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Dynamic information storage or retrieval May archived by USPTO category 05/08

20080123476 - Auto feed, copy and print apparatus for information storage disks and method of the same: An auto feed, copy and print apparatus for information storage disks and a method of the same are disclosed. The apparatus includes a frame, a read/write and print device and a feeding device. The read/write and print device and the feeding device are mounted on the frame. The feeding apparatus... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080123477 - Automatic disk reproducing apparatus and method of the same: An automatic disk reproducing apparatus includes a chassis body, a duplicating device, a disk feeding device, a disk conveying device and a disk holder. The duplicating device is mounted in the chassis body and has a tray. The disk feeding device is mounted on the chassis body to hold a... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080123478 - Disk-feeding apparatus for information storage disks: A disk-feeding apparatus for information storage disks includes a body and a disk-feeding mechanism. The body has a disk-feeding hole. The disk-feeding mechanism is mounted in the body and includes a driving assembly, a transmission member and multiple disk-feeding wheels. The transmission member is connected to and driven by the... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080123479 - Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing holographic data and holographic data storage medium: An apparatus for recording/reproducing holographic data which can record holographic data in a data storage medium and can reproduce recorded data includes a light source emitting a laser beam, a lens unit focusing the laser beam emitted from the light source by classifying the laser beam into a reference beam... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123480 - Disturbance compensation determination apparatus, a related method, a computer-readable medium storing a computer program related to the method, and a disk drive comprising the apparatus: A disturbance compensation determination apparatus, a related method, a computer readable medium storing a computer program related to the method, and a disk drive comprising the apparatus are provided. The disturbance compensation determination apparatus includes a disturbance observer (DOB) receiving a control input signal and a servo output signal of... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080123481 - Method for saving ther keylockers on optical discs: The present invention relates to a system with an integrated digital rights management mechanism. The system comprises a drive (120) and a host (130) controlling operations of the drive (120). The drive (120) receives an optical record carrier (102) and is designed to extract from the optical record carrier (102)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080123483 - Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method and information storage medium therefor: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage medium having one or more information recording layers; and a control unit controlling... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123484 - Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method and information storage medium therefor: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage medium having one or more information recording layers; and a control unit controlling... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123482 - Recording medium production control device, recording medium production control method: A recording medium production control device, recording medium production control method, and program instructions stored on a tangible computer-readable medium acquire the operating status of the existing data recording device, printer, and other devices in the recording medium production device, plans an operating command sequence for each of the devices... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080123486 - Optical disc drive, optical storage medium, optical storage medium inspection apparatus, and optical storage medium inspection method: This optical disc drive has an optical pickup head that emits a light beam to an optical storage medium, detects the light beam reflected from the optical storage medium, and outputs a signal based on the received reflected light; a jitter measuring unit for measuring jitter in signals output from... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080123487 - Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method and information storage medium therefor: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage medium having one or more information recording layers; and a control unit controlling... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123485 - Reproducing position control circuit and reproducing system: A reproducing position control circuit has a reading part for reading data stored in a recording medium, a position information detecting part for detecting the position information of data read by said reading part within said recording medium, and a control part for storing said position information detected by said... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080123488 - Apparatus and method for controlling tracking error balance in optical disc apparatus: A method of controlling a tracking error balance in an optical disc apparatus, and the optical disc apparatus are discussed. In an embodiment of the present invention, when a tracking error balance for writing is controlled, a beam power that is appropriate for the writing characteristics of an optical disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080123489 - Method and apparatus for recording data on optical recording medium: A method and apparatus to record data on an optical recording medium include generating a recording waveform having an erase pattern comprising a predetermined pulse having a high level which is higher than an erase power level and having a low level which is lower than the erase power level.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123490 - Information recording medium and information recording method: According to one embodiment, an information recording medium which is configured to record information includes a first area which stores first information indicating the range of a currently formatted area, and a second area which stores second information indicating the range of a previously formatted area.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123492 - Optical pickup device: An optical element is disposed on an optical path between a beam branching element and a photodetector. The optical element is disposed at a focal position of a stray light beam reflected by a recording layer except a target recording layer, and shields or attenuates the light beam in a... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080123493 - System and method for optical media information storage life tracking: Expiration information stored on an optical medium is applied to determine an expiration date of the optical medium that provides a predetermined reliability of information archived on the optical medium, such as a predetermined acceptable defect level of the information at the expiration date. An expiration engine associated with an... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080123494 - Optical disc device and tracking control method: This invention provides an optical disc device that can prevent the occurrence of an error in a starting position of a write operation due to off-tracking, and to avoid an unnecessary stop of the write operation during writing. A tracking error signal generator generates a tracking error signal from a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080123491 - Optical recording medium having read-only storage area and writeable storage area and recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor: An optical recording medium having a read-only storage area and a writable storage area and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefore. The optical recording medium is a hybrid disc having both the read-only storage area, which is suitable for mass production of information having the same contents, and the writable... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123495 - Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method and information storage medium therefor: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage medium having one or more information recording layers; and a control unit controlling... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123497 - 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

