Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 06/07

20070147187 - Method of using graphite for making hydrophilic articles: A water transport plate assembly that is useful in fuel cells includes at least one hydrophilic article such as a flow field layer. A method of making the hydrophilic article includes establishing a hydrophilicity of the article by including a plurality of graphite particles (112) having a particular physical characteristic... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070147194 - Optical head: An optical head includes an objective lens held by a lens holder that is driven by a coil. The optical head includes: a base, including a mounting face having an opening portion; a substrate, operable to supply an electric power to the coil, and including a first portion; and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070147197 - Objective lens actuating apparatus of optical read/write head: An objective lens actuating apparatus is provided for an optical read/write head. The apparatus includes a base; a lens holder floating over the base; an objective lens, fixed on the lens holder; two multi-polar magnets mounted on the base; and two coil plates located between the two magnets and fixed... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070147201 - Information reproducing apparatus and method: According to one embodiment of this invention, a first management information holding section holds first reproduction management information recorded on an optical disc and a second management information holding section holds second reproduction management information fetched from the exterior. A flag determining section determines whether a write end flag of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147205 - Optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus and test writing method thereof: Within an optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus, equipped with a test writing method during the recording operation, for improving accuracy on calculating the most-suitable power and recording quality, thereby recording data through irradiation of a laser beam of a predetermined power onto a optical disk, defining test writing areas on an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070147188 - Method and apparatus for controlling a readout parameter during reading: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling at least one readout parameter during a reading operation from a magneto optical recording medium comprising a storage layer and a readout layer, wherein an expanded domain leading to a pulse in a reading signal is generated in said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147189 - Sensing photon energies of optical signals: An integrated circuit includes a photosensor array with subrange cells that photosense within respective subranges of an energy range. An optical signal and the array move relative to each other, and, for segments of their relative movement, sets of subrange cells photosense within subranges that are different. For example, a... Agent: Leading Edge Law Group, PLC/xerox-parc

20070147190 - Accessing audio-centered information using a multilevel table-of-contents mechanism and directory structures: Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism for specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In addition to the TOC mechanism a file-based access mechanism to the information is assigned through a ROOT directory that contains a highest level TOC... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147192 - Device for storing data carriers: A device for storing data carriers has a housing (10). In the housing (10) magazines (12) can be inserted, which accommodate data carriers, e.g. magnetic tape cartridges (26) lying flat. In order to be able to exchange cartridges (26) without moving the magazine (12) out of the housing (10) and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070147191 - Disc retrieval and release apparatus and method: The disc retrieval and release apparatus and method has a retrieve and release member for retrieving and releasing a disc for processing. The retrieve and release member releases one of the discs into and retrieves it from a wait processing region where the upper side of the disc tray is.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147195 - Lens driving device: A lens driving device which can improve the positional accuracy of a moving lens while realizing a low component count and saving space. In the lens driving device provided in a lens barrel, a lens moves along the optical axis. A guide shaft is fixed to a lens barrel case... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070147196 - Optical information processing device: An optical information processing device, configured to perform operations of reading and writing information on an optical disk, includes a light source configured to emit a laser beam, an image forming unit configured to converge the laser beam emitted by the light source on the optical disk, a first actuating... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070147193 - Pickup device driving apparatus, photographing device using the same, and monitoring camera apparatus: A pickup device driving apparatus includes a base of which the position is fixed with respect to a lens part, a movable part, a pickup device which is attached to the movable part in a state that a pickup surface is perpendicular to an optical axial direction, a first support... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070147198 - Optical pickup device and method of laying out the same: An optical pickup device is provided, in which, supposing that an angle formed by the meeting of a straight line connecting a center of an optical disk and an accessing position of an HD objective lens with a diameter L of the optical disk is a track angle θ1, an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070147199 - Tilt detecting device and method: An information recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes an optical head, an analog signal processor, an analog/digital converter, a controller and a digital/analog converter. The optical head is used for emitting a light beam on a medium and receiving a reflected light beam from the medium. The analog signal processor is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070147200 - Servo controlling method of optical information processing apparatus and optical information recording and reproducing apparatus: A servo controlling method of an information processing apparatus using hologram comprises a step of irradiating a holographic recording medium with a light of first wavelength and irradiating the holographic recording medium with a light of second wavelength different from the first wavelength. And, first return light by the light... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147202 - Record carrier identification using asymmetry modulation: Record carrier identification information is stored using an asymmetry modulation. This prevents the access to this information through the regular data path of the playback device. The asymmetry information is automatically removed by the playback device because of the inherent data slicing and decoding that takes place in the play... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147203 - Method and apparatus for optical disk recording capable of reducing settling time and generating an accurate channel clock signal: An optical disk recording apparatus includes a first comparator, a second comparator, a third comparator, a selection circuit, a control voltage generator, a voltage control oscillator, and a control circuit. The first comparator compares frequency-divided signals to output an error signal. The second and third comparators compare a signal pre-recorded... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070147204 - Optical disk recording method and optical disk recording and reading apparatus: An optical disk recording method wherein a beam is irradiated on an optical disk so that recording or write once of information is carried out, the optical disk recording method includes the step of controlling a recording velocity at the time of starting the write once, when the write once... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070147206 - Optical disk drive control circuit: An IC provided in an optical disk device having an objective lens and a pickup for a disk. The IC has a circuit for holding a signal which drives the objective lens in a focus or tracking direction and for detecting the moving direction of the objective lens, and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070147207 - Apparatus for, and method of, recording/playing audio data having additional information embedded therein: According to the type of each of a plurality of external input interfaces, it is decided whether digital watermark information is to be detected from data entered via the external input interface. Digital watermark information is not detected from data entered via the external input interface and from which it... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147208 - Optical information recording apparatus, optical information recording medium, optical information recording method, and computer-readable information storage medium: An optical information recording apparatus for recording information on an optical information recording medium with multiple recording layers is disclosed. The optical information recording apparatus, performing an OPC operation before performing the recording, includes a reading part reading information on the type of the medium recorded thereon, a storage unit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070147209 - Method for recording on an optical recording medium: Method for recording on an optical recording medium The invention relates to a method for recording on an optical recording medium, to an optical recording medium suitable for this method, and to a device for writing to optical recording media using such method or optical recording medium. According to the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070147210 - Recording method for a phase-change optical recording medium: The present invention provides a recording method for a phase-change optical recording medium. The recording method of the present invention contains the step of irradiating an electromagnetic wave having a multipulse pattern so as to perform recording on a phase-change optical recording medium containing a phase-change recording layer. This method... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070147212 - Method and apparatus for recoding optical infomation, and optical disk: A method of recording data optically to an optical disk having a plurality of sectors, in which each sector has a region to be recorded with data, the data is recorded in units of blocks, and the block includes a predetermined number of sectors and is a data unit including... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070147211 - 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.

20070147213 - Optical information carrier containing bragg reflectors: The invention refers to an optical information carrier (1) for carrying information to be read out by means of an optical beam (9) having at least one information layer (6). It is an object of the invention to provide information carriers (1) with improved collection efficiency. To achieve this object... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147214 - Methods for storing holographic data and articles having enhanced data storage lifetime derived therefrom: A method of storing holographic data is provided. The method includes providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a photochemically active dye and a singlet-oxygen generator, irradiating the optically transparent substrate with a holographic interference pattern, wherein the pattern has a first wavelength and an intensity both sufficient to convert, within... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070147215 - Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus and optical information recording apparatus: An object is to be able to correct a shift even when the shift occurs in the light beam incident on a spatial light modulator in an optical information recording apparatus such as a hologram memory system and the like using the spatial light modulator having an area to modulate... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147218 - Optical element, optical pickup unit, and optical disk drive unit: An optical pickup unit includes first and second light sources of first and second wavelengths, respectively, a dichroic element, a phase plate, and an objective lens. One of the first and second light sources is selected so that information recording or reproduction is performed by converging a light beam emitted... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070147216 - Optical pick-up, method of generating aberration for compensation and optical information processing apparatus using the same: An optical pick-up to perform recording or reproducing for an optical recording medium is disclosed, which includes a light source configured to emit a light beam, an objective lens configured to focus the light beam onto the optical recording medium, and an aberration generation device provided between the light source... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070147217 - Optical pickup device and optical disk drive: To reduce the size or thickness of an optical pickup device and an optical disk drive, an optical pickup device includes a light source that radiates laser light; a condensing member that condenses the laser light onto a recording medium; an optical member that reflects some of the laser light... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070147219 - Wavelength selection switch: A wavelength selection switch includes a diffraction grating that spectrally separates entering light, a focusing optical system that receives the light spectrally separated by the diffraction grating and focuses the light at a predetermined position, a deflection member that is arranged at the predetermined position and includes deflection elements that... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070147222 - Code disk with a plurality of tracks having different patterns: A code disk for a high-resolution encoder that can detect an absolute position and a method for manufacturing a mold to produce the code disk are provided. The code disk is formed by using transparent substrate. The code disk includes a plurality of tracks provided on the transparent substrate and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070147221 - Information carrier: The invention relates to an information carrier (10), having a metal layer (40) with at least one track (14) in which marks (20) are disposed, which can be detected by means of light of a central wavelength (λ) which is emitted by a light source (30) and which is incident... Agent: Nath & Associates PLLC

20070147220 - Multiple-spiral hybrid disc for e-book applications: The invention relates to an optical disc (10) comprising a hybrid information layer with at least two congruently adjoining spirals, whereby a first spiral (12) of said adjoining spirals comprises a ROM section containing read only data and a second spiral (14) of said adjoining spirals comprises a recordable section... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147223 - Optical disc and method of producing the same: An optical disc is produced. A first recording layer is formed on a first substrate having a thickness of 0.6 mm±30 μm, so that the first recording layer has first data pits formed concentrically or spirally in compliance with the DVD-ROM specifications, the first data pits including 14T pits, T... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070147224 - Secure optical information disc: A secure optical data disc comprising an electronic article surveillance tag embedded within a layered disc structure comprising first and second substrates is disclosed. The tag is placed within a non-readable zone (i.e., one that does not have data tracks) of the secure disc. Layer-wise, the tag is either sandwiched... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070140082 - Data search system for searching a data sync pattern in optical disc and method thereof: Disclosed is a data search system for searching the data sync pattern by using a physical address or by detecting the falling edge of the blank area end. The data search system comprises a first data start indicator, a second data start indicator, a decision circuit, a window generator and... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070140084 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus, and method for checking and presenting information: An information table storage stores an information table. The information table includes information regarding contents of an optical disk, disk identification information, and specific information representing relationships between the optical disk and an apparatus. An identification information detector section detects identification information when the optical disk is loaded in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070140069 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data from an optical storage device: Techniques for improved for improved seamless AB loop play, such as may be implemented in an optical disk reproducing device (100) are provided. In particular, the invention addresses the need for improved seamless AB loop play in an optical disk reproducing apparatus (100) with particular concern for two cases: (1)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140070 - Domain expansion read-out for improved domain collapse: Method and apparatus for controlling a read-out operation from a magneto-optical recording medium comprising a storage layer and a read-out layer, wherein a domain is expanded in the read-out layer by copying a mark region from the storage layer to the read-out layer upon heating by a radiation power with... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140071 - Optical disc record medium, disc production method, recording apparatus: A guide groove is formed without wobbles. The guide groove is periodically modulated with its width. Encrypted data are recorded with marks formed on the record film along the guide groove. Information recorded by periodically modulating the guide groove with its width can be accurately detected by a band pass... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140072 - Electro-optic device and process for optical media: An optical media is provided with an associated electro-optic material. The electro-optic material has at least two states. In a first state, the electro-optic material interferes with the ability of an interrogating laser beam to read data from the optical media, and in a second state, the electro-optic material is... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070140073 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140074 - Media type detection using a lock indicator: A method for detecting a media type of an optical disc system comprising the steps of (A) checking for a first wobble signal associated with a first media type, (B) if step (A) detects the first wobble signal, operating the optical disc system as the first media type, (C) checking... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070140075 - Objective-lens driving apparatus and optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus includes an objective-lens for converging light on a recording surface of an optical disk, and an objective-lens driving device for driving the objective-lens in a focusing direction and a tracking direction. The objective-lens driving device includes a focusing coil having four edges to enclose the objective-lens,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070140076 - Method and apparatus for writing optically readable data onto an optical data: The invention relates to an apparatus (20) for reading data from and/or writing data onto an optical data carrier (21) is proposed. An optical source generates an incident beam (26), an objective lens assembly (28) focuses the incident beam onto the optical data carrier. A thin convex lens (32) without... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140077 - Optical disc recording apparatus capable of marking label side of optical disc: After the learning step of an optical disc recording apparatus for writing a label side of an optical disc is accomplished, the focusing servo control signal includes an offset voltage component. Before or after the focusing servo control signal is converted into an analog output signal, the signal is processed... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070140078 - Reproducing method and reproducing apparatus: In an apparatus that carries out reproduction control on the basis of digital watermark information embedded in a content, for the purpose of providing a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method in which reproduction stoppage in the middle of reproduction according to the detection result of the digital watermark information... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070140080 - Apparatus for and method of recording and reproducing information: An information recording and reproducing apparatus (S) is provided with: a first reproducing device (11) for reproducing audio information from a first information record medium (DK), in which the audio information is recorded; a recording device (28) for recording the reproduced audio information into a second information record medium (HD);... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20070140079 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140081 - Apparatus for controlling discrete data in disk overwrite area or power calibration area: An apparatus for controlling discrete data in a disk overwrite area or a power calibration area comprises a signal-processing unit, an address-processing unit, a control signal-processing unit, a clock recovery circuit, a signal-processing unit parameter control unit, and a clock recovery circuit parameter control unit, wherein the control signal-processing unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070140083 - Method and apparatus to determine an optimum reproducing condition on an optical recording medium: A method of determining an optimum reproduction condition of a first mark recorded on an optical recording medium that is smaller than a resolution of a pickup to reproduce the first mark. The method includes obtaining an optimum reproduction condition of a second mark having a length which closely approximates... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070140085 - Information recording method, information recording apparatus and information recording medium: An information recording method is provided, which comprises the steps of (a) determining a power level of a pulse sequence, (b) generating the pulse sequence based on the power level determined, and (c) irradiating an information recording medium with light corresponding to the pulse sequence generated to record information represented... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070140086 - Method and apparatus of parameters optimization in optical disc writing: A method for optimizing the optical disc writing parameters, comprising the steps: acquiring the variable of a mark runlength; determining a modulation amount of the writing parameters based on a relationship between the variable of the mark runlength and the modulation amount of the writing parameters; and modulating the writing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140087 - 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. A recording mark with the size of a resolution limit or less and a space with the size of the resolution limit or less are formed in the super-resolution optical recording... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140088 - Evaluating apparatus and evaluating method: The evaluating apparatus of the present invention includes: a digital filter for filtering a signal in according with one or more tap coefficients of the digital filter. The evaluating apparatus further includes: a detecting section for detecting an index to be used for evaluating quality of the signal based on... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070140089 - Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method: An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the optical read/write apparatus operates so that data is read/written... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070140091 - Holographic storage and reproduction system and method with servo: A holographic storage and reproduction system and method with a servo are provided, wherein a servo mechanism is provided, such that the holographic interferogram is continuiously stored in the holographic recording medium. When a reproduced signal is to be obtained, it can be retrieved quickly and accurately through the servo... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070140090 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: A recording and reproducing apparatus has a recording control section for multiplex-recording data in one of recording unit regions of a holographic recording medium; a reproducing control section for selectively reproducing the data multiplex-recorded in the recording unit region; a measuring section for causing specific data to be recorded in... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070140092 - Optical system having aberrations for transforming a gaussian laser-beam intensity profile to a quasi-flat-topped intensity profile in a focal region of the optical system: An optical system is configured for projecting an image having a quasi-flat-topped intensity profile from a laser-beam having a Gaussian intensity profile. The optical system includes a diffraction limited lens for focusing the laser beam and one or more optical elements that introduce aberration into the beam before the beam... Agent: Reliant / Fenwick C/o Fenwick & West, LLP

20070140093 - Method and apparatus for writing data to an optical disc: The invention provides for a method and apparatus for writing data to an optical disc and comprising recovering an output signal from optical reading head, scaling the said output signal responsive to secondary data derived from the disc by way of the optical reading head and deriving a LLP signal... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070140095 - Enhanced electronic ink displays: An apparatus for rewritably labeling data media, such as compact disks CDs, DVDs, or other forms of media. The media may be programmed within a player/recorder device adapted for programming the state of the electronic ink material on the media. Labels on the media may be rewritten at any time... Agent: Rastar Corporation

20070140094 - Optical disk and optical disk reproducing device: An optical disk primarily includes a recording layer and a viscosity-variable material layer. When a laser beam is irradiated to reproduce a record written on the recording layer, part of the crystalline thin layer of the viscosity-variable material layer is softened to vary the optical constant of the softened region.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070140096 - Information recording medium and reproducing apparatus therefor: An environmental load information of an information recording medium is recorded on the information recording medium so as to recycle or dispose properly an information recording medium, which is not necessary any more. The information recording medium comprises a main information area (102) for recording or reproducing information and a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070140098 - Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, and computer program: An information recording medium (100) is provided with: a record information area (106) to record therein record information; an edge portion area (104, 108, 109) which is located in at least one edge portion of the record information area; and a flag area (121) to record therein a first pre-record... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070140097 - Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method: The present invention allows the usability of a write-once recording medium to be enhanced. The write-once recording medium is provided with an ordinary recording/reproduction area, an alternate area, a first alternate-address management information area (DMA) and a second alternate-address management information area (TDMA). In addition, written/unwritten state indication information (a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140099 - Read-only magnetic memory device mrom: A storage device has an information carrier part (10) and a read-out part (30). The information carrier part (10) is provided with a pattern of an electro-magnetic material constituting an array of bit locations (11) and the presence or absence of said material at the information plane represents the logical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133357 - User aware audio playing apparatus and method: An audio player apparatus (1) and method (2). The audio player apparatus comprises input means (10), such as buttons (11, 12, 13, 14) or soft-buttons on a touch screen, for inputting the presence of at least one user at a location of said audio player apparatus. The player apparatus (1)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133358 - Data read/ write device: A data read/write device according to an example of the present invention includes a recording layer, and means for applying a voltage to the recording layer, generating a resistance change in the recording layer, and recording data. The recording layer is composed of a composite compound having at least two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133359 - Label on laser entry side of an optical disc: An optical disc (3) for storing data is provided with a label material layer (8) on a laser entry side of the disc (3). The label material layer (8) does not impede reading data from or writing data onto the disc (3). Reflection or absorption of light in the visual... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133360 - Data search system for searching a data sync pattern stored in an optical disc by a physical address: A data search system for searching a data sync pattern stored in an optical disc by using a physical address is disclosed. The data search system comprises a physical address decoder, a data start indicator and a data sync pattern search circuit. The physical address decoder decodes a physical address... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070133361 - Removable medium recording/reproduction device, medium expelling control method for removable medium recording/reproduction device, and removable medium expelling control method for information processing apparatus: A removable medium recording/reproduction device capable of preventing expelling of a removable medium (101) by avoiding cancellation of an expelling prohibiting state even during power-down of the device. The device includes a mechanism for loading/ejecting a removable medium (101) by transporting the medium into the device and mounting the medium... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070133362 - Dvd changer api's: Application program interfaces for controlling an external media changer from a computer are provided. The application program interfaces allow for loading and identification of discs in a media changer. The application program interfaces can further allow for control of media changer functions such as locking of media changer elements and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070133363 - Focus servo recovery processing method for optical disc device and optical disc device: In an optical disc device employing a CLV method, executing pickup return processing when focus drop occurs during recording poses problems of increased waiting time for rotation and increased focus servo recovery processing time. When defocusing occurs and focus pull-in cannot be achieved by retry, a first rotation frequency at... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070133364 - Method and apparatus for positioning beam spot on recording medium: A method and apparatus position a beam spot on a recording medium. The positioning includes (a) observing a first center error in a first closed loop control during tracking mode, the first center error including a repeatable run out (RRO) error, (b) estimating a center error (CE)-RRO from the first... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070133365 - Tilt calibration apparatus and method capable of adjusting included angle between optical pick-up head and optical disc according to wobble signal: A tilt calibrating apparatus and method capable of adjusting an included angle between an optical disc and an optical pick-up head are disclosed. The tilt calibrating apparatus includes a photo detector, in the optical pick-up head, for detecting a signal reflected from a wobble groove on the optical disc, a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070133366 - Optical disc apparatus and optical pickup unit: An optical disc apparatus comprising: an optical pickup unit having a semiconductor laser that radiates a laser light beam which is to be applied to an optical disc, a photo detector that has a plurality of light-receiving faces, which are disposed adjacent to each other, and each of which is... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070133367 - Information recording device and related method: An information recording device and a related method are disclosed. The information recording device and the related method are capable of adjusting a phase error between a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal, where the first synchronization signal is synchronous to a location on a recording medium, the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070133368 - Information recording apparatus, information recording method and recording program: Provided with at least a file input section 10 that inputs image files from a digital camera or its media, a number of pixels comparing section 12 that compares the number of pixels in the image file that has been input with a prescribed number of pixels having a higher... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070133369 - Information recording device and information recording method: An information recording device and method capable of forming a recording mark by suppressing thermal interference. The device applies a laser beam to a recording medium and forms a recording mark in accordance with a recording signal. The device includes a light source for emitting the laser beam, signal generation... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070133370 - Information storage medium, recording method, and recording apparatus: A system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area are sequentially arranged from an inner circumference of layer 0. A system lead-out area, data lead-out area, data area, and middle area are sequentially arranged from an inner circumference of layer 1. A guard track zone is arranged... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133371 - Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method: An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the optical read/write apparatus operates so that data is read/written... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070133372 - Optical pickup unit and information recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical pickup unit includes a light source emitting a light beam, an objective lens focusing the light beam onto an information recording medium, a light detection part receiving the light beam reflected from the information recording medium, and a light blocking part selectively blocking a part of the light... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070133373 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device includes a liquid crystal element having transparent electrodes, one of which has a plurality of areas divided in a concentric manner. The liquid crystal element can compensate for a spherical aberration that is generated when information is reproduced or recorded on two types of optical recording... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070133374 - Optical pickup and optical disc apparatus: An optical pickup including: a light source; a diffractive element; an objective lens; and a photodetector, wherein the diffractive element has first to fourth areas provided with a predetermined periodic structure in each of the areas, the second and third areas have phases of the periodic structures of the second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133375 - Optical pickup device and optical element used for the same: An optical pickup device, comprises light sources to emit a first light flux having a wavelength λ1 (380 nm<λ1<450 nm); a second light flux having a wavelength λ2 (600 nm<λ2<700 nm); and a light-converging optical system. The light-converging optical system converges the first light flux on a first optical information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070133376 - Read apparatus and a method of detecting deterioration of a disk: For providing a read apparatus and a method of detecting deterioration of a disk, which can detect the deterioration of the disk securely at a low cost, when focus adjust and tracking adjust of an optical pick-up 3 can be acted normally within adjustable range by a servo DSP 5,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133377 - Information recording medium and reproducing apparatus therefor: An environmental load information of an information recording medium is recorded on the information recording medium so as to recycle or dispose properly an information recording medium, which is not necessary any more. The information recording medium comprises a main information area (102) for recording or reproducing information and a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070133378 - Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method: An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the optical read/write apparatus operates so that data is read/written... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070133379 - 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.

20070133383 - 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

20070133384 - 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

20070133380 - Optical recording disc adapted to storing data using an ultra-violet laser source: Optical record carrier (20) adapted to storing data using a recording/reading device. The recording/reading device comprises an ultra-violet laser source emitting electromagnetic radiation (29) having a wavelength X in the range of 230 nm to 270 nm. The recording/reading device further comprises an objective lens (21) for focussing the electromagnetic... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133381 - Reproducing system and corresponding information recording medium having wobbled land portions: An information recording medium is at least composed of a substrate having a microscopic pattern constituted by a continuous substrate of grooves formed with a groove portion and a land portion alternately, a recording layer formed on the microscopic pattern for recording information, and a light transmitting layer formed on... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070133382 - Reproducing system and corresponding information recording medium having wobbled land portions: An information recording medium is at least composed of a substrate having a microscopic pattern constituted by a continuous substrate of grooves formed with a groove portion and a land portion alternately, a recording layer formed on the microscopic pattern for recording information, and a light transmitting layer formed on... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070127320 - Device for educational entertainment: An educational/entertainment apparatus generally includes a controller (20) for use with a multimedia device (10). The controller includes a platform (26) for receiving a disc (50), the disc including a plurality of graphical images on at least one surface that correspond to a plurality of multimedia options, the disc also... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070127321 - Storing audio-centered informatoin with a multi-level table-of-contents (toc) mechanism having redundant sub-tocs: Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by using a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism that specifies an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In particular, each one of a set of one or more Track Areas gets at least two mutually logically conforming Sub-TOCs assigned. This allows... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070127322 - Apparatus system and method for managing control path commands in an automated data storage library: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing control path commands in an automated data storage library. The present invention teaches a data storage library with stored data and at least one controller. The present invention also teaches at least one command source that provides commands to the data... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070127323 - Network attached mountable optical disc storage library: The present network attached mountable optical disc storage library provides a plurality of disc media drives and at least one removable disc storage magazine. A picker traveling on a picker track transports the discs between the disc storage cartridges that are located in the disc storage magazines and the disc... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20070127325 - Lens driving unit: A lens driving unit includes a lens holder accommodating a lens or a group of lenses. A coil is disposed on a surface of the lens holder. The lens driving unit is provided with a magnet disposed at a position spaced from the coil by a predetermined distance to move... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070127324 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus includes a main guide shaft and a subsidiary guide shaft disposed so as to guide movement of a sliding base which holds an optical pickup. The optical pickup enables information recording and reproducing operations on an optical disc. The main guide shaft and the subsidiary guide... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070127326 - Micro lens array and its manufacturing method: Pluralities of lens parts 20, 22 are formed on a lens substrate 16 by dry-etching. The lens parts 20 and 22 have same structures, and the lens part 20 includes toroidal lens surfaces S1 and S2 opposing to each other on one principal surface and another principal surface of the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070127327 - Objective lens actuator and information recording/playback apparatus: An objective lens actuator according to the present invention includes: an objective lens; a lens holder that fixes the objective lens; a pair of tracking coils; a pair of radial tilt coils; a pair of focus coils superimposed and attached to the radial tilt coils; a pair of tracking magnets... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070127328 - Optical disk drive with hybrid solid immersion objective lens: A small form factor optical disk drive is provided that incorporates a hybrid solid immersion objective lens (SIOL). The SIOL includes a central aspheric lens portion and a surrounding diffractive optical element portion.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070127330 - Method of focus error signal adjustment in optical disk device and optical disk device: A method for a focus error signal adjustment in an optical disk device which shapes a focus error signal and enables a high-accuracy focus servo is provided. In a DVD-RAM having an emboss data zone and a rewritable data zone, a focus error signal is generated with the DVD-RAM remaining... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070127329 - Methods for storing holographic data and articles having enhanced data storage lifetime derived therefrom: The present invention provides a method for storing holographic data comprising providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a photochemically active dye and a photo-acid generator; irradiating the optically transparent substrate with a holographic interference pattern, wherein the pattern has a first wavelength and an intensity both sufficient to convert, within... Agent: Andrew J. Caruso General Electric Global Research

20070127331 - Layer jump control apparatus and method: A layer jump control apparatus and method is provided to control an optical drive during a layer jump operation. According to the magnitude variations of a focus error signal during a predetermined period, the invention estimates the position and relative velocity of a pickup head and a disk so as... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070127332 - Optical recording media: Optical recording media are provided. An optical recording medium for an optical pick-up unit includes a first substrate, a recording layer disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate, a thermo-sensitive layer disposed on the second substrate, a reflective layer disposed on the thermo-sensitive layer and an adhesive layer. The... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070127333 - Record carrier method and apparatus having separate formats for a stereo signal and a data signal: The invention relates to a record carrier carrying a stereo signal and a data signal. The data signal comprises a first portion and a remaining portion. A first channel on the record carrier comprises a composite signal. The composite signal is obtained by combining the stereo signal and the first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070127335 - Optical disk recording apparatus and optical recording method: An optical disk recording apparatus includes an optical pickup that emits laser light to illuminate a recording surface of an optical disk, receives reflected light resulting from the laser light reflected off the recording surface, and generates a light reception signal based on the thus received reflected light; a laser... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070127334 - Power adjusting method for pickup head accessing optical disc and optical disc information reproduction device thereof: A power adjusting method for a pickup head accessing an optical disc. The method includes identifying a target data transfer rate utilized by the PUH for accessing the optical disc; calculating an appropriate laser power according to the target data transfer rate; and accessing the optical disc by the PUH... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070127336 - Optical disk apparatus and method of setting recording power: According to the present invention, an optimum value of a laser power for recording data on a high-density optical disk can be set with high accuracy. A test signal whose erase power Pe is fixed and recording power Pw is varied is recorded on the optical disk. The recorded signal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070127337 - Optical recording meduim driving device: A method and an apparatus for driving an optical recording medium for recording and/or reproducing various information for the optical recording medium, in which the output power ratio of the light source may be reduced for recording and reproduction, for optical recording media of different sorts, or for respective recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127338 - Optical disk device: An optical disk device includes a rewriting and reading means, which includes a pickup head which irradiates laser light upon a rewritable type optical disk, and which rewrites data to or reads data from the rewritable type optical disk. Furthermore, this optical disk device includes a control means which controls... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070127339 - Method and apparatus for inspecting optical disc: Reflected light caused by reflection of a laser beam at a first layer of an optical disc is converted into a main signal. Reflected light caused by reflection of the laser beam at a second layer of the optical disc is converted into a sub signal. An address of a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070127340 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus and information recording method: With an information recording method for recording desired information on an information recording surface of a rewritable optical disk, through a read modify write operation with recoding or reproducing of information, determining is made on whether a write command is in consistent or not, with a unit of cluster of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070127341 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and laser-driven pulse adjusting method: A recording and reproducing apparatus includes optical head means for writing and reading information expressed by a mark and a space on an optical recording medium by irradiating laser light to the optical recording medium, laser-drive pulse generating means for creating and supplying a laser-driven pulse in accordance with information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127342 - Rewritable optical recording medium, recording method on the same, and optical disc recording/retrieving apparatus: In a rewritable compact disc having a wobble groove on a substrate, crystal and amorphous states of a phase-change recording layer are an unrecorded/erased state and a recorded state, respectively. When the recording layer is exposed to recording light, amorphous marks assuming the recorded state are formed. At any of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070127343 - Information recording device and related method: An information recording device and related method are disclosed. The information recording device is capable of adjusting a phase difference between a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal. The information recording device includes an encoder for generating a run-length of an encoded data; a phase detector for detecting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070127344 - Optical recording method: In an optical recording method used when information is recorded in a phase-change recording layer of a large-capacity rewritable optical recording medium such as a DVD-RW, one block pulse is used as a recording pulse for forming one recording mark when a recording velocity is higher than a recording linear... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070127345 - Information recording apparatus and computer program: An information recording apparatus (300) is provided with: a recording device (352) for recording record information into a first or second recording layer by irradiating thereon laser light; a first controlling device (354) for controlling the recording device to record the record information into a first object area of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070127346 - Removable media battery pack for powering a media accessor of an automated data-storage library: A removable media battery pack for supplying power to a media accessor of an automated data storage library. A media shell of the removable media battery pack has a structural configuration operable to be physically engaged by a media shell gripper of the media accessor. A rechargeable battery of the... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070127348 - Liquid crystal lens element optical head device: In a liquid crystal lens element 10 comprising a pair of transparent substrates 11 and 12 and a liquid crystal layer 16 sandwiched between the transparent substrates, which is configured to change convergent point of light transmitted through the element according to the magnitude of voltage applied to the liquid... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127347 - Optical reading apparatus capable of correcting aberration: An optical reading apparatus with aberration-correcting functionality includes a light source, a lens, a liquid crystal layer and an electrode set. The light source of the optical reading apparatus emits light, which is converged onto a storing medium by the lens for accessing data stored in the storage medium. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070127349 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a diffraction grating including a first grating for diffracting a first laser light beam, and a second grating for diffracting a second laser light beam which is shorter in wavelength than the first laser light beam, the diffraction grating being disposed in a common optical... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070127350 - Optical disk unit: In an optical disk apparatus, transmittance and reflectance of a polarization beam splitter 13 to the S polarization and the P polarization of laser beams are adjusted so that a first polarization component level ratio in the laser beam received by a light receiver for reproducing signal 17 from a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127351 - Optical disk device, semiconductor laser drive device and optical pickup device: Provided is a device which can reduce waveform distortion of a laser drive signal caused by impedance mismatching between a laser drive device and a semiconductor laser over a wide band, and which can enhance the power efficiency of higher frequency superposition during reproduction. The output impedance of the laser... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070127352 - Optical disk, method for recording and reproducing write-once information on and from optical disk, otpical disk reproducing device, optical disk recording and reproducing device, device for recording write-once information on optical disk, and optical di: An optical disk storing write-once information usable for protecting the copyright of the software by preventing the duplication, unauthorized use, etc., of the software. In the optical disk, a recording layer (213) is formed on a disk substrate (211) with a dielectric layer (212) inbetween. Then, an intermediate dielectric layer... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070127353 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127354 - Optical disc and method for fabricating the same: An optical disc includes an annular substrate, a coating layer, and a compensation sheet. The annular substrate has a supporting portion, a recording portion surrounding the supporting portion, and a recording surface corresponding to the recording portion. The coating layer is formed on the recording surface for recording data. The... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm