Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 11/08

20080291787 - Audio cassette adapter with cable and connector storage in the body of cassette: An audio cassette adapter with cable and connector storage in the body of the cassette. Internal cable storage is facilitated by an internal retractable mechanism. External storage of a cable is provided by a grooved channel that terminates in a storage recess designed to receive a connector. External storage of... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080291786 - Audio cassette adapter with cable storage in the body of the cassette: An audio cassette adapter with cable and connector storage in the body of the cassette. Internal cable storage is facilitated by an internal retractable mechanism that reduces the amount of storage external to the audio cassette adapter housing. In one embodiment, the internal retractable mechanism includes a cable support around... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080291788 - Optical system for sensing, identification and driving: An optical system for sensing, identification and driving is applied to drive a working system executing at least one preset assignment. The optical system comprises an optical identification card and a driving unit. The identification card comprises at least one driving light source for projecting at least one driving light... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080291789 - Apparatus for focusing plasmon waves: An apparatus comprises a thin film metallic layer, a first dielectric layer arranged on a first side of said thin film metallic layer and having a first index of refraction, a second dielectric layer arranged on the opposite side of said thin film metallic layer from said first dielectric layer,... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

20080291790 - Formatting multi-layer storage media: A device for recording information on a storage medium (11) is arranged for formatting the storage medium. The device has receives a format command according to a protocol (ATA/ATAPI). The device has formatting means for formatting a multilayer storage medium according to the format command. The formatting includes recording, on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080291793 - Multi-layered information recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording apparatus, reproduction method, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium comprising a plurality of recording layers, a user data area for recording user data, provided in at least two of the plurality of recording layers, and a defect list storing area for storing a defect list. When at least one defective area is detected in... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080291791 - Recording method for recording data on a recording medium: To solve the above problems, the present invention can record data in a management area in units smaller than ordinary units for recorded data to suitably record information in a limited management area and thereby efficiently use the user data area. At that time, the present invention simplifies interleave processing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080291792 - Recording method for recording data on a recording medium: To solve the above problems, the present invention can record data in a management area in units smaller than ordinary units for recorded data to suitably record information in a limited management area and thereby efficiently use the user data area. At that time, the present invention simplifies interleave processing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080291794 - Method of, and apparatus for, recording address information to disc medium: In step S1, the address generator generates address information composed of a sync signal which is recorded on an optical disc, address data and an error correction code for the address data, pre-encodes and supplies it to a modulator. At the same time, a carrier signal generator generates a carrier... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291795 - Highly adaptive recording method and optical recording apparatus: An optical disk recording method includes the steps of: providing a multi-pulse chain from a recording wave; independently changing the pulse rise timing and pulse fall timing (pulse width) of the first pulse in the multi-pulse chain in accordance with a preceding space length and a recording mark length; changing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080291796 - Highly adaptive recording method and optical recording apparatus: An optical disk recording method includes the steps of: providing a multi-pulse chain from a recording wave; independently changing the pulse rise timing and pulse fall timing (pulse width) of the first pulse in the multi-pulse chain in accordance with a preceding space length and a recording mark length; changing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080291797 - Recording/playback apparatus and laser drive pulse adjusting method: A recording/playback apparatus includes an optical head unit, a laser drive pulse generator, a power setting unit, an evaluation value calculator, and an adjustment controller. The adjustment controller performs control such that recording operations for adjusting laser drive pulses are performed on an optical recording medium by changing the adjustment... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291799 - Laser power calibration in an optical disc drive: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on a computer-readable medium are provided for calibrating a laser power in an optical disc drive. In one embodiment, a range of reflectivity of an optical disc in the optical disc drive is established. A calibration pattern of marked segments is written to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080291798 - Optical disc recording method and optical disc: A recording method for an optical disc having at least three recording layers (11, 12, 13, 14), in which test recording areas are formed in the odd-numbered recording layers (11, 13) and the even-numbered recording layers (12, 14) in positions that are mutually non-overlapping in the thickness direction of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080291800 - Multi-layered information recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording apparatus, reproduction method, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium comprising a plurality of recording layers, a user data area for recording user data, provided in at least two of the plurality of recording layers, and a defect list storing area for storing a defect list. When at least one defective area is detected in... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080291801 - Record carrier with copy protection means: In summary, ROM marks (such as wobbles, lateral deviations in the spiral with lands and pits in an optical disc) are used on optical media to ensure consumer-grade copying devices cannot duplicate original media. An additional level of security is that the detection of the side channel information requires knowledge... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080291802 - Optical disc type determining apparatus and method thereof: The present invention disclosed an optical disc drive determining apparatus. The optical disc drive determining apparatus includes an optical pick-up head, a signal processing module, and a discriminator. The optical pick-up head is for receiving a reflected signal from an optical disc. The signal processing module, coupled to the optical... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080291803 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device has a spherical aberration correction mechanism and a control part performing a process for determining setting of the spherical aberration correction mechanism. The process includes an objective lens moving process of moving an objective lens with respect to an optical recording medium, a checking process of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080291804 - Information recording layer of optical disc and optical disc: An optical disk includes a substrate covered with an information recording layer. The information recording layer includes a recording material and a dispersion material dispersed in the recording material. The recording material absorbs recording light for recording information, and then generates heat. As the light refraction index of the recording... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080291805 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus and information recording/reproducing method: According to one embodiment, a start-up process performed when information is read from a hybrid disc in which two or more recording layers of different formats are integrally formed, a recording layer is limited to a specific recording layer of the hybrid disc, settings in a start-up state are changed... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080291807 - Hologram record carrier and record reproducing method and system: A hologram recording carrier is provided with a hologram recording layer that stores inside an optical interference pattern made by components of irradiated coherent reference light and signal light, as a diffraction grating; and a polarization selective reflection film that is arranged on an opposite side to a light irradiation... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080291806 - Optical device for recording and reproducing holographic data: The invention relates to an optical recording and reproducing device. This device comprises means for receiving a recording medium (204), a radiation source (200) for producing a radiation beam, means (206) for detecting light corresponding to a holographic signal recorded in the recording medium, means (202) for directing the radiation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080291808 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device includes: a light source; an objective lens which condenses a light beam that is emitted from the light source on a recording layer of an optical recording medium; and a photo detector which receives reflected light that is reflected by the optical recording medium. Further on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080291809 - Disc rotation control method and video camera: A rotation control method of a disc and a video camera using such a method in the video camera having an optical disc drive therein, wherein a vibration occurring due to the rotation of a disc when data is recorded to the disc during photographing is suppressed, an electric power... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080291810 - Multi-layer three dimensional non-linear optical data carrier and method of recording/reading data therein: A non-linear optical data carrier is presented. The non-linear optical data carrier is configured for recording therein information defined by a pattern of spaced-apart marks arranged in virtual data layers. The data carrier medium comprises a sub-stance capable of being excited by a first multi-photon interaction to be switched from... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080291812 - Optical disk: The invention provides an optical disk that enables high-speed reproduction of address signals. A wobble address system for optical disk supports various types of synchronization, such as phase synchronization, bit synchronization, word synchronization, etc., to be established easily with high detection reliability with the use of an self-orthogonal code. Thus,... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080291811 - Optical informaton recording medium and method for making the same: An optical information recording medium that has satisfactory main information recording characteristics and in which burst cutting area (BCA) marks can be formed without damaging a protective layer or a light-transmitting layer is provided. In forming the light-reflecting layer by vapor deposition, sputtering, ion-plating, or the like, part of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080291813 - Information recording carrier and information reproducing apparatus for the same: Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit.... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080291814 - Optical information recording medium, and substrate and manufacturing method for the optical information recording medium: In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080291815 - Topographical surface label formed in an optical disk substrate: The disclosure is directed to an optical disk with a topographical surface. The topographical surface may be formed in the optical disk to create an aesthetic label for the optical disk. The topographical surface may include raised features that refract, diffuse, reflect, or diffract light that makes images of the... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20080291816 - Optical recording medium: The object of the present invention is to provide an optical recording medium which includes a substrate, a first information layer and a second information layer, the first information layer and the second information layer are disposed on the substrate through an intermediate layer in a laminar structure; recording and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080285392 - Optical information recording method, optical information reproducing method, optical information recording apparatus and optical information reproducing apparatus: An optical information recording method of recording information three-dimensionally by irradiating a laser light beam onto a medium having a servo information plane on which address information and/or servo information is recorded, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: dividing a laser light beam from one laser light source... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285393 - Processing circuits and methods for optical data: A processing circuit for optical data is provided. The processing circuit includes a signal-processing module and a radio frequency (RF) signal-summing module. The signal-processing module averages and filters the data signals to obtain a low-frequency signal. The RF signal-summing module receives the data signals and the low-frequency signal, sums the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080285394 - Optical disc apparatus and method of processing synchronization signal for the apparatus: An optical disc apparatus includes a reproduction unit that reproduces a wobble signal on an optical disc, the wobble signal having physical address information subjected to phase modulation by using a code sequence that has a predetermined cycle and that is subjected to code modulation in accordance with a modulation... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080285395 - Beam applying method, optical recording medium, and recording and reproducing apparatus: In a beam applying method, recording and reproducing operations are performed on an optical recording medium, in which a signal is recorded and reproduced by applying a beam thereto and which has a recording layer on which the signal is recorded, a quarter-wavelength plate formed below the recording layer, a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080285396 - Method and apparatus of formatting a three dimensional optical information carrier: A method of formatting at least one optical information carrier is provided. The method is aimed at creating a plurality of formatting marks that are to be sequentially addressed when reading recording information in the carrier. The method comprises recording the plurality of formatting marks within the carrier volume in... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080285397 - Method and device for reading information recorded in a boundary area on an optical disc: The present invention provides a method for reading information recorded in a boundary area adjacent to a boundary between a first area and a second area on an optical disc. The method includes: controlling a pick-up head (PUH) to detect the optical disc to generate a detection signal accordingly; moving... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080285399 - Recorder, player, and recorder/player: An apparatus according to the present invention includes a write compensation section, which generates a write signal to write information on an information storage medium, and a writing section for irradiating the information storage medium with a pulsed beam based on the write signal generated by the write compensation section.... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080285398 - Tracking error signal calibration method, and disc drive implementing such method: A method for generating a calibration value for a tracking error signal in an optical disc drive comprises the steps of performing a plurality of N jumps towards respective target tracks of an optical disc inserted in said optical disc drive; in each jump, calculating a one-jump normalization value; calculating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285403 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and recording and reproducing method: A recording and reproducing method of a WORM type recording disc. When a recording stop occurs, a recording stop position is stored, an access is performed again so as to continue thereto, and the recording is restarted. At this time, a recording restarting position is changed according to a factor... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080285404 - Disc signal evaluation apparatus and disc signal evaluation method: By decoding a formatted 1-77PP signal 22 outputted from a BD-ROM formatter 20 at a high speed, comparing it with original data 34 in a comparator unit 30 and checking authenticity of data from the BD-ROM formatter 20 in real time, it is possible to carry out a check of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080285405 - Playback device for information data sets: A playback device for information data sets with a microphone, a memory arrangement, and a control unit. The audio markers are recorded with the microphone. The memory arrangement stores the audio markers in association with the respective information data sets. Furthermore, a control unit is coupled to the memory arrangement... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080285406 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc reproduction method: Provided is an optical disc apparatus which reproduces with use of a PRML method an optical disc having data recorded in a plurality of code lengths, the optical disc apparatus including: an AD conversion unit adapted to convert a reproduction signal of the optical disc into a multi-value digital signal;... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080285401 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc recording and reproducing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an optical disc apparatus including: a recording unit forming a mark and a space having a predetermined code length by using a laser beam and, thus, recording data on an optical disc; a crest value acquiring unit acquiring a crest value of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080285402 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc recording and reproducing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an optical disc apparatus including: a recording unit forming a mark and a space on the optical disc by using a laser beam having a set recording power level and, thus, recording data on an optical disc; a reproduction unit reproducing the mark... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080285400 - Recording apparatus and recording method: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a corresponding recording method for recording marks in an information layer (601) of a record carrier (60) by irradiating the information layer by means of a radiation beam, said information layer having a phase reversibly changeable between a first phase and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285407 - Apparatus for and method for recording data on a rewritable optical record carrier: A recording device for recording data on a rewritable optical record carrier (11). The device comprises recording means (21, 22, 25) for forming marks on the record carrier during recording operations by irradiating the record carrier with a radiation beam (24), the marks representing the data. Further, the device comprises... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285410 - Multi-layered information recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording apparatus, reproduction method, and recording method: A multi-layered information recording medium comprising a plurality of recording layers, a user data area for recording user data, provided in at least two of the plurality of recording layers, and a defect list storing area for storing a defect list. When at least one defective area is detected in... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080285408 - Optical disk device and optical disk semiconductor: Search time increases if spherical aberration has to be varied for each radial location due to the influence of a disk or lens tilt. An optical disk device includes a spherical aberration search unit (spherical aberration setter 52) for varying an amount of spherical aberration applied to a light beam,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080285409 - Optical disk drive: An optical disk drive capable of reproducing data even when defects, such as flaws or stains, are present in the disk. A system controller of an optical disk drive reproduces data by setting the maximum speed in accordance with the type of an optical disk, an amount of side-to-side runout,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080285411 - Optical disk drive: An optical disk drive capable of reproducing data even when warpage is present in an optical disk. A system controller of the optical disk drive reproduces data by setting a maximum speed in accordance with the type of an optical disk, an amount of side-to-side runout, or the like. In... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080285412 - Dropout detection device, disk reproduction apparatus, and dropout detection method: A dropout detection device, a disk reproduction apparatus, and a dropout detection method for detecting the occurrence of a dropout are provided. A low-pass filter outputs, as a signal LFENV, a low-frequency component of an envelope signal ENV generated by an envelope generation circuit, which represents an upper envelope of... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080285413 - Application of wavelet transform filtering for processing data signals from optical data storage devices: An optical data recovery system including an optical receiver configured to receive light reflected from an optical medium and produce modulated data, a processing unit configured to transform the modulated data into a series of transform coefficients respectively identifying frequencies of the modulated data at respective times, and the processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285414 - 2d storage with guard band storing non-content information: The invention applies to a 2D storage medium carrying meta-tracks of N (N>1) bit-rows, two adjacent meta-tracks being separated by a guard band of at least one bit-row referred to as guard band bit-row. The invention proposes to store non-content information in the guard band bit-row. The non-content information are... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285416 - Method for multilevel recording information on a record carrier a record carrier and a recording device: A record carrier comprises three layers that react with each other when irradiated to form a mark on the record carrier. The three layers are separated by a two separating layers that prevent direct contact of the three layers thus providing stability to the record carrier. By irradiating one or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285415 - Optical information recording medium and method for manufacturing the same: A transparent protective layer (106) having a thickness of 100 μm is formed of a resin film (100), a boundary layer (104) and an adhesive layer (103) on a signal recording layer (102). When nf, ni and na are the indices of refraction of the resin film (100), the boundary... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080285417 - Optical information recording medium and method for recording to the same: An optical information recording medium with favorable recording/reproducing characteristics and corrosion resistance is offered. To this end, the optical information recording medium of the present invention comprises in this sequence at least substrate 001 that has a guide groove, reflective layer 002, light-absorbing layer 003, reflected light side protective layer... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080285418 - Optimized media structure for bit-wise multi-layer optical data: An optical medium including a plurality of data layers stacked relative to each other in a dielectric medium. A respective data layer including mark and land regions for having information recorded thereon. A mark region and a land region in the respective data layer are disposed beside each other and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285419 - Hologram optical device, and compatible optical pickup having the hologram optical device and optical information storage medium system employing the compatible optical pickup: A hologram optical device, and a compatible optical pickup having the hologram optical device and an information storage medium system employing the hologram optical device. The hologram optical device includes a hologram having a pattern having a period in a 4-step stairway shape. At least one of first, second, third,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080285420 - Optical pickup and optical drive: An optical pickup including a two-wavelength multilaser for generating a tracking error signal and a focusing error signal with high accuracy without light quantity variations which otherwise might be caused by the interference. An optical beam of first wavelength is emitted from first laser light source, and an optical beam... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080285422 - Objective lens and optical pickup apparatus: Disclosed is an objective lens for an optical pickup apparatus which records and/or reproduces information with a light beam emitted from a light source, including: a substrate; and an anti-reflection coating comprising at least one layer, formed on a surface of the substrate at a side of the light source,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080285425 - Optical disc device and optical disc determination method: An optical disc device includes a control part for causing processing of determining a type of an optical disc to be executed. The processing caused by the control part to be executed for determining the optical disc includes: signal acquisition processing of acquiring a pull-in signal (sum signal of reflected... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080285421 - Optical disk drive: An optical disk drive according to the present invention includes: an optical pickup 6 including a light source 23 that radiates a light beam 21 to irradiate an optical disk 100, at least one objective lens 22 for converging the beam 21, and an actuator that can move the lens... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080285423 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus includes: an optical pickup actuator including an objective lens for converging an optical beam emitted from a light source to a surface of a recording medium, a lens holder for holding the objective lens, an elastic support member for elastically supporting the lens holder at its... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080285424 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus is provided for recording and/or reproducing information on an optical disc in which information can be recorded at recording positions. The optical pickup apparatus includes: a light source; a relay optical system; an objective lens for converging a light flux onto one of the plurality of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080285426 - Information recording method and information recording device: An information recording method and device for recording information by irradiating an optical information recording medium with an energy beam includes forming a first recording mark by irradiation of a monopulse-shaped energy beam having at least a first power level and a second power level that is higher than the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080285427 - Optical pick-up and disc apparatus having the same: An optical pick-up and a disc apparatus having the same to overcome an inferiority of a tracking signal caused by an adjacent layer during the recording and/or reproducing of data an optical disc with multiple recording layers are provided, the optical pick-up including: a light source to emit a light... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080285428 - System and method for forming nanodisks used in imprint lithography and nanodisk and memory disk formed thereby: A system and method form a nanodisk that can be used to form isolated data bits on a memory disk. The imprint stamp is formed from first and second overlapping patterns, where the patterns are selectively etched. The selective etching leaves either pits or posts on the imprint stamp. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080285430 - Information recording apparatus and information reproducing apparatus, information recording method and information reproducing method, information recording program and information reproducing program, information recording medium and recording medium: Music information M obtained by encoding a musical composition which should be reproduced in an uncompressed state, first control information G1 for controlling the compressed music information PM, compressed music information PM including a content same as at least any one of the music information M, and second control information... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080285429 - Side-channel for record carriers with spiral tracks: In order to create a record carrier having a side-channel which cannot be copied with a channel-bit recorder, the record carrier (1) has a modulated spiral. By modulating one or more of the spiral parameters, like the channel bit length or the track pitch, a side-channel is created. If a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285431 - Optical disk medium and tracking method: A super-resolution material is formed in only a data pit, in a low temperature state of the super-resolution material, reflectivity of each of a pit portion and a space portion and an optical phase difference therebetween are set to be sufficiently small, in a high temperature state, and at least... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080279054 - Device for digitalizing, recording and playing audio signals of a record: A device includes a turntable, a pickup, and a digital audio signal processor with a built-in compression/uncompression chip; in use, as soon as the pickup reads analogous audio signals of a vinyl record, the analogous audio signals will be converted into digital ones by means of an analog-to-digital converter, which... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080279055 - Communication optical write strategies via central databases: The present invention relates to an optical drive (10) suitable to write optical storage discs and comprising means for accessing at least one central database (14) which may be accessed by a plurality of optical drives to derive write strategy information assigned to known disc types. In accordance with the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279056 - Calibration method for determining servo parameters for accessing an optical disc: Calibration methods are provided for determining servo parameters to enhance an optical drive in reading and writing a blank optical disc. First, test data is written on the blank disc with various writing parameters. Second, the written test data is read from the optical disc with various reading parameters. A... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080279057 - Assembling method for optical system of optical pick-up: There is provided an assembling method for expanding a maximum admissible astigmatism of objective lens which includes defining a maximum admissible astigmatism for the entire optical system, installing the collimator lens on the optical system to cause a predetermined amount of astigmatism lying within a range of up to the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080279058 - Information recording/reproducing device, information recording/reproducing method, and information recording/reproducing program: It is possible to obtain preferable recording characteristic and reproduction characteristic by considering irregularities of unique characteristics of an LD or the like mounted on an information recording and reproduction apparatus as well as characteristics of an optical disc used. In the information recording and reproduction apparatus, a light source... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080279059 - Method and system for correction of errors: A method and system for removing periodic disturbances pertaining to turntable and spindle motor errors during recording of a blank optical information carrier. The periodic disturbances are determined in advance and removed only during recording by a repetitive control/learning feedforward control circuit (88).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279061 - Method for recording and reproducing a hologram and apparatus therefor: A hologram recording method is a method of recording a hologram, on a hologram recording apparatus that records information by forming a diffraction grating through oppositely irradiating the signal beam and the reference beam to the hologram record carrier. The hologram recording method includes a step of focusing the reference... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080279060 - Objective lens device, optical pickup device, optical-disc driving device and driving method of objective lens: An objective lens device includes: a first objective lens having a first numerical aperture, which can condense light into a disc-shaped first optical recording medium including a first cover layer of first thickness; a second objective lens having a second numerical aperture which is smaller than the first numerical aperture,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080279063 - Drive device: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes: a recording/reproduction section, a drive control section and a memory circuit. The drive control section performs a process including: receiving a recording instruction specifying at least data to be recorded; storing the data to be recorded in the memory circuit; defining data... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080279064 - Optical data storage system and method of optical recording and/or reading: An optical data storage system for recording and/or reading, using a radiation beam having a wavelength X is described. The radiation beam is focused onto a data storage layer of an optical data storage medium. The medium has a cover layer that is transparent to the focused radiation beam. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279062 - Electric field read/write device and method of driving the same: Provided are an electric field read/write device and a method of driving an electric field read/write device. The method including an electric field read/write head comprising a resistance region disposed between a source region and a drain region and a writing electrode disposed on the resistance region, wherein the method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080279065 - Information storage medium having multiple storage layers with optimal power control (opc) areas and buffer areas: An information storage medium and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the information storage medium are provided to control optimal recording power without an influence of an optimal power control (OPC) area in a layer upon an OPC area in a different layer. The information storage medium includes at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080279066 - Method for evaluating signal in optical recording and reading and method for optical recording and reading: A signal quality evaluation method is provided that can objectively evaluate signal quality regardless of a PRML detection method used. The signal quality evaluation method is used when recording and reading is performed by irradiating a medium with a laser beam having a wavelength of λ through an objective lens... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay & Bruneau, P.A.

20080279069 - Optical disk apparatus with approximate focus control of laser beam: An optical disk apparatus is constructed for writing or reading information by irradiating a laser beam onto an optical disk while rotating the optical disk under a focus control of the laser beam relative to the rotated optical disk. In the optical disk apparatus, an irradiating section is operated to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080279071 - Apparatus and method for detecting defect of optical disc: A method for detecting a defect of an optical disc includes steps of: confirming an optical pickup head being accessing data in a track on state; determining a defective region of the optical disc according to a peak-to peak value of a wobble signal; and, maintaining the optical pickup head... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080279073 - Information recording medium, information recording method and information recording/reproduction system: An information recording medium including a plurality of sectors of the present invention includes: a first spare area including a spare sector for replacing a defective sector among the plurality of sectors; a defect management information area for managing the replacement of the defective sector by the spare sector; and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080279070 - Optical data storage system and method of optical recording and/or reading: An optical data storage system for recording and/or reading, using a radiation beam, having a wavelength λ, focused onto a data storage layer of an optical data storage medium is described. The system comprises the medium having a cover layer that is transparent to the focused radiation beam, an optical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279072 - Recording medium, recording appartus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method: The present invention allows the usability of a write-once recording medium to be enhanced. The write-once recording medium is provided with an ordinary recording/reproduction area, an alternate area, a first alternate-address management information area (DMA) and a second alternate-address management information area (TDMA). In addition, written/unwritten state indication information (a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080279068 - Method of inspecting disc information: A method of inspecting disc information stored on an optical disc, for applying in an optical drive of a computer system. The method of inspecting disc information comprises a. outputting a standard command, for reading the disc structure of the disc; b. determining whether the reading was successful, if not,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080279067 - Optical record carrier comprising an indiction area for indicating whether a recordable area is fully recorded, and devices for use with such record carrier: The inventions relates to an optical record carrier (1) comprising a first area (2) comprising embossed structures representing pre-recorded system information, and a second area (3) intended for recording information, said first area located at the inner radius of the record carrier with respect to said second area and comprising... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279074 - Record carrier, device and method for qualitative and record carrier independent high speed data recording: A record carrier 21, a recording method and a recording device are provided for qualitative and record carrier independent high speed data recording. The record carrier 21, such as an optical record carrier, comprises at least one information area 210 with at least one reference 2100 to a class 22... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080279075 - Device, method for processing rf signal, and optical disk drive utilizing the same: A device for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal of an optical disk drive includes a high-pass (HP) filter, an RF variable gain amplifier (VGA), an RF analog-digital converter (ADC), and a digital module. The HP filter filters the RF signal and is capable of selectively utilizing one of a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080279076 - Method and system for playing audio dvd, and method of recording same: A method of recording a pulse code modulation (PCM) audio on a digital versatile disc (DVD), comprising: inserting the DVD into the optical disc drive; utilizing the laser beam to write a PCM audio data to an audio contents area on the DVD; and writing a PCM audio data to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080279077 - Apparatus for and a method of enabling copying a copy-protected recording medium: Apparatus and methods are described to inhibit automatic installation of software by an installer carried on a recording medium so as to enable copying of content data from the recording medium. When the recording medium is inserted into a reader, an inhibitor inhibits an installer carried upon the recording medium... Agent: Patent Department Macrovision Corporation

20080279079 - Optical recording medium: To attain the object, the present invention provides an optical recording medium comprising: a reflective layer containing an aluminum composition as the main component including both aluminum or an aluminum alloy and a metal oxide of a metal other than aluminum; and a dielectric protective layer, formed in contact with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080279080 - Optical storage medium and method of producing optical storage medium: An optical storage medium has a substrate and a cover layer that allows light to pass therethrough in recording or reproduction. Provided between the substrate and the cover layer are at least a reflective film, a first dielectric film, a recording film, and a second dielectric film formed in this... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20080279078 - Split disc optical storage medium and device: Optical data storage medium comprising a first disc (11) and a second disc (12) both having an access surface (16) and a storage layer covered by the access surface, wherein the storage layer is adapted to be accessed by a laser beam via the access surface, characterized in that the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279081 - Optical device for recording and reproducing: An optical device compatible with at least three different types of information carrier. It comprises a main optical branch comprising detecting means (203), a collimator (201), a first beam splitter (214) at a first distance d1 from the collimator, a second beam splitter (224) at a second distance d2 from... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080279082 - Optical pickup, recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method: A recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus, and a recording/reproducing method are disclosed. The apparatus uses the number of record layers contained in a recording medium and a multi-wavelength light source including a plurality of optical signals having different wavelengths, and irradiates an optical signal emitted from a light source on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080279083 - Objective lens design method, lens, and optical system, optical head, and optical disc apparatus using the same: When the DVD provided with the DVD substrate 2 having thickness t2 of 0.6 mm is installed in the optical disc apparatus, the light beam 4 having wavelength λ1=655 nm is used as luminous flux of numerical aperture NA=0.63 to be condensed on the information surface 2a on the DVD... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080279084 - Image reader: An LPF performs low-pass filtering for a light reception signal responsive to return light received by an optical pickup. A comparator makes a comparison between the level of the signal output from the LPF and a predetermined threshold value and outputs a high or low pulse signal MIR. A system... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080279085 - Optical disc, optical disc driving apparatus, optical disc driving method, data processing apparatus, and optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus: By avoiding the problem that in a hybrid optical disc with a standard-density recording area and a high-density recording area, an optical pickup designed to be suitable for the standard-density recording area cannot operate as desired in the high-density recording area and may cause a malfunction, damage to the disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080279086 - Record carrier comprising a rom mark and a playback device for retrieving the rom mark: In order to distinguish a duplicated record carrier from an original record carrier a pattern is included in a ROM type record carrier that is oriented perpendicular to the reading direction. During illegal duplication the spatial relationship is disturb which can be easily detected. The patterns can be read out... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279087 - Method for multi-level recording and reproduction of information and apparatus therefor: A method for recording and reproducing information at multiple levels comprises steps of recording an information-coding pit at one of multiple levels in each of recording domains placed successively on a track of an optical information recording medium by utilizing combination of a width in a track direction of an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080279088 - Record carrier and method of recording an image: A record carrier (10) and a method of recording an image on a record carrier (10) are provided. A plurality of optical property changing layers (12, 14, 16) that change their Color upon the application of thermal energy applied by a laser beam (18) is provided. It depends on the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273429 - Cassette adapter for a vehcile: A audio player adapter for a vehicle. The audio player adapter is adapted to be connected to the vehicle via the cassette playing portion of the vehicle. The audio player adapter is capable of accommodating a variety of different audio playing devices.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080273430 - Single pll demodulation of pre-formatted information embedded in optical recording medium: A method and apparatus demodulate pre-formatted information embedded in an optical recording medium. The demodulation includes (a) receiving a wobble signal representing data symbols frequency-modulated on a carrier frequency, (b) generating a phase delta signal representing a phase difference between the wobble signal and a corresponding locked signal having the... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20080273431 - Information storage medium having storage layer with optical power control area, and recording apparatus to record data with respect to information storage medium: An information storage medium is provided with a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage layers viewed from a direction in which light is incident upon... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080273432 - Processing method of optical disc recording/playback signal, optical disc recording/playback device and program: A processing method of an optical disc recording/playback signal includes: measuring a length of a first mark of a predetermined coding length which appears immediately following a shortest space recorded on the optical disc; measuring a length of a second mark which appears immediately following a longest space recorded on... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080273433 - Media processor: A media processor, such as an optical disk publisher, is capable of efficiently discarding media such as a defective CD without using a manual discarding process. At the time of media publication of an optical disk publisher 5, blank media 14 stored in a supply-side stacker 13 is taken out... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080273434 - Defect management on file level: A method of defect management is for use in recording information on a record carrier. A device for scanning a track on a record carrier reads blocks of information on logical addresses from corresponding physical addresses. The logical addresses are translated into the physical addresses in dependence on defect management... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273435 - Optical dna: The claimed subject matter relates to architectures and/or mechanisms that can facilitate issuing, embedding and verification of an optical DNA (o-DNA) signature. A first mechanism is provided for obtaining a set of manufacturing errors inherent in an optical media instance. These errors can be encoded into the o-DNA that can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080273436 - Integrated photo monitor circuit and optical pickup unit: The invention provides an integrated photo monitor circuit (12), particularly an integrated photo monitor circuit (12) for CD and DVD applications, comprising a photo detector (14), an amplifier (16) for amplifying an output signal of said photo detector (14), and sampling circuitry (18) for sampling an output signal of said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273437 - Device for and method of recording information on a record carrier: A device for recording blocks of information on logical addresses on a record carrier at corresponding physical addresses. The logical addresses are translated into the physical addresses in dependence of remapping information (57, 63) indicative for translating a logical address initially mapped to a physical address to an alternate physical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273438 - Electronic apparatus and personal computer: An electronic apparatus includes: a housing that is provided with an opening at a bottom face thereof; a printed circuit board accommodated in the housing; a first lid member that is detachably arranged so as to cover the opening; a disk drive that is mounted in a lower position than... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080273439 - Mobile recording medium including reproduction setting information, and apparatus and method for reproducing contents using reproduction setting information: An apparatus for reproducing contents includes a reading unit which reads at least one of a plurality of reproduction setting information and at least one of a plurality of contents from a mobile recording medium, a control unit which analyzes the at least one of the plurality of reproduction setting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080273440 - 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

20080273442 - Method and apparatus for recording information on a multi-layered optical disc: A method is described for recording information on a multi-layered optical disc (2), the disc comprising two storage spaces (LO, L1) in adjacent storage layers (40, 41). Data to be recorded are received from a source. On recording, the data are organized to form cells (35), each cell corresponding to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273441 - Optical data storage medium and combi-foil cover for the production thereof: An optical data storage medium is described comprising at least: —a synthetic resinous substrate, having a first side and a second opposite side, —a first layer stack comprising: a data storage layer stack formed on the first side of the substrate, a transparent cover stack formed on the data storage... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273443 - Apparatus and method for producing optical recording medium, optical recording medium, apparatus and method for reproduction and apparatus and method for recording: An optical recording medium having a plural number of recording layers includes a n-th recording layer (23) (n≧1), made up by a substrate (20) and a semi-reflective layer (21) carried by the substrate (20) and adapted for partially reflecting and partially transmitting the incident light, a (n+1)th recording layer (28),... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080273444 - Holographic record carrier: A holographic record carrier is capable of recording or reproducing information by irradiating light. The holographic record carrier is comprised of a holographic recording layer for storing an optical interference pattern produced by a signal light component of a coherent reference light and a signal light as a diffraction grating... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080273445 - Optical head device and optical recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical head device and an optical recording and reproducing apparatus using this optical head device, which can record information and reproduce the recorded information at any of optical recording media, such as a next generation optical recording medium, in which the wavelength of the light source is made to... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20080273446 - Recording medium, information recording and reproducing method, and recording and reproducing apparatus: Conventionally, as in the case of switching between a DVD-R and a DVD-RAM, when the method of record mark arrangement in a track is changed, the physical format of the disk is also changed. This makes it difficult to ensure compatibility between pieces of data recorded by a plurality of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080273447 - Super-resolution optical recording medium: The invention relates to the field of optical information recording. According to the invention, an optical storage structure is proposed comprising a substrate equipped with physical marks whose geometrical configuration defines the recorded information, a superposition of three layers on top of the substrate marks, and a transparent protective layer... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080273448 - 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: receiving a recording instruction including a location at which data is to be recorded; determining a track among at least one tracks corresponding to the location... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080273449 - Optical recording medium: An optical recording medium has a user data area and a lead-out area each having grooves and lands formed thereon. Wobbles are formed on at least one lateral surface of the grooves of the user data area and the lead-out area, and configured such that wobble characteristics are made different... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080273450 - Optical disk: The invention provides an optical disk that enables high-speed reproduction of address signals. A wobble address system for optical disk supports various types of synchronization, such as phase synchronization, bit synchronization, word synchronization, etc., to be established easily with high detection reliability with the use of an self-orthogonal code. Thus,... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080273451 - Optically-readable disk with copy protection device: An optically-readable disk includes a device that disrupts readability of the disk when the disk is spun at an angular velocity substantially greater than required to play the disk in its intended playing device, or for when a defined integral of velocity and time is exceeded. The device may include... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP