Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 04/08

20080094943 - Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus using the same: An optical pickup apparatus is equipped with a light emitting device, a first objective lens for focusing a laser beam emitted from the light emitting device onto a first optical disc, a second objective lens for focusing the laser beam emitted from the light emitting device onto a second optical... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080094944 - Method of controlling th ewriting power of a laser beam and optical recorder: A method of controlling the writing power of a laser beam in an optical recorder and an optical recorder having means for controlling the writing power of the laser beam are provided. The invention is directed to a Walking Optimum Power Control (Walking OPC) during writing onto an optical storage... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094946 - Method and apparatus for scanning data stored on an optical storage medium: A method and an apparatus for scanning data stored along a track (16) on an optical storage medium (10) are provided. A light beam (12) is projected on the optical storage medium, thereby creating a scanning spot (14) that essentially follows the track (10). The relative position of the scanning... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094947 - Optical disc device for recording and reproducing: An optical scanning device for scanning an information carrier comprising tracks with a track pitch q, the closest track to the center of the information carrier having a radius r. The optical scanning device comprises a radiation source for generating a radiation beam and means for generating three spots on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094948 - Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus using same: An optical pickup apparatus is provided with a dividing element having a plurality of regions. The dividing element is capable of dividing a light flux reflected by the optical disc into a plurality of light fluxes having different outgoing directions. Each region of the dividing element and light receiving parts... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080094949 - Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus using same: An optical pickup apparatus includes a semiconductor laser for emitting a laser light, an objective lens for irradiating the light flux emitted from the semiconductor laser onto an optical disc, and a light detector for receiving the light flux reflected from the optical disc. The light detector has a light... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080094951 - Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus using same: An optical pickup apparatus includes a semiconductor laser for emitting a laser light, an objective lens for irradiating the light flux emitted from the semiconductor laser onto an optical disc, and a light detector for receiving the light flux reflected from the optical disc. The light detector has a light... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080094950 - Optical pickup apparatus, method of producing the same, and optical information recorder-reproducer including the same: In an optical pickup apparatus of the present invention, an integrated optical unit including at least a light emitting element, a light receiving element, and an optical element is installed on a housing. The housing includes arrangement sections on which the respective elements of those at least the light emitting... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080094953 - Focus pull-in method and optical disc drive thereof: A focus pull-in method to perform an accurate focus pull-in operation in an optical disc drive using a holographic optical element (HOE) in consideration of a pseudo s-curve and an optical disc drive capable of performing the focus pull-in method, the method comprising checking whether a pseudo s-curve is contained... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094952 - Layer jump on a multi-layer disc: A method and an apparatus for writing on a multi-layer disc are described. The occurrence of a layer jump, due to the fact that e.g. the storage space available on a first layer is exhausted, is anticipated by monitoring the storage space available remaining. When approaching the layer jump a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094954 - Optical disk apparatus: In an optical disk apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a management information retaining unit retains an information group which should regularly be recorded as disk management information. The disk management information is obtained from a disk loaded in the optical disk apparatus, and the obtained disk... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080094958 - Method of optimizing the write power for recording marks in an information layer of a record carrier and recording device using such an optimizing method: The present invention relates to a method of optimizing the write power for recording marks in an information layer of a record carrier by irradiating the information layer with a (pulsed) radiation beam, said information layer having a phase that is reversibly changeable between a first (for example a crystal)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094976 - Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus using same: A method of detecting a servo signal of an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers includes focusing and irradiating a laser light onto the optical disc, dividing a laser light reflected from the optical disc into a plurality of reflected laser lights by a division element, wherein each... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080094982 - Tracking error signal calibration method, and disc drive implementing such method: A method for generating a calibration value (TESC) for a tracking error signal (TES) in an optical disc drive (1) comprises the steps of performing a jump towards a target track of an optical disc (2) inserted in said optical disc drive (1); during at least a part of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094975 - Method for calibrating a tracking error signal of an optical disk drive: The invention provides a method for adjusting a tracking error signal of an optical disk drive. First, a pickup head control signal is applied to an actuator to move a pickup head. The tracking error signal is then generated while the pickup head moves. The tracking error signal is then... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080094987 - Media processor: A media storage is adapted to store a plate-shaped medium. A media drive is operable to write data in the medium. A label printer is operable to print on the medium. A media conveyer is operable to convey the medium between the media storage, the media drive and the label... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080094990 - Combined fluorescent-reflective media and media reading device: The invention relates to optical media of ROM, WORM, or RW type that combine the ability to write and read data from one layer using fluorescent and reflective methods. Data is recorded as pits of different depth situated either in two alternating spiral tracks or in the same track. Data... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080094945 - Checking a batch of dvd titles to be archived: Administrating content of a digital video disc (DVD) having, on-disc, a database involves storing, externally to the DVD, information of the database. Based on the stored information, a check is made as to whether the DVD is operable to accommodate a proposed change to the content. The change on the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094955 - Optical disk drawing apparatus, optical disk drawing system and optical disk drawing method: In the optical disk drawing apparatus of the present invention, an automatic adjusting area where the drawing operation is not carried out is provided in the optical disk, laser light is irradiated onto the formed automatic adjusting area so as to control the focus servo gain, so that a stable... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080094956 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094957 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094959 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094960 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094961 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094962 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094963 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094964 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094965 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094966 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094967 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094968 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094969 - Optical recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and method, initialization method, and reinitialization method: A recording/reproducing apparatus includes a writing/reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information recording medium having an access control area in which access control data is recorded, the access control data having common information set to allow the recording/reproducing apparatus that cannot recognize a predetermined function adapted... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094970 - Method and system for fluid mediated disk activation and deactivation: Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080094971 - Device and method for providing media-related parameters on a medium and for retrieving such parameters: The present invention relates to a record carrier, to a drive device for the record carrier, and to a method of providing at least one parameter that defines at least one characteristic of the record carrier on said record carrier. The at least one parameter is determined during a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094972 - Method and device for focus management when recording on optical storage media: The present invention relates to a method and a parameter-determining unit (100) for determining a first focus offset parameter value. The method of determining this parameter value for writing content data to a multilayer storage medium (114) comprises the steps of writing test data sequences using different estimated first focus... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094973 - Method of recording and/or reproducing data with respect to multi-layer information storage medium having optimal power control areas: 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

20080094977 - Method and apparatus for managing defects in recording media, a computer readable medium including computer readable code for the same, and a defect managed recording medium obtained using the same method, apparatus, and computer readable medium: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for managing recording medium defects and a defect managed recording medium. The recording medium includes a spare area in which a replacement area, which is a substitute for a defective area of the recording medium, is formed, and a temporary defect management area... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094978 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094974 - Optical disc system and related detecting methods for analysis of microscopic structures: An optical disc system includes a photo detector circuit of an optical disc drive and a signal processing system. The photo detector circuit is configured to generate at least one information-carrying signal from an optical disc assembly. The signal processing system is coupled to the photo detector circuit to obtain... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080094979 - Information recording medium, apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, and computer-readable recording medium stor: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area, a user data area, and a lead-out area, wherein at least one of the lead-in or lead-out areas includes a compatibility information area in which compatibility information, specifying whether each area on the information recording medium is recordable and/or reproducible. The compatibility... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094980 - Optical information recording/reproducing device: An optical information read/write apparatus according to the present invention includes: a light source 1 that emits a laser beam to access an information storage medium optically; a laser driver 51a for supplying drive current to a semiconductor laser as the light source 1; an RF superimposed current generator 51c... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080094981 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, semiconductor device, and optical disc recording device: The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a sample-and-hold circuit including a capacitor connected to its output portion, a low-pass filter as another signal processing circuit, an analog switch which selects and outputs the output of the sample-and-hold circuit or the output of the low-pass filter, a buffer circuit to which the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094983 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094984 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094985 - Optical disk having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094986 - Method of converting a user bitstream into coded bitstream, method for detecting a synchronization pattern in a signal, a record carried, a signal, a recording device and a playback device all using a freely insertable synchronization pattern: This invention proposes synchronization patterns for RLL codes with a constraint. Instead of including the synchronization pattern in the pattern the pattern is chosen to have p leading bits and q trailing bits such that all channel code constraints are met by the last code word of the section preceding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094988 - Information recording medium, apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, and computer-readable recording medium stor: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area, a user data area, and a lead-out area, wherein at least one of the lead-in or lead-out areas includes a compatibility information area in which compatibility information, specifying whether each area on the information recording medium is recordable and/or reproducible. The compatibility... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094989 - Information recording medium, apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, and computer-readable recording medium stor: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area, a user data area, and a lead-out area, wherein at least one of the lead-in or lead-out areas includes a compatibility information area in which compatibility information, specifying whether each area on the information recording medium is recordable and/or reproducible. The compatibility... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094992 - Optical disc device: An optical disc device includes: a spindle motor for rotating a disc; a motor driving circuit for applying a voltage to the spindle motor to drive the spindle motor; an optical pickup for irradiating the disc with an optical beam; and a detector for, after the motor driving circuit starts... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080094991 - Recording method and optical disk apparatus using the method: In order to meet the requirement for enhancing the speed of an optical disk apparatus, it is necessary to have a write strategy for compensating thermal interference during recording at high speed on a high-density optical disk such as BD. However, there has been no known technology for such a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080094994 - Information recording medium, apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, and computer-readable recording medium stor: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area, a user data area, and a lead-out area, wherein at least one of the lead-in or lead-out areas includes a compatibility information area in which compatibility information, specifying whether each area on the information recording medium is recordable and/or reproducible. The compatibility... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094997 - Method of recording temporary defect list on write-once recording medium, method of reproducing the temporary defect list, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and the write-once recording medium: A method of recording a temporary defect list on a write-once recording medium, a method of reproducing the temporary defect list, an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the temporary defect list, and the write-once recording medium. The method of recording a temporary defect list for defect management on a write-once... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094995 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094993 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094996 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094998 - System for generating reference beam angle control signal and holographic information recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the system: A system for generating a reference beam angle control signal and a holographic information recording and/or reproducing apparatus including the system are provided. When record of a two-dimensionally (2D) modulated signal beam superposed in the same volume of a holographic medium is called a book, the system includes: a first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094999 - Holographic reproducing apparatus: When a forward meniscus lens is used for a converting lens 12 that collimates a reference beam L2, the converting lens 12 can be disposed between a light source 11 and the principal point Q of the converting lens 12 since the principal point Q of the lens is located... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080095000 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095001 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095002 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095003 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095004 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095005 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095006 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095007 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095008 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095009 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095010 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095011 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095012 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095013 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095014 - Optical pickup and optical information recording and reproducing device: An optical pickup equipped with a laser light source which emits light beams of at least three wavelengths for recording/reproducing a plurality of information recording media detects light quantities of the light beams of three wavelengths using one light intensity monitor element. More specifically, one light intensity monitor element is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080095015 - Diffractive part: A diffractive part for an optical scanning device is described. The device is for scanning a first information layer by means of a first radiation beam having a first wavelength and a first polarisation, a second information layer by means of a second radiation beam having a second wavelength and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080095016 - Optical device for recording and reproducing: The invention relates to an optical device comprising a first radiation source (101) for producing a first radiation beam, a second radiation source (101) for producing a second radiation beam and means for directing the first and second radiation beams along a common optical path. Each radiation beam has an... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080095017 - Optical pickup and optical disc drive: the first and second objective lenses are arranged in the optical disc radial direction; the second objective lens is arranged closer to the side of the optical disc outer circumference than the first objective lens; the first collimate lens is arranged on the right-hand side when the second objective lens... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080095018 - Optical disc device: An optical disc device comprising: first and second laser diodes to radiate first and second laser beams with different first and second wavelengths, respectively; a first objective lens to irradiate the first laser beam to reflection area to read out image recording control data for controlling record of image recorded... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080095020 - Optical pickup: The optical pickup includes two objective lenses, and an objective lens holder that holds the two objective lenses. The objective lens holder has two fixture holes that pass through from the lower surface to the upper surface to which the two objective lenses are attached at an upper portion with... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080095019 - Optical pickup and manufacturing method for optical pickup: An optical pickup includes a first objective lens, a second objective lens having a numerical aperture different from that of the first objective lens, and an objective lens holder that holds the objective lenses. The first objective lens is attached to the objective lens holder via a spacer. The objective... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080095021 - Device for recording data, comprising a peripheral support membrane, and method for producing same: The data recording device comprises a two-dimensional array of microdots of nanometric dimensions arranged facing a storage medium. The storage medium comprises a sensitive area preferably comprising a flexible membrane and extended at its periphery by a flexible fixing membrane. The sensitive area of the storage medium is thus flexibly... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080095022 - Automatic balancing apparatus, rotating apparatus, disc drive apparatus, balancer, and housing: An automatic balancing apparatus is disclosed. The automatic balancing apparatus includes a housing, magnetic fluid, and a plurality of balancers. The housing is rotatable. The magnetic fluid is contained in the housing. Each of the plurality of balancers is movable in the housing and has a magnet and a yoke... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080095023 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095025 - Method and apparatus for recording data on optical disc: An apparatus and method for recording data on an optical disc, are discussed. In an embodiment of the present invention, when recording of real-time input data in a high quality mode is requested, an Optimum Power Control (OPC) operation for recording is performed while input data is encoded in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080095026 - High-density optical disc, method for recording and reproducing encrypted data thereon: A high-density optical disc, a method for encrypting data and recording the encrypted data thereon, and a method for reproducing the encrypted data recorded thereon. Data recorded on a high-density optical disc such as a Blu-ray disc-read only memory (BD-ROM) is recorded in a discontinuous recording format as on a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080095024 - Information recording medium: An information recording medium comprising a plurality of recording layers (L0 layer, L1 layer) for recording a plurality of pieces of recording information, respectively, wherein the first recording layer (L0 layer) located on the closest side when viewed from the side being irradiated with a laser beam has an identification... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080095027 - Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of data streams recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: The data structure includes a navigation area of a computer readable medium storing navigation data associated with a data stream representing a portion of at least one reproduction path. The navigation data includes indication information, and the indication information indicates whether the data stream represents multiple reproduction paths or the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080095028 - Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of data streams recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: The data structure includes a navigation area of a computer readable medium storing navigation data associated with a data stream representing a portion of at least one reproduction path. The navigation data includes indication information, and the indication information indicates whether the data stream represents multiple reproduction paths or the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080095029 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095030 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095031 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095032 - Optical disc having uniform structure: An optical disc is manufactured under a uniform condition by forming grooves and lands on the entire surface of the disc. The optical disc is configured to obtain a reliable reproduction signal, and the grooves and lands are formed on a lead-in area, a user data area and a lead-out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095033 - Optical disk having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095034 - Optical disk having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same: An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the optical disc is recorded, and the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089187 - Heat-assisted magnetic recording head and recording apparatus including the same: A heat-assisted magnetic recording head and a recording apparatus including the same are provided. The heat-assisted magnetic recording head includes a recording portion which produces magnetic field for recording information to a magnetic recording medium, and a waveguide which transmits light therethrough disposed to be adjacent to the recording portion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080089188 - Optical disc drive apparatus: An optical disc drive apparatus has: a rotation angle counter cleared when the number of pulses in a frequency multiplied FG signal has reached a value corresponding to one rotation of the disc; a switching sector detector detecting polarity switching locations based on the output signal of an RF processor... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080089189 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus comprises an optical pickup with a thread load, a thread motor for moving the optical pickup, and an inner circumferential switch. When the optical pickup is moved to an innermost circumference of an optical disc to turn on the switch, the pickup is stopped, and the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080089190 - Automated data storage library robot accessors with pivoting grippers for passing: An automated data storage library, employing storage shelves and data storage drives arranged to “X” and “Y” directions on both sides of an “X” axis, has a plurality of robot accessors configured to move in the “X” direction along one or more “X” rail(s) in separate paths. The robot accessors... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20080089192 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus comprises, an optical pickup, a signal extracting unit for reading address information and an RF signal from an optical disc based on signal read by the optical pickup, and a main controller for performing jitter control and focus control. At an initial reading of the optical... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080089193 - Apparatus and method for controlling focus jump between recording layers in high-density multi-layer disk: An apparatus and method for controlling a focus jump between recoding layers in a high-density multi-layer disk. The apparatus includes: an optical pickup including an objective lens focusing light on the disk, an aberration correcting unit, and a photodetector detecting light reflected from the disk; a signal processing unit generating... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089199 - Optical disc device and optical disc record reproducing method: When record or reproduction quality of an optical disc is deteriorated, an enhancement in the performance is implemented by slowing down record or reproduction speed of the optical disc. However, there still exists a problem of how to select and determine a timing with which the speed is to be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080089204 - Optical disc recording apparatus and recording power control method: It is to provide an optical disc recording apparatus and a recording power control method that are adapted to high-speed recording and can set an optimal erasing power with high accuracy. A test writing signal detector reproduces a test writing signal of a predetermined mark length or space length with... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080089205 - Optical pickup and optical disc apparatus including the same: An optical pickup for recording/reproducing information on/from an optical disc having recording layers, includes a light source; an objective lens for condensing an optical beam emitted from the light source on the recording layer; a photo-detector having a light-receiving section for receiving return light from the optical disc; an optical-path... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080089186 - Receiver monitoring and alert system: A method and system are provided in which a user is enabled to create a preferred playlist of the user's favorite songs. An input device allows the user to add and/or delete songs from this preferred playlist. In an exemplary embodiment, songs playing on several radio stations are monitored and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080089191 - Electromagnetic drive system: An electromagnetic drive includes a drive plate disposed in a magnetic field. The drive plate includes a non-conductive medium with a first plurality of linear conductive elements arranged parallel to a first axis. The first plurality of linear conductive elements connects first and second electrical terminals supported by the non-conductive... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080089194 - Optical pickup, optical disk drive, optical information recording/replaying device, and tilt adjusting method: There is provided a tilt correction processing method which can reliably detect the amount of tilt in a short time and adjust it, and then recording or replaying is started in a short time by employing the same. To perform recording or replaying to plural optical information media, an optical... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080089195 - 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.

20080089197 - Method of and drive for recording medium defect management, and defect managed recording medium: A method of and drive for recording medium defect management, and a defect managed recording medium. The defect management method includes: writing first state information that specifies that an update cycle of a temporary defect management structure (TDMS) is open when updating of the TDMS begins, the TDMS containing information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089198 - Method of and drive for recording medium defect management, and defect managed recording medium: A method of and drive for recording medium defect management, and a defect managed recording medium. The defect management method includes: writing first state information that specifies that an update cycle of a temporary defect management structure (TDMS) is open when updating of the TDMS begins, the TDMS containing information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089196 - Write-once disc, recording apparatus thereto, and method of reducing access time thereto: A write-once disc, an apparatus for recording information thereon, and a method of reducing access time thereto the write-once disc including at least one record layer. The write-once disc also includes at least one update area in which updated predetermined information is recorded; and an access information area in which... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089201 - Optical disc apparatus and data complementation method: A data complementation method including a defective-data confirmation step of confirming if there is address information of defective data, a complementation-data confirmation step of confirming if complementation data is recorded, a complementation-data transmission request step of requesting a recovery server to transmit the complementation data, a complementation-data acquisition step of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080089200 - Quality testing method for optical data carriers: A method is disclosed for testing the overall quality of an optical disc of the type that stores optically readable information in the form of a spiral or annular pattern defining a plurality of concentric tracks. When a signal from a disc player's laser pickup is below a certain threshold,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080089202 - Audio copy protection system: An apparatus for applying an anti-copy protection signal for use with switchable head recorders, such as Video Hi-Fi recorders, is described. A high frequency pulsed signal is added to an original signal. The pulses interfere with the compensator circuitry such that the switching of the record head cannot adequately be... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080089203 - Optical disk apparatus and its reproducing method: Amplitude and frequency of a high-frequency signal superposed on a reproduction laser beam are changed in accordance with a reproduction spot diameter on the surface of the recording layer upon discrimination of an optical disk in initial adjustment after insertion of the optical disk and change of a layer of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080089206 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding data, and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data: A method and apparatus for stably encoding/decoding data, and a method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data are disclosed. The method inserts decoding information into a data section including several predetermined-bit data, determines encoding values of the data according to a transition state of the data and a value of corresponding... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080089207 - Optical information recording/reproducing device and objective lens for the same: m

