Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 08/07

20070201323 - Optical pickup actuator: An optical pickup actuator which includes a base, a blade having an objective lens mounted thereon, a plurality of suspensions supporting the blade to be movable with respect to the base and forming an electroconductive path, and a magnetic circuit driving the blade according to a driving signal applied through... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070201324 - Optical-pickup head device, and method and apparatus for reproducing optical storage medium: A light source outputs an optical beam. A condensing unit condenses the optical beam to a first information-recording layer. An optical detecting unit detects a reflected optical beam reflected from the optical storage medium. A limiting element inputs a first reflected optical beam reflected from the first information-recording layer to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070201326 - Method for determining focusing error gain for accessing to optical disc: A label side of a light-scribe optical disc includes a control feature zone recording therein reference information of the optical disc and a label zone to be marked based on the reference information. An optical head is moved in the label zone to determine a first FE gain and a... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070201328 - Information/recording/reproducing apparatus including delta sigma conversion circuit: Provided is an information recording/reproducing apparatus which can perform servo control with a simple circuit structure and can be manufactured at a low cost. Analog output signals from a plurality of separate portions of a photosensor which receive reflected light from an optical disk are converted into one-bit digital outputs... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070201331 - Circuits, architectures, apparatuses, systems, algorithms and methods and software for optimum power calibration for optical disc recording: Methods, software, and apparatus for the calibration of writing characteristics for writing to an optical storage medium, and methods of encoding calibration pattern data and calibration instructions are disclosed. The method of calibration generally includes the steps of (a) receiving pattern data and instructions synchronized with the pattern data, (b)... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070201334 - Optical pickup control apparatus and method: An optical pickup control apparatus including a pickup unit to apply an optical signal to an optical disc, to receive an optical signal from the optical disc, and to convert the optical signal into an electric signal; a collimating lens in the pickup unit to correct a spherical aberration of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070201337 - Apparatus and method for playing optical disc: Apparatus and method for playing an optical disc, whereby the apparatus includes an optical disc drive to read data of the disc, in which the data on a previous layer and a subsequent layer is read in an OTP manner. The optical disc drive includes a pick-up module, and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070201318 - Disk access device: A disk access device records to and plays back from a disk on which data recording is performed according to the ZCLV format, and includes a head that reads/writes data from/to the disk. The disk access device calculates a deferment time period that begins upon completion of data reading/writing in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070201319 - Playback apparatus for recording media: A CD changer includes a plurality of holders 19, a disk playback part, and a stopper part 100. A holder 19 holds a CD. The stopper part 100 includes a first stopper 103, a second stopper 104, a swing stopper 105, an up-down stopper 106, and an auxiliary stopper 107.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070201320 - Recording medium playback device: A recording medium playback device, by which the number of parts can be prevented from increasing and a size of the device can be prevented from being enlarged, is provided. A CD changer includes a disk receiving part, disk carrying part, positioning part, motor, and transmission restricting part 74. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070201321 - Information processing device for identifying the type of recording medium and method for forming area on recording medium executed in information processing device: Different formats, whose defect management methods differ based on the presence or absence of a cartridge, are adopted for information storage media having the same physical characteristics. An information processing apparatus is capable of mounting a storage medium having a data recording area. The data recording area includes a user... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070201322 - Optical head, method of manufacturing the same and optical record playback equipment: The space 31 is formed between each flat portion 15 of supports 2a and 2b, and the flat portion 11 of the through-holes 1a and 1b, and the space 32 is formed between each flat portion 16 of supports 2a and 2b, and the flat portion 12 of the through-holes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201325 - Method for radial tracking in an optical disc drive: A method for radial tracking in an optical disc drive (1) is described. A DTD tracking error signal (S3) is derived from the wobble-induced signal components (WA, WB,WC, WD) of the optical detector signal (SR). This tracking error signal is relatively insensitive to beamlanding errors, and to differences in the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070201327 - Optical pickup device and optical disk device: An optical pickup device for recording and reproducing information by tilting and horizontally driving a lens holder, holding an objective lens, to irradiate an optical disk with a recording/reproducing laser light from a light source. The optical pickup device has a reflector for reflecting a portion of the recording/reproducing laser... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070201329 - Apparatus for reproducing data from information storage medium having multiple storage layers with optimal power control (opc) areas and buffer areas: An information storage medium and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the information storage medium capable of controlling optimal recording power without an influence of an optimal power control (OPC) area in a layer upon an OPC area in a different layer. The information storage medium includes at least one... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070201330 - Method for reproducing data from information storage medium having multiple storage layers with optimal power control (opc) areas and buffer areas: An information storage medium and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the information storage medium capable of controlling optimal recording power without an influence of an optimal power control (OPC) area in a layer upon an OPC area in a different layer. The information storage medium includes at least one... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070201332 - Eccentricity detecting apparatus and method: An eccentricity detecting method is a method of detecting an eccentricity between a first recording layer (L0 layer) and a second recording layer (L1 layer) of an information recording medium (100) provided with the first recording layer and the second recording layer, each of which is for recording record information,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070201333 - Disk having unique code for identifying its type for optical disk player and method for discriminating types thereof: A BCA (Burst Cutting Area) code including a unique disk code indicating the type of a disk is written in a BCA code area of the disk. If the disk is mounted into the optical disk player, the optical disk player reads data written in the BCA code area, extracts... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070201335 - Information recording medium, and information reproducing apparatus and method: There are included a plurality of record information recording areas (OPC areas PCA0, user data areas 109-0 or spare areas SA) for recording record information; a management information recording area (management area MA) for recording a plurality of management information for managing the respective ones of the plurality of record... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070201336 - Method and device for writing multiple-layer optical discs: A method of writing information in a storage layer (2A,2B) of a multi-layer optical storage medium (2) comprising two or more storage layers (2A,2B), especially multi-layer recordable and rewritable optical discs, especially DVD discs or BD discs. The method comprises the steps of monitoring a focus condition of an optical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070201340 - Holographic storage medium: According to the invention, a holographic storage medium includes a holographic layer for storing holograms and a servo layer with a track structure for positioning a light beam for reading and/or recording of a hologram relative to the holographic recording medium, wherein the track structure includes a pack of two... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070201338 - Optical disc recording apparatus, controlling method of the same, and optical disc: An optical disk recording apparatus and method utilize a recording beam source, a spatial light modulator that modulates a recording radiation beam into an information beam carrying information and a reference beam, a focusing unit that focuses the information beam and the reference beam onto an information recording layer, an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201339 - Optical disc recording apparatus, controlling method of the same, and optical disc: An optical disk recording apparatus and method utilize a recording beam source, a spatial light modulator that modulates a recording radiation beam into an information beam carrying information and a reference beam, a focusing unit that focuses the information beam and the reference beam on an information recording layer, an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201341 - Optical device for recording and reproducing: The invention relates to an optical device comprising a radiation source (101) for producing a radiation beam and means (103, 106) for focusing the radiation beam on an information carrier (100) along an optical path. The radiation beam has a central axis, an outer envelope and an intensity distribution. The... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070201342 - Beam splitter for optical measurement systems for determining the characteristics of machine tools: The optical element in the form of a beam splitter which is used preferably in interplay with optical measurement systems for determining the characteristics on machine tools, or for other measurement purposes. A combination of five-edged prisms which are cemented or glued to one another is provided. The cement surface... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070201343 - Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, and computer program: At least a first recording layer (L0 layer) and a second recording layer (L1 layer) are provided. The fist recording layer is disc-shaped, and has a first recording track path formed for recording recording information. The second recording layer is disc-shaped, arranged on the first recording layer and has a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070195655 - Drive for a changeable data carrier: A drive for a changeable data carrier is described. The drive has a reading unit for the read-out of data stored on the changeable data carrier, and has an integral reference surface, separate from the changeable data carrier, which can be scanned by the reading unit for reference purposes.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070195659 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device has three different light sources, a holographic element, beam splitters, and first and second photodetectors. The beam splitters each change an optical path of a light beam coming from the associated light source toward a recording medium and match an optical axis of the changed optical... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070195666 - Method to determine optimum erase power in optical disc apparatus: A method to determine an optimal erase power in an optical disc apparatus detects optimal erase power in an erasing operation before performing an optimum power calibration (OPC) for detecting optimal recording power of an optical disc, and includes: acquiring a power-to-modulation curve, in which applied power is changed to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070195669 - Disk control circuit: A disk control circuit at least reproduces a plurality of disk media having different formats. A rotation control circuit control rotation of a disk medium to be determined. A pattern detection circuit detects a data pattern, which is unique to the disk medium, among pieces of information recorded on the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070195673 - Method and apparatus for recording information on super-resolution optical recording medium: A method for recording information on a super-resolution optical recording medium is directed to a reproducing laser beam which moves during the reproduction of the super-resolution optical recording medium from a recording mark/space train smaller than the resolution limit to a recording mark, or mark/space train larger than or equal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070195675 - Optical disc reproducing apparatus: An optical disc reproducing apparatus includes an A/D converter; an asymmetry compensator for detecting 4T sampling signals; a phase locked loop including a frequency detector that counts and detects run-length signals from the digital signals and compensates frequency errors of the digital signals; a binary module including a Viterbi decoder,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070195653 - Non-contact support platforms for distance adjustment: An apparatus for supporting a stationary or moving substantially flat object without physical contact on an fluid-cushion. The object floats on a fluid cushion gap, the apparatus aimed for globally or locally adjusting the gap. The apparatus comprising: a first platform for supporting the object without contact, the platform having... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070195654 - Buffer control system for reducing buffer delay time between the playback of tracks and method thereof: A buffer control system for generating a buffered signal having reduced buffer delay time between playback of tracks includes a controller module for providing an end target and for selection of a servo data signal corresponding to a desired track; a compare circuit coupled to the servo data signal for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070195656 - Disk changer: A disk accommodating unit accommodates a plurality of disk trays for holding a disk. A disk processing unit reproduces data from or records data to a loaded disk. A loading mechanism loads a selected disk together with the disk tray from the disk accommodating unit to a position of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070195657 - Actuator for pickup, pickup device, recording medium drive device, and method of producing actuator for pickup: An actuator for a pickup has a suspension base (500), a lens holder movable in each of a focusing direction along the optical axis of the objective lens and a tracking direction, for holding an objective lens, and six suspensions (550A-550F) each connected at ends thereof to the suspension base... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070195658 - Objective lens drive apparatus, optical pickup device, and optical disk drive: An objective lens drive apparatus includes a stationary member, a movable portion having an objective lens, an objective-lens holding member, and driving coils, and a plurality of rod-like elastic support members each having an axial direction parallel to a third direction perpendicular to a first direction and a second direction,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070195660 - Optical disk drive with power save mode: The present invention relates to a portable optical disk drive having a power save mode for reducing the energy consumption. It is an object of the invention to propose an improved solution for a power save mode. This object is achieved by a method for driving an optical disk drive... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070195662 - Method for correcting influence of thickness unevenness of recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus using the same method and optical head unit: An optical disk unit of this invention includes a defocus detecting system for detecting a defocus of an objective lens, a thickness unevenness detecting system for detecting a thickness unevenness of a transparent resin layer provided nearest the objective lens of a recording medium, and a thickness unevenness correcting mechanism... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070195661 - Power down apparatus for optical data drive: In an optical drive system, a “power down state” with a fast “leave power down” timing is provided. In order to meet these timing requirements, when the controller switches the system from a normal power supply mode to a power save mode, the focus and radial servo loops are kept... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195663 - Optical pick-up head, optical information apparatus, and optical information reproducing method: An optical information apparatus of the present invention includes: an optical pick-up head including: a light source; a diffraction unit; a condensing unit; a beam splitter; a photodetector; and a tracking error signal generator. An optical recording medium has tracks arranged substantially at a constant pitch. An average of a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070195664 - Optical pick-up head, optical information apparatus, and optical information reproducing method: An optical information apparatus of the present invention includes: an optical pick-up head including: a light source; a diffraction unit; a condensing unit; a beam splitter; a photodetector; and a tracking error signal generator. An optical recording medium has tracks arranged substantially at a constant pitch. An average of a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070195665 - Storage and reproduction apparatus: The storage and reproducing apparatus includes a signal processing block, a memory, a reproduction block, an operation block, and a control block. The signal processing block converts a sound signal entered, into a digital signal. The memory stores a digital signal outputted form the signal processing block and a management... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195668 - Apparatus and method for discrimination between optical record carriers of different formats: Apparatus and method for discriminating in an optical drive between discs of different formats, in which the optical disc remains substantially stationary or is arranged to rotate at a very low frequency i.e. significantly lower than that required to perform a data readout or record action for the purpose of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195667 - Recording/reproduction apparatus, recording/ reproduction method, and controller: An apparatus for recording/reproducing data onto/from an information recording medium (101) is provided. The apparatus (1) comprises a section for reading first data from a first predetermined position in a data recording area of the medium, a section for determining whether or not the first data matches first type information... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070195670 - Method of identifying a type of an optical disc and the device therefor: A method of identifying a type of an optical disc applied in an optical drive is provided. The optical drive at least comprises an optical pickup head. First, move the optical pickup head continually from an initial position. Then, emit a light beam on an optical disc continually and receive... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070195674 - Recording method for dye-based recordable dvd medium and recording apparatus: A recording method for dye-based recordable DVD medium which includes recording shortest marks on a recording layer primarily containing an organic dye using a simple rectangular wave pulse; recording marks each having the second shortest or still longer mark length using one pulse of which the front and rear edges... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070195671 - Semiconductor laser driving device and optical disc device: In an optical disc device, the recording laser light power from a semiconductor laser is adjusted to a desired power. A front monitor PD is provided near the semiconductor laser LD of an optical pickup 16, and the recording layer light power is detected. A system controller 32 stores in... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070195672 - Writeable optical recording of multilevel oriented nano-structure discs: A method of performing writable optical recording of a medium to form multilevel oriented nano-structures therein, comprises steps of providing a disc-shaped, writable recording medium having a planar surface; and encoding data/information in the medium by forming a plurality of multilevel nano-structured pits in the surface by scanning with a... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070195676 - Optical system: An optical system comprising an optical element arranged on an optical axis in the path of a radiation beam. The optical element (2; 116; 202) comprises a birefringent material and has a non-planar face (4) through which the radiation beam passes. The optical system comprises a polarisation control system for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195677 - Optical pickup, optical disk drive having the same, and method of bonding optical component to the substrate thereof: The substrate of a housing that holds a prism optical component has almost hemispherical recesses at positions that correspond to the four corners of the prism optical component. An adhesive that is fast dried is applied into the hemispherical recesses. To the back of the prism optical component, an adhesive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195678 - Information recording apparatus and information recording method: 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

20070195679 - Optical disc apparatus and method for performing optical power study thereof: An optical disc apparatus and a method for performing optical power study thereof can prevent errors for a power study result, which may be generated in a condition that the output power of a laser diode (LD) is saturated at a high temperature, in which the power study detects output... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070195680 - Methods and system for aggregating and using physical samples and data in a virtual environment: Systems and methods for aggregating and using data corresponding to physical samples in a virtual environment. The method includes receiving a first physical sample, sensing a first aspect of the first sample to generate first sample first aspect data, storing the first sample first aspect data in a datastore, sensing... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070195681 - Signal generating circuit of optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus: An optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus capable of performing a stable reading of address information. A signal generating circuit for detecting a wobble signal based on a meander of the recording area of an optical disc, comprising a lowpass filter (LPF) (15) for passing therethrough only those lower parts of the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070195682 - Method for high density data storage and imaging: An approach is presented for designing a polymeric layer for nanometer scale thermo-mechanical storage devices. Cross-linked polyimide oligomers are used as the recording layers in atomic force data storage device, giving significantly improved performance when compared to previously reported cross-linked and linear polymers. The cross-linking of the polyimide oligomers may... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070195683 - Cd or dvd with a printable layer and removable borders.: A CD or DVD has a blank printable layer (11) on its upper surface, the printable layer having an inner periphery (12), an outer periphery (14), a removable inner border (13) adjacent the inner periphery (12) and a removable outer border (15) adjacent the outer periphery (14). In use, the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070195684 - High-density multi-layer recording medium and an apparatus for writing to or reading from such a recording medium: In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a light incident surface and an opposite surface of the light incident surface, a substrate having a transparent layer, and a first recording layer located close to the light incident surface. A second recording layer is located between the first recording layer and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195685 - System and method for providing content in two formats on one drm disk: A DRM disk such as a Blu-ray stores content in a high resolution version for playing by a disk player. The disk also stores the same content in a lower resolution version for playing by a secondary device such as a Playstation Portable (PSP). The disk can be engaged with... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070195686 - Read-only optical recording medium on which unique identification information is written: There is provided a method for recording an unique ID to a read-only optical disk (1) adopting the 1-7 PP modulation technique and having provided in a plurality of predetermined positions postscript areas each having a predetermined postscript pattern formed therein. The postscript pattern takes a form of 3T (pit)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189129 - Object lens drive unit: An object lens drive unit in which an undesired displacement or inclination of an object lens with respect to an optical disc is reduced. The position at which a lens holder for the object lens is supported by a pair of rod-shaped elastic support members in the focusing direction substantially... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070189132 - Apparatus and method of estimating the quality of input signal, and optical disc driver: An apparatus and method of estimating the quality of an input signal, and an optical disc driver including the apparatus for estimating the quality of the input signal, the signal quality estimating apparatus including a level value detection unit that detects level values of an input signal according to a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070189135 - Optical disc apparatus and disc management information acquisition method: The present invention provides a method or an apparatus for recording data additionally by acquiring replacement data easily even when the latest disc management information cannot be read out of the disc. When updating TDMS (Temporary Disc Management Structure), an update reason of a corresponding TDMS and a TDDS (Temporary... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070189140 - Optical information recording method and optical information recording apparatus: Means is provided that produces stabilized trial write results when, for example, servo misalignments are caused due to deviations on an optical disc that requires trial writes at high linear velocity. A recording method produces a recording parameter in the event of recording information into an arbitrary address position in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070189128 - Adaptable audio instruction system and method: An adaptable audio instruction system and method allows for tailoring and modification to audio sequences used for audio instruction of users. The tailoring and modification abilities of the system regard content and presentation details of the audio sequences to comply with user preferences and user progress in learning content contained... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070189131 - Optical disc device: An optical disc device of the present invention includes spherical aberration changing means for changing spherical aberration occurring on a converging position of a light beam converged by a lens, an actuator for moving the spherical aberration changing means in a relatively precise manner, and an actuator for moving the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070189130 - Optical information device and information recording and reproduction device: Stable tracking control is achieved for an optical recording medium having a plurality of information recording planes. To achieve this, an optical information device comprises a light source for emitting a light beam, a focusing unit for converging the light beam emitted from the light source onto a predetermined information... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070189133 - Method for correcting influence of thickness unevenness of recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus using the same method and optical head unit: An optical disk unit of this invention includes a defocus detecting system for detecting a defocus of an objective lens, a thickness unevenness detecting system for detecting a thickness unevenness of a transparent resin layer provided nearest the objective lens of a recording medium, and a thickness unevenness correcting mechanism... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070189134 - Tracking error signal generation device and tracking error signal generation method: A detection signal S1 outputted from a light reception unit (11A) of detection elements (11) formed by four-division light reception element is added to a detection signal S4 outputted from a light reception unit (11D) so as to obtain an addition signal S14 and a phase difference signal P1 indicating... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070189136 - Recording medium, recording method, recording apparatus, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus: A recording medium is disclosed. In the recording medium, address information is recorded in advance, one bit of the address information recorded is represented by a modulated wobble signal obtained by modulating each of a predetermined number of modulation unit sections of a wobble waveform, and a groove is formed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189137 - Rotating disk storage device and recording method: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide methods to record, in a rotating disk storage device, a data block in the unit of a logical sector on a recording medium on which a physical sector including a plurality of logical sectors is formatted. Extra addresses are acquired in a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070189138 - Information recording device and method, and computer program: An information recording device (1) includes: recording elements (501) for recording information on an information recording medium by recording layer light having adjustable recording power; optimization elements (571) for controlling the recording elements so as to modify the recording power at least into several levels and recording real data corresponding... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070189139 - Information recording apparatus and method, information recording/reproducing apparatus and method and computer program: An information recording apparatus includes: a recording device capable of recording information into a data area of an information recording medium, by irradiating laser light, in conformity with a predetermined error correction method; an optimum-recording-power detecting device for obtaining an optimum recording power of the laser light, by recording test... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070189143 - Defect management information setting method, recording method, defect management method, program and recording medium, and information recording apparatus: An information recording apparatus divides a data area into a plurality of partial areas (UDA1, UDA2) (step 303), and sets defect management information including a defect management scheme for each partial area (step 305). Then, UDA1 is set to be an area where defect management is not performed and UDA2... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070189141 - Optical disk device, and focused layer discriminating method of optical disk: An optical disk device includes: an objective lens for focusing an optical beam on a recording layer of an optical disk; a converging lens for converging the reflected optical beam reflected on the recording layer; first and second light receiving units disposed at positions spaced ahead and behind at equal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189142 - Read-only recording medium and reproducing method thereof: A read-only recording medium and a reproducing method thereof, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the read-only recording medium includes a plurality of data units recorded on the read-only recording medium, each data unit connected by a linking data unit having a predetermined size, wherein the linking data unit is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070189144 - Optical writing device, optical reading device, recording medium writing method, and recording medium reading method: When performing writing and/or reading of information to/from an optical disk provided with a wobble including time axis information, an occurrence of a reading error of the time axis information from the wobble is suppressed so that disabled reading of information from the optical disk and an occurrence of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189145 - Optical pickup device, optical disc device and prism: An optical pickup device includes: a light source; a collimator lens for converting a light beam emitted from the light source into parallel light; an objective lens for converging the light beam to the optical disc; an extending portion in which a light flux transversal width as the width of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189146 - Attenuation-amount adjusting circuit, optical disk drive device, attenuation-amount adjusting method, and address-information acquiring method: An attenuation-amount adjusting circuit includes: a light irradiating unit that alternately irradiates a laser beam of a writing level and a laser beam of a readout level on an optical disk that has a groove formed by a wobble pattern and plural markers indicating physical positions in the groove; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189147 - Optical recording medium, evaluation method therefor, information reproduction method, and information recording method: Multilayered optical recording media having three or more recording layers used to require spacing between recording layers to be accurately controlled to cope with the effect of crosstalk attributable to multiple reflections at plural recording layers. Making reflectivity at a backside of each recording layer lower than reflectivity at a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070183276 - Disk device: A disk device includes: an optical pick-up, operable to reproduce data recorded in a disk; a flaw detector, operable to output a flaw detecting signal when a flaw formed on the disk is detected; and a jump controller, operable to control a track jump of the optical pick-up including a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070183277 - Optical disk replay device: An optical pickup irradiates laser light upon a track of an optical disk and receives light reflected therefrom. A tracking actuator shifts an objective lens of this optical pickup in a tracking direction. A tracking error signal detection circuit outputs a tracking error signal based upon the reflected light received... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070183279 - Apparatus for optically recording and reproducing information: An apparatus for optically reproducing and recording information includes a light source, an objective lens, a light detecting element, and a processor. The objective lens focuses light beams emitted from the light source on an optical recording medium having tracks disposed at a track pitch. The wavelength of the light... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070183280 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device is equipped with a diffraction element (8) that includes liquid crystal, two transparent electrodes sandwiching the liquid crystal, and a liquid crystal control portion (21) with electrodes connected electrically to the transparent electrode for controlling a voltage to be applied between the two transparent electrodes. The... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070183285 - Optical disk apparatus and recording parameters setting method: An optical disk apparatus and a recording parameters setting method are provided to more effectively execute recording parameter learning during data recording on the optical disk, thereby shortening the time required for setting an optimum recording parameter. A phase error detection unit detects a phase error amount from a reproduction... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070183284 - Optical disk apparatus and test writing method: Test writing is executed while skipping areas where deviations are present on an optical disk to thereby improve accuracy and reliability of an optimum recording condition to be derived. A deviation detecting unit detects the deviations of a guide groove on the optical disk on the basis of a fluctuation... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070183289 - Method for recording information on super-resolution optical recording medium and super-resolution optical recording medium: When a recording mark and a space, each having a size depending on a modulation code corresponding to information to be recorded, are formed in a super-resolution optical recording medium which has at least a substrate and a recording layer, a super-resolution layer, and a light transmitting layer on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070183271 - Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus: The present invention provides an optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus having a function of communicating with a noncontact IC. The apparatus includes a chassis, an external antenna arranged for communication with a noncontact IC outside the chassis, an internal antenna arranged for communication with a noncontact IC included in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070183272 - Recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, recording method, reproducing method, and recording medium: The CPU 38 of the personal computer 3 controls other components to input content data; to compress the content data; to extract index data from the content data based on data type information obtained during the compression of the content data; and to record the compressed content data, the index... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070183273 - Optical pickup device and optical disc drive: An optical pickup device having an optical module provided with an optical element and bonded and fixed to an optical pickup case, wherein the optical module is fixed to the optical pickup case by a first ultraviolet curing adhesive at at least two positions with an optical axis between the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070183274 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus for correcting astigmatism that influences the read/ write. If there is astigmatism, and auto-focus and tracking control are in operation, then a push-pull signal amplitude and a 2T signal amplitude vary with the variation of an amount of spherical aberration, resulting in two cases. In one... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070183275 - Method for correcting influence of thickness unevenness of recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus using the same method and optical head unit: An optical disk unit of this invention includes a defocus detecting system for detecting a defocus of an objective lens, a thickness unevenness detecting system for detecting a thickness unevenness of a transparent resin layer provided nearest the objective lens of a recording medium, and a thickness unevenness correcting mechanism... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070183278 - Optical disc drive, method of moving beam spot and computer-executable program implementable by the optical disc drive: An optical disc drive includes a light source, a lens, a focusing section, a spherical aberration corrector, a focus signal generator, a gain calculator and a processor. The focusing section forms a beam spot in a focusing state on the information storage layer of an optical disc by controlling the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070183281 - Method of overwriting data in write-once information storage medium and data recording and/or reproducing apparatus for write-once information storage medium: A method of overwriting data in a write-once information storage medium and a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor. In the data overwriting method, a command to overwrite new data in a first area of the write-once information storage medium where data has already been recorded is issued. Then, the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070183283 - Information medium and information recording and reproducing device: The information medium of the present invention is provided with a lead-in region and a data region in which information signals can be recorded, wherein the lead-in region has a recordable portion in which information signals can be recorded. An identifier I1 specifying a recording speed that can be adopted... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070183282 - Storage apparatus, spindle motor control method, and program: A default gain table stores values of loop gain of a spindle motor control unit predetermined for each number of media. A loop gain setting unit detects the number of media, reads out a loop gain corresponding to the detected number of media from the default gain table and sets... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070183286 - System and method for generating output signals indicating specific areas on an optical disc utilizing a protection means: A system for generating an output signal indicating a specific area on an optical disc is disclosed. The system includes: a detecting circuit, a header signal generator, a protection circuit, a counter and an output signal generator. The detecting circuit detects pre-recorded address information on the optical disc to generate... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070183287 - Optical disk apparatus and computer readable recording medium storing program: An optical disk apparatus for forming an image on an optical disk according to dot data which defines density of dots of the image, the optical disk apparatus includes: a framing unit which makes a frame data by grouping a plurality of unit data, wherein when the dot data, the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070183288 - Method and device for recording marks in an information layer of an optical record carrier: The present invention relates to a method and a corresponding device for recording marks representing data in an information layer of a record carrier by irradiating the information layer by means of a pulsed radiation beam, wherein a mark is written by a sequence of write pulses, the number of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183290 - Method and system for tuning write strategy parameters utilizing data-to-clock edge deviations: A method for tuning a plurality of write strategy parameters of an optical storage device includes detecting a plurality of patterns. Each pattern corresponds to a pit or a land on a phase-changed type optical storage medium accessed by the optical storage device. The method further includes performing calculations corresponding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070183291 - Apparatus and method for optical data storage and retrieval: An optical storage device and method of operating that device are disclosed. The device includes an optical storage medium, and a light source capable of generating light that is transmitted to the medium. The light generated by the light source is at a first wavelength that is within the vacuum... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C

20070183292 - Pickup apparatus for multi-layer optical disc: An optical pickup apparatus comprises an orbicular zone forming lens group 14 for forming the section of the laser beam, which is irradiated to an optical disc DK having plural recording layers, into an annular shape, a condenser lens 35 that converges the reflected beam from the optical disc DK,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070183294 - Objective lens driving unit and optical pickup device having the same: The movable holder of the objective lens driving unit is provided with an opening hole. An objective lens retaining portion for retaining an objective lens is disposed at the upper portion of the opening hole, while a liquid crystal element retaining portion for retaining a liquid crystal element is disposed... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070183293 - Liquid crystal lens element and optical head device: On one surface of a transparent substrate 511, a transparent electrode 513 and a concave-convex portion 517 made of a transparent material having a cross section shape approximated by a saw-tooth shape, are formed so as to constitute a plurality of annular portions, and on one surface of a transparent... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070183295 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device is equipped with a diffraction element that includes a transparent substrate. At least one surface of the transparent substrate is provided with a first region and a second region that encloses the first region. The surface is provided with a plurality of types of diffraction areas... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070183296 - Optical element, optical pickup, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: An optical element (10) includes a spherical aberration correction hologram (14) and a color aberration correction hologram (15). For a first laser light requiring the greatest valid diameter, no affect is given to the wave front in either of the aberration correction holograms. However, for a second laser light requiring... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070183297 - Compositive wave plate:

20070183298 - Optical pickup device, recording and reproducing apparatus and gap detection method: An optical pickup device and an optical recording and reproducing apparatus are suitable for use with a near-field optical recording and reproducing system. An optical pickup device comprises an objective lens composed of a solid immersion lens (SIL) the objective lens having a numerical aperture greater than 1, a beam... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070183299 - Optical disc: navigation data indicating to an optical disc reader, after having read the start sector (33), to displace its pickup reader device to a first target sector (316, 317, 352) having a sector ID of one of the sectors of the second area (5) or of a sector located after the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070183300 - Optical disk with wobbled tracks and apparatus using this optical disc: Address information is formed by M wobbles (integer M is the number of wobble waves) per bit as a basic unit, and is NRZ-recorded. Also, a sync signal used in sync detection of the address information is formed by N wobbles per bit as a basic unit (integer N is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177466 - Information reproducing system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproducing method. The method includes, from an information storage medium storing stream data having a plurality of advanced packs each including a resource file and an advanced ID to identify the resource file, acquiring respective advanced IDs, identifying respective resource files... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177467 - Information reproducing system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproducing method. The method includes, from an information storage medium storing stream data having a plurality of advanced packs each including a resource file and an advanced ID to identify the resource file, acquiring respective advanced IDs, identifying respective resource files... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177475 - Method and apparatus to reproduce data with an improved data error correction capability: A method and apparatus to reproduce and/or record data from and/or to an optical recording medium. The method includes detecting a wobble signal from the optical recording medium, predicting a wobble channel state from the detected wobble signal, detecting an information signal from the optical recording medium, predicting an information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070177476 - Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical information recording and reproducing apparatus comprises an optical disk having a reflection layer, an optical information recording layer, a super resolution layer and a protection layer on the recording surface of a substrate, a laser emission control unit for emitting the laser light to record and reproduce the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070177478 - Method and apparatus for reproducing optical information: Provided are an optical information reproducing method capable of determining multi-level information with high precision, and an apparatus for the method. Specifically, a cell having a reduced multi-level is provided in a portion of a data region to perform the level correction or the AGC. For example, a cell recorded... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070177479 - Information reproducing apparatus and information reproducing method: An information reproducing apparatus reads information recorded on a recording medium and outputs a reproduced signal, and performs, for the reproduced signal, analog offset correction of correcting offset before AD conversion, digital offset correction of correcting offset after AD conversion, and offset detection of detecting an offset control amount from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177468 - Access unit, access method, access program, and control unit: A record medium 200 includes a user area for recording user data which can be recorded and regenerated based on an instruction given by a user; a recording-system circuit section 120 records test data based on a predetermined test condition in the user area; a regeneration-system circuit section 130 reads... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070177469 - Optical disk drive: In an optical disc drive that needs an aberration correcting element for correcting spherical aberrations, it takes long time to conduct a processing operation of the aberration correcting element in an interlayer movement of a multilayer disc and a drive initializing operation. In order to eliminate the problem, an optical... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070177470 - Distance measuring system: A distance measuring device capable of being used in microscopes or other optical systems. Embodiments of the invention employ one or more scanning mirrors to scan a reference beam over a target to be inspected. The reference beam is returned and detected by a photodetector. The reference beam may be... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20070177471 - Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method of managing data using the information: A recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and a method of managing data using the information. In a disc having a plurality of zones which form a group, and a spare area which is allocated at the start portion or the end portion of the group... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070177472 - Information recording apparatus and method, and computer program for recording control: An information recording device is used for recording record information in an information recording medium at least including a first recording layer capable of forming a first recording area and a second recording layer capable of forming a second recording area. The information recording device includes: write elements; acquisition elements... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070177473 - Writing condition optimizing method and apparatus, and optical recording medium: A method of optimizing a writing condition of an optical recording medium, including writing test pattern data with the writing condition on the optical recording medium, comparing an error pattern binary signal detected by reproducing the written test pattern data with a correct pattern binary signal of the test pattern... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070177474 - Method and apparatus for detecting blank region of optical storage medium: The invention provides a detecting method for effectively detecting blank regions on an optical storage medium. The detecting method is to detect the radio frequency (RF) waveform from the optical storage medium. The RF waveform includes a plurality of sinewaves with different frequencies. The amplitudes of the sinewaves are selectively... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070177477 - 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

20070177481 - Optical pick-up apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus for conducting recording and/or reproducing information of an optical information recording medium, comprises a light source; a converging optical system having an objective lens; and a photo-detector. The converging optical system comprises a plastic lens and a spherical aberration deviation correcting element to correct deviation of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070177480 - Optical pickup and disc drive apparatus: A plurality of light-emitting elements 9a, 9b, 10a each emitting laser beam of a wavelength of approximately 405 nm, approximately 660 nm or approximately 780 nm corresponded to each of a plurality of types of disc-formed medium 100, and an objective lens 18 condensing each laser beam emitted from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177482 - Optical pickup device and optical disc apparatus having the same: Optical pickup device equipped with liquid crystal diffraction element is provided with liquid crystal diffraction element control portion, which includes detecting portions for detecting light quantities of 0 order light and 1st order light from signal of photo detector for receiving the 0 order light and 1st order light generated... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070177483 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus, comprising: a light source to emit a light flux; a light converging system including an objective lens to converge the light flux emitted from said light source onto an optical information recording medium; a first diffraction element placed within an optical path up to the optical... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070177485 - Optical head: An optical head includes a blue color laser beam sources, a red color laser beam sources, a dichroic prism, a collimator lens, a beam splitter, an objective lens, a photo detector element, a detection lens, and a hologram element having a first hologram and a second hologram and the first... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070177484 - Optical pickup device: In a photo pickup device, a hologram element 13 is divided into eight areas. In operation, the hologram elements adds different lens powers to four diffraction lights forming two pairs of diffraction-light groups. In the photo pickup device, a light receiving element 19 is divided into four areas to receive... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070177486 - Light guide element, light guide unit, backlight apparatus and light source apparatus: The present invention provides a light guide element, a light guide unit, a backlight apparatus and a light source apparatus. The light guide element is provided for guiding a light flux from a light source into a light guide plate, and the light guide element includes: an incident surface; an... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070177487 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc: In a user data area, control of recording laser power cannot be performed accurately. In recording data in the user data area, data for the control of recording laser power is also recorded together with user data to be recorded. By reproducing the data for control of recording laser power,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070177488 - Optical module and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus: An optical module has a first light source which emits a first light beam from a first light emission point in a predetermined direction, a second light source which emits a second light beam from a second light emission point in the predetermined direction, and an optical element. The optical... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070177489 - Optical recording medium recorded with information in depth direction, and method and apparatus of reproduction therefrom: An optical disk has a lead-in region provided at the inner circumference side and a user region provided at the outer circumference side. Pit string 3 of pits of different depths-is-formed-in-the-lead-in-region. Light beam reflected from the pit string is detected by detector and TPP and RF signals are output by... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070177491 - Content use method and content recording device: There is provided a content recording device capable of performing content reproduction with a plurality of qualities while limiting the use of the content. The device includes a content acquisition unit for acquiring a basic layer indispensable for content reproduction which is obtained by hierarchically encoding at least one of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070177490 - Read-once record medium: The present invention relates to a read-once record medium that comprises a data substrate, a sensitive layer; a reflective layer, an adhesive layer and a transparent substrate; thereby, the structure of the sensitive layer or the data substrate will be changed when laser beams with specific power emitted from an... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place