparatus recording or reproducing information by converging a light flux with a wavelength λ1 emitted from a light source onto an information recording surface... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070121471 - Information reproducing apparatus: In an information reproducing apparatus in which a liquid crystal lens element is used for the selection and switching of layers, the instability of servo control during the switching of the layers due to the overlapping of signals from two layers is eliminated and the focal point is shifted onto... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070121472 - Method and apparatus capable of detecting spherical aberration caused by a storage medium: A method capable of detecting spherical aberration caused by a storage medium includes generating a plurality of light beams having distinct phases by diffracting light emitted from a light source using a diffractive optical element, measuring optical signals of the plurality of light beams having distinct phases after being reflected... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070121473 - Laser scanning microscope with a non-descanned detection and/or observation beam path: Laser Scanning Microscope with a non-descanned detection and/or observation beam path, wherein a beam splitter is provided for the separation of the illumination and the detection beam paths. In the direction of the detection, at least one optical arrangement is provided for the regular transmission of the detected light, whereby... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070121474 - Optical pickup apparatus and electronic equipment having the same: There is provided an optical pickup apparatus which is small in size and excellent in releasing action of heat generated inside the apparatus. An optical pickup apparatus includes semiconductor lasers as light sources for emitting light, a laser driver for controlling light emitting operations of, the semiconductor lasers, a first... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070121475 - Method and system for controlling the level of a data signal read from an optical disc: The invention relates to a method of controlling the level of an input readout signal read from an optical disc. The method proposes to use an amplification step for amplifying the input readout signal by an adjustable gain factor for generating an amplified output readout signal having an amplitude in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121477 - Cantilever with control of vertical and lateral position of contact probe tip: An embodiment of a probe storage device in accord with the present invention can include an actuator for controlling cross-track positioning of a contact probe tip extending from a cantilever. The probe storage device comprises a memory media, a platform, a beam connected with the platform, a cantilever connected with... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070121476 - Data recording device with conducting microtips and production method thereof: The invention relates to a data-recording device comprising conductive microtips and to the production method thereof. According to the invention, the microtip comprises one end which is intended to be brought into electrical contact with a recording medium. Moreover, the microtip comprises a longitudinal conducting core having an essentially constant... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070121478 - Dual-stack optical data storage medium for write once recording: A dual-stack optical data storage medium (10) for write-once recording using a focused radiation beam (9) having a wavelength λ of approximately 655 nm is described. The radiation beam enters through an entrance face (8) of the medium (10) during recording. The medium comprises at least one substrate (1, 7)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121479 - Optical recording medium, information reproduction apparatus and information recording/reproduction: User data recording areas and intermediate areas are alternately arranged on a disk. The intermediate area records at least information for synchronization.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070121480 - Multilayer optical recording medium and method for recording information in multilayer optical recording medium: The multilayer optical recording medium 1 is provided with a plurality of information-recording layers 20, 22, 24, and 26 capable of reading information with a reading light irradiated through a light incidence surface 38A on one side and is so adapted that the light incidence side information-recording layer 26 approximating... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20070121481 - Optical disk drive apparatus and optical recording-reproducing apparatus: An optical disk drive apparatus includes a cylindrical space forming unit that forms a cylindrical space. In the cylindrical space, an optical disk is located such that an upper surface, a lower surface and an edge of an outer circumference of an optical disk face inner surfaces of the cylindrical... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070115761 - Displaying storage information on portable storage device: A portable storage device includes a connector configured for operatively connecting to a host and a storage medium. The storage medium includes a data area for storing data, and an information area configured to store memory information relating to file resource allocation associated with file data stored within the data... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070115762 - Optical article having anti-theft feature and a system and method for inhibiting theft of same: An optical article for being transformed from a pre-activated state of functionality to an activated state of functionality is provided. The optical article includes an electro-chromic structure having layers of an electro-chromic material being responsive to an electrical stimulus, and an electrolyte layer interposed between the layers of the electro-chromic... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070115763 - Recording system and program for recording data: A recording system records data by retrieving it from a portable medium such as CD-ROM or the like. The recording system determines a data retrieval speed for a specific data track on the portable medium by calculating a retrieval time of the specific data track at an increased retrieval speed... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

