Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 09/08

20080232200 - Method of generating a digital photo slide show from an optical disc: Before generating a digital photo slide show, both original digital photos and related media playing packages are burnt into a same optical disc. While the optical disc is loaded by a disc playing device, a media playing module installed on the optical disc playing device loads both the original digital... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080232201 - Anti-shock optical recording and reproducing device: The present invention relates to an optical recording and reproducing device comprising an optical pick-up unit, position means for moving roughly the optical pick-up unit with respect to a desired position on an optical disc, an actuator for moving the optical pick-up unit relative to the position means in a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232202 - Apparatus and method of reproducing wobble signal: An apparatus for reproducing a wobble signal, including: a first filter unit receiving a wobble signal obtained by reading a wobble from a disc and passing a first band including a monotone frequency set according to the type or speed of the disc so as to generate a first wobble... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080232204 - Optical disk apparatus and optical pickup device: A temperature sensor is disposed in an optical pickup to detect a temperature of an objective lens. An optical element (for example, a collimator lens) is driven according to a temperature change of the objective lens, which corrects deterioration of an optical characteristic of a laser beam passing through the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080232203 - Optical pickup: An optical pickup projects laser beams having the first to the third wavelengths, in response to the type of a recording medium which is an object to which recording or reproduction is to be performed, and reflecting light from the recording medium is received by a light-detecting element. In order... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080232205 - Recording type optical disc medium and optical disc device for the same: An optical disc medium (10) is provided with a data recording area (12) having the spiral recording track (11) and a lead-in area (13) composed of an embossed pit. In the lead-in area (13), information indicating a characteristic range of a signal detected by an optical head from a groove... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080232206 - Track determination: A light beam is scanned on a track of a recording medium, the track having a first track region and a second track region, each track region having a physical property that has recurring deviations. A wobble signal is derived from the light beam, the wobble signal having information associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080232207 - Method and device for compensating tilt of an optical data carrier: The invention relates to a method of and a device for compensating tilt of an optical or magneto-optical disc (1) exhibiting unknown tilt when placed in an apparatus for reading and/or writing data from and/or onto the optical or magneto-optical disc. A holographic optical element (23) containing a plurality of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232208 - High frequency central aperture tracking: The present invention relates to an optical system for performing radial tracking on an associated optical record carrier. The optical system contains at least one radiation-emitting device capable of emitting at least three beams: a first beam for reading and/or recording information, and at least a second beam and a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232210 - Data recording/reproduction for write-once discs: A file system is enabled to use a Metadata Partition instead of VAT for write-once discs, and is provided by a pseudo-overwrite method with a plurality of tracks especially for metadata and file data. On applying this invention to a drive apparatus that supports pseudo-overwrite media, the file system distinguishes... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080232209 - Method of controlling power states in a multimedia system: This invention relates to controlling the power states in a multimedia system comprising a multimedia connector box including a multimedia source interconnected to a transmitter module, and a multimedia device including a receiver module interconnected to a multimedia sink, wherein the transmitter and the vice via multimedia interfacing means. A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232211 - Apparatus and method for reference level based write strategy optimization: The invention relates to an optical recording apparatus comprising means for optimizing a write strategy in a recording process. The apparatus comprising a radiation source for emitting a radiation beam in accordance with the write strategy, a read unit so as to provide a read signal, a bit detector for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232213 - Feedback control loop for bit detection in an n-dimensional data block: On existing DVD and CD players a control loop is required for the adaptation and timing recovery. For Two-Dimensional Optical Storage such a control loop has drawbacks because PRML detection in the form of a stripe-wise Viterbi detector is used. Such a detector introduces an increasing detection delay when going... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232212 - Method of dynamically updating media play effects utilized on a digital photo slide show: Before playing a digital photo slide show, both required digital photos and a guiding program are burnt on an optical disc in advance. While the disc is loaded into an optical disc play device, the guiding program triggers the optical disc play device to connect with an external network for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080232214 - Optical recording medium, apparatus and method of recording/reproducing data thereon/therefrom, and computer readable recording medium storing program to perform the method: A recording medium on which a recording/reproducing unit block is recorded, an apparatus to record and/or reproduce data on/from the recording medium, and a method of recording/reproducing the data on/from the recording medium. The recording/reproducing unit block comprises invalid data used in disc certification, and an identifier to indicate that... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080232215 - Position detector and detected element: As shown in FIG. 1, a position detector (10) includes: an object to be detected having a pattern (2) formed for generating a position signal; and a sensor (3) for detecting the position signal according to the pattern (2) by receiving an electromagnetic wave generated on the object (1) by... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080232216 - Focus control scheme with jumping focal point: The present invention relates to a focus control apparatus and method of controlling focus of a radiation beam onto a first spatial level of a record carrier, wherein a focus control loop is locked onto a reflection signal obtained from a second spatial level located at a predetermined distance from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232217 - Method and optical disc drive for accessing data on optical storage medium: A method and optical disc drive for accessing data on optical storage medium are provided. The optical disc drive includes a sled motor and an optical pickup head. When the sled motor performs a track positioning, the optical pickup head uses a differential astigmatic detection (DAD) method to generate a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080232218 - Methods and apparatus to monitor and control hard-disk head position: Methods and apparatus to monitor and control hard-disk drive head position are described. In one example, a hard-disk drive system includes a hard-disk drive platter, a hard-disk drive read head configured to read information from the hard-disk drive platter, and a hard-disk drive head position controller configured to a receive... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080232219 - High throughput system for legacy media conversion: A system and method for creating digital content from a plurality of legacy media formats, such as paper, CD, VHS, DVD, etc. A coordination node is utilized to balance the computation load between the various processing units, particularly those involved in the second stage of operation. Extraction units are used... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20080232220 - Optical disk and optical disk reproducing device: An optical disk includes an optical disk substrate preliminarily provided with concave/convex recording marks in order to record the main information; and a reflection film which covers the optical disk substrate and of the which reflection coefficient is changed by irradiating laser light at or above a certain intensity, in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080232221 - Optically variable magnetic stripe assembly: An optically variable magnetic stripe assembly includes a magnetic layer, an optically variable effect generating layer over the magnetic layer, and an electrically non-conductive reflective layer between the magnetic layer and the optically variable effect generating layer.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080232222 - Information recording apparatus and information recording method: An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording medium receiver. The management information provides information about whether or not data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080232223 - Optical pickup apparatus and beam splitter: There is provided an optical pickup apparatus and a beam splitter which are capable of suppressing an adverse effect resulting from light reflected by a non-light-condensed layer that is different from a light-condensed layer. In respective TES light-receiving sections, interposed light-receiving elements are disposed so as to be adjacent to... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080232224 - Optical pickup and optical disc device: In the present invention, by utilizing the difference between the polarization directions of an optical beam and a reflected optical beam, a neutral density filter part of a variable filter in an optical pickup reduces the light amount of the optical beam and directs the optical beam to the objective... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232225 - 90°-bent metallic waveguide having tapered c-shaped aperture, method of fabricating the waveguide, light delivery module including the waveguide, and heat assisted magnetic recording head having the waveguide: A metallic wave guide and a light delivery module are provided. The metallic waveguide includes a metal body formed of a conductive metal and having an aperture formed therethrough, the aperture having input and output ends. The aperture has a bent portion for changing a light traveling direction between the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232226 - Information recording apparatus and method, and computer program: An information recording apparatus has: a recording device for recording information onto an information recording medium, whose recording speed can be changed to first and second linear velocities, by irradiating laser light with a variable recording power; a measuring device for measuring reproduction quality by reproducing the record information recorded... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080232227 - Method and apparatus for converging voltages of optical recording medium: An apparatus for converging voltages of an optical recording medium may include a first converging unit, a second converging unit, and/or a switching unit. The first converging unit may be configured to converge a voltage level of a first input signal to a reference voltage. The second converging unit may... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232228 - Systems and methods of writing and reading a ferro-electric media with a probe tip: A system for storing information comprises a media including a ferroelectric layer, a tip arrangeable in electrically communicative proximity to the media, and circuitry to detect a polarization signal having a radio frequency. The polarization signal corresponds to changes in polarization of domains of the ferroelectric layer at a relative... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080232229 - Disc turning device and method thereof: A disc turning device and method thereof utilizes a device whose supporting portion is located at one side of the gravity center of the disc body to make the disc body, under the gravity action, use the supporting portion as a pivot to carry out turning operation, thus achieving the... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080232230 - Joining structure of a disc medium and a multifunctional card: A joining structure of a disc medium and a multifunctional card, the main feature of which is to provide a multifunctional card adhered to one side of a disc medium, wherein the multifunctional card having a hole with a diameter no less than that of a mounting hole of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080232232 - Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, and computer program: At least a first recording layer (L0 layer) and a second recording layer (L1 layer) are provided. In the first recording layer, a first recording track path (a groove: a guiding groove) is formed for recording recording information. The second recording layer is arranged on the first recording layer and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080232231 - Write-once-type recording medium, recording apparatus and method for the same, reproducing apparatus and method for the same, and computer program: A write-once-type recording medium (10) is provided with: a data area (11) to record therein record data; and a plurality of management areas in which a plurality of types of management information for managing the record data and index information for indicating newest management information can be recorded a plurality... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080225651 - Multitrack recording using multiple digital electronic devices: The present invention is a method and apparatus for multitrack recording of audio information using handheld digital electronic devices such as suitably equipped portable digital music players. Recording of video tracks by digital electronic devices to complement the audio is also contemplated. One device serves as a master; the remainder... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080225652 - Transmitting and recording method, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus of information and its recording medium: A method of reproducing data from a recording medium, each of the data including reference time information indicating a reference time and including packet data, the method including: reproducing the data from the recording medium; obtaining a difference between respective reference times indicated by the reference time information of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225653 - Method for storing information on a storage medium: A method for recording a movie (30) is described, the method comprising the steps of: —receiving a broadcasted video stream (10; 31); —recording the received video stream on an information carrier (2RE); —receiving additional metadata (32), preferably via internet (40); —recording the received metadata (32) on the information carrier (2RE)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225654 - Zone based repeated runout error compensation: Compensation for repeated runout (RRO) error, such as in a data storage device servo circuit, is preferably carried out by obtaining a population distribution of RRO error values from at least selected ones of a subset of tracks. An RRO error compensation value is determined for each one of the... Agent: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens

20080225655 - Method for pre-calibrating balance gain of analog front end in optical disk drive to calibrate variation of focus balance: A method for pre-calibrating a balance gain of an analog front end in an optical disk drive to calibrate a variation of a focus balance. The method includes the steps of: adjusting the balance gain of the focus balance; moving a lens and getting an S curve; and comparing a... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080225656 - Cross-talk cancellation in three-spots push-pull tracking error signal in optical disc systems: A method and system for cross-talk cancellation in a three-spots push-pull tracking error signal in an optical disc system is disclosed. A tracking error signal (TES) is determined from a plurality of error signals (PPa, PPb, PPC). A noise signal (N) is determined from at least two of the plurality... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225657 - Optical disc actuator control at optimal bandwidth: A method and apparatus for a feedback loop (30) used with a servo controller (14) to control an actuator (13, 17) of an optical disc drive. The gain (18) in the feedback loop (30) determines the bandwidth of the actuator (13, 17) in accordance with predetermined parameters for predetermined intervals.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225658 - Audio reproducing apparatus and audio reproducing method: An audio reproducing apparatus of the present invention includes the following: an extracting unit which extracts starting position information from audio packets; a position calculating unit which calculate, based on audio data information included in the audio packets, a position of a starting audio frame; a first difference calculating unit... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080225659 - Information recording apparatus and method, and computer program: A disc-shaped information recording medium has a first and a second recording layer. A buffer area is arranged adjacent to a recording area of each of the layers for preventing deviation of the recording position onto/from each of the layers. A first part of the information is written along a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080225660 - 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.

20080225662 - Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method: An information recording medium is provided that includes a data area for recording user data and a defect management area for recording a defect list for managing N number of defect areas existing in the data area, where N is an integer satisfying N≧0. The defect list includes two or... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080225663 - Method and apparatus for determining if an optical disk originated from a valid source: A method and apparatus for determining if an optical disk originated from a valid source, the method and apparatus scanning one major surface of the optical disk for imperfections, storing the locations of the imperfections relative to a datum, comparing a parameter of each of the locations of the imperfections... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080225664 - Method and apparatus for managing defects in recording media, a computer readable medium including computer readable code for the same, and a defect managed recording medium obtained using the same method, apparatus, and computer readable medium: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for managing recording medium defects and a defect managed recording medium. The recording medium includes a spare area in which a replacement area, which is a substitute for a defective area of the recording medium, is formed, and a temporary defect management area... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080225661 - Optical apparatus capable of generating adaptive control signals: The present invention discloses an optical apparatus capable of reproducing/recording information from/to an optical carrier, e.g. a DVD or BD disk. The apparatus has control means for positioning/focusing a radiation beam (5) on the carrier and photo detection means for detection of radiation reflected from the carrier. Additionally, defect detection... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225665 - Apparatus for and a method of copy-protecting a content carrying recording medium: Apparatus and a method are described for providing, for recordal onto a recording medium, recording data having content data and control data for enabling a player playing such a recording medium to navigate through the content data. The apparatus has a copy protector to copy-protect the recording data by controlling... Agent: Patent Department Macrovision Corporation

20080225666 - Recording medium playback device and recording medium playback method: There is provided a recording medium playback device that includes a first binarization portion that binarizes, by a PRML method, a signal that is read from a recording medium, a second binarization portion that binarizes the signal based on a magnitude relationship to a specified threshold value, a first frame... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225667 - Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method, and reproduction method: An information recording medium is provided, which comprises a plurality of recording layers and a first disc information area for storing parameters relating to access to the plurality of recording layers and formats relating to the plurality of recording layers. The first disc information area is provided in a first... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080225668 - Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method, and reproduction method: An information recording medium is provided, which comprises a plurality of recording layers and a first disc information area for storing parameters relating to access to the plurality of recording layers and formats relating to the plurality of recording layers. The first disc information area is provided in a first... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080225669 - Method of checking the cleanness status of a refractive element and optical scanning apparatus of th enear field type: A method of checking the cleanness status of an optical exit face of a refractive element of an optical scanning apparatus of the near field type, the method comprising step of generating a near field control signal proportional to ratio between the intensity of an optical radiation beam that is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225671 - Method and storage medium for calibrating a holographic storage system: m

20080225670 - Optical pickup, optical information recording apparatus and optical information recording and reproducing apparatus using the optical pickup: In holographic recording, it is important to form stably an interference fringe between a reference beam and a signal beam in a holographic storage medium. To suppress factors degrading stability of the interference fringe, such as fluctuation of atmospheric air, position displacement of optical components and the like during propagation... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225672 - Methods for manufacturing volume bragg grating elements: Methods for recording volume Bragg grating structures having a target wavelength are disclosed. Such a method may include providing a photosensitive recording medium, bringing a first face of the recording medium into contact with a face of a prism, the prism being made of a material that is transparent at... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080225673 - Information recording device and head: In a magnetic recording device, a semiconductor laser (LD) is disposed at a position with a predetermined distance from a swing arm having a slider. The laser beam output from the LD is irradiated, via a beam converter and a mirror, to a spherical aberration lens that generates spherical aberration.