20080123496 - Signal processing device and optical disc playback apparatus: In a signal processing device, a 3-beam TE signal generation circuit generates a tracking error signal by a 3-beam method (3-beam tracking error signal), and a DPD TE signal generation circuit generates a tracking error signal by a DPD method (DPD tracking error signal). A TE signal variation detection circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080123498 - Optical position tracking device and method of testing the same: An optical position tracking device and a method of testing the same are provided. The device includes: a controller for generating at least one test operation signal in response to a command signal; a test signal generator for generating a test signal during a test operation in response to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080123499 - Image recording device and image recording-control method: In an image-recording device using a disk-type recording medium generated under the DVD+RW standard, a disk information-acquisition unit 250 acquires information about a disk 49, a disk-determination unit 260 determines that the disk 49 is a subject disk that is of a DVD+RW type and that stores video data generated... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123500 - Methods for tuning write strategy parameters utilizing data-to-clock edge deviations, and systems thereof: A method for tuning a plurality of write strategy parameters of an optical storage device includes detecting a plurality of lengths, each length corresponding to a pit or a land on an optical storage medium accessed by the optical storage device, performing calculations corresponding to a plurality of data set... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080123501 - Data recording devices and methods thereof: A data recording device. A random data generator randomly generates substitute data. A recording data generator receives original data and a recording address from a host, receives the substitute data, compares the recording address with a reference address, and outputs the substitute data according to the comparison result. An encoder... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080123502 - Fixing mechanism for storage device: The present invention provides a fixing mechanism for positioning and fixing a storage device on a casing plane. The storage device includes two opposite positioning sides each disposed with a fixing pillar. The fixing mechanism includes two positioning boards and a fixing leaf spring. The two positioning boards are disposed... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080123503 - Removable storage media with improve data integrity: A technique for storing or backing up data to a removable media such as a CD or DVD with an enhanced probability that such data can be successfully read or recovered from such media subsequent to the writing/storing/backing-up of the data. This enhanced probability is achieved by storing the data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080123505 - Optical disk apparatus and optical disk reproduction method: According to one embodiment, here is provided an optical disk apparatus including: a reading unit configured to read an address corresponding to a position of beam spot; a calculating unit configured to calculate, from the address corresponding to the position of beam spot, a seeking amount in making an access... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080123504 - Optical recording meduim and method for producing the same: c

20080123506 - Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus: An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus is for recording optical information on a recording medium by using volumetric recording and for reproducing volumetrically-recorded optical information from the recording medium. The optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a light generating unit that has a plurality of divided segments, and generates recording signal light... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080123507 - Optical element and optical pickup apparatus: The present invention provides an optical element for use in an optical pickup apparatus which records and/or reproduces information, and for converging a laser light flux with a wavelength λ1 on an information recording medium. The optical element includes; a main body; and an antireflection film arranged on at least... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123508 - Write correction circuit and write correction signal generating method: Conventional signal write correction circuits involve a problem that when n-phase clock is selected, the waveform may be distorted in high speed operation if the last-phase clock is selected. Two delay selection circuits (16a, 16b) select the odd-numbered edges and the even-numbered edges of a multipulse signal used for write... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080123509 - Contactless optical writing apparatus: A single mode laser beam output from a single mode semiconductor laser and a multimode laser beam output from a multimode semiconductor laser are combined with each other by a polarization beam splitter, the combined laser beam is used by a deflection scanning mechanism to perform main scanning, and an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080123510 - Ic recording device: An IC recording device includes a material feeding portion, a material receiving portion, a recording portion and a transferring portion. The material feeding portion serves to suck ICs by vacuum technology to take out ICs from a transfer belt and placed upon the material receiving portion. The material receiving portion... Agent: An-sung Wang

20080123511 - Head control device, storage device, and maximum power determining method: A signal-level calculating unit calculates a signal level based on a gain signal. A sample generating unit associates heater power with the signal level and generates samples used for determining the maximum power. An approximation-line determining unit determines an approximation line of the samples in a two-dimensional coordinate system. A... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080123512 - Optical recording medium: The present invention provides an optical recording medium including, on a substrate, at least a recording layer containing an organic colorant and a light-transmitting layer, wherein the optical recording medium includes an intermediate layer including a Ta- or Nb-containing compound between the recording layer and the light-transmitting layer, and the... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080117724 - Optical pickup and optical disc device employing the same: An optical pickup includes: a light source emitting a light beam; an objective lens condensing the light beam emitted from the light source on a recording layer of an optical disc; a photodetector including a photoreception portion receiving the returned light from the optical disc; an optical-path separating unit separating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080117727 - Head, head gimbal assembly and information recording apparatus: In an apparatus wherein a semiconductor laser, which is a light source, is disposed external to a flying slider and the semiconductor laser and the flying slider are coupled with each other using a waveguide, force applied from the waveguide to the flying slider is reduced to stabilize the levitation... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080117728 - Optical pick-up actuator: An optical pick-up actuator capable of a tilt operation. The optical pick-up actuator has a triaxial magnetic driving portion installed on a movable portion and a supporting portion to move the movable portion in a focusing direction and a tracking direction and tilt the movable portion. The triaxial magnetic driving... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117729 - Optical disc apparatus and laser driving method: A driving voltage of a laser diode provided in an optical disc apparatus is properly set based on an operating environment thereof to reduce unnecessary power consumption and heat generation. A temperature detector detects the temperature inside a pickup. A memory stores a value of the voltage to be supplied... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080117730 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device includes two laser light sources, one objective lens, and a beam shaping mirror. The mirror converts light intensity distribution of the laser beams having the respective wavelengths from an elliptic shape to a circular shape by inputting the respective laser beams from a transmission surface, reflecting... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080117731 - Data recording and reproducing apparatus and recording learning method: According to one embodiment, a data recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a reproduced signal output device reading data recorded on an optical recording medium to output a reproduced signal; and a waveform compensation amount data generating device generating waveform compensation amount data of a recording waveform corresponding to recording data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080117735 - Optical disk device: There is provided an optical disk device that performs a focus jump operation in a stable and prompt manner. The optical disk device includes an objective lens, a light-detecting element, a lens holder, a shaft member configured to penetrate a hole, a focus drive mechanism, a focus drive circuit, a... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080117734 - Track-jumping method for optical disk drive: An optical disk drive is used for recording data to and/or reproducing data from an optical disk. The optical disk drive includes a storing module, a controlling module, an actuator, and a pickup head. The actuator is connected to the controlling module. The storing module is used for storing at... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080117751 - Jukebox disc deterioration testing: An arrangement is provided in which the health of a storage medium such as an optical disc is monitored by analyzing the level of error correction that must be applied to correct read errors from the optical disc. A replacement of the storage medium is generated through a copying process... Agent: Mayer & Williams Pc

20080117752 - Disc reproduction device: [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] There is provided a disc reproduction device including: data readout means for reading out data stored in a disc; data storage means for temporarily storing data read by the data readout means; and analysis control means for rearranging the position of information to be analyzed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080117753 - Optical recording medium, apparatus and method of manufacturing optical recording medium, and apparatus and method of recording/reproducing data of optical recording medium: An optical recording medium, an apparatus and method of manufacturing an optical recording medium, and an apparatus and method of recording/reproducing data of an optical recording medium, allocated with a wobble address suitable for a capacity of a high density recording disc, the optical recording medium including a wobble address... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117750 - Optical disc recording device and recording method thereof: An optical disc recording device according to the present invention is capable of quickly performing the OPC operation for a rewritable optical disc, and is also capable of setting the proper writing power for both an unwritten area and a written area. A microcomputer reads out, from a memory, preliminary... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080117754 - Calibration method for optimum power control (opc) of laser write strategy in an optical storage device: A calibration method for Optimum Power Control (OPC) of laser power in an optical storage device comprises selecting a plurality of first sections on an optical disc; applying a first laser write strategy to each of the first sections; reading a first feature value from each of the first sections... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080117755 - Information recording medium, information supply system, and optical information device: An information recording medium includes a first information recording layer and a second information recording layer, to/from which information is recorded or reproduced using laser beam. The first information recording layer is formed at a laser beam entrance surface, and is configured so that information can be recorded thereupon and/or... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080117756 - Gain adjusting method and apparatus for adjusting the signal gain of an optical disk pick-up signal: A method and apparatus that compensates for power variations occurring in a beam (11) of reflected light from a laser (10) within optical disc recording devices. Signal multiplication techniques are applied to signals indicative of light reflected from the optical disc. The signal multiplication conditions signal indicative of the reflected... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080117758 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117759 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117760 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117761 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117762 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117763 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117764 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117765 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117766 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117767 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117768 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117769 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117770 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117771 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117772 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117773 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117774 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117775 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117776 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117777 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117757 - Method of recording and reproducing data: A method of recording data, as embodied, includes creating and temporarily storing first management information for the data recorded before a recording failure occurs, when the recording failure occurs during recording of the data on a recording medium; continuously recording the data starting from a subsequent available recording location; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117782 - Method for disposing of a data recording means and recovery box applicable to the method: A method for disposing of a data recording means that disposes of the means efficiently with securing confidentiality of recorded data, achieving recycling, is intended to be presented. The method includes the steps of putting at least one medium to be disposed of and selected from an optical recording medium... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080117783 - Optical disc apparatus and focus control method: An optical disc apparatus according to the present invention steadily performs a focus jump operation and a track-crossing seek operation relative to an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers. A signal processing section generates a focus error signal based on a conventional astigmatism detection (CAD) system and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080117784 - Boundary detection apparatus, boundary detection method, boundary detection program, and information recording medium: When it is detected that information is recorded at a predetermined dividing point B, a pickup is moved to a dividing point C located ahead seen from the dividing point B after moving. On the other hand, when it is detected that information is not recorded at the dividing point... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080117785 - Method for multiphoton-ionizing organic molecule supported by solid carrier: A method for multiphoton-ionizing an organic molecule supported by a solid carrier according to the present invention is a method characterized in that the carrier supporting an organic molecule is irradiated with a laser light having a pulse width of less than 1 nanosecond. As a laser having a pulse... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080117786 - Optical scanning device: An optical scanning device for scanning a first optical record carrier, a second, different, optical record carrier and a third, different, optical record carrier, each record carrier having an information layer. The scanning device includes a radiation source system arranged to produce first, second and third radiation beams for scanning... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080117787 - Recording method, recording apparatus, and recording medium: A recording method is provided, which comprises the steps of (a) generating a plurality of pulse sequences corresponding to a plurality of linear velocities, (b) while rotating a recording medium with a linear velocity selected from the plurality of linear velocities, forming at least one of a recording mark and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080117725 - Optical recording medium having read-only storage area and writeable storage area and recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor: An optical recording medium having a read-only storage area and a writable storage area and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor. The optical recording medium is a hybrid disc having both the read-only storage area, which is suitable for mass production of information having the same contents, and the writable... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117726 - Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus and disc autochanger: An object of the invention to provide a disc autochanger without any disc reversing mechanism by using on A-side recording and reproducing apparatus and a B-side recording and reproducing apparatus while using a sheet-like optical disc in which both surfaces can be recorded and reproduced. The disc autochanger is constituted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117732 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117733 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117736 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117737 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117738 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117739 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117740 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117741 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117742 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117743 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117744 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117745 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117746 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117747 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117748 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117749 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117778 - Apparatus for recording data on and/or reproducing data from optical disc: An optical disc on which data is recorded and/or from which the data is reproduced, includes a recording area where the data is recorded in at least one physical cluster, a defective area, where a defect that prevents a recording and/or reproduction of data is present, provided in the recording... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117779 - Optical disc center error amplitude calibration: A method for calibrating a center error signal in an optical disc system, comprising the steps of (i) measuring a peak-to-peak value of the center error signal, (ii) computing a nominal peak-to-peak value of the center error signal after locking to a particular track of an optical disc, (iii) computing... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080117780 - Recording medium for storing defect management information for recording real time data, defect managing method therefor, and real time data recording method: A recording medium for storing defect management information to record real time data, a defect managing method therefor, and a method of recording real time data. The recording medium stores information representing use or non-use of linear replacement defect management in which a defective area on the recording medium is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117781 - Recording medium for storing defect management information for recording real time data, defect managing method therefor, and real time data recording method: A recording medium for storing defect management information to record real time data, a defect managing method therefor, and a method of recording real time data. The recording medium stores information representing use or non-use of linear replacement defect management in which a defective area on the recording medium is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117788 - Holographic optical information recording/reproducing device and holographic optical information recording/reproducing method: A holographic optical information recording/reproducing device is provided with a laser light source 1 and a polarizing beam splitter 8 for splitting a light from the laser light source 1. At the time of recording information, one of light beams split by the polarizing beam splitter 8 is modulated by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080117789 - Optical pickup device: In the optical pickup device, a luminous flux emitted from a blue-violet laser as S wave to a blue-violet PBS, passes through a half-wave plate, and is reflected by the blue-violet PBS and a total reflection mirror, before being applied to a BD disc via an objective lens. Luminous fluxes,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080117790 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device includes three laser light sources, one objective lens, and a beam shaping mirror. The beam shaping mirror converts light intensity distribution of the laser beams having the respective wavelengths from an elliptic shape to a circular shape by inputting the respective laser beams from a transmission... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080117794 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus: This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080117791 - Optical media identifications: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for identifying optical disc media. In one aspect a method is provided that includes receiving printed information read from an optical media disc. Identifying a media-type of the optical media disc from the printed information. The printed information can be printed on... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080117793 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data on the recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording data on the recording medium: A recording medium on which data is recorded in units of clusters, a method and apparatus for reproducing data on the recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording data on the recording medium, wherein each of the clusters includes a plurality of address fields, each address field includes... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117792 - Three-dimensional storage medium: A medium for storing data includes a rotationally symmetric body, wherein the body is divided into a plurality of independently positionable segments, and a recordable substrate is affixed to a surface of at least one of the segments. The medium further includes at least one mount to enable the segments... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20080117798 - Information recording medium, methdod and apparatus for recording and reproducing information: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080117795 - Information recording medium, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080117796 - Information recording medium, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080117799 - Information recording medium, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080117800 - Information recording medium, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080117801 - Information recording medium, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080117797 - Information recording meduim, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing infromation: An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080117802 - Recording/reproducing medium and method: A recording apparatus for use with a reproduction-only optical information storage medium, including: a recording unit which records data on the reproduction-only optical information storage medium; and a controller which controls the recording unit to form, on the reproduction-only optical storage medium, a plurality of areas and at least one... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117803 - Optical disk medium and method and apparatus for reading information: An optical disk medium includes a track groove thereon. On the optical disk medium, information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis. The block unit has a predetermined length. The block unit having the predetermined length includes a number of sub-blocks that are arranged along the... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080112279 - Lens drive apparatus: A lens drive apparatus for use in an optical pick-up apparatus, in which a bending mirror reflects an incident light flux from a light source and an objective lens converges the reflected light flux onto an optical disc through an objective lens, the lens drive apparatus includes: a base; a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080112280 - Device for layer-jumping control of optical disc devices and related method: A layer-jumping control device and method for an optical disc device includes a calculator, a controller, and a driver. The calculator is configured to receive an error-focusing signal, and to determine a peak and a trough of the error-focusing signal. The controller, coupled to the calculator, is configured to process... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080112281 - Optical disc apparatus capable of precisely reading address information and method of controlling optical disc apparatus: Detection of a wobble cycle of wobble formed at a groove of an optical disc is started. A phase locked loop time that is from reset of phase locked loop circuit until a signal read from the wobble locks is calculated. The focus balance value corresponding to the minimum phase... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080112283 - Recording medium, method of configuring control information thereof, recording and reproducing method using the same, and apparatus thereof: An apparatus, and related method, for recording data that includes a controller to generate control information required to record a main data. The control information including at least one information unit for a specific writing speed and recording layer. The information unit includes write strategy parameters for first write strategy... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080112287 - Optical disk and optical disk drive device: An optical disk physical has a recording region divided into zones, each zone including physical tracks adjacent to each other. An integer number of sectors, are provided in each physical track. The angular recording density is higher in the more outward zones such that the linear recording density is substantially... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080112286 - Optical disk apparatus and method for compensating recording power for the same: In a method for compensating recording power, being suitable for an optical disk apparatus, applying the WOPC therein, as a means for compensating recording power during recording operation, and also an optical disk apparatus applying the same therein, wherein the recording operation is interrupted, when a predetermined amount of data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080112292 - Recording/reproducing method, recording/reproducing apparatus and information storage medium: A recording and/or reproducing method, a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and an information storage medium are provided. The method of recording data to an information storage medium includes: according to a change in a method of using the information storage medium, rearranging the order of a first information structure with... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112288 - Information processing device, access device, recording medium, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing device (225) is a device for processing specific information recorded to a recording medium (100), and has a characteristic identification unit (204) and a processing unit (226). The characteristic identification unit (204) identifies the reflection characteristic of the recording medium (100). The processing unit (226) processes the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080112289 - Optical disk recording apparatus and optical disk recording method: An optical disk apparatus is provided that has a signal processing circuit for equalizing a signal so as to achieve predetermined equalization, in which interference between codes is permitted, by means of an adaptive equalization circuit or the like, and for performing binarization by means of a maximum likelihood decoding... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080112295 - Method for producing data storage medium: A method is provided for producing a data storage medium by recording disc information on the data storage medium... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080112296 - Method for producing data storage medium: A method is provided for producing a data storage medium by recording disc information on the data storage medium.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080112300 - Method and system for protecting data: A system for protecting data within a portable storage device. A self-destruct unit associated with the portable storage device is enabled. If the portable storage device is not within a pre-specified route tolerance or if the portable storage device is not at a pre-selected identification checkpoint, an alert message is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080112277 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112278 - 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 write-once disc includes: a plurality of update areas in which a predetermined kind of updated information is recorded; at least one main access information area in which main access information is recorded, the main access information indicating a final update area in which finally updated information is recorded among... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112282 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and recording/reproducing method: An information recording medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and a recording/reproducing method for the recording medium. Original data is sequentially updated by replacing an original recording block with one or more replacement recording blocks. A replacement recording block includes at least one of an original address field indicating a location... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112284 - Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information: A recording medium for storing start position information for each zone, a method of managing data using the information, and an apparatus for recording the information and controlling recording and reproduction of data based on the recorded information. In a disc having a plurality of zones which form a group,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112285 - Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information: A recording medium for storing start position information for each zone, a method of managing data using the information, and an apparatus for recording the information and controlling recording and reproduction of data based on the recorded information. In a disc having a plurality of zones which form a group,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112290 - Optical disk apparatus and data reproducing method: When the data is reproduced by irradiating a laser beam onto the optical disk, an amount-of-irradiation-beam detection signal is produced according to the amount of the laser beam irradiated onto the optical disk, and the defect on the optical disk is detected on the basis of this amount-of-irradiation-beam detection signal.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080112291 - Apparatus for recording data on and/or reproducing data from optical disc: An optical disc on which data is recorded and/or from which the data is reproduced, includes a recording area where the data is recorded in at least one physical cluster, a defective area, where a defect that prevents a recording and/or reproduction of data is present, provided in the recording... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112293 - Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and optical information recording medium: An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical pickup unit that acquires access-restriction codes (number of reproductions, number of copies, effective period, and end date) under control of a controller. The controller determines whether it is permitted to reproduce information recorded on the RAM data-layer based on acquired access access-restriction... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080112294 - Method and apparatus for performing blank detection on an optical storage disc: A method for performing blank detection on an optical storage disc includes receiving information read by an optical storage device from the optical storage disc, and checking corresponding data of the information to operate blank detection.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080112297 - Apparatus for recording data on and/or reproducing data from optical disc: An optical disc on which data is recorded and/or from which the data is reproduced, includes a recording area where the data is recorded in at least one physical cluster, a defective area, where a defect that prevents a recording and/or reproduction of data is present, provided in the recording... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112298 - Information storage medium and method of recording/reproducing the same: An information storage medium has user data areas and additional data areas, and sync patterns to distinguish the additional data areas from the user data areas. The information storage medium includes a user data area in which user data is recorded and an additional data area located in at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112299 - Magnetic disk drive: Embodiments of present invention help to realize a highly reliable magnetic disk drive by preventing a positional displacement between a magnetic head and a target track by decreasing restricting forces that a cover exerts on a base when the temperature is increased. According to one embodiment, a base is formed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080112302 - Beam shifting element for an optical storage system: According to the invention, the beam shifting element has at least a first optical element for deflecting an incoming light beam by a first angle and a second optical element for deflecting the light beam coming from the first optical element by a second angle opposite to the first angle,... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080112301 - Optical pickup device: There is provided an inexpensive optical pickup device that is capable of accurately detecting light quantities of output laser beams on occasion of at least either of reproduction and recording on an information recording medium. A beam from a first light source 1 which beam does not pass through a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080112303 - Optical element, optical head, optical recording reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method: The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as an optical head and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using such an optical element. The invention also presents a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.c.

20080112304 - Spot alignment for parrallel read-out of two-dimensional encoded optical storage media: The present invention provides a two-dimensional encoded optical storage medium (12) comprising at least one alignment pattern (14) for aligning a spot array (16) intended to read out the optical storage medium (12). Furthermore, the present invention is directed to a method and a device for reading out a two-dimensional... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080112305 - Read-and-write assembly for fixed-address digital data access system: A read-and-write assembly is described. The read-and-write assembly includes one or more coils and magnetizable pillars. The magnetizable pillar has a flask shape and a neck wrapped in the coil.... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080112306 - Hydrodynamic bearing device, spindle motor, and recording and reproducing apparatus: In order to prevent oil leakage in a hydrodynamic bearing device comprising an opening section in close proximity to a radial bearing and a lubricating fluid reservoir, a shaft 10, thrust flange 16, sleeve 11, seal plate 21, and stopper plate 20 are provided, a radial dynamic pressure bearing is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080112307 - Reproducing system and corresponding information recording medium having wobbled land portions: An information recording medium is at least composed of a substrate having a microscopic pattern constituted by a continuous substrate of grooves formed with a groove portion and a land portion alternately, a recording layer formed on the microscopic pattern for recording information, and a light transmitting layer formed on... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080106981 - Multi-layer optical disc, optical-disc drive apparatus, and method of making decision on currently-accessed recording layer in multi-layer optical disc: An optical disc has a laminate of recording layers. The recording layers have tracks respectively. The tracks wobble in accordance with wobbling signals respectively, and thereby indicate the wobbling signals respectively. The wobbling signals result from modulation of bit streams formed by sequences of concatenated fixed-length words of a predetermined... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080106983 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus includes a plurality of laser light sources, a single objective lens, and a beam shaping mirror. The beam shaping mirror causes each of the laser beams to be incident on a transmission surface, reflects the beam from a reflection surface being unparallel to the transmission surface... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080106984 - Actuator position control method and corresponding apparatus: The invention relates to an actuator position control method for use in a recorded information reproducing apparatus. Front, main and rear beams are directed onto a recorded track formed on a rotating optical recording medium and respective first, second and third signals are produced in response to light reflected by... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080106986 - Information recording medium, and recording/reproducing method and apparatus therefor: Provided are an information recording medium, and an information recording/reproducing method and apparatus, which are capable of allowing an equalizer (EQ) value to be automatically set or to be rapidly set by the recording/reproducing apparatus. The information recording medium has recorded thereon EQ gain information appropriate or specific to the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080106985 - Recording apparatus, recording method, and computer program: A recording apparatus (200) is provided with: a recording device (351) for recording record information with a variable recording power; a recording control device (354) for controlling the recording device to record the record information to be adjacent to an unrecorded portion; a power controlling device (361) for controlling the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080106987 - Method and device for measuring eccentricity of optical disk: A method for measuring an eccentricity of an optical disk is provided. The method includes steps of: rotating the optical disk with a spindle motor; irradiating a light beam emitted from an optical pickup on the optical disk; detecting the light beam reflected from the optical disk with a detector;... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080106988 - Optical disc playback apparatus: An optical disc playback apparatus with which collision of a lens and an optical disc is avoided is provided. Processes executed by a microcomputer of the optical disc playback apparatus when a disc is played back include: the step of outputting a signal for performing focus search at a predetermined... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080106992 - Disc recording and reproducing device and disc recording and reproducing method: A disc recording and reproducing device and method record video data using a new file system other existing device cannot recognize. However, when a disc thus recorded is loaded in the existing device, the user is prevented from being instructed to format the disc (initialize the file system) or inadvertently... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080106982 - Optical pickup unit, apparatus for recording/reproducing data, method for controlling the apparatus, control method, and recording medium: An optical pickup unit, an apparatus for recording/reproducing data, a control method, and a recording medium are disclosed. Each of the optical pickup unit and the recording/reproducing apparatus includes a near-field lens, and uses a high-refraction lens, conically shaped, to effectively use the near-field. Two lens units are required to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080106989 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium, a method of recording and/or reproducing data to/from the medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus using the medium, the medium having a data area including a user data area to record user data, and a spare area to record replacement blocks that replace defect blocks occurring in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080106991 - Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary dfl and temporary dds including drive & disc information disc with temporary dfl and temporary dds: A write once disc includes a defect management area that is present in at least one of a lead-in area and a lead-out area; a temporary defect management area that is present in at least one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area; and a drive & disc information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080106990 - Method of and apparatus for managing disc defects using temporary defect management information (tdfl) and temporary defect management information (tdds), and disc having the tdfl and tdds: A disc having an updatable defect management area used by an apparatus for managing defects on the disc, the disc including a user data area which includes user data, a spare area that is a substitute area for a defect existing in the user data area, and an area in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080106993 - 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