20080089208 - Near field lens-to-carrier approach: The present invention provides a near field optical scanning device and in particular a method of bringing a lens (24) of a near field optical scanning device from a remote position to a near field position (23) relative to the surface of a record carrier (11). The invention makes preferably... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080089209 - Optical disc apparatus, focus position control method and optical disc: An optical disc apparatus and a focus position control method can highly accurately record recording marks representing information on or reproduce such recording marks from an optical disc. A blue light beam is irradiated onto the target depth to be irradiated by driving an objective lens to focus a red... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080089210 - Solid immersion lens, and condenser lens, optical pickup device, and optical recording/reproducing apparatus including the solid immersion lens: A solid immersion lens includes a spherical part being hemispherical on the side opposite to an object and an anti-reflection coating provided at least in an incidence range of incident light on the hemispherical spherical part.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080089211 - Elevated electrodes for probe position sensing: An apparatus comprises a storage medium, a head substrate, wherein the storage medium and the head substrate are separated by a gap, a plurality of electrodes separated from each other, and a support structure positioned in the gap for supporting some of the electrodes. An apparatus comprising a storage medium,... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

20080089214 - Optical information medium method: A method relative to an optical information storage medium including 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089215 - Optical information medium method: A method relative to an optical information storage medium including 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089212 - 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and a track pitch in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089213 - 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and a track pitch in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089216 - 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and a track pitch in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089217 - 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and a track pitch in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089218 - Optical information medium method: A method relative to an optical information storage medium including 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089219 - Optical information medium method: A method relative to an optical information storage medium including 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089220 - 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and a track pitch in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080084795 - System and method for providing audio content to a person: Described herein is a serving tray having an audio player associated therewith. In a preferred embodiment, the serving tray includes an item supporting portion having a periphery, and a wall extending upwardly from at least a portion of the periphery of the item supporting portion. In other preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20080084796 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus reading signal recorded on signal recording layer of first and second optical discs different in distance from incident surface of laser light to the layer, comprising: an objective lens to be changed in numerical aperture for reading signal from the discs; a focus coil to displace... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080084797 - Optical head device and optical information device: Light receiving portions of a main region light receiving portion group is arranged between a projection line of a third dividing line on a photodetector and a projection line of a fourth dividing line on the photodetector by stray lights from information layers adjacent to the one, on which a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080084802 - Method and system for evaluating cd player response to anomalies in a cd: A system and methods for evaluating the response of an optical digital disk player to anomalies in optical digital disks are provided. The system includes a simulator configured to provide digital simulated output signals simulating the output of an optical digital disk player during playback of an optical digital disk... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080084803 - Optical disc access apparatus for evaluating a disc and method thereof: Disc data accessing in current disc drives is time consuming to the user and generally inefficient. The optical disc evaluation method and access apparatus for evaluating compatibility between a disc and a disc drive described herein was created and designed to increase efficiency during disc accessing. The optical disc access... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080084805 - Writing power calibrating method and data recording apparatus using the same: A power calibrating method includes steps of: determining a target value for a front monitor diode signal; outputting light with a power having a writing power level and an erasing power level, durations of the writing power level being identical to durations of the erasing power level; obtaining multiple values... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080084798 - 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.

20080084799 - Performing application setting activity using a removable storage device: A method of configuring a processing system to perform application setting activity using a removable storage device in data communication with the processing system includes a) selecting an application, where setting activity associated with the selected application is to be performed using the removable storage device, b) installing, in the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080084800 - Power determining method, single-sided multilayer optical disk, recording method, computer program product, computer-readable medium, and optical disk apparatus: A power determining method is disclosed for determining the light emitting power of a light source upon recording information on an optical disk having plural rewritable recording layers, the method involving obtaining an optimum erasing power with respect to an optimum recording power by recording test data on the optical... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080084801 - Optical pickup apparatus and optical reproducing method: A detection unit of an optical pickup apparatus includes an optical element to simultaneously extract plural specified lights having a different polarization direction respectively in a separated state from light from an optical recording medium, and a light amount measurement unit to simultaneously perform light amount measurement on each of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080084804 - Optical state recognizer, information processor, and optical state recognizing method: A disc device (100) implements information processing with respect to, for example, a zeroth recording layer of an optical disk by an information processing section (510), and outputs a double-layer main voltage value and a double-layer sub voltage value corresponding to the intensities of a zeroth-order light beam and ±first-order... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080084806 - Optical recording medium, recording method of information on optical recording medium and reproducing method thereof: A recording layer of an optical recording medium is made of a polymer film containing a polymer solid, such as polymethyl methacrylate, as a main ingredient. The polymer film contains a dye to absorb light having a specific wavelength band, and the optical recording medium exhibits anisotropy in at least... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080084807 - Molecular data storage device and method thereof: A molecular data storage device and method thereof are disclosed. In an aspect, the molecular data storage device includes a laser source for providing a photon beam, a beam splitter for splitting the photon beam to provide a first and second coherent beams, a data page modulator for encoding with... Agent: Donald L. Smith

20080084809 - Optical head device, aberration correction method and optical information processing apparatus: m

20080084810 - Optical head device, optical information apparatus, computer, video recording/reproducing apparatus, video reproducing apparatus, server, and car navigation system: An optical head device 100 of the invention performs at least one of recording and reproducing of information for a plurality of types of optical recording mediums 7. A light source 1 emits a plurality of kinds of light having mutually different wavelengths. The positions for emitting the plurality of... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080084808 - Submount, semiconductor laser device, manufacturing method therefor, hologram laser device and optical pickup device: A submount of the present invention includes substrates made of a principal material of Si and impurity diffusion layers formed by diffusing an impurity into a region of a substrate surface above which a semiconductor laser chip is to be mounted. A TiW layer, an Au layer, a Pt layer... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080084811 - Objective lens driving device, optical pickup device, and optical disk drive: The objective lens driving device of the present invention for an optical pickup device is provided. The device includes first and second objective lenses, and a lens holder for supporting the first and second objective lenses. The lens holder has a first through-hole for passage of first laser beam and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080084812 - Multilayer phase-change optical storage medium: An optical storage medium has a substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, light being incident via the first surface in recording or reproduction and at least two composite layers formed on the second surface of the substrate, each composite layer having at least a recording film.... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20080084813 - Optical information medium method: A method relative to an optical information storage medium including 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. Pits are formed in the lead-in area, the user data area, and the lead-out area, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080080325 - Optical recording/reproducing apparatus with label printing feature: An optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical disc drive unit for recording/reproducing information with respect to a recording surface of an optical disc, a label printer module for printing a label on a label surface of the optical disc, and an optical disc support apparatus separated from the optical disc... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080080326 - Optical recording method and apparatus: An optical recording method and apparatus for recording data to optical recordable medium are present. The optical recording apparatus at least comprises a PUH module and a verifier. The PUH module is used for recording a first number of data units to the optical recordable medium and reading a third... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080080323 - Recording-and-reproducing apparatus and content-managing method: A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management file for individually managing the content data; a device configured to register control information for... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080080327 - Information leak-preventing apparatus, and information leak-preventing method: A command processing unit outputs a format command to an HDD. While the HDD is being formatted, a format-error causing unit outputs a reset command to the HDD. The reset command causes abnormal end of the formatting of the HDD, which makes reading of data from the HDD impossible.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080080329 - Optical disk apparatus and data read-out control method: An optical disk apparatus includes an optical pickup head (PUH) which outputs a laser beam through an objective lens. When a control unit receives an instruction to halt data read-out from an optical disk, the control unit moves the PUH to a predetermined position, stores a focus driving voltage corresponding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080080328 - Optical pickup unit capable of easily fixing a pd holder to an optical base: In order to fix a photodetector to an optical base with the photodetector held, a PD holder has a pair of engaging slots at which the PD holder is sandwiched between a pair of adjustment pints at both ends thereof and a pair of concave portions which are formed in... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080080330 - Tilt adjusting mechanism for objective lens: A tilt adjusting mechanism adjusts a tilt of at least one of a plurality of objective lenses arranged to face an optical disc so that they have the same inclination state. The tilt adjusting mechanism includes a lens retaining cylinder to which an objective lens to be a target of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080080333 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus includes a signal detection unit which detects a signal corresponding to a wobbling guide groove formed on an optical disk, a timing signal generating unit which generates first and second timing signals in accordance with an amplitude level of the signal detected, a photodetector which detects... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080080332 - Recording medium type identification method and device: A recording medium type identification method and device is disclosed. The method and device of the present invention may easily identify the type of a DVD disk. The present invention is to remove pre-pit components, if any, from a wobble signal obtained from an optical disk to be identified, comparing... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080080335 - Optical recording medium utilizing holography and method for manufacturing the same and optical recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical recording medium has a transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a recording layer provided on the first surface of the substrate and on which a light beam is incident to record information as a hologram, and a servo layer provided on the second surface... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080080339 - Method of accessing information stored in predetermined data area on optical disc and information reproducing apparatus thereof: A method of accessing an optical disc is disclosed. The method includes: enabling a focus servo control without enabling a tracking servo control, and then moving an optical pick-up unit in a radial direction of the optical disc; obtaining at least a first reference signal and a second reference signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080080341 - Portable audio and/or video device with a hard disk and a shock resistant memory: (A portable device (1) for processing data (D) is equipped with first memory means (2) for storing said data (D), wherein the first memory means (2) are arranged to be stopped providing said data (D) to be processed, and comprises second memory means (3) for storing a portion of said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080080342 - Dvd replay device with incorporated hard disk: This DVD replay device with incorporated hard disk includes a DVD drive which reads data from a DVD, and a HDD which performs recording of data upon, and reading of data from, a HD which has a first storage region and a second storage region. Furthermore, this DVD replay device... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080080344 - Spherical aberration detecting device and an optical pickup device including same: A photoreceiver includes: a first light-receiving section divided into two regions by a border extending in a radial direction, and is disposed in a portion where it can receive a +1st order diffraction ray of the main beam from the polarization hologram, so as to detect a spherical aberration; a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080080346 - Detection method of peripheral surface defect of disk and detection device thereof: A regularly reflected light made incident with an incident angle in a range of 45°±5° with respect to a surface of a chamfered portion of a disk is received by a light receiver The level reduction in the received light signal due to a flaw caused by the chuck traces... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C. Suite 370

20080080345 - Optical recording medium drive apparatus and method of determining the number of layers: In an optical recording medium drive apparatus, an optical recording medium is illuminated with a laser beam emitted from a head via an objected leans, and the head detects light reflected from the optical recording medium being illuminated with the laser beam. A signal generator generates a reflected light signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080080348 - Focus control method and optical disc drive: By a controller, land and groove areas of an optical disc are tracked, two focus error signals are detected in PID portions in the respective land and groove areas, a difference of focus offset is calculated on the basis of the detection, and the two focus error signals are corrected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080080349 - Optical-disc discrimination method and optical disc apparatus: In an HD-DVD, record densities are different between in a lead-in area and in a data area. On the other hand, in a DVD, the record densities of a lead-in area and a data area are equal. In discriminating an optical disc between the HD-DVD and the DVD, a light... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080080351 - Disk and manufacturing method and optical patterning method thereof: A disk and a manufacturing method and an optical patterning method thereof are provided. The disk has a recording surface for recording data and an opposite non-recording surface for printing label. The disk at least includes a light-sensitive layer and a thermo-sensitive layer. The light-sensitive layer disposed near the non-recording... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080080322 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus having a reproduction means to play digital data from a recording medium recorded with that digital data and retrieval information, a recording means to write the digital data reproduced by the reproduction means and record the retrieval information on a control table, and a control circuit to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080080324 - Write-once disc, recording apparatus thereto, and method of reducing access time thereto: A write-once disc, an apparatus for recording information thereon, and a method of reducing access time thereto the write-once disc including at least one record layer. The write-once disc also includes at least one update area in which updated predetermined information is recorded; and an access information area in which... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080080331 - Integrated circuit for optical disc: An integrated circuit for optical disc comprising for each of light-receiving surfaces: an operational amplifier including inverting and noninverting input terminals receiving first and second input voltages, and output terminal receiving output voltage; a feedback resistor connected between the inverting input and output terminals; a photodiode connected between one power... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080080334 - Optical pickup actuator capable of preventing adhesive agent in supporting portions of a damper base from deteriorating in strength: An optical pickup actuator has an objective lens holder which holds an objective lens and on which at least tracking coils and a focusing coil are mounted and a damper base for swingably supporting the objective lens holder via six suspension wires. The damper base includes supporting portions for supporting... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080080336 - Optical disk reproducing apparatus and optical disk reproducing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an optical disk reproducing apparatus including a read unit which outputs read information based on a reflected beam of a laser beam irradiated on an optical disk, an extracting unit which extracts URL information from the read information from the read unit, a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080080337 - Optical pickup device: In an optical pickup device including light sources for emitting laser light, an objective lens for collecting the laser light emitted from the light sources on a disc surface of an optical disc, a light receiving unit for receiving the reflected light reflected by the disc surface, a collimator lens... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080080338 - Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data