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225674 - Optical disc apparatus and method for controlling the same: An optical disc apparatus capable of obtaining an effect to reduce the laser noise without shortening the laser diode service life or increasing the power consumption. The optical disc apparatus includes a laser diode for emitting a laser beam, a laser driver for driving the laser diode, a detector for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225675 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus includes: a semiconductor laser which emits laser light; a focusing unit which focuses the laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser onto an optical disk; a detector which receives reflected light from the optical disk; a drive unit which rotates the optical disk; and a control... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080225679 - Data read/write systems comprising a tip: A method for writing data to and/or reading data from locations on a surface via a tip comprises moving the tip between the locations on the surface. At each location, energy is selectively applied to the surface via the tip and the tip and the surface are selectively forced together... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080225676 - Data storage device and control: The present invention provides data storage devices, systems and methods. An example device includes: a storage medium for storing data in the form of marks; and at least one probe. The probe(s) and storage medium are operable to move relative to each other, with each probe comprising a tip facing... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080225678 - Ferroelectric recording medium and writing method for the same: A ferroelectric recording medium and a writing method for the same are provided. The ferroelectric recording medium includes a ferroelectric layer which reverses its polarization when receiving a predetermined coercive voltage. A nonvolatile anisotrophic conduction layer is formed on the ferroelectric layer. A resistance of the anisotrophic conduction layer decreases... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080225677 - Storage device having flexible architecture and free scalability: A storage device according to the invention has flexible architecture and free scalability. It includes an address input and a data input. It also includes an address and data evaluation unit, which is formed in such a way that it controls a controllable switching means, wherein in operation the address... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080225680 - Data reproduction apparatus and data reproduction method: A data reproduction apparatus includes: arithmetic means for calculating difference data that indicate a difference between left-channel and right-channel data that have been compressed in a predetermined compression format; higher harmonic component generation means for generating a higher harmonic component, which was lost during compression, by performing, when the difference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225681 - Optical recording medium: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an optical recording medium including a first substrate, a first adjusting layer, an organic recording layer, a second adjusting layer and a second substrate, sequentially stacked in the mentioned order. The first and second substrates have a refractive index... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080225683 - Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playback apparatus, computer program, and information recording/playback method: An optical disk 101 is of a type in which information is recorded on a groove track, and an optical disk 107 is of a type in which information is recorded on a land track. The optical disk 101 has a control data area 102, and a data recording area... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080225684 - Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playback apparatus, computer program, and information recording/playback method: An optical disk 101 is of a type in which information is recorded on a groove track, and an optical disk 107 is of a type in which information is recorded on a land track. The optical disk 101 has a control data area 102, and a data recording area... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080225685 - Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playback apparatus, computer program, and information recording/playback method: An optical disk 101 is of a type in which information is recorded on a groove track, and an optical disk 107 is of a type in which information is recorded on a land track. The optical disk 101 has a control data area 102, and a data recording area... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080225682 - Wobble information recording method, information recording medium, and recording and reproduction method and apparatus thereof: An optical disk and a method for identifying the optical disk are provided which make it possible to identify a recording system of the optical disk easily in a short time by a recording and reproduction apparatus when a groove-recording system and a land-recording system are both employed in one... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080225686 - Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playback apparatus, computer program, and information recording/playback method: An optical disk 101 is of a type in which information is recorded on a groove track, and an optical disk 107 is of a type in which information is recorded on a land track. The optical disk 101 has a control data area 102, and a data recording area... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080219107 - Built-in type optical disc apparatus: For providing a built-in type optical disc apparatus, to be installed in a part of an electronic equipment having plural kinds of electric power source portions within a housing thereof, enabling to protect from a malfunction or breakdown of parts thereof when power source is one-sided, thereby to achieve a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080219108 - Device and method for scanning an optical recording medium and optical recording medium: The present invention relates to a device (1) for scanning an optical recording medium (3), comprising an optical unit (5) for reading data from and/or writing data to said recording medium (3) by scanning said recording medium (3) with a radiation beam (21), said radiation beam (21) being positioned on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219109 - Information recording and retrieval method, and its apparatus: Provided is a recording and retrieval apparatus for a multi-layer optical disk. A multi-layer optical disk in which a plurality of recording layers and a single servo layer are combined to form a set is used. A spot for the servo layer and a spot for the recording layers are... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080219110 - Wobble information recording method, information recording medium, and recording and reproduction method and apparatus thereof: An optical disk and a method for identifying the optical disk are provided which make it possible to identify a recording system of the optical disk easily in a short time by a recording and reproduction apparatus when a groove-recording system and a land-recording system are both employed in one... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080219111 - Drive and method of operating the drive and an optical data carrier therefore: A drive, a method of operating the drive and a hybrid disc, BD9, comprising the physical layer of a dual layer DVD disc, DVD9, and the application layer of a Blu-ray disc (BD). The disc comprises a reserved area containing a modulation code and a file structure of the application... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219112 - Software programmable timing architecture: An apparatus for generating a digital signal pattern may comprises a memory, a program sequencer, first and second circuits, and an event execution unit. The memory may have stored therein a plurality of instructions that, when executed, cause a digital signal pattern to be generated on a plurality of nodes.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080219113 - Multi-layered information recording medium, recording apparatus, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, wherein when the user data area includes at least one defect region, the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080219114 - Information processing device and storage medium: An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives a write instruction to instruct data writing into a recording medium; a plurality of drive units that perform data reading/writing from/into a recording media; a first detection unit that detects a drive unit to which a detachable recording medium is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080219115 - Optical drive having a laser driver device with an adjustable power level: The present invention relates to an optical drive capable of writing data to an optical carrier or disk, the optical drive having a laser driver device with an adjustable power level (VSL). The optical drive has a radiation source (4) capable of emitting a radiation beam (5) for writing data... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219116 - Optical information recording method, optical information recording apparatus, and optical information recording medium: It is an object to be able to record data with good signal quality over a wide range of linear velocities to an optical information recording medium. To achieve the stated object, in a laser drive circuit (5) of an optical information recording apparatus, the ratio of recording power to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080219117 - Apparatus and method of setting up bit error rate criterion and apparatus and method of performing burn-in test of hard disk drive: An apparatus and method of setting up a bit error rate (BER) criterion and an apparatus and method of performing a burn-in test using the method of setting up the BER criterion. The method of setting the BER criterion includes measuring temperatures of hard disc drives (HDDs), and changing a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080219118 - Recording/reproducing method suitable for recording/reproducing av data on/from disc, recorder and reproducer for the method, information recording disc and information processing system: The present invention relates to a method for recording an AV file using an information recording disk in which data is recorded/reproduced by sectors. The recording method includes the steps of determining whether or not input data is AV data; detecting a defective sector existing in an assigned data recording... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080219120 - Method and system to improve playability of optical record medium: In summary, when an optical record medium is to be played, the optical drive first determines which type of optical record medium is inserted based on detection of a few signals and execution of a few calibrations. These calibrations could fail sometimes, making the optical record medium completely unrecognisable or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219119 - Optical pickup and optical disc unit: comprising: a laser source for emitting an optical beam, an objective lens for focusing the light beam onto the multi-layer optical disc, a polarizing grating located at a position through which a reflected light beam from the multi-layer optical disc passes, for branching the reflected beam into at least two... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080219121 - Method of vertical deviation disc detection: A method for detecting whether vertical deviation of an optical disc occurs is provided. First, before a pickup head is successfully focused on the optical disc, a pickup head is actuated based on an input control signal so as to generate a focus error signal with a plurality of S-curves.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - - - Iptec

20080219122 - Dead on demand technology: The present invention relates to a system and method for destroying at least the data contained on a data storage media upon the occurrence of certain events.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080219123 - Apparatus for and a method of copying a content carrying recording medium: Copying apparatus has a reader operable to access locations of a recording medium to read both content data and navigational command data that determines the order in which a player of the recording medium will access the content data. A navigator executes a navigation command in accordance with navigation data... Agent: Patent Department Macrovision Corporation

20080219124 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus and a method of controlling an information recording and reproducing apparatus: An information recording and reproducing apparatus records data on and reproduces data from each of a plurality of recording layers of a recording medium. A controller (7) controls a formatting process to format the recording medium (1) by performing a first formatting process on the data area of a recording... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080219125 - Multi-layered information recording medium, recording apparatus, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, wherein when the user data area includes at least one defect region, the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080219126 - Multi-layered information recording medium, recording apparatus, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, wherein when the user data area includes at least one defect region, the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080219127 - Method of reproducing information from optical disc and optical disc reproducing apparatus using the same: A method of reproducing information from an optical disc, and an optical disc reproducing apparatus using the method, including reproducing information from an optical disc having a plurality of regions with differing physical specifications, the information is read using optical beams having differing spot sizes in regions of the optical... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080219128 - Optical pickup, optical information recording and reproducing apparatus and method for optically recording and reproducing information: An optical pickup for recording a hologram by using an angle multiplexing method. An optical beam is separated into two beams, a signal beam and a reference beam having different convergence/divergence degrees, by using an optical component such as a diffraction lens. The signal and reference beams are made incident... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080219129 - Filter for optical recording medium, optical recording medium, method for producing the same, optical recording method and optical reproducing method: It is an object to provide filters for optical recording media capable of preventing diffuse reflection of informing and reference lights from reflective films of optical recording media and inhibiting noise therefrom without shifting the selective reflection wavelength even when the incident angle is variable, optical recording media of hologram... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080219130 - Methods and apparatus for formatting and tracking information for three-dimensional storage medium: A formatter for inscription of marks on to a 3D translucent optical medium to enable recording and retrieval of information from the medium, includes a clamping mechanism to hold the media, and at least one optical unit calibrated to focus at least one diffraction limited spot within the medium at... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080219131 - Objective lens: The invention concerns an objective lens for use with a dual layer optical information carrier. Such a carrier as used in Blu-ray Disks (BD) has a first information layer at a depth D1 below a top surface of the carrier and a second information layer at a depth D2, greater... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219132 - Optical disk apparatus: An optical disk apparatus is provided which can: prevent an SNR deterioration attributable to an increase in read speed; overcome difficulty in separating a read signal and HF signal components; reduce laser noise; and maintain high reliability even during a high-speed read operation. An optical disk is irradiated with laser... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080219134 - Method for positioning a scanning probe on a target track of a multi-track storage medium, storage device, scanning device, and storage medium: A method for settling on a target track of a servo system in a storage device (110) comprising a scanning probe (e.g., a scanning probe array system (124)) is disclosed, as well as a corresponding storage device (110). A data format is employed for the data stored in servo fields... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, Llc

20080219133 - Probe storage with doped diamond-like carbon medium and current limiter: According to embodiments of the present invention, a probe storage medium includes a conductive layer as an electrode and a metal, metalloid, and/or non-metal doped diamond-like carbon (DLC) layer disposed on the conductive layer. A probe array may be positioned close proximity with the layer of doped DLC. An individual... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080219136 - Data read/write systems comprising a tip: A method for writing data to and/or reading data from locations on a surface via a tip comprises moving the tip between the locations on the surface. At each location, energy is selectively applied to the surface via the tip and the tip and the surface are selectively forced together... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080219135 - Method for high density data storage and imaging: An approach is presented for designing a polymeric layer for nanometer scale thermo-mechanical storage devices. Cross-linked polyimide oligomers are used as the recording layers in atomic force data storage device, giving significantly improved performance when compared to previously reported cross-linked and linear polymers. The cross-linking of the polyimide oligomers may... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080219137 - Copy-protected optical information carrier: As the physical modification is imparted to the information carrier during its first installation on a computer the new feature will in addition to protection of the information carrier against unauthorized use by replaying on other computers than the one, on which it was first installed, provide a verification, for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080219138 - Control device, control method, recording device and recording method: The control device (610) controls the recording of data onto an information recording medium where the number of re-writing data onto the same area is limited. The control device (610) determines whether data to be recorded is real-time data or non-real-time data (S1). When it is determined that the data... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080219141 - Information recording medium having a wobbling groove structure: An information recording medium having at least a read only area and a recording and reproducing area is composed of at least: a substrate; a recording layer formed on the substrate so as to record and reproduce information; and a light transmission layer having transparency formed on the recording layer.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080219139 - Wobble information recording method, information recording medium, and recording and reproduction method and apparatus thereof: An optical disk and a method for identifying the optical disk are provided which make it possible to identify a recording system of the optical disk easily in a short time by a recording and reproduction apparatus when a groove-recording system and a land-recording system are both employed in one... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080219140 - Wobble information recording method, information recording medium, and recording and reproduction method and apparatus thereof: An optical disk and a method for identifying the optical disk are provided which make it possible to identify a recording system of the optical disk easily in a short time by a recording and reproduction apparatus when a groove-recording system and a land-recording system are both employed in one... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080219142 - Multi layer optical disc and optical disc apparatus capable of coping with the multi layer optical disc: It is an object of the invention to provide a multi layer optical disc that can be used effectively and an optical disc apparatus that can cope with the multi layer optical disc. The object described above can be accomplished by providing redundancy to the number of layers of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080219143 - Multi-layered information recording medium, recording apparatus, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, wherein when the user data area includes at least one defect region, the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080212417 - Multivalued information reproducing method and multivalued information reproducing apparatus: A multivalued information reproducing apparatus includes: a light source which emits linear polarized light having a prescribed polarization direction; a first optical system which generates first linear polarized light and second linear polarized light that have different polarization directions using the linear polarized light which is emitted from the light... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080212418 - Optical disc device: According to one embodiment, an optical head device provides a signal processing circuit which sets a control amount to move an objective lens so that a distance between the objective lens and a given recording layer of the an optical disc coincides with a focal position, an optical path length... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080212419 - Disk contents management method and disk: Contents data is stored on a disk with a part of the contents data being missing, and the original data corresponding to the missing part is stored on a data memory provided on an electronic circuit mounted on the disk, or a memory on a server side that is connected... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080212420 - System and method for embedding optical drive compatibility information in optical media: Compatibility information embedded in an optical medium modifies actions allowed by predetermined non-compatible optical disc drives on the optical medium, such as optical disc drives that may suffer damage if certain actions are performed on the optical medium. For instance, a compatibility engine of the optical disc drive applies compatibility... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080212421 - Recording apparatus: In a recording apparatus (camcorders, optical disc recorders, etc.), the operator presses down priority designating buttons for designating priorities when recording input image data. An additional information generating section records and holds, in a storage section, additional information indicating priorities of data to be recorded (e.g., “low”, “intermediate”, “high”, or... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080212422 - Method and apparatus for recording information on a multi-layered optical disc: A method for copying information from a multi-layered optical source disc (2S) to on a multi-layered optical target disc (2T) is described. A first portion (67) of the source data is located in a first source storage space (LsO), and a second portion (68) of the source data is located... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212423 - Method of ensuring reproduction compatibility of information recording medium, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus and information recording medium therefor: A method of effectively ensuring a reproduction compatibility of an information recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus performing a write/read operation to effectively ensure the reproduction compatibility, and the information recording medium, the information recording medium having a plurality of areas, wherein a usage order of the areas is determined according... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080212424 - Data modulation/encryption method used in holographic storage system: The disclosure is a data modulation/encryption method used in a holographic storage system. The data modulation method includes steps of: receiving an original data sequence; arraying the original data sequence to a first matrix with n×n dimensions; multiplying the first matrix by a sparse matrix to generate a second matrix... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080212425 - Apparatus and method to write/reproduce data to/from optical disc: An apparatus and method to write/reproduce data to/from an optical disc, which are capable of preventing an error from occurring at the time of examination of a writing strategy and searching for an optimum writing condition for a short period of time, by examining the writing strategy after adjusting a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080212429 - Optical disc, method and apparatus for recording signal thereon: An optical disc includes a data area, a first test recording area, a second test recording area, and a recording information management area. The first test recording area extends inward of the data area, and has a portion which has undergone test recording. The second test recording area extends outward... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080212428 - Optical information recording medium, optical information recording method, and optical information recording apparatus: An information recording medium according to the present invention includes a plurality of recording layers, and a test area for determining a recording power of a laser light for each of the plurality of recording layers, in which a first test area of a first layer and a second test... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080212426 - Recording apparatus having a media-and temperature-dependent power control scheme: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus, a record carrier, and a method of controlling a radiation power used for recording data on a record carrier, wherein a write power control is performed on the basis of temperature and disc-dependent parameters to solve write performance problems, especially on dye... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212427 - Recording condition adjusting method of optical disc recording/playing system, optical recording playing device and optical disc: A recording condition adjusting method of an optical disc recording/playing system, including the steps of: measuring a playing signal obtained by playing a result written in an optical disc; determining whether or not an asymmetry value calculated from the result of the measuring can be employed for adjustment of recording... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080212430 - Method and system for scanning an information carrier via one-dimensional scanning: A system for reading an information carrier having a data layer (101) on which is stored a data set. A probe array generating means (104) generates an array of light spots (102) which is applied to the data layer (101). The resultant output light beams are representative of the binary... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212432 - Aberration correcting apparatus, optical pickup, and aberration correcting method: An optical pickup to be used for both DVD and CD is provided with an aberration correcting device using liquid crystal on an input side of an objective lens. A spherical aberration of a CD is corrected by using an electrode for DVD spherical aberration correction and electrodes for DVD... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080212431 - Drive device: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: determining a first track of the plurality of tracks, based on the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction and the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080212435 - Method of and apparatus for managing disc defects in disc, and disc on which defects are managed: A method of and apparatus for managing disc defects in a disc using a temporary defect management area in the disc, and the disc, where the method includes recording in a data area user data; and recording in a temporary defect management area, which is present in at least one... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080212433 - Optimum tracking error compensation for improved optical disk playability: The present invention relates to a method for operating an optical drive system capable of reproducing/recording information from/to an optical carrier (30), wherein a position error and a speed error of a radiation spot (12, 53) on the carrier has been created due to an unreliable error signal which has... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212434 - Recording medium having data structure for managing at least a data area of the recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: The data structure on the recording medium includes a temporary defect management area storing a data block. The data block includes sequential recording information and a temporary definition structure. The sequential recording information provides information on continuous recording areas in the data area of the recording medium. The temporary definition... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212436 - Optical pick-up and/or recording device: For optical data storage applications a near field optical system can be used. In near field optical systems an accurate control of the distance between the solid immersion lens and the disc surface is crucial. After the correction of a tilt between the lens and the disc, the laser beam... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212437 - Switch device, information processing device, and reproduction device: A reproduction system 100 includes a rotating body on which a rotary operation is conducted by a user, a rotary movement detector 810 that detects the rotation of the rotating body and outputs a detection signal in accordance with a rotary condition thereof, and a restricting unit that conducts a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080212438 - Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus: A recording medium comprising a recording area, the recording area includes a first area and a second area, the first area includes a frame area, the frame area includes an area in which a second synchronization code sequence and at least a portion of data are to be recorded, and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080212439 - Embedded recording and playback device for a musical instrument and method thereof: There is provided a recording and playback system and method thereof for musical instruments, in particular within a guitar. The system includes a device for recording and playback installed within a guitar and a memory data storage device for recording audio from the guitar, playback of audio, and transferring of... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080212440 - Method of cleaning a refractive element and optical scanning apparatus for nearfield optical systems: A method of cleaning an optical exit face of refractive element of a near field optical scanning apparatus for scanning an optical disc, the method comprising a contacting step, comprising bringing into mechanical contact the refractive element and a cleaning pad such that the optical exit face of the refractive... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212441 - Apparatus and method for digital content concealment: A copy protected compact disc (200) preferably is provided with a first session that includes the standard digital audio content (204), in a format that is readable by a conventional CD player. It also includes a second session that is configured to provide a user computer with access to an... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20080212443 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program recording medium, and data recording medium: A management center registers user information that includes user identification information for identifying a user terminal and improvement-information identification information for identifying improvement information recorded in an optical disk and processed by the user terminal. When a user terminal requests improvement information through a network, the management center searches for... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080212442 - Methods, programs, storage media and systems for recording and compiling a music section: This disclosure relates to a method for recording and compiling a music section, wherein multiple takes of the music section are recorded; and wherein the method uses a take folder to store the multiple takes. The take folder may belong to a single track. Sections of one or more takes... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080212445 - Information recording method and information recording apparatus for recording medium: A recording method for recording data in basic reproduction unit to a recording medium having a first recording layer and a second recording layer, includes detecting a size of an unrecorded region of the first recording layer while recording data in the basic reproduction unit (ex. “Cell” unit) in the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080212444 - Multi layer record carrier comprising compatibility information and method for recording such compatibility information on a record carrier.: Multi layer record carrier comprising compatibility information, and method for recording such compatibility information on a record carrier.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212446 - Optical disk, program, recording medium, information recording apparatus and recording method: A method for recording information in a rewritable optical disk having plural recording layers is disclosed. The method includes the steps of selecting either a first recording mode dedicated to recording the information in an order applicable for recordable type optical disks or a second recording mode dedicated to recording... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080212447 - Optical information recording medium, optical information recording method, and optical information recording apparatus: An information recording medium according to the present invention includes a plurality of recording layers, and a test area for determining a recording power of a laser light for each of the plurality of recording layers, in which a first test area of a first layer and a second test... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080212448 - Optical system: The present invention relates to an optical system for performing radial tracking on an associated optical record carrier. The optical system contains an actuated radiation-emitting device capable of emitting a main beam for reading and/or recording information as readable effects in the carrier, and at least two auxiliary beams applicable... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212449 - Optical data carrier system: The present invention provides a method of holographically storing data as in a series of grating structures including m-level coded elements in an optical data carrier, wherein m≧2, the method comprising: forming a grating sampling function as a direct sum of N partial grating sampling functions, each partial grating sampling... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080212450 - Optical storage medium having distortion regions, and a method of modifying an optical storage medium to include distortion regions: Theft, distribution, and piracy of digital content on optical media (software, video, audio, e-books, any content of any kind that is digitally stored and distributed) is often accomplished by copying it directly to another disc using commonly available copy tools and recordable optical media, or the copying of media to... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080212451 - Optical sound track scanner system: The present invention relates to an optical scanner system for scanning of an optical sound track with a beam of light, comprising a light emitter for emission of a light beam, a device for scanning the light beam across an optical sound track, the light beam forming a scanning spot... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080212452 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus comprising: an objective lens configured to focus laser light having the Gaussian distribution properties emitted from a laser diode to a signal recording layer of an optical disc; and an adjustment coating formed on a surface of an incident face of the objective lens on which... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080212454 - Information recording method and apparatus with suppressed mark edge jitters: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080212453 - Optical information recording device, optical information recording method, and optical information recording medium: Provided are an optical information recording device, an optical information recording method, and an optical information recording medium which provide an appropriate recording characteristic even when a disturbance occurs during information recording. A drive forms record marks and spaces by irradiating blue-purple laser light to an optical disk, for which... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080212455 - Method of enhancing laser operating efficiency: A method of enhancing laser operating efficiency of a laser (50) for use in an optical data read and/or write device (10) is described. The method is distinguished in that it includes steps of: a) generating a pulse excitation signal having one or more sequences of pulses whose pulse frequency... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212456 - Data storage device and method of production therefor: The present invention relates to a data storage device comprising: a data storage medium for storing data in the form of topographic features; and at least one probe for writing and/or reading the data stored in the data storage medium, wherein the data storage medium is formed on a support... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080212457 - Scanning of multi-layer optical record carriers: An optical scanning device for scanning a first and a second information layer of an optical record carrier, a scanning method, and an optical record carrier. The device includes at least one radiation source for providing a first radiation beam for scanning the first information layer and a second radiation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212458 - Optical information recording medium, optical information recording method, and optical information recording apparatus: An information recording medium according to the present invention includes a plurality of recording layers, and a test area for determining a recording power of a laser light for each of the plurality of recording layers, in which a first test area of a first layer and a second test... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080212459 - Method of writing on an optical recording medium, optical recording medium, and method of manufacturing an optical recording medium: The present invention relates to a method of writing information on an optical recording medium (10 to 38), the optical recording medium having at least one data layer (40) for storing data readable by use of an optical readout device and at least one label layer (42) for storing visible... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards