Dynamic information storage or retrieval inventions 10/09

20090245033 - Adaptive high fidelity reproduction system: Audio is adaptively associated with speakers, depending on the speaker configuration that is present. Each speaker it receives an audio assignment based on its individual spectral characteristics. As more speakers are added, content is adaptively associated with that you speaker, and taken away from the previous.... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090245034 - Optical device, optically assisted magnetic recording head and optically assisted magnetic recording apparatus: Provided are an optical device, optically assisted magnetic recording head and optically assisted magnetic recording apparatus that effectively emit the introduced light, from the apex portion of a waveguide. The optical device includes: an optical element having a substantially parabolic outline which contains a side surface and the apex portion... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090245035 - Disc storage apparatus and disc storage method: A disc storage apparatus includes a disc changer mechanism including a disc slot through which a disc is insertable, a storage section having storage locations that are capable of storing discs inserted through the disc slot, and a transport mechanism that transports the disc, inserted through the disc slot, to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090245036 - Servo control device, servo control method, and servo control program: A servo control device that is capable of optimizing gain that is used in servo control and stabilizing the servo control even when the gain changes due to change in the status of overrecording over the same radial position on an optical disc. When drawing a visible image on the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090245037 - Focus servo method, optical reproducing method, and optical reproducing apparatus: A focus servo method includes: causing light to enter an objective lens at an eccentric position; irradiating light onto recording marks of an optical recording medium in an oblique direction with respect to a thickness direction of the optical recording medium; detecting light reflected by the recording marks as a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245038 - Track-jump control system and method for maintaining track-jump stability: A track-jump control system and method are provided. The track-jump control system applied in an optical disc drive comprises a signal generator, a protection device, a velocity estimator, and a controller. The signal generator receives the signal from the PUH and generates a tracking signal and a position signal. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090245039 - Optical recording/reproducing apparatus: An optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes a disc, a pickup to irradiate a laser beam to the disc and detect a reflected light of the irradiated laser beam, a controller to generate a tracking error signal from a signal of the reflected light and generate a control driving signal for track... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090245040 - Optical disc reproducing apparatus and optical disc reproducing method: An optical disc reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes an optical pickup for receiving a reflection signal from an optical disc having a land and a groove, an error signal creation unit for creating a tracking error signal from the reflection signal, a polarity switching unit arranged to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245041 - System for preventing excessive skipping on audio disks: The present invention provides for a method for reducing undesirable skipping during playback of a compact disc in a compact disc player. A lens system of the compact disc player reads audio data and subcode data from the compact disc. The subcode data includes Q channel bits and P channel... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20090245046 - Recording device for recording a content into a plurality of recording media and control method thereof: A recording device records contents in a plurality of recording media. While the recording device records a content in a recording medium, if a free space of the recording medium runs out, an unrecorded part of the content needs to be recorded in another recording medium. In order to play... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090245047 - Method of encoding data on an information carrier, system for reading such an information carrier: The invention relates to a method of encoding a set of data on an information carrier comprising data areas each intended to store a data, each data area being characterized by a transmission coefficient and a phase-shift coefficient, said method comprising a step of calculating the transmission coefficient and phase-shift... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090245048 - Optical recording method and optical recording apparatus: Disclosed is an optical recording method. The optical recording method includes emitting laser light from a mode-locked laser light source, modulating a pulse of the laser light during a time period when a recording mark is formed in a medium, and irradiating the medium with the laser light modulated.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245049 - Hybrid recording device: A hybrid recording device having a non-volatile semiconductor memory and a recording magnetic disk includes a mapping unit that maps a first recording area in the recording magnetic disk and a second recording area in the non-volatile semiconductor memory, and a controller that controls an access to the second recording... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245042 - Optical disc apparatus and light power correcting method: An optical disc apparatus includes: an obtaining unit obtaining a sensitivity coefficient indicating a relation between a light power of a semiconductor laser and a monitor value; a first deriving unit deriving a first monitor value in setting the light power at a peak power; a second deriving unit deriving... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245044 - Optical disc apparatus and optical disc recording and reproducing method: Provided is an optical disc apparatus including: a recording unit configured to record data on an optical disc with laser lights of recoding powers set for first and second layers thereof; and a control unit configured to record/reproduce test data on/from these layers, determine first and second optimum recording powers... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245045 - Optical disk device and control method: According to one embodiment, an optical disk device includes a laser light source that emits laser light to be applied to an optical disk, an automatic power control circuit that controls a laser output of the laser light source, and a control processor that performs a setting data transmission process... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245043 - Optical recording/reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method: Disclosed is an optical recording/reproducing apparatus. The optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes a laser light source capable of emitting pulsed laser light in a mode-locked state in which light beams having different wavelengths are synchronized and the pulsed laser light is oscillated, means for controlling the laser light source to be... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090245051 - Method and apparatus for laser control during recording: The invention relates to recording on a medium, and in particular, to laser control during recording data on an optical medium. A laser control method for dynamically adjusting laser power during recording data onto an optical disc comprises: recording normal data onto the optical disc according to an initial laser... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090245050 - Optical disk device and power supply method: According to one embodiment, an optical disk device includes types of semiconductor laser diodes configured to emit laser light of different wavelengths, an output control circuit configured to control light output of each semiconductor laser diode, and a composite power source configured to generate voltages required for driving the types... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245054 - Method and device for enhanced robustness of near-field optical systems: The invention comprises a method and device for application in a near-field optical system such that the robustness of the optical system and the system performance are enhanced. Use or threshold values, in combination with signals already present in the system, facilities protection by implementation of corrective actions to be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090245052 - Optical recording method, optical recording apparatus, optical recording medium, and optical recording and reproducing method: For the purpose, a optical recording method and the like are provided that comprise a step of detecting pattern position, in which at least one of an information light and a reference light is irradiated to an optical recording medium, and the pattern position is detected by a reflected light,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090245053 - Recording medium, data recording apparatus, data reproducing apparatus and data recording method: Provided is a new-type recordable DVD medium characterized in having medium characteristics not defined in the DVD-R standards and-having compatibility with the DVD-ROM standards. Since information on the new-type recordable DVD medium can be played back by an existing player, even when content data protected by CSS (Content Scrambling System)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090245055 - Dvd replication of encoded content: An apparatus includes a controller for enabling replicating of media content from encoded content received, and a recorder responsive to the controller for recording content on media readable by a device other than said recorder.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090245056 - Optical disk device and control method: According to one embodiment, an optical disk device includes a semiconductor laser, a circuit which generates a timing signal to determine a recording pulse timing, a circuit which sets a magnitude of a current for the laser, a circuit which switches the magnitude of the current according to the timing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245057 - Sensor detachment detection circuit, sensor detachment detection method, and information storage device: A fault detection circuit, for detecting a fault condition associated with a sensor (wherein non-fault detection signals output by the sensor include high frequency noise components), includes: an input unit to receive a raw signal from the sensor and to provide a corresponding detection signal; and a determination unit to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090245058 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, recording medium, and information processing system: An information processing apparatus includes a measuring unit, a transmitter, and a receiver. The measuring unit first measures the performance of the information processing apparatus. The transmitter then transmits measurement results in the form of information indicating the performance measured by the measuring unit, together with a content request requesting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090245059 - Method and apparatus for recording or retrieving information on optical disc, and manufacturing process of optical disc on which information is recorded: A method for recording information on an optical disc having a recording layer which contains a two-photon absorption compound is provided. In this method, the information to be recorded is obtained as first pit array data indicative of a first linear array of pits, wherein the pits in the first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090245060 - Method and apparatus for writing data on storage medium: A data recording method according to the present invention is a method for recording data as edge position information, including marks and spaces of multiple different lengths, on a storage medium by irradiating the storage medium with a pulsed energy beam. The method includes the steps of: (A) generating a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090245061 - Apparatus for manufacturing information record medium, information record medium, information recording apparatus and information recording method: On an information record medium (10, 11), record information can be recorded one time or a plurality of times by a predetermined record format. An apparatus for manufacturing the information record medium by using a stamper (27, 28) is provided with an embossed pit array forming device (20 to 26,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090245062 - Method and apparatus for editing an optical disc: A method is provided for editing an optical disc having a plurality of application-functional-layers. The method comprises the steps of obtaining description information of an edit performed on a program data in one of the layers, and generating a sharing information according to the description information in order to correspondingly... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090245063 - Device for automatic back-up, organization and operation using voice recognition search engine for computer file media: A digital memory organizer including a digital memory with a connection to a computer and designated software associated with the digital memory to carry out functions as automatic copying digital data, burning digital data onto hardware, organizing digital data according to the instruction of the user and in default of... Agent: Uzi Ezra Havosha & Partners

20090245064 - Combination optical media, device and method for accessing thereof: A combination optical disc (1) is disclosed, which contains at least two information layers (10, 11) of at least two different storage formats selected from for example CD, DVD, BD. Information is stored on the disc (1) concerning the storage format of the layers (10, 11). According to an embodiment... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090245065 - Optical disc device and focus control method: A focus control section first performs a reference focus control process in which a reference optical beam is focused on a reference layer of an optical disc according to the result of receiving a reference reflection optical beam, and then switches from the reference focus control process to an information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090245066 - Optical data carrier, and method for reading/recording data therein: An optical data carrier is presented. The data carrier comprises: at least one recording layer composed of a material having a fluorescent property variable on occurrence of multi-photon absorption resulting from an optical beam, said recording layer having a thickness for forming a plurality of recording planes therein; at least... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090245068 - Optical pickup device and optical disc drive: An optical pickup device according to the present invention includes: first and second light sources that are driven selectively and that emit blue and red light beams, respectively; an optical element for splitting the blue and red light beams emitted into main and sub-blue beams and main and sub-red beams,... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090245067 - Optical writing device and optical writing method: An optical writing device performs writing on an exposure region of a light writing display medium. The optical writing device includes an accommodation section, a light irradiation member, a voltage application member, a medium conveyance member and control means. The control means performs control for: applying voltage with the voltage... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090245069 - Recording medium and recording system: Disclosed herein is a recording medium on or from which the recording or reproduction of data is stably performed. On the recording medium, data are recorded three-dimensionally by the irradiation of a recording laser beam. The recording medium includes a reflection control layer including a plurality of reflection layers stacked... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090245071 - Optical disc device and media type determination method: A device includes: an objective lens that serves as a lens having a first numerical aperture when a first optical beam corresponding to a first optical disc converges on the first optical disc while serving as a lens having a second numerical aperture when a second optical beam corresponding to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090245072 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical-pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode to emit laser light forward and backward; an objective lens to focus the laser light emitted forward from the laser diode onto a signal-recording layer of an optical disc; a spherical-aberration correction element that is arranged on an optical path between the laser... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090245070 - Suspension arm actuator for an optical scanning device: The invention relates to a suspension arm actuator for an optical scanning device, comprising a suspension arm designed as a two-arm lever and allocated to an optical recording carrier. The suspension arm is, in known manner, mounted to a support between the lever arms such that it can be pivoted... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090245073 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical-pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode; an objective lens made of a synthetic resin to focus laser light emitted from the laser diode onto a signal-recording layer of an optical disc; a collimating lens that is arranged in an optical path between the laser diode and the objective lens,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090245074 - Pick-up head assembly for optical disc employing electrically tunable liquid crystal lens: An optical disc storage system employs a read/write pick-up head assembly in which the optical path between the disc and the read/write light source, usually a laser diode, includes both a conventional objective lens formed of glass or plastic, with a fixed focus, and a liquid crystal lens which is... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090245075 - Optical head device, optical information device, computer, disc player, car navigation system, optical disc recorder, and vehicle: The optical head device includes a plurality of light sources switchably usable; an objective lens for converging light emitted from one of the plurality of light sources to an information recording layer of an optical disc; and a light detector for receiving the light reflected by the information recording layer... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090245076 - Laser driving circuit, its recording compensation method and optical-disk apparatus: A laser driving circuit employing a recording compensation circuit configured to generate a light emission timing of a laser on the basis of recorded data and a recording clock signal which are supplied to the recording compensation circuit includes: a phase synchronization circuit; a skew determination circuit; and a data... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090245077 - Optical recording method and optical recording apparatus: Disclosed is an optical recording method. The optical recording method includes irradiating an area where a recording mark is formed in a medium with a pulse train of laser light, and irradiating the area where the recording mark is formed with continuous-wave laser light that is continuously output.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245078 - Lubricant for data sensing interface and method of lubrication: A data sensing interface comprising a surface of a recording medium and a tip of a data sensor positioned to sense data stored on the recording medium and a layer of polyphenyl ether disposed between the tip and the surface to function as a lubricant. A method of reducing wear... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090245079 - Optical recording medium having super-resolution structure for improvement of reproducing stability and noise characteristic in low frequency band: A super-resolution optical recording medium includes a reflective layer formed on a substrate, a recording layer for recording information thereon, a super-resolution layer made of a chalcogenide semiconductor material, and a first and a second dielectric layers laminated on upper and lower surfaces of the super-resolution layer. The recording layer... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090245080 - Player-readable code on optical media: An optical article for playback in a player includes a plurality of optically detectable marks disposed on a surface of the optical article; wherein the plurality of optically detectable marks are in a pre-determined combination of a first state and a second state; and at least one first control logic... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research