20080106995 - Optical rotation counter: Optical rotation counter associated with a rotary disc of an angle sensor provided with means for coding the angular position of the disc, including at least one fixed source of coherent light emitting a light beam, a diaphragm and a support moved by the rotation of the coding disc. On... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080106994 - Optical storage system: An optical storage system for storing data in an optical medium comprises an initial light source, a first sheet, a light modulator and a second sheet. The initial light source provides an initial light beam. The first sheet comprises a first surface and a second surface, wherein the initial light... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080106996 - Optical information processing apparatus and optical information processing method: Provided are optical information processing apparatus and method. In the optical information processing apparatus and method, when the recording regions in which optical information is recorded in an angular multiplexing scheme overlap with each other, a recording angle and a recording position for optical information is adjusted so as to... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080106997 - Objective lens optical system: An objective lens optical system focuses a light beam with a wavelength λ1 on an information recording surface of a first optical recording medium including a transparent substrate with a thickness t1, a light beam with the wavelength λ1 on an information recording surface of a second optical recording medium... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106998 - Optical pickup lens: An optical pickup lens for focusing a light beam from a laser light source on an optical information recording medium is a single lens. The optical pickup lens has two surfaces, and a surface R2 opposite to a surface R1 closer to the laser light source has a continuous shape.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106999 - Semiconductor laser apparatus, method for manufacturing the same, and optical pickup apparatus using the same: There is provided a semiconductor laser apparatus capable of sufficiently discharging heat generated at a semiconductor laser element, having a simple manufacturing step, and capable of adjusting an optical path length, as well as a method for manufacturing the same. A laser chip is connected through a block and a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080107000 - Optical information recording medium, and method for recording to optical information recording medium: An optical information recording medium comprises at least a substrate with a guide groove, a reflective layer, a recording layer whose optical characteristics change reversibly under irradiation with a laser beam, a protective layer, a resin layer, and a transparent substrate, in that order, wherein the protective layer and the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080107003 - 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