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20070115765 - Disk recording medium, disk production method, disk drive apparatus: A disk recording medium which can implement a recording method having a high degree of reliability for additional information is disclosed. The disk recording medium has a recording and reproduction region into and from which first data can be recorded and reproduced in accordance with a rewritable or write-once-read-many recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115766 - Optical head: There is provided an optical head having a simple structure not to require a lot of time and effort in production and assembling as well as capable of applying a laser beam stably to the recording layer of an optical disk. A laser light source 11, a rectangular parallelepiped laser... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070115767 - Optical pickup device: A wavefront of a laser light is adjusted using a phase correcting element. The phase correcting element includes an electrode layer, an electrode layer arranged facing the former electrode layer, orientation films arranged on a surface facing the electrode layers, and a liquid crystal layer filled between the orientation films.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070115769 - Optical disc apparatus and optical-pickup movement control method installed in optical disc apparatus: A light beam is emitted to an optical disc from an optical pickup. The optical pickup is moved over the optical disc so that a light spot of the light beam crosses tracks formed on the optical disc. Detected are tracking error signals carried by a light beam reflected from... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070115768 - Track jumping scan control device and track searching device: In a track jumping scan control device wherein an optical beam is irradiated on an optical disc provided with a header region capable of a mark-recording operation with respect to both of land and groove tracks adjacent in a radial direction of the disc and comprising prepits, and a signal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070115772 - Optical disk apparatus with an improved track jump performance: An optical disk device for recording or reproducing an optical disk has: an objective lens for irradiating a laser beam to the optical disk; an actuator for moving the objective lens in the radial direction of the optical disk; and a spindle motor for rotating the optical disk. After the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070115771 - Timing recovery for channels with binary modulation: For (re)writable and read-only optical disc systems the data clock is recovered by a phase locked loop (PLL), where the error signal is generated by comparing the actual zero-crossing with the zero-crossing of the generated clock signal. Given an optical system with a laser wavelength λlaser and a numerical aperture... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115773 - Method for adaptively driving a tracking element with mechanical deviation and device using the same: The present invention provides a method for adaptively driving a tracking element with mechanical deviation and a driving device using the same. The method comprises the following steps: recording standard moving time and a standard motor current value, supplying driving voltage to a motor for driving a tracking element, detecting... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070115770 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus has a photodetector and a current-voltage conversion circuit to detect a laser beam emitted from a laser diode, and output a light detection signal which varies in voltage according to the laser beam power. An offset voltage controller sets an offset voltage which is a difference... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070115774 - Information recording method and an information recording apparatus: An information recording method and an information recording apparatus are disclosed, which are mainly applicable to a multilayer optical recording medium, recording on a layer being carried out from outer circumference to inner circumference, such as in an OTP method. The information recording method includes a step of trial writing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070115775 - Method of determining optimum write power of optical disk and optical disk driving apparatus: A method of determining an optimum write power of a recordable optical disk to control an optimum power of the recordable optical disk, and an optical disk driving apparatus using the same, the method including: performing a test, in which a test pattern is recorded on the optical disk and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070115776 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus for performing ROPC. A controller of the optical disk apparatus detects the quantity of reflected light Bo acquired when OPC is performed to set initial recording power Po; computes recording power P such that Bo/Pon=B/Pn is achieved in relation to the quantity of reflected light B... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070115777 - Method and apparatus for detecting bca on an optical disc: A method and an apparatus for detecting BCA on the surface of an optical disc are disclosed. The method includes utilizing an internal free running clock to detect a sync pattern, starting demodulation of data on detection of sync ID 1 by utilizing the internal free running clock, and utilizing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115780 - Optical recording medium having recording capacity information and method for indicating recording capacity: A recording medium and a method for recording are provided. The recording medium according to an embodiment includes a control information used to represent a recording capacity of the recording medium, wherein the control information includes first information associated with a pre-defined recording capacity of the recording medium, and second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115779 - Optical disk recording and reproducing device: It is supposed that recording of a drama program is started in accordance with recording reservation, and the recording is finished. If a program to be recorded next is a sports program, a message “Exchange the loaded disk with an optical disk for recording sports programs” is displayed on the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070115778 - Physical identification of an optical disc: A system for identifying an optical disc is provided that includes a set of physical identifiers whose arrangement defines a particular disc type. The set physical identifiers are capable of physical coupling with a set of physical attributes of an optical disc of the particular disc type. An optical disc... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070115781 - Method for discriminating the kind of optical disk and optical disk apparatus using the same: An optical disk apparatus which can promptly restart reproduction and recording by using a preceding discrimination result of a disk kind without using a memory. A mechanism for correcting an aberration is constructed by an expander lens for the aberration correction and a self-holding element as a moving mechanism of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070115782 - Optical pick-up unit: A pick-up unit, an optical drive comprising such a pick-up unit, and a method of generating error-signals are described. Light reflected from an information carrier is injected into one or more VCSELs. The spatial intensity distribution of the emission from the VCSEL(s) is used for the generation of error signals... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115783 - Optical disk recording and reproducing device: A system controller of an optical disk recording and reproducing device makes a display portion display a precaution message for recommending a user to back up data recorded on the optical disk when it is determined that one or more values including a jitter value, a variation quantity of the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070115784 - Disc drive mechanism and method of operation therefor: The invention relates to disc drive mechanism (100) which comprises an actuator (113) controlling a radial movement of a lens (109). An actuator controller (115) generates an actuator control signal which is fed to the actuator (113). An activation time processor (125) determines an amplitude variation characteristic of the actuator... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115785 - Information reproducing apparatus: An information reproducing apparatus comprises an optical head that reads the lengths and arrangement of recording marks recorded on an optical disc and outputs RF signals, a PRML decoder that decodes binary data based on the RF signals output from the optical head, a short mark asymmetry measuring unit that... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070115786 - Recordable/rewritable optical disc and address information recording method for the same: A recordable/rewritable optical disc is defined with a lead-in section, a data zone and a lead-out section. The data zone is further defined with a plurality of recording unit blocks, each of which includes a physical cluster for recording data therein and a linking area for recording therein address information... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070115787 - Planar optical device for generating optical nanojets: An apparatus comprising a first portion and a second portion wherein the first portion includes sides shaped to direct a guided electromagnetic planar waveguide mode to a focal region outside of the first portion. The second portion is adjacent the first portion and contains at least a part of the... Agent: Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP

20070115788 - Information recording apparatus and method for recording information and information recording medium: An information recording apparatus for recording tracks includes: a rotation drive section (RDS) that supports and rotates a master disk with a resist layer; an exposure beam emitting section (EBES) deflectably applying an exposure beam to the disk to form a spot thereon; a relative movement drive section (RMDS) translating... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070115790 - Holographic recording medium and holographic recording process using the same: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a holographic recording medium including a recording layer in which information is recorded by irradiating a signal light and a reference light simultaneously to the layer, and a reflecting track on which a servo signal light is reflected, the reflecting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115789 - Holographic scanning device: The invention relates to an optical holographic device for reading out a data page recorded in a holographic medium (106). The device comprises means (104, 105) for forming an imaged data page from the data page. The imaged data page comprises imaged data bits (a, b, c, d) having a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115791 - Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus: There is provided an optical pickup apparatus which includes a light source that generates light irradiating an optical recording medium; and an objective lens that collects the light irradiated from the light source on a recording surface of the recording medium, which further includes a coupling lens arranged on an... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070115792 - Differential push pull gain method and/or apparatus to reduce the effects on rotational eccentricity: An apparatus comprising a photo diode array, a differential push-pull generator circuit and an attenuation prediction circuit. The photo diode array may be configured to generate a plurality of beam signals. The differential push-pull generator circuit may be configured to generate a differential push-pull signal with one or more gain... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070115793 - Optical disk reproducing device: The gain controlling portion sets a gain of an RF amplifier to a maximum range when an activation process starts for an optical disk. The binary process condition setting portion sets an upper threshold level and a lower threshold level corresponding to 80% of upper and lower levels of the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070115794 - Thermal isolation for an active-sidewall phase change memory cell: A phase change memory device with improve thermal isolation. The device includes an electrode stack, including a first and second electrode elements, generally planar in form, separated by and in mutual contact with a dielectric spacer element, wherein the electrode stack includes a side surface; a phase change element having... Agent: Macronix C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070109919 - Light-condensing head and storage apparatus: A light-condensing head has a light source unit, a light-condensing element that condenses the light emitted from the light source unit, and an electrically conductive scatterer that, when irradiated with light, produces localized plasmon at the light condensation position of the light from the light-condensing element. The light emitted from... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070109921 - 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.

