Control Of Storage Or Retrieval Operation By A Control Signal To Be Recorded Or Reproduced

Control Of Storage Or Retrieval Operation By A Control Signal To Be Recorded Or Reproduced patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

01/24/08 - 20080019241 - Optical information recording method, optical information recording and reproducing device, and optical information recording medium
A plurality of types of recording pulse control rules for which the recording pulse waveform is determined according to the information signals to be recorded are stored in advance in an optical disk. When recording to the optical disk, information is recorded using a recording pulse where, due to the ...

11/29/07 - 20070274177 - Read-only optical recording medium on which unique identification information is written
There is provided a method for recording an unique ID to a read-only optical disk (1) adopting the 1-7 PP modulation technique and having provided in a plurality of predetermined positions postscript areas each having a predetermined postscript pattern formed therein. The postscript pattern takes a form of 3T (pit)-2T ...

11/29/07 - 20070274176 - Information recording method and information recording/reproduction device
This invention has for its object to eliminate failure of correct recording on a recording medium in an on-vehicle audio recording/reproduction device due to an instantaneous power cut-off or the like. In order to achieve this object, a file system is used for managing files hierarchically by using files having ...

11/29/07 - 20070274175 - Write-once disc, method of using write-once disc, and data recording and/or reproducing apparatus
A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method of using a write-once disc are provided. The method includes: allocating at least one spare area to a data area of the recording layers; and dividing each spare area into a sub spare area and a temporary disc management area in the ...

11/22/07 - 20070268798 - High density optical disc and method for reproducing and recording data thereof
A high-density optical disc such as a high density-digital versatile disc (HD-DVD) or Blu-ray disc, and a method for reproducing or recording data of the high-density optical disc. The high-density optical disc includes a lead-in area, a data area and a lead-out area. The lead-in area has control information. A ...

10/25/07 - 20070247987 - Recording medium, method of configuring control information thereof, recording and/or reproducing method using the same, and apparatus thereof
A method of recording control information in a recording medium, such as an optical disc, including at least one recording layer is provided Velocity information and per recording velocity write strategy (write strategy parameters) is included in control information, such that standardized control information can be uniformly applied to cope ...

10/25/07 - 20070247986 - Recording medium, method of configuring control information thereof, recording and/or reproducing method using the same, and apparatus thereof
A method of recording control information in a recording medium, such as an optical disc, including at least one recording layer is provided Velocity information and per recording velocity write strategy (write strategy parameters) is included in control information, such that standardized control information can be uniformly applied to cope ...

10/25/07 - 20070247985 - Data processing method, information recording medium manufacturing management system, recording data generation apparatus and method, and computer program
In a process for manufacturing an information recording medium, a configuration is provided in which strict information management and an information recording medium manufacturing process are realized. In a configuration in which master data as original data of recording data for an information recording medium is generated and recording data ...

10/11/07 - 20070237043 - Data slice generation method and apparatus for optical disk drive
A data slice signal generation method of an optical disk drive, which uses a disk including header areas and data areas of different materials, includes the following steps. First, a data slice signal is generated according to the RF signal read by the optical pickup head of the optical disk ...

10/04/07 - 20070230299 - Method of partitioning data on data carriers
There is described a method of partitioning data on a data carrier arranged to be a write-once item. The method comprises a first step of writing video data content to a first region of the carrier, a second step of writing other data content to a second region of the ...

10/04/07 - 20070230298 - Spiral angle controlled information
A device, multilayer record carrier and method are given for providing information in a controlled way. The multilayer record carrier has spiral angle information to be applied and/or verified while accessing the content of the record carrier. Thereto a spiral angle (55) between two data layers of the multilayer record ...

10/04/07 - 20070230297 - Signal processing system
A writable disc 13a on which a secured disc key 10a is pre-recorded is used. A drive 161 contains a random number generator 81 that generates a title key, an encryptor 82 that encrypts the generated title key with a disc key, a master key 83, and a decryptor 84 ...

09/27/07 - 20070223329 - Apparatus and method for generating a scanning beam in an optical pickup head, miniature optical pickup head and optical storage system incorporating a miniature pickup head
A miniaturised optical pickup head for an optical storage system in which a well-collimated beam is generated. The optical pickup head comprises an optical system comprising a collimator leans and a reflective or diffractive elements, such as a 45 degree mirror. The optical system is attached to a cover plate ...

09/20/07 - 20070217305 - Method for configuring composite file structure for data reproduction, and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the composite file structure
A method and apparatus for reproducing data is disclosed. The method and apparatus configures a composite file structure to simultaneously reproduce data recorded in a recording medium and other data recorded in a local storage, and reproduces data using the configured composite file structure. A variety of methods for configuring ...

09/20/07 - 20070217304 - Record reproducing system, record reproducing method and record reproducing program
A recording and reproduction system includes a recording system and a reproduction system. The reproduction system reproduces (simultaneous reproduction) data of content while the data is being recorded by the recording system. The recording system records information on recording process to a management area as management data. The reproduction system ...

09/13/07 - 20070211590 - Recording medium with segment information thereon and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium
A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or optical recording medium including segment information recorded thereon, and apparatus and methods for recording to and reproducing from the recording medium, in order to improve data protection, data management and/or reproduction compatibility. ...

09/13/07 - 20070211589 - Recording medium with segment information thereon and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium
A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or optical recording medium including segment information recorded thereon, and apparatus and methods for recording to and reproducing from the recording medium, in order to improve data protection, data management and/or reproduction compatibility. ...

09/06/07 - 20070206463 - Information recording medium
An information recoding medium having a substrate (32) and a recoding layer (30) whose optical property is changed by being irradiated by a laser beam to display or erase a visible display pattern. ...

08/23/07 - 20070195665 - Storage and reproduction apparatus
The storage and reproducing apparatus includes a signal processing block, a memory, a reproduction block, an operation block, and a control block. The signal processing block converts a sound signal entered, into a digital signal. The memory stores a digital signal outputted form the signal processing block and a management ...

07/12/07 - 20070159940 - Drive and method for simulating the insertion of a new record
The present invention relates to a drive (2) for use in a computer or a reproduction device for accessing a record carrier. According to the invention via a specific action, supervised by the drive (2), the drive mimics the presence of a disc by sending a disc insertion message to ...

06/07/07 - 20070127333 - Record carrier method and apparatus having separate formats for a stereo signal and a data signal
The invention relates to a record carrier carrying a stereo signal and a data signal. The data signal comprises a first portion and a remaining portion. A first channel on the record carrier comprises a composite signal. The composite signal is obtained by combining the stereo signal and the first ...

04/19/07 - 20070086290 - Information recording medium having substrate with microscopic pattern and reproducing apparatus therefor
A recording medium includes a substrate having a microscopic pattern, which includes a shape of continuous substance of approximately parallel grooves formed with a convex shaped section and a concave shaped section alternating on a surface of the substrate. A recording layer is formed on the microscopic pattern and a ...

03/22/07 - 20070064556 - Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus comprises a first recording medium and a second recording medium. The first recording medium stores compressed-selected resources among code data in a compressed state. The compressed-selected resources are used in relation to usage modes. The second recording medium temporarily stores an uncompressed-selected resource that is obtained from ...

02/08/07 - 20070030776 - Super-resolution information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and recording/reproducing method
A super-resolution information recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus, and a recording/reproducing method uses an information recording medium provides a super-resolution effect by fluid bubbles. The fluid bubbles are formed in at least a portion of the medium by a light beam radiated to reproduce a signal from the information recording ...

01/25/07 - 20070019520 - Readout device, readout method, program, and program recording medium
A readout device includes a first recording medium having recorded therein data of arbitrary plural portions of a period of a predetermined length in temporally continuous content; a second recording medium having recorded therein data of the entire content; and a readout control unit that controls, when the readout of ...

01/25/07 - 20070019519 - Identification information recording apparatus and identification information recording method for an optical disk
A media ID recording apparatus has an optical pickup 20 for forming an elongated optical spot on a recording surface of an optical disk DK; and a support table 32 for fixedly supporting the optical pickup 20. The optical pickup 20 is fixed to the support table 32 via a ...

01/18/07 - 20070014215 - Reproducing apparatus
A recording/reproducing unit for recording/reproducing information data on/from a recording medium, an initialization unit for initializing the recording medium in one of a first initialization mode in which information data recorded in all recording areas of the recording media is erased and a second initialization mode in which management data ...

01/18/07 - 20070014214 - Quantum cipher recording method, and quantum cipher recording device
An information recording/reproducing method comprises several steps. Information to be recorded, a reading key that allows a person knowing the key to specify a base used for recording each bit and inhibits a person unknowing it from specifying the base, and an algorithm for determining the base from the key ...

01/18/07 - 20070014213 - Reproducing beam power control for dual-layer recording medium
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reading a magneto-optical recording medium comprising a first storage layer and a second storage layer and a read-out layer, wherein an expanded domain leading to a read-out pulse is generated in the read-out layer by copying a mark region ...

01/11/07 - 20070008843 - Information recording method and apparatus with additional recording function
An information recording apparatus includes: a unit for applying a predetermined processing to record information divided into error correction units and generating processed record information including a plurality of record units; and a unit for recording the processed record information on an information record medium; a unit for recording, after ...

01/11/07 - 20070008842 - Optical disk device
According to an optical disk device of the present invention, in the drive operation, when a detection circuit detects an electric wave coming from an outside radio equipment, and a comparison circuit detects that the voltage of the electric wave is equal to or over a predetermined threshold level, in ...

12/14/06 - 20060280069 - Multi-level information reproducing method
A multi-level information reproducing method is provided which can increase the degree of separation between distributions of cell boundary values to thereby improve the accuracy of reproduction. Specifically, in a method of reproducing multi-level information recorded on a track of an optical information recording medium by virtually providing cells at ...

12/14/06 - 20060280068 - Virtual write protection system
An optical medium containing virtual write protect information can be recorded in drives and systems without first changing the write protection from on to off by receiving valid user input The virtual write protection may also be enabled of disabled by additional information on the disc. ...

12/14/06 - 20060280067 - Audio data search control device
In a multi-session disk, a microcomputer of an audio data search control apparatus judges whether or not a search operation for a last audio data file in an optional session during the search operation in the session (Step S11), forcibly moves an optical pickup 11 during a required forcible-movement time ...

11/23/06 - 20060262681 - Optical disc recording device
A technique for investigating differences of composition and structural state of a recording layer of an optical disc along with other defects, such as scratches, contamination, warp and distortion, prior to video recording and for setting up appropriate recording conditions in compliance with this result to thereby perform recording is ...

11/23/06 - 20060262680 - Optical disc device optical head and photo-detection device thereof
A photodetector IC in an optical head device includes a four-segment photodetector (30) and a push-pull signal generator (33). The push-pull signal generator (33) generates a sum signal (A+D) of radially outer photodetector segments and a sum signal (B+C) of radially inner photodetector segments. The sum signal (B+C) is multiplied ...

11/23/06 - 20060262679 - Method for controlling an optical pick-up for reading data streams for simultaneous reproduction
Optical discs may support “Out Of Multiplex” formats, meaning that different presentation components, like video, audio and subtitles, are stored on different files on the disc, e.g. Blu-ray discs. The different data streams are read by a single pick-up, requiring frequent pick-up jumps and extensive data buffering. The method for ...

11/16/06 - 20060256677 - Method for compensating for position error in an optical disc apparatus
A method for compensating for a position error in an optical disc drive (ODD) is provided. The method compensates for a position error generated by a step error associated with a motor which moves an optical pickup unit across a surface of an optical disc. Error data associated with each ...

11/16/06 - 20060256676 - Method for inteferometric detection of presence or absence of a target analyte of a biological sample on a planar array
A device for identifying analytes in a biological sample, including a substrate configured to bind the analyte and a detection system to determine the presence or absence of the analyte in the biological sample. ...

11/16/06 - 20060256675 - Recording device, recording method, reproducing device, and reproducing method
To enable a physically rewritable disc to be appropriately used as a write-once type. When the rewritable disc is used in rewritable application, the position where writing of a predetermined data unit (for example, an ECC block) in data is started is set to a first position with respect to ...

11/09/06 - 20060250908 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing cont
An information recording medium on which a plurality of stream groups are multiplexed and recorded by a unit of packet, which is a physically accessible unit, each of the stream groups including one video stream, the information recording medium provided with: an object data file for storing object data which ...

10/12/06 - 20060227681 - Information recording medium, apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from information recording medium, and computer-readable recording medium stor
An information recording medium includes a lead-in area, a user data area, and a lead-out area, and at least one of the lead-in area or the lead-out area includes a compatibility information area in which compatibility information, specifying whether each area on the information recording medium is recordable and/or reproducible, ...

10/12/06 - 20060227680 - Focus servo control method in optical disc device
A focus servo control method for an optical disc device is provided which compensates for variations present on the disc while printing a label on a label surface of the disc. The label surface of the disc is radially divided into a plurality of areas arranged about the center of ...

10/05/06 - 20060221786 - Disk apparatus and disk recording/reproducing method
In a disk apparatus capable of quickly recording a certain amount of information without waiting until a rotation is stabilized, a rotation control method is selected based upon the sort of optical disk, the recording format, the recording method, and the like for quickly recording a certain amount of information ...

09/28/06 - 20060215509 - Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, medium, and method controlling a write speed
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, medium, and method controlling a write speed of a disk drive. The method may includes measuring a predetermined disk quality evaluating factor affecting a servo control performance in multiple areas of a disk, determining an optimal write speed of the areas of the disk corresponding ...

08/24/06 - 20060187780 - Information recording apparatus capable of managing recording count
In an information recording medium, there is a tendency that unevenness in the number of times of access is liable to be generated between an area frequently accessed and an area not frequently accessed, so that a fault such as a write error, a read error, or the like is ...

08/24/06 - 20060187779 - Device and method for recording data blocks
The present invention relates to a method for recording at least one data block on a disc-shaped record carrier (11). Said method comprises the steps of moving a write head towards a predetermined track comprising a first location (M) to which the at least one data block is planned to ...

08/17/06 - 20060181982 - Wireless adaptor for content transfer
Described herein are embodiments that wirelessly provide content from a content source to a content player. In one embodiment, there is provided a wireless adaptor that includes a wireless interface operable to receive the content from the content source and a wired interface for a wired connection with the content ...

08/17/06 - 20060181981 - Optical disc recording system
An optical disc recording system includes a host apparatus configured to issue commands; and an optical disc recording apparatus configured to carry out a process corresponding to each of the commands, and to reply a response data to the command to the host apparatus. The host apparatus issues a record ...

08/17/06 - 20060181980 - System and method for enabling efficient small writes to worm storage
According to the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a WORM storage system, the method including a sector-append capability. The method includes receiving data to be written to a WORM storage system. In addition, the method includes identifying a target sector at which the data is to ...

08/17/06 - 20060181979 - Data processing apparatus
A data processing apparatus is capable of writing program data concerning video and/or audio on a first storage medium and a second storage medium. The data processing apparatus includes: a reception section for receiving a signal concerning the program data; a selection section for selecting, from among a plurality of ...

08/10/06 - 20060176789 - Data line switching circuit for optical pickup device
A data line switching circuit of an optical pickup device is disclosed. In order to drive multiple formats of optical disks, the data line switching circuit applies data signals of a corresponding format to the optical pickup device through a common connector by connecting data lines of the corresponding format ...

08/10/06 - 20060176788 - Recorder and method for recording information on a write once recording medium
The continuous update of the Recorded Area Indicator on a DVD+R disc leads to a loss in performance of the recorder. If the update is not continues the