20080107004 - 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

20080107005 - 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

20080107006 - 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

20080107001 - 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

20080107002 - 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

20080107008 - 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

20080107007 - Optical information recording medium: An optical information recording medium includes an optical disk body including a light-transmitting substrate, a recording layer provided on a main surface of the light-transmitting substrate over a region in which pre-grooves are formed and a portion of a region in which dummy grooves are formed, and a reflecting layer... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080107009 - Reproducing system and corresponding information recording medium having wobbled land portions: An information recording medium is at least composed of a substrate having a microscopic pattern constituted by a continuous substrate of grooves formed with a groove portion and a land portion alternately, a recording layer formed on the microscopic pattern for recording information, and a light transmitting layer formed on... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080107010 - High density, hybrid optical disc: The present invention advantageously provides a high density, hybrid optical disc and method of manufacture, thereof. In one embodiment of the present invention, a high-density, hybrid optical disc includes first and second disc portions adhesively bonded to each other, each of the disc portions containing at least one transparent substrate... Agent: Joseph S. Tripoli

20080101168 - Optical disk apparatus and recording method of the same: According to one embodiment, there is provided an optical disk apparatus including: a first determination unit configured to set a reference tracking offset and determine a reference recording power by an optimum power control processing; a tracing unit configured to trace a predetermined area in an optical disk by changing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101169 - Optical disc device and method for focus control: The present invention provides an optical disc device and a method for focus control which enable an efficient operation for focusing without giving damages to an optical disc. A focus control section detects a focus position (drive voltage V1) by shifting an objective lens in the state where the optical... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080101171 - Optical head and disk drive apparatus: The present invention relates to an optical head for carrying out recording and/or reproduction of data on/from an information record disk. For enhancing the degree of freedom of design and reliably and easily ensuring an installation space for a mechanism made to move an optical element linearly, the optical head... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080101172 - Optical disc apparatus: According to one embodiment, an optical disc apparatus provides a stable tracking error signal for aligning the center of a track or record mark string with the center of a laser beam irradiated to a recording surface by an object lens, when an object lens is moved along the radial... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101173 - Motor control method and motor control device: A motor control method for rotating an optical disc to be accessed by an optical head includes steps of: providing an increasing power to rotate a motor at increasing speed when a seeking operation of the optical head is performed; and interrupting the increasing power when a jumping operation of... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080101182 - Disc device: The present invention provides a disc device capable of normally reproducing recorded information on a disc type recording medium while complementing the recorded information in a damaged portion of the recording medium with complementary information, and capable of constantly holding useful complementary information. The complementary information for complementing the recorded... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080101178 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc recording method: According to one embodiment, an optical disc apparatus includes a recording unit that records user data on an optical disc, a generation unit that detects a temperature in the optical disc apparatus and generates a detection signal, a capturing unit that captures the detection signal generated by the generation unit,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101183 - Variable slippage control for a disk jockey control surface: The disclosure pertains to a scratch effect controller for use by a disk jockey, wherein at least one electromagnet creates the slippage tension or friction effect between the user manipulated disc, which includes a vinyl-like surface thereby simulating a vinyl record, and the rotatable or fixed platter. The strength of... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080101184 - Optical disc drive having two optomechanical mechanisms: An optical disc device includes a first optomechanical mechanism, a second optomechanical mechanism, and a positioning mechanism. The first optomechanical mechanism is located under an optical disc insertable into the optical disc drive to optically access a bottom surface of the optical disc. The second optomechanical mechanism is located over... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101176 - Optical disc device: There has been an issue that the operation of a semiconductor circuit performing edge timing control cannot follow up in the multipulse generation process where high multiplication of speed progresses every year. A light strategy drive comprises a control register (22) storing timing edge information for generating the edge of... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080101177 - Optical disc recording apparatus and optical disc recording method: Prior to recording operation of an optical disc, OPC is performed three times so as to obtain optimal recording powers. By averaging the obtained optimal recording powers, an optimal recording power that is used for recording operation is obtained. More specifically, recording operation is performed continuously with respect to three... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101174 - Optimal power calibration method and data recording apparatus using the same: An optimal power calibration method includes steps of: performing a first optimal power calibration procedure at a first power calibration area with a first recording speed to obtain a first optimal power level corresponding to the first recording speed; performing a second optimal power calibration procedure at a second power... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080101175 - Power saving method and system applied in optical disk drive: The present invention sets forth a power saving method and a power saving system applied in an optical disk drive. The power saving system comprises a central processing unit, a spindle motor, an optical pick-up unit, an analog portion of control circuits and a digital portion of control circuits. Each... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080101185 - System and method for closed loop power control calibration: A system for calibrating a closed power control loop includes an adder configured to inject a test signal into an adjustable element, a first peak detector configured to determine an amplitude of the injected test signal, a second peak detector configured to determine an amplitude of a return test signal,... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080101186 - Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information onto and from recording medium and managing defective area in recording medium: The method and apparatus can register defective areas in a recording medium not having a dedicated sparing area. A data recording area and a sparing area are not preliminarily divided. When a defective area is found, data is transferred to another area in the recording area, and the defective area... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080101187 - Optical disc recording apparatus: An optical disc apparatus including a buffer controller managing a buffer memory, a disc state manager managing and searching for recordable/unrecordable states on a disc, a defect detector detecting defective sectors on the disc, and an optical disc drive device that can record even on the defective sectors. When a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080101194 - Record apparatus, record and playback system: A record apparatus includes a media writing unit to record on a disc media information to be recorded stored in a predetermined storage location; a control circuit to record storage-location information of the media information to be recorded on the disc with the media writing unit in a RFID circuit... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080101166 - Optical element and optical pickup apparatus: The present invention provides an optical element for use in an optical pickup apparatus. The optical element includes: a first lens section and a second lens section formed in one body. The first lens section includes an optical surface divided by a border defined by a first predetermined diameter into... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080101167 - Digital servo for optical disk drive: An optical disk drive is provided that includes: a plurality of photodetectors for receiving reflected light from an optical disk, each photodetector providing a photodetector output signal; an analog-to-digital converter for converting versions of the photodetector output signals into digital signals; and a digital signal processor configured to receive the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080101170 - Wobble signal reading method and optical disk appratus: According to one embodiment, an optical disk apparatus detects that a combination of appearance patterns of a phase inversion part included in a wobble periodical pattern coincides with a pattern for determination prepared in advance, determines whether or not PLL synchronization is enabled so as to classify the degrees into... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101180 - Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary dfl and temporary dds including drive & disc information disc with temporary dfl and temporary dds: A write once disc includes a defect management area that is present in at least one of a lead-in area and a lead-out area; a temporary defect management area that is present in at least one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area; and a drive & disc information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101179 - Optical recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method: An optical recording medium including a user data area and an SA/DL area in which a replacement block to replace a defective block in the user data area, and information regarding a defect corresponding to the defective block, is recorded, wherein the information regarding the defect includes a consecutive defect... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101181 - Write-once recording medium preserving data-recording status, method of preserving data recording status of a write-once recording medium, medium including computer readable code for the same, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor: A method of reproducing a recording medium having finalized recorded data. Data is read from the recording medium and a determination is made whether the recording medium is further recordable based on whether a temporary defect management area includes repetitions of a predetermined value or based on whether another predetermined... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101190 - Method of and apparatus for managing disc defects using temporary defect management information (tdfl) and temporary defect management information (tdds), and disc having the tdfl and tdds: A disc having an updatable defect management area used by an apparatus for managing defects on the disc, the disc including a user data area which includes user data, a spare area that is a substitute area for a defect existing in the user data area, and an area in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101188 - Optical recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method: An optical recording medium including a user data area and an SA/DL area in which a replacement block to replace a defective block in the user data area, and information regarding a defect corresponding to the defective block, is recorded, wherein the information regarding the defect includes a consecutive defect... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101189 - Optical recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method: An optical recording medium including a user data area and an SA/DL area in which a replacement block to replace a defective block in the user data area, and information regarding a defect corresponding to the defective block, is recorded, wherein the information regarding the defect includes a consecutive defect... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101191 - Methods, system and mediums for use in protecting content: The present embodiments provide methods, systems and mediums for use in protecting content. Some embodiments provide methods for use in protecting content that access media content with sectors reserved for error data, search for and identify a reserved sector, access error data, replace at least a portion of the reserved... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080101192 - Write-once recording medium preserving data-recording status, method of preserving data recording status of a write-once recording medium, medium including computer readable code for the same, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor: A write-once recording medium preserving a data recording status of the write-once recording medium, a method of preserving the data recording status of a write-once recording medium, a medium including computer readable code for the same, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor. In the method of preserving the data... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101193 - Optical disk device and data recording method: An optical disk device includes an optical pickup, a measurement unit and a control unit. The optical pickup is configured to emit laser light to a disk to record data. The measurement unit is operatively coupled to the optical pickup to measure a peak value of a RF signal outputted... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080101195 - Optical head and optical disc device: A transmitting/reflecting member for transmitting a laser beam of a first wavelength emitted from a first light source includes a first surface on which the laser beam of the first wavelength emitted from the first light source is incident and a second surface which faces the first surface and from... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080101196 - Apparatus and method for record and/or reproduce holographic information: An apparatus and a method to record and/or reproduce holographic information includes a light source to generate a light beam, a first beam splitter to split the light beam generated by the light source into two light beams, a signal beam component to modulate one of the two split light... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101197 - Light information recording apparatus and light information reproducing apparatus: In a light information recording apparatus, a hologram pattern diffracts a reference light such that the reference light which is emitted from an objective lens to a recording medium side, is superimposed on a information light which is emitted from the objective lens to the recording medium side in the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101198 - Device and method for maintaining optical energy density on a storage medium: A system and method are provided for maintaining optical energy density on a marking area of a storage medium. The method includes the operation of directing a light beam from a light source to an optical system. The light beam can pass through at least one optical component in the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101200 - Optical pickup device and optical disc apparatus: An optical pickup device includes an optical pickup base having an opening through which reflected light from an optical disc passes to the outside, a light-receiving element shaped like a substantially rectangular plate and configured to convert the reflected light passing through the opening into an electrical signal, and a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080101201 - Optical pickup device: According to the present invention, a function of a liquid crystal panel 170 is changed in accordance with wavelengths of laser beams employed. That is, for a laser beam having a short length (a laser beam with a wavelength band of 660 nm for DVD), a liquid crystal panel 170... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101202 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup includes a hologram element divided into four regions in a direction parallel to a tracking direction of an optical information recording medium and a direction perpendicular thereto. The hologram element allows two pairs of diffracted lights from two paired regions adjacent in parallel with the tracking direction... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080101203 - 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

