Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 11/07

20070274166 - Optical disc drive: P

20070274167 - Focus out detecting apparatus and optical disc apparatus using the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a focus out detecting apparatus which detects focus out with accuracy during reproducing or recording of data from/on an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers. Further, another object of the present invention is to provide an optical disc apparatus... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274168 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup in which the position of a magnet can be adjusted with respect to a yoke is provided. The optical pickup has an objective lens, a lens holder that holds the objective lens, a magnet disposed opposite to a side surface of the lens holder, and a yoke... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274169 - Actuator for optical pickup: An actuator capable of providing movement forces in a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction is provided. The actuator includes two sets of repelling permanent magnets and yokes, a focusing coil, a tracking coil, and a tilting coil. The repelling and attractive fields generated by the permanent... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070274171 - Optical disk apparatus: Provided is an optical disc apparatus including an interference-type optical disk signal detection system, which allows an optical path difference between two kinds of light to be controlled easily, which has a high signal amplification effect, and which is suitable for miniaturization of an optical system. An interference-type optical system... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274172 - Optical disc apparatus and data writing method therefor: An optical disc apparatus comprises a control circuit for performing a first calibration process before the initiation of a write operation and performing a second calibration process during the write operation; the first calibration process includes the steps of: performing focus calibration for the objective lens at a plurality of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070274173 - Laser focus controlling method on an optical disk and an optical disk apparatus with using thereof: In a focus controlling method of a laser beam for an optical disk, achieving a stable focus drawing-in, lowering ill influences due to stray lights, detecting an electric signal, which is obtainable upon basis of a reflection light from the optical disk loaded, in advance, while executing a focus sweep... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274174 - Optical disk device and optical disk gain adjusting method: An optical disk device includes a optical pickup head which emits a laser beam to an optical disk and detects light reflected therefrom, a signal output unit which outputs at least a servo signal and RF signal in accordance with the detected light, a gain control unit which determines the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070274181 - Digital audio signal reproducing device: A digital audio signal reproducing device includes a system processor, a first rotation disk, a second rotation disk, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a lighting assembly. The first sensor detects rotation speed and direction of the first rotation disk to output a first control signal. The second sensor... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070274182 - Optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus and alternation process method thereof: Within a disk recording/reproducing apparatus for improving a transfer rate when recording/reproducing, and an alternation process method for a disk for it, for recording or reproducing information onto/from an optical disk 100, while conducting a alternation on a defect block within a user data recording area into an alternation area,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274185 - Optical disc and method and system for reproducing optical disc: An optical disc has a data management area in a region on a radially inward side. Management information is recorded in the data management area as recording marks and spaces. The optical disc also has a data recording area on the outside of the data management area. Data to be... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070274186 - Information reproducing apparatus and method: There is provided an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus capable of obtaining a high super-resolution effect using an optical information recording medium in which a super-resolution thin film is formed. An optical information recording medium 1 having a super-resolution layer is irradiated with a laser light in a light emission pattern... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274164 - Optical pick up apparatus: A stopper 30 includes a projected portion 35 for restricting movement of a movable section in a focusing direction and a wall section 34 for restricting movement of the movable section in a tracking direction, the projected portion 35 and the wall section 34 being integrally formed from a synthetic... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070274165 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and record medium: To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a reproduction process 123 that reproduces material data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, a disc information file management section 63 references a reproduction history of a disc... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070274170 - Suspension in an actuator for displacing a lens holder: An actuator for moving a lens having an optical axis (41), which actuator comprises a stationary section (102), a movable section (104) provided with the lens (45), and an electric driving means for driving the movable section. The movable section is suspended from the stationary section by two suspension sets... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070274176 - Information recording method and information recording/reproduction device: This invention has for its object to eliminate failure of correct recording on a recording medium in an on-vehicle audio recording/reproduction device due to an instantaneous power cut-off or the like. In order to achieve this object, a file system is used for managing files hierarchically by using files having... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070274177 - 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)-2T... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070274175 - Write-once disc, method of using write-once disc, and data recording and/or reproducing apparatus: A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method of using a write-once disc are provided. The method includes: allocating at least one spare area to a data area of the recording layers; and dividing each spare area into a sub spare area and a temporary disc management area in the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070274179 - Content moving device, content moving method, computer program, recording medium, and content moving system: To provide a highly user-friendly content moving device which prevents unauthorized copying of content and, when content that has been irreversibly converted and moved to a recording medium is moved back to a move source, can use the content in its form before irreversible conversion. A partial information extraction unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070274180 - Information providing system, reproduction device and method, information providing device and method, recording medium, and program: There are provided an information providing system, a reproduction device and method, an information providing device and method, a recording medium, and a program capable of comparatively freely utilizing the content recorded on a disc according to the user preference. When download of an audio file of Japanese language is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070274178 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproducing device and method, and computer program: An information recording medium (100) which is rotationally driven at a rotational speed in a range set in advance, provided with allowance information recorded on said information recording medium, the allowance information indicating a range of an allowable rotational speed.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070274184 - Approximating topology of optically writable medium surface: A method controls an assembly using an oscillating wave, such that the assembly moves in an oscillated manner in relation to a surface of an optically writable medium in correspondence with oscillation of the oscillating wave. The assembly generates a beam towards the surface of the optically writable medium. A... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070274183 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070274187 - Method and system for chapter marker and title boundary insertion in dv video: Method and recording system for obtaining a data recording on a first medium, such as a DVD, from a data stream originating from a second medium, such as a DV tape. The data stream comprises a number of data segments each having a different recording start time. In the present... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070274188 - Multi-layer disk-use optical pickup device: An optical pickup device including: a light source for emitting a light beam; a beam expander having a converging lens for converging a light beam, a light-shielding panel having a through-portion arranged at an optical conjugate position of an emission point of the light beam for allowing the converged light... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070274189 - Optical pickup apparatus: On an optical path between a light source and an objective lens, there is provided an optical path changing section for changing a predetermined optical path of undesired light passing through, from the predetermined optical path to another optical path. The optical path changing section includes a plate having an... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070274190 - Optical information recording/reproducing device, optical element for the same, and design method of the same: In an optical information recording/reproducing device which executes information reading or writing on multiple types of optical discs having different data densities by selectively using first through third light beams having first through third wavelengths, respectively, at least one side of an optical element is provided with a step structure... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070274191 - Laser pulse control circuit: Disclosed is a laser pulse controlling circuit that, when the laser device is driven with laser pulses having the first and the second illumination levels, causes the first and the second illumination level setting units to set the first and the second illumination levels corresponding to a predetermined ratio of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070274193 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus: It is made possible to improve a recording density by leaps and bounds. An information recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a control portion including a record-erase circuit which causes electrons to be emitted from the electron emission end to a recording portion on a recording medium by applying a first... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070274192 - Data recording system and method for using same: A storage layer is arranged facing an array of micro-tips. The storage layer includes a plurality of insulated conductive dots designed to store electric charges. Each micro-tip includes a high-permittivity element integral to a transistor channel connecting a source and a drain. The channel has a conductance able to be... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070274194 - System and method for controlling data recording process of optical recording medium in sequential writing: A system and method of controlling data recording process of optical recording medium by adjusting writing signal to record the adjusted writing signal on the optical recording medium in a sequential writing are described. The control system for controlling a recording process of an optical recording medium comprises an information... Agent: Madson & Austin

20070274195 - Information medium substrate and information medium: An information medium substrate is formed as a flat plate and includes a first convex part formed on one surface of the information medium substrate in a region between a rim part of a center hole and an inner circumferential edge of an information region and a second convex part... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070274196 - Secure optical information disc having a recess for accommodating a security tag: A secure optical information disc comprising an electronic article surveillance tag embedded within a recess of a substrate of the disc structure is disclosed. The tag is placed within the recess such that it does not interfere with reading optically encoded information using a laser beam pick-up assembly such as... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070268789 - Mobile communication terminal device: According to an embodiment of the invention, a mobile communication terminal device comprises: an information memory unit configured to store a first information and a security information indicating whether the first information is secret; a backup request memory unit configured to store a first request for backing up identification information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070268790 - Disc picking device and disc processing apparatus having the same: A disc picking device having an engaging member for engaging a disc includes: a contact portion having a contact face for contacting an upper face of the disc; an arm which movably supports the engaging member and has the contact portion; and a moving mechanism moving the arm in a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070268793 - Optical recording medium drive and optical pickup: An optical recording medium drive allows a support body to define a hollow space having the inner end and the outer end defining an optical opening. The hollow space is surrounded by the inside surface of the support body. A shielding plate serves to screen or close the hollow space... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070268795 - Optical disc signal processing apparatus, optical disc signal reproducing apparatus, signal processing circuit, and signal reproducing circuit: In a first reflected light amount comparing step and a first reflected light storing step, disc search is performed while moving a laser spot position from below to above an optical disc D, and a first reflected light amount which first becomes larger than or equal to a predetermined reflected... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070268797 - Stability margins and error recovery in servo control systems: Adjusting a servo control system includes identifying a gain crossover frequency for the servo control system, generating a sensitivity function for the servo control system, measuring a sensitivity peak in the sensitivity function, comparing a frequency of the sensitivity peak to the gain crossover frequency, and adjusting the servo control... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070268799 - Demodulation method for magnetic data: A demodulation method for magnetic data may include the steps of reading magnetic data with a magnetic head, generating a digital signal from a read analog signal, comparing an inversion time interval of the digital signal with a bit reference time interval, and generating bit data on the basis of... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070268802 - Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus includes: an error occurrence deciding unit that decides whether or not a record error occurred during recording operation on an optical disc; an error information storing unit that stores record error information in a memory when the record error occurred; and an error... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070268791 - Remote monitoring device: In one embodiment, an apparatus for a remote monitoring device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a casing to fit at least one of a storage location for storage media and handling mechanisms for the storage media, the storage location and the handling mechanisms being part of a media storage library,... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20070268792 - Optical disk device: An optical disk device capable of securing a rigidity of a tray that holds an optical disk is provided. When an optical disk is put into trays stacked in a main body, a holding portion provided to the tray holds the optical disk. In this case, since the holding portion... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070268794 - Beam splitter configuration: A beam splitter configuration includes at least one beam splitting system for splitting a light beam into a number of partial beams. The beam splitting system includes at least one first and at least one second optical array disposed at a distance from one another and having a number of... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070268796 - Optical information storage medium: An optical information storage medium includes a lead-in area, a lead-out area, and a user data area between the lead-in and lead-out areas and in which user data is recorded. A first track pitch between adjacent tracks in a first subarea of the lead-in area is greater than a second... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070268798 - High density optical disc and method for reproducing and recording data thereof: A high-density optical disc such as a high density-digital versatile disc (HD-DVD) or Blu-ray disc, and a method for reproducing or recording data of the high-density optical disc. The high-density optical disc includes a lead-in area, a data area and a lead-out area. The lead-in area has control information. A... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070268800 - Optical disc, player for the optical disc and its player back method: An optical disc player includes an explaining device and a buffering management device. The explaining device is used to explain a command document; and the buffering management device is used to obtain the auxiliary information in advance according to the explained command document to cooperate to play of the main... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070268801 - High density optical disc and method for reproducing and recording data thereof: A high-density optical disc such as a high density-digital versatile disc (HD-DVD) or Blu-ray disc, and a method for reproducing or recording data of the high-density optical disc. The high-density optical disc includes a lead-in area, a data area and a lead-out area. The lead-in area has control information. A... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070268803 - Optical storage system having integrated laser driver signal processor: An optical storage system includes an optical pickup unit movable across an optical medium. The optical pickup unit has a light detector, a laser diode, and a laser driver signal processor circuit. The laser driver signal processor circuit includes a detected signal processing block for outputting read signals corresponding to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070268804 - Method of and apparatus for recording data on write-once disc, method of and apparatus for reproducing data from write-once disc, and write-once disc therefor: A method and apparatus recording and/or reproducing data on/from a write-once disc, and a write-once disc therefor, the write-once disc having at least one recording layer including: a plurality of update areas in which predetermined updated information is recorded; and at least one access information area in which access information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070268805 - Apparatus and method for adjusting an optical rotating data transmission device: The invention relates to a method for adjusting an optical rotating data transmission device having two units that are rotatable with respect to each other about a rotation axis, and that each have a coaxial collimator for coupling light in or out, and relates also to an optical rotating data... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20070268806 - Optical head and optical information recorder/reproducer: Fifth order spherical aberration in addition to third order spherical aberration for an optical information recording medium of which thickness of a light transmission layer changes greatly is corrected. An objective lens collects a laser beam emitted from a semiconductor laser on an optical information recording medium. A spherical aberration... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070268807 - Optical disc drive apparatus: The amount of reflected light from an adjacent layer in a multilayer optical disc is reduced by means of a combination of half-wave plates having different optical axes and a flat mirror. The polarization direction of the reflected light from a target layer is changed without changing the polarization direction... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070268808 - Cantilever including a fulcrum to actuate a probe tip for use in systems and methods of probe data storage: A memory apparatus comprises a media, a platform, and a cantilever having a proximal end and a distal end. The cantilever is pivotably connected with the platform at a fulcrum between the distal end and the proximal end. A conductor is associated with the platform and arranged between the proximal... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070268809 - Wire isolation apparatus for record playback system: A wire isolation apparatus for a record playback system includes a plurality of lead wires having a first end of the lead wires connected to a phono cartridge of a tone arm on a turntable, and a second end of the lead wires connected to at least a terminal connectable... Agent: Chien-chung Chen

20070268810 - Optical recording medium and data storage method thereof: An optical recording medium and a data storage method thereof are provided. The optical recording medium includes a base plate, a plurality of track layers, each of which stores data in a volume unit of the base plate at locations varying in a circumferential direction and a height direction of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070263492 - Standalone intelligent autoloader with modularization architectures and self-adaptive motion control ability for mass optical disks duplication: An autoloader system with modularization architecture and self-adaptive motion control ability for mass optical disks duplication includes four physical modules: a robot arm module with sensors and joints dedicates for delivering and picking up optical disks; an optical disk duplication tower has a number of optical drives in a stack,... Agent: Law Offices Of J.f. Lee

20070263495 - Objective lens driving apparatus: An objective lens driving apparatus comprising: an actuator movable unit that is configured such that a driving coil is mounted on a lens holder with an objective lens, and is supported on an actuator frame displaceably and elastically; a magnetic circuit that includes a magnet fixed to the actuator frame... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070263502 - Methods for start-up lens: Methods for start-up lens. The lens moves from a stowing position to a standby position along an axis, and a reset point, a first turning point, a second turning point, and a third turning point are defined in sequence during the movement. A drive unit rotates at a first angular... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070263505 - Demodulator, disk drive device, and demodulation method: A demodulator for demodulating an input signal including a predetermined modulated signal includes a multiplication fundamental wave generator for outputting a multiplication fundamental wave for the predetermined modulated signal, a calculator for multiplying the multiplication fundamental wave by the input signal and for integrating the multiplication result, a demodulated signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070263507 - Optical disc apparatus and method of determining writing power of the same: An optical disc apparatus and a method of determining an optimal writing power are provided to reduce the time required for Optimum Power Calibration (OPC) and reduce the difference between OPC results. The optical disc apparatus includes a light source which emits a laser beam to write/read data to/from an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070263513 - Optical disk recording device, recording method for optical disk: In a transient state in which the temperature difference of a drive device and a disk surface is great and the temperature of the disk surface changes successively, the issues of making a strategy suited to the temperature of the disk surface appropriate, making the irradiation angle of the laser... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070263493 - Video game disc changer: The Video game disc changer is device that allows people to switch games with remote from across the room instead of doing it manually. You put your favorite 5 to 10 in it and play. This makes it easier to keep track of you games, keep them from getting damaged,... Agent: David Rodgers

20070263494 - Optical disk device: There is provided an optical disk device that is capable of obtaining a required optical disk holding force uniformly and sufficiently. When information held and recorded on an optical disk is reproduced, a recording face of the optical disk is loaded on a loading portion of a clamping mechanism, then... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070263496 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263497 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263498 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263499 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263500 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263501 - Protection mechanism of an optical disc drive and method thereof: An optical disc drive includes a pickup head for receiving a reflective light from an optical disc and detecting a reflection signal accordingly, a derived signal generator for generating a derived signal derived from the reflection signal, an envelop generator for filtering the derived signal to generate an envelop of... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070263503 - Infromation reproducing apparatus and method for measuring surface deflection: The present invention relates to an information reproducing apparatus that includes an objective lens that focuses a light beam toward a rotating optical disc medium and uses the objective lens to focus the light beam onto the optical disc medium and detect the reflected light of the light beam so... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070263504 - Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data to/from recording medium: A recording medium, comprising a data area including a segment region and a replacement region; a first control data area storing access control information for controlling access to the segment region; and a second control data area storing defect control information for controlling a defective region of the recording medium,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070263506 - Method and system for detecting of errors on optical storage media: A method of grading a level of damage to digital data provides a scan of the digital data for errors therein. Based on the detected errors and predetermined data based on at least one of audio human perception and human visual perception a grade of plain quality is determined. The... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070263508 - Information storage medium: An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition, wherein OPC areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage layers are disposed not to face each other and not to contact each other,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070263509 - Method for real time recording/playback of data to/from and optical recording medium and method for managing files thereof: A method for real time recording and playback of data to and from an optical recording medium, and a method for managing a file thereof is disclosed. In the present invention, the host controls real time data writing by providing a signal requesting for information on a defective area to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263510 - Recording device and method, and computer program: A recording device (200) is provided with a recording means (352) for recording, in a recording medium (100), recording data which include real time data (121), a fixed quantity of which is continuously recorded, and management data (122) for managing at least recording or reproduction of the real time data;... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070263511 - 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

20070263512 - Method for recording address information on optical recording medium, optical recording medium including address information recorded thereon by the same method, and method for detecting address information recorded on the same optical recording medium: A method for recording address information on an optical recording medium, and the optical recording medium are discussed. According to an embodiment, there is provided an optical recording medium including a wobble-shaped recording track that is formed thereon based on a wobble signal, the wobble signal being modulated by a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263514 - Recorder: A recording apparatus for copying a digital stream recorded on a first recording medium using a code format compatible with the first recording medium to a second recording medium after the digital stream has been converted to a code format compatible with the second recording medium, comprising: a detection unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070263515 - Method and apparatus for moving copy-once contents: A method and apparatus for moving copy-once contents to a different recording medium, making it impossible to reproduce information on a write-once recording medium. When copy-once contents recorded on a write-once recording medium are moved to a recording medium which is different from the write-once recording medium, a signal different... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20070263516 - Complex objective lens, optical head, optical information apparatus, computer, optical disk player, car navigation system, optical disk recorder, and optical disk server: A complex objective lens composed of a hologram and an objective lens, capable of realizing stable and high-precision compatible reproducing/recording of a BD with a base thickness of about 0.1 mm for a blue light beam (wavelength λ1) and a DVD with a base thickness of about 0.6 mm for... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070263517 - Complex objective lens, optical head, optical information apparatus, computer, optical disk player, car navigation system, optical disk recorder, and optical disk server: A complex objective lens composed of a hologram and an objective lens, capable of realizing stable and high-precision compatible reproducing/recording of a BD with a base thickness of about 0.1 mm for a blue light beam (wavelength λ1) and a DVD with a base thickness of about 0.6 mm for... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070263518 - Optical head apparatus and optical information recording/reproducing apparatus with the same: An optical head apparatus includes a light source section having a plurality of light sources configured to output a plurality of light beams whose wavelengths are different from each other. A plurality of output light beams from the light source section are collected onto an optical recording medium by an... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070263519 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup includes: a first projector for projecting a first light beam of a first wavelength so as to record and reproduce information with respect to an optical disk having a first light transmissive layer; a second projector for projecting a second light beam of a second wavelength longer... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070263520 - Optical disc apparatus: A liquid crystal element for correcting wave aberration included in an optical disc apparatus, is controlled by a liquid crystal element control unit which has a memory portion that stores information about a variation with time of orientation direction of liquid crystal in the case where a voltage is applied... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070263521 - Optical pickup and optical disk apparatus: An optical pickup is configured to emit a light beam to an optical disk having a plurality of recording layers and is configured to receive a reflection light beam obtained when the emitted light beam is reflected at a recording layer of the optical disk. The optical pickup includes an... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070263522 - Objective lens apparatus, optical pickup apparatus, and optical disc driving apparatus: An objective lens apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a first objective lens with a first numerical aperture, which is capable of focusing a laser light on a first optical record medium with a first cover layer of a first thickness; a second objective lens with a second numerical aperture... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070263523 - Objective lens optical system and optical pickup optical system: The present invention aims at focusing a light beam on each of a plurality of kinds of optical recording media having different thicknesses of transparent substrates with a suitable wave-optic optical spot shape. In an objective lens optical system according to the present invention, at least one surface of an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070263524 - Optical media formats and methods of making same: Apparatuses, products, and devices consistent with the invention include optically readable media with at least one substrate, at least one encoded information region and/or region for receiving and/or recording encoded information, and at least one mechanism, chemical, agent, and/or process for limiting the time period that at least a portion... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070263525 - Optical data recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: A method is provided for manufacturing an optical data recording medium including a plurality of data recording layers each having a user data recording region and a BCA formation region positioned at an inner position than the data recording region. The method includes: forming a first data recording layer out... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070263526 - File recording method and apparatus: Of file management information for managing a file, information indicating at least a recording location of the file is recorded in a data area and a spare area, and the file is reproduced based on the information of the two areas. Even when a new defect is caused, because a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070263527 - Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing optical information: A substrate (1) having a guide groove for tracking with spot irradiation light beam for recording/reproduction of information is provided with a recording layer (2) and a light transmitting layer (3). The recording layer (2) is irradiated with a spot light beam through the light transmitting layer (3) to record... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070258340 - Method for the recovery of a damaged table of contents in an optical disc: A method for generating a recovered table of contents (TOC) for an optical disc having an damaged TOC and a predetermined file system includes selecting a recovering session on the optical disc; determining a recovering session starting location corresponding to a first SRR starting location in the recovering session; determining... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070258337 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disk apparatus having a high reliability by evading collision between a condensing lens and an optical disk regardless whether the focus control is in the operative state or in the inoperative state, thereby preventing damage to the condensing lens and the optical disk. When the focus control is... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070258338 - System and method for detecting the location of an optical pick-up head: Disclosed is a system for detecting a location of an optical pick-up head on an optical disk, and the optical disk comprises a plurality of sectors and the optical pick-up head emitting light to the optical disk and detected the reflected light from the optical disk. The system comprises: a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070258339 - Information recording medium: An information recording medium is provided with a recording information recording area (R) capable of recording reproduction control information (e.g., PGC) and first recording information to be reproduced according the reproduction control information, an encoding information recording area (CDZ) having encoding information (Key “B”) recorded in advance for encoding the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070258341 - Method of adjusting write power in optical drive: A method of adjusting write power in an optical drive system is disclosed. During the writing process, the invention monitors symmetry or β values of RF signals in real time to adjust the optimum write power dynamically, therefore maintaining the best quality of the disk writing.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070258342 - Information storage medium: An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition, wherein OPC areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage layers are disposed not to face each other and not to contact each other,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070258343 - Optical recording media and recording/reproducing methods and apparatuses for the same: An optical recording medium in which interference patterns formed from interference between signal light and reference light are recorded as data and a recording/reproducing method and apparatus for the optical recording medium. The optical recording medium including at least a recording layer in which predetermined data is recorded, wherein a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070258344 - Simultaneously accessing multiple layers of optical disks: Techniques are described for simultaneously accessing multiple layers of an optical data storage medium using optical elements. The techniques include passing light through one or more optical elements included in an optical device to generate multiple light beams with focus points on two or more layers of a multi-layer optical... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20070258345 - Diffraction element, objective lens unit, optical pickup, optical disc apparatus and design method for diffraction element: The first and second materials of the diffraction element are selected such that the first material's refraction indexes n1(λ1), n1(λ2) and n1(λ3) for the first, second and third wavelengths λ1, λ2 and λ3 and the second material's refraction indexes n2(λ1), n2(λ2) and n2(λ3) for the first, second and third wavelengths... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070258346 - Pc peripheral devices used with mobile media devices: A personal media managing system includes a portable media device that interfaces with a peripheral media device. When in communication, media content is transferred between the devices such that the peripheral media device serves as a redundant backup of data from the portable media device and as a repository of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070258347 - Disc player apparatus: There is provided a disc player apparatus capable of transporting a disc (11) by holding the disc (11) between a lower roller (70) and an upper roller (80). The lower roller (70) and the upper roller (80) are rockably supported with respect to a main body (20a). A flat spring... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070258348 - Optical information recording medium and mold apparatus for manufacturing the same: An optical information recording medium comprises at least a substrate on which a groove is formed in a recording area, a recording layer comprising an organic dye, and a reflective layer. The recording area has a preformat area and a data area, and the groove in the preformat area is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070258349 - Information recording medium: An information recording medium is provided with a first recording information recording area (102) wherein first recording information, for instance, contents information, can be recorded by a first rotating speed control system (CLV control system), and a second recording information recording area (CDZ) wherein second recording information (Key1), for instance,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070258350 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, and computer program: An information recording medium (100), provided with: a first recording layer (L0 layer) and a second recording layer (L1 layer) in which record information can be recorded; and a plurality of first block areas, each of which includes a recording area (105a) of a first size on the first recording... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070258351 - Optical disk: It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for manufacturing a high-density optical disk having excellent optical properties by suppressing the production of a cloud caused by a release failure and preventing the deterioration of hue and light transmittance. The present invention is a process for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070253291 - Product including filmed screw: A first component defines a threaded bore. A second component is kept in contact with the first component. A clamping screw penetrates through the second component and is screwed in the threaded bore. A lubricating agent film is interposed between the threaded bore and the clamping screw. The lubricating agent... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070253297 - Optical pickup and optical disk apparatus: An optical pickup includes a lens holder holding an objective lens for converging a light beam on a signal recording layer of an optical disk; elastic support members supporting the lens holder such that the lens holder can freely move in three driving directions, i.e., a tracking direction, a focusing... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070253299 - Optical disc apparatus and data writing method therefor: When an optical disc apparatus of the present invention writes to an optical disc, it detects the level of the drive voltage for its laser drive circuit and, based on the detected level, adjusts the drive voltage for its laser diode so as to adjust the drive voltage for the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070253307 - Optical disk drive and method for recording data: Recording of data into a multilayer optical disk and reliable reproduction of the data are enabled. When user data are recorded on a multilayer optical disk having a first layer L0 and a second layer L1, the second layer L1 is formatted beforehand, to thus record dummy data. Subsequently, the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070253292 - Information reproducing apparatus, data management information obtaining method, data management information obtaining program, and storage medium: An information reproducing apparatus reproducing information of an information recording medium is disclosed. In the information recording medium, a record area is divided into a plurality of data areas. Also, data are recorded for each of the divided data areas. In addition, management information relating to the data recording is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070253293 - Method and device for track counting in optical recording media: The invention relates to the identification of the direction of the relative movement between a scanning beam of an optical scanner and the tracks of optical storage media. Use is made of the fact that the amplitude of the component TW of a track error signal TE, said component being... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070253294 - Information storage medium, recording method, and recording apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium in which layer 0 and layer 1 are arranged from a read surface, a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area are arranged from an inner circumference of the layer 0, and a system lead-out area, data lead-out... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070253295 - Laser beam recorder and method for controlling a laser beam recorder: In accordance with the invention synchronizing the rotation of the record carrier 60; the movement of the laser 61 and the laser output power is performed such that at least a part of the data is written in at least one track comprising a different arrangement than circular or spiral.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070253296 - Optical pickup unit and optical disc apparatus: An optical pickup unit is disclosed which comprises: an objective lens that focuses laser light on an optical disc; a lens holder that holds the objective lens; a coil that is fitted on the lens holder and capable of driving the lens holder; and a heat transfer improving member that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070253300 - Method and apparatus for establishing manufacturer-specific test writing parameters for writing of writable optical storage media: According to an embodiment, there is provided an optical storage media recording/reproducing apparatus for calibrating an amount of light energy output by the recording/reproducing apparatus during a recording operation, the recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing unit to read unique property information from a writable optical disc inserted into the apparatus,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070253298 - Optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus and optical disk recording method: An optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus for accurately determining optimum recording power of a laser beam even if medium deviations occurs, stabilizing recording quality, and realizing recording which hardly causes read inability error. In test recording, a laser drive (5) irradiates a laser beam to an optical disk (1) to record... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070253301 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070253302 - Optical disc and optical disc device: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070253303 - Method for the restitution of an audio-visual work with random sequencing, and corresponding restitution device, computer program and data medium: The invention relates to a method for the restitution of an audio-visual work. According to the invention, the work is divided into sequences which are connected by nodes, whereby at least one of said nodes, known as the selection node, associates an order n sequence with at least two possible... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070253304 - Electrically angle-adjustable speaker: An electrically angle-adjustable speaker includes a seat unit, a rotation unit and a speaker unit. A hole is provided at the central portion of the seat unit and a horizontal-rotation driving mechanism is provided by the hole. An arcuate toothed track is provided on the rotation unit, and a limiting... Agent: Hdsl

20070253306 - Information recording medium, method for manufacturing such information recording medium, processor for such information recording medium and preparation method for using such information recording meduim, information recording device: An information recording medium such as an optical disk in which each individual recording portion includes laminated multiple recording layers, and usability information relating to usability of the multiple recording layers of each individual recording portion is stored in a BCA (Burst Cutting Area), a DMA (Disc Management Area) and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070253305 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus according to the present invention is capable of reading data from an optical disk 102 which has a plurality of information recording layers, including a first information recording layer whose distance from a disk surface is relatively small and a second information recording layer whose distance... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070253308 - Device comprising a feedback control loop for a signal of an optical pickup: A device comprises a means (3) for generating a modulated signal (4) and a feedback control loop. The feedback control loop comprises a sensor (5) for providing a sensor signal (6) dependent on the generated signal (4), a sampler (7) for sampling the sensor signal (6), a measurer (61) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070253309 - Optical disk apparatus and driving method thereof: An optical disc apparatus records information onto plural disc shaped mediums of different standards or reproduces information from the plural disc shaped mediums. The optical disc apparatus includes an optical pickup equipped with a spherical aberration correcting unit using a movable lens, and a disc insertion unit for inserting and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070253310 - Coupling lens and optical pickup apparatus: The present invention provides a coupling lens provided for achieving compatibility between a high-density optical disc and a CD which are in the relationship that the wavelength ratio between the working light fluxes substantially 1:2, and provide for emitting the two light fluxes with different angles by using a phase... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070253311 - Optical pick-up apparatus and optical disc apparatus: To provide an optical pick-up apparatus and an optical disc apparatus preventing a polarization hologram from being deteriorated by incidence of laser light having a wavelength for a blue laser into the polarization hologram for a CD or a DVD, an optical pick-up apparatus includes a first objective lens 10... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070253312 - Optical storage interface aparatus: In an optical storage interface apparatus, a spot-forming lens projects a light spot on an optical information carrier in response to a light beam from a light source. There is an air gap (AG) between the spot-forming lens and the optical information carrier. A gap detector (PHD2) provides a gap... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070253313 - Laser driver, method for driving laser, and recording/reading equipment: The laser drive circuit of the present invention includes a first drive circuit 105 receiving an input of a current from a variable current source 103 and a first pulse control signal 101 and outputting a first drive current in synchronism with the first pulse control signal 101; a pulse... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070253314 - Low surface energy coatings in probe recording: An apparatus comprises a storage media having a surface coated with a lubricant, and a plurality of probes having tips contacting the lubricant, wherein the probes are coated with one of a fluorocarbon, perfluoropolyether, polytetrafluoroethylene, fluorinated ethylene propylene, polyethylene, or a hydrocarbon polymer.... Agent: Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP

20070253315 - Brushless motor and disc driving apparatus: A position detecting means fixed to a first circuit board has a resin table integrally forming a current-carrying pin, a second circuit board mounted on an upper surface of the resin table, and a position detecting element mounted on the second circuit board, protrudes the current-carrying pin to an upper... Agent: Judge & MurakamiIPAssociates

20070253316 - Method of manufacturing a limited use data storing device: Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a data storage device previously deactivated by modification or degradation of at least a portion of the data storage device are disclosed.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070253317 - Recording media and method of manufacturing recording media: A mark is formed on a resist disk according to set values of indexes representing magnitudes of causes that affect deterioration in a quality of a playback signal at the time of signal playback. A ROM media is manufactured using the resist disk.... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070253318 - Optical recording medium and fabrication method thereof: An optical recording medium includes a substrate having phase pits, a reflective layer that reflects a light beam emitted to the substrate and the phase pits, and a reflectivity reducing layer that reduces the reflectivity of the reflective layer on a light-incident side of the reflective layer. A dielectric layer... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.