20070109920 - Recording media data structure and method of reading data recorded in recording media: A recording media data structure includes a first recording layer having a lead-in area, a first user region successive to a physical sector of the lead-in area and for storing user data, and a first jump region successive to a physical sector of the first user region; a second recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109922 - Tracking error control apparatus, tracking error control circuit, optical disk apparatus and tracking error control method: A second tracking error detector detects the displacement between the track and the light beam and outputs a second displacement detection result based on the comparison of the reproduction signals between first and second pit strings respectively. A second tracking error controller corrects a target position for push-pull control based... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109923 - Optical head and optical disk device: An aberration correction lens 4 is disposed in a space between a laser light source 3 and an objective lens 5, and a lens holder 10 is frictionally coupled to a drive shaft 7 via a frictional holding body 8. A piezoelectric element 6 is provided to one end of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070109924 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup includes a light source, an objective lens for condensing a light beam emitted from the light source on a disk, a hologram element for splitting the light beam reflected by the disk, a photo detector for receiving the split light beam, a holding element for holding the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070109925 - Apparatus for generating tracking error signals: An apparatus for generating tracking error signals including: an optical detection unit having a plurality of divided light receiving elements to allow beams reflected from a recording surface of the optical disks to be incident; a comparator for outputting after comparing the signals from light receiving elements, which correspond to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109926 - Optical pickup adjusting apparatus and adjusting method: Disclosed is an adjustment apparatus for adjusting an optical pickup capable of recording and/or reproducing plural optical discs of different sorts. The adjustment apparatus is an optical disc for adjustment (1) having a first signal recording layer (5) having a physical format in common with a CD and a second... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070109927 - Servo control device, optical disk drive, and servo control method: A servo control device couples with an optical pickup head, which outputs a TEZC (tracking error zero crossing) signal. The servo control device includes a detection module, a signal generation module, and a selection module. In this case, the detection module detects emboss areas in an optical disk to output... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109928 - Optical disk apparatus: It is an optical disk apparatus that comprises: a laser drive device for outputting a test power larger than a prescribed value in a gap section; an optical pickup for forming a beam spot on a disk and detecting reflected light; a focus error detector for detecting position shift between... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109929 - Differential phase detector: The present invention relates to a full-digital implementation of a differential phase detector and to an interpolator for such a differential phase detector. According to the invention a differential phase detector for generating a tracking error signal from the digitized signals (A, B, C, D) of four photodetectors, having a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070109931 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device includes a two-wavelength composite light source that can emit laser beams for a CD and for a DVD, a light source that can emit a laser beam for a BD, a hologram element and a photo detector. When spots formed on the photo detector by 0... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070109930 - Optical pickup, optical recording and reproducing apparatus and tracking error signal detecting method: An optical pickup includes an optical system in which light from a light source is introduced through an objective lens into an optical recording medium and in which light reflected from the optical recording medium is introduced into a light-receiving unit and an objective lens driving unit for driving the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070109932 - Method of and apparatus for managing disc defects in disc, and disc on which defects are managed: A method of and apparatus for managing disc defects in a disc using a temporary defect management area in the disc, and the disc, where the method includes recording in a data area user data; and recording in a temporary defect management area, which is present in at least one... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070109933 - Recording position deviation correction apparatus, recording position deviation correction method, and recording position correction program: In the prior art recording position deviation correction apparatus, it was difficult to obtain the physical address position during performing an additional recording processing. So, a high reliability recording position deviation amount cannot be calculated, and the recording position deviation correction cannot be carried out correctly. The present invention adopts,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109934 - Information recording apparatus and method, computer program, and information recording medium: An information recording apparatus (300) is provided with: a recording device (352) for irradiating an information recording medium (100) with laser light and for recording information onto the information recording medium; an obtaining device (354) for obtaining at least one of (i) a special OPC strategy for defining a waveform... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070109935 - Optical recording medium having recording capacity information and method for indicating recording capacity: An optical recording medium and a method for recording information are provided. The optical recording medium having a user area and a spare area, includes a control information stored on a particular area of the optical recording medium, wherein the control information includes an initial recording capacity information stored on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109936 - Optical disc servo that is robust for defects: A method is described for discriminating different types of disc defects in an optical disc drive apparatus (1) of a type comprising: scanning means (30) for scanning a record track of an optical disc (2) and for generating a read signal (SR), the scanning means (30) comprising at least one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070109938 - Information recording apparatus and information recording: The information recording apparatus irradiates a laser beam on a recording medium such as an optical disk and forms a recording mark corresponding to a recording signal to record information. A recording pulse signal includes a mark period irradiating the laser beam for forming the recording mark and a space... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070109937 - Write based power adaptive control system: An apparatus comprising a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to (i) generate a read power signal and (ii) control power of a laser beam emitted from an optical pick-up circuit during a read process. The second circuit may be configured... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070109939 - Evaluation value calculating apparatus, recording and playback apparatus, evaluation value calculating method, recording method: An evaluation value calculating apparatus includes the following elements. A difference metric selecting unit selects a difference metric for a specific recorded sequence in recorded sequences obtained in a maximum likelihood decoding process when information expressed with marks and spaces on a recording medium is played back, the difference metric... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070109940 - Information storage medium, information recording method,and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information storage medium in which an error checking and correction block is formed of recording frames including data identifier information, the error checking and correction block is divided into sub-blocks, the same recording frame is distributed over sub-blocks, and each of data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109942 - Method of determining recording area of multi-layer optical disc, and recording and playback apparatus: To reduce influence of errors on the outer periphery side of a multi-layer recording disc, a first shifted middle area is assured at a predetermined position nearer to the inner periphery side than the last position of layer on the outer periphery side of a single-sided, multi-layer recording disc, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070109941 - Optical storage in discs having multiple data layers: Optical pick-up apparatus for retrieving data stored on an optical storage disc having a plurality of record layers (6, 7), the radiation beam reflected back from the disc when a first layer (7) is irradiated comprising radiation reflected back from the first layer (7) and radiation reflected back from one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070109944 - Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing hologram: The apparatus includes an address information writer that writes address information representing the position of the unit sectors in the recording medium when recording the hologram in each of the unit sectors, an address information reader that reads out the address information from the recording medium when reproducing the hologram... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070109943 - Holographic memory reproduction method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for performing reproduction position servo-control without reducing the recording capacity of a holographic recording medium is provided. Upon the reproduction of a holographic recording medium 18, part of a reproduction beam serving as a servo beam is projected onto a recording layer 18A of the holographic... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109945 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup includes a laser diode for BD, a laser diode for DVD and CD, a collimator lens, an objective lens for BD. A blue color laser beam emitted from the laser diode for BD passes through the collimator lens to become parallel rays, which enter the objective lens... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070109946 - Optical pickup device: In a photo pickup device, an incident area 30 for a reflection light of a light spot is divided into four areas 30a˜30d by parting lines 31, 32 making axial-symmetrical angles with a direction Y of a projected track on an optical disc. In these areas, the so-divided areas 30a,... Agent: Nath & Associates PLLC

20070109947 - Optical pickup device: The optical pickup device (1) includes a two-wavelength compound light source (2) that is capable of emitting two light beams having different wavelengths and a light source (3) emitting a single wavelength light beam. The laser beam emitted from the latter single wavelength light source (3) has an optical path... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070109948 - Optical head apparatus and optical information recording and reproduction apparatus: Disclosed is an optical head apparatus comprising: a light source; a collimating means of converting a beam of light emitted from the light source into a substantially parallel beam of light; a focusing means of focusing the light onto an information medium surface; a beam splitting means of splitting the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070109949 - Method and apparatus for recoding holographic diffraction gratings: A method and apparatus for scanning an input beam of light in a two dimensional pattern; splitting the scanned input beam of light into two output beams of light, each one of the two output beams of light passing along a different path to a common region in a recording... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070109950 - Method and apparatus for signal equalization in a light storage system: A method and apparatus for signal equalization in a light storage system is disclosed. The method includes observing run length of an RF signal read from the optical disc; classifying run lengths into sets; calculating the mean of certain run lengths; comparing the values with expected values of said run... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070109951 - Data distributing-machine with controled atmosphere: A tight enclosure 1 receives by an airlock 2 virgin optical discs 3 sensitive to oxygen and packed in a tight packing 4. These discs are came out of their tight packing 4 by a means 7, introduced into a means of writing 6, and again introduced into a tight... Agent: Vernois

20070109952 - Lens for uniformly distributing light and optical emitting device using the same: A lens includes a convex surface formed in an outer surface thereof facing away from a light source to uniformly distribute light emitted from the light source; a concave surface concaved inward from an inner region of the convex surface, around an optical axis; and a convex portion convexed outward... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070104036 - Interactive printed material and sensor apparatus: Apparatus having a sensor unit, preferably in the form of a sensor pen, and printed material is described where the two interact in a wide variety of ways. In particular, the printing on the printed material is configured to have different properties, where the difference is not discernible to the... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20070104037 - Methods and systems for providing data track identifying information on a recording medium: A method and system for formatting of recording media.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP (formerly Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP)

20070104039 - Method, apparatus, and system for installing software: A method, apparatus, and system for installing software that includes acquiring one or more predetermined software identifiers from an identifier storage medium connected to a computing device, and installing software titles, which belong to a plurality of software titles stored in a software storage medium and correspond to the acquired... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070104038 - Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording method: A record area of HDD is provided with a disk cache area for temporarily storing data to be written. The disk cache area is defined as a area that is not used by a host apparatus (3) in an LBA space, and the disk cache area is disposed in an... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070104040 - Data buffering method used when performing read operation on optical storage medium: A data buffering method used when performing a read operation on an optical storage medium is disclosed. After a first data unit having an unidentifiable and temporarily undeducible ID address is reproduced through the read operation, the method starts storing the first data unit and subsequently reproduced data units into... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070104041 - Disc playing sorting system and method using the same: The invention discloses a disc playing sorting system and method. The disc playing sorting system comprises a capacity space, an optical component, and a processor. A plurality of discs are set into the capacity space. The optical component is drived by a trigger signal generated by a start key in... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070104042 - Media drive, computer system, and media drive control method: A media drive, a computer system, and a media drive control method, in which insertion/ejection of a removable medium into/from a media drive being in a sleep mode that is a power saving mode of operation can be detected, and the power consumptions of the media drive and host computer... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070104043 - Objective lens driving device for optical recording media and device having the objective lens driving device: The invention refers to a pickup for optical recording media having an actuator for focus and tracking control where, in order to avoid unwanted torque components being generated when magnets facing coils are unsymmetric, the magnetic flux in broad parts of the magnet is deliberately reduced by broadening, in that... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070104044 - Optical pickup actuator: An optical pickup including a moving unit including a lens holder on which an objective lens is positioned, a set of suspension wires to movably support the lens holder on a base of the optical pickup actuator, each suspension wire having one end fixed to a side of the lens... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070104045 - Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus capable of coma aberration correction: Provided is an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus including a light beam expander for correcting spherical aberration caused when a plurality of recording layers of an optical disc are brought into focus by changing a divergent angle or a convergent angle of light entering an objective lens, and coma... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070104046 - Optical pickup device: In order to (i) reduce astigmatism due to a diffraction grating capable of compensating light intensity distribution of a light beam emitted by a light source and (ii) simplify fabrication processes, an optical pickup device of the present invention includes: a semiconductor laser 1; a collimator lens 4; a diffraction... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070104047 - Optical disc drive and focus control method thereof: An optical disc drive and a focus control method thereof. If a summation signal exceeds a threshold value, an object lens of the optical disc drive is moved towards the optical disc for a first distance from an original position and then away from the optical disc for the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070104048 - Method for gain adjustment for production of a lens position signal, and a corresponding appliance for reading from and/or writing to an optical recording medium: A lens position signal LCE which indicates the discrepancy between the lens and its geometric mid-position is required for coarse tracking of optical storage drives. The prior art is for the lens position signal LCE to be formed in three-beam pick-ups by weighted combination of specific photodetector signals from a... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070104049 - Optical disc system and method for managing shock during data record/play: An optical disc system and a method of managing shock while recording or playing data in the optical disc system are provided. The optical disc system includes an optical pick-up unit for applying a laser beam to a track of an optical disc and detecting reflected light, a servo unit... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLP

20070104050 - Focus control device and tracking control device: There is provided a focus control device including sensor means (101); error signal synthesizing means (102); arithmetic means (103) having an error input portion (104), a disturbance addition portion for adding a first disturbance value group to a focus error value group generated by the error input portion and producing... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070104051 - Tracking error detecting method, tracking error detecting apparatus and optical recording and reproducing apparatus: A tracking error detecting method comprises the steps of causing intensity distributions of single light introduced into an objective lens to have symmetry with respect to the track direction of an optical recording medium and the direction oblique to the direction perpendicular to the track direction, dividing a light-receiving unit... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070104053 - Method for controlling an optical disc drive to resume interrupted recording on an optical disc, circuit thereof, and optical disc drive capable of resuming interrupted recording on an optical disc: A method for controlling an optical disc drive to resume interrupted recording on an optical disc includes: when the recording of a first recording unit block (RUB) is interrupted, storing an address thereof and storing a first value corresponding to the number of recorded sets of data of the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070104054 - Information processing apparatus, software installing method, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits and receives information to and from an IC chip of a recording medium, an authentication processing unit that executes mutual authentication processing with the IC chip, a list-display-screen outputting unit that reads identification information and usage control information and causes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104055 - Method for setting data carrier speed in a data carrier drive apparatus: A method is described for setting a disc speed in a disc drive apparatus (3) which is in data transfer communication (7) with a host system (2). According to the invention, after a first speed change, any further speed change is prohibited until a predetermined minimum waiting time has passed... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070104052 - Optical disc apparatus and access control method of the same: An optical disc apparatus, as a learning operation before a recording or reproducing operation, rotates an optical disc at a first speed to read PID information, discriminates between lands and grooves of the optical disc, detects switching positions between lands and grooves, sets a rotation angle position of tracking pull-in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070104056 - Method for transmitting a write strategy to a laser driver: The invention relates to a method for transmitting a write strategy to a laser driver, and to a pickup and an apparatus for writing to or reading from and writing to optical recording media using such method. According to the invention, the method has the steps of: transmitting an encrypted... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070104058 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information recording/reproducing device and method, and computer program: An information recording medium (100) is provided with: a recording area (106) to record therein record information by irradiating laser light thereto; and a recording control area (103) to record therein control information for controlling a laser power in accordance with a recording position in the recording area.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070104057 - Multi-layer writable optical record carrier with an optimum power calibration area, and method and apparatus for forming optimum power calibration areas on such a record carrier: A writable optical record carrier (100) comprising a plurality of recording layers LO, . . . , Ln-1 separated by a spacer material, each recording layer comprising an optimum power calibration area (101,111,121,131) having a first portion (102,112,122) with an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer and a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070104060 - Optimal recording method for optical recording media and optical recording medium stored with information about optimum recording conditions: An optimal recording method for optical recording media which is capable of recording information about optimum recording conditions on an optical recording medium in order to allow a subsequent recording of data at an optimum recording power, based on the recorded optimum recording condition information. In this method, test data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070104059 - Test disc and drive verification method: In a test disc, data (test data) is recorded in such a manner as to fill an entirety of a data region and, next to this test data, border-out data is recorded which contains information indicating that recording is prohibited. By determining whether the data can be played back appropriately... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070104062 - Method and apparatus for reproducing information from recording medium: One of (1) a signal reproduced from a recording medium by a pickup device and (2) control information related to the reproduced signal is searched in a first search range for first information. A trial is made for detecting an optimum condition of a reproducing operation of the pickup device... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070104063 - Tilt compensation method and apparatus: Provided is a tilt compensation method and apparatus that effectively compensates for a tilt of an information storage medium. The tilt compensation method includes calculating a tilt value at more than one local point of the information storage medium using a focus-on-drive (FOD) sensitivity function and a tilt sensitivity function... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070104061 - Apparatus and method for analysis of optical storage media: Various apparatus and related methods are disclosed that are capable of detecting surface defects on an optical storage media. One example of an apparatus is configured to direct at least one light signal, which may be from one or more lasers, on an outer surface of an optical storage medium,... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070104064 - Method and apparatus for two dimensional optical storage of data: The invention relates to a data processing system comprising a computer having a memory for storage and retrieval of at least one application program embodying a pre-determined functionality, and for storage and retrieval of at least one data-file, which computer comprises a user interface for entertaining communication between the computer... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070104065 - Optical information reproducing method and apparatus for performing reproduction compensation: The present invention provides an optical information reproducing method of detecting a record mark formed in an optical information recording medium and generating a reproduced signal, comprising the steps of: detecting a mark length of each record mark on basis of a reproduced signal, and correcting the reproduced signal by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070104066 - Re-writable optical disk having reference clock information permanently formed on the disk: An optical disk structure and optical disk recorder which enables data to be re-written onto the recording layer of the optical disk. A clock reference structure is permanently formed along servo tracks of the optical disk. An optical transducer is coupled to the clock reference structure and generates a clock... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070104067 - Data recording/reproducing device: A data recording device comprises a block division unit dividing a sequence of user data blocks into first blocks and second blocks, a plurality of multi-level data generating units generating multi-level data blocks from the first blocks and the second block, a group data storage unit storing first and second... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070104069 - Hologram recording/reproducing device and hologram reproducing device: A hologram recording/reproducing device records information onto a medium by a light beam emitted from a laser light source and passing through a forward path, the forward path having optical components in an area extending from the laser light source to the medium, and reproduces the recorded information by the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070104068 - Holographic multiplex recording method: A holographic multiplex recording method is provided in which remaining dynamic range in each recording area is made more uniform upon holographic multiplex recording. In this holographic recording method, a first-stage recording spot row RX1 is formed by arranging recording spots RS in an X-axis direction without overlapping, and then... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070104070 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus is realized that (i) allows an aberration in a spot of light converged by an objective lens to be reduced and (ii) has a uniform focusing characteristic, close to an ideal state, of a main beam which is a 0th-order diffracted light beam, without reducing efficiency... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070104071 - Optical pickup and disc drive apparatus: The present invention provides an optical pickup and a disc drive apparatusx` that make it possible to record information signals to and reproduce information signals from disc-shaped recording mediums of three different types by means of a single objective lens. The optical pickup includes a first light emitting element that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104072 - Extraction optical system, optical pick-up device and optical disc apparatus: An extraction optical system for use in an optical pick-up device receiving a reflected light from an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers is provided. The extraction optical system extracts from a light in which a signal light component from an access target recording layer of the plurality... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070104073 - Transmissive phase plate, polarized beam splitter, and projection display: A transmissive phase plate with a function of correcting direction of polarization of light rays in an incident divergent or convergent light flux in addition to functions as a wave plate. Conditions of polarization of incident light rays are corrected by a polarization-correcting optical multi-layer coating which is formed by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104074 - Information recording and/or reproducing apparatus: An information recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a laser light source from which a laser beam having a wavelength of from 220 nm to 280 nm exits; and a converging lens unit disposed at a nearfield area of a recording medium and upon which the laser beam from the laser... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104075 - Communication diode driver circuit: A Communication Diode Driver Circuit (CDDC) for selectively illuminating communication diodes (CDs) in response to incoming digital data pulses with a LED drive current ILED(t) close to a nominal LED drive current IN therefor in a steady state operation of the CDDC. The CDDC includes a driver unit for driving... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20070104076 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup that includes: a monolithic laser diode; and a photo-detector including each light receiving portion formed on one substrate and corresponding to each laser beam emitted from the monolithic laser diode, wherein the monolithic laser diode is arranged such that each light emitting point belonging to the monolithic... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070104078 - Apparatus and method for reading information from an information carrier: In modem optical disc systems, inter-track spacing is chosen relatively small in order to allow high storage densities. As a result, the optical spot has a radius comparable with the track pitch, and the data written on neighboring tracks appear in the target track signal in the form of inter-track... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070104077 - Apparatus for detecting a pre-pit signal: An apparatus for detecting a pre-pit signal at different laser power intensities of an optical disk drive. The apparatus includes an amplifier for receiving a push-pull signal acquired from an optical disk to generate an adjusted signal, a multiplexer for receiving the push-pull signal and the adjusted signal and selecting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070104079 - Vibration-type cantilever holder and scanning probe microscope: The vibration-type cantilever holder for fastening a cantilever opposed to a sample, supported on a main body part at only its base end and having a probe on its leading end. The holder includes: a cantilever-attaching stand on which the main body part is placed and fastened with the cantilever... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070104080 - 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.

20070104081 - Recording sheet: A recording sheet comprising a first layer having at least a first substrate layer and a recording layer, which is capable of pressure-sensitive recording; a second layer having at least a second substrate layer; and a pseudo-adhesive layer via which the second layer is laminated on the recording layer side... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070104082 - Optical disk medium: In a hybrid optical disk medium has data recording surfaces at both sides thereof, one of which is a first recording surface and the other is a second recording surface, a removable first label representing “HDDVD” and “NO DVD” to identify the disk format of the second recording surface is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070104083 - Disc-shaped recording medium, cutting apparatus for same, and disc drive: There is provided an optical disc having preformed thereon a spiral wobbled track as a grove and/or land along with data is to be recorded. The track is wobbled for a series of predetermined signal units each composed of an FSK information bit part based on a waveform resulted from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104084 - External optical disk stabilizer and method of use: An external optical disk stabilizer, for use in stabilizing an optical disk comprising a coating of self-adhesive material set to a non-recording side of an optical disk substrate. The self-adhesive viscous material includes silicon gel, epoxy or other like material. The stabilizer may include a thin sheet of dampening material... Agent: Fortune Law Group LLP

20070097798 - Booklet loading apparatus, post-treatment apparatus, and image forming system: A booklet loading apparatus has a carry-out unit that sequentially carries out plural booklets to a predetermined carry-out position; a transfer unit that sequentially arranges the booklets carried out from the carry-out unit while the booklets overlap one another, the transfer unit transferring the booklets in a predetermined transfer direction,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070097799 - Information reproducing apparatus, method for controlling information reproducing apparatus, content recording medium, control program, computer-readable recording medium storing control program: The AV data reproducing apparatus includes: (i) a reading section for reading out, from a recording medium, additional function information indicating an additional function correlated with a manipulation input; and (ii) an additional function program executing section for executing the additional function in response to the manipulation input. With this,... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070097800 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and recording method: According to the present invention, there is provided a recording and reproducing apparatus including: a reproduction memory that stores compressed data read out on a sector basis from a recording medium containing the compressed data compression-coded on a block basis; a recording memory that records on a sector basis a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097802 - Enhanced table of contents (toc) identifiers: A method for identifying the contents of a compact disc manipulating a received table of contents (TOC) identifier associated with the compact disc. The method parses portions of the TOC comprising a series of numbers corresponding to track offsets for each track of the compact disc. The method further determines... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070097805 - Image data processing device and image data processing method: When original data are stored, an association information storage area is reserved for each of the original data. When the original data are referred to by a playlist function and a partial area of the original data is registered in a playlist, an identifier for identifying the playlist that made... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070097801 - Information recorder, information recording medium, and information recording method: An information recording device for recording a content in an information recording medium. A controller includes a creating unit for creating a time sequence index information group and a reverse time sequence index information group based on plural index information items extracted from time series data, and a recording unit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070097803 - 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.

20070097804 - Info