20080101199 - Optical head and optical disc device: A polarizing hologram element includes a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area in an area where a beam reflected and diffracted by a BD passes. The first area includes a first transmission area for transmitting many 1st-order diffracted lights from the BD, a second transmission... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080101204 - Optical disk device and method for controlling the same.: Recording power for recording data on an optical disk is modified according to the amount a laser beam focus is offset relative to a recording surface of the optical disk, the amount being obtainable based on a focus error signal. Also, the recording power is modified according to the amount... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080101205 - Optical disc apparatus and laser-power control method therefor: An optical disc apparatus includes a laser-light emitting element configured to emit laser light onto a writable and readable optical disc, a power detecting unit configured to detect a light power of the laser light emitted from the laser-light emitting element, and a power control unit configured to control a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080101206 - Device for recording data comprising mirodots with free ends forming a convex surface and method for the production thereof: The data recording device comprises a storage medium arranged facing a two dimensional array of microdots, of nanometric dimensions, formed directly on a substrate. An electronic circuit for addressing and controlling the microdots is integrated in the substrate. The microdots and/or substrate are shaped in such a way that the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080101208 - 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

20080101207 - 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

20080101209 - Multi-layer optical disc, and recording method and apparatus for multi-layer optical disc: Each layer includes a data recording area and a test writing area divided into a plurality of small areas, wherein the small areas of the test writing area are recorded in advance so that other each layer can make a combination of recorded and unrecorded states with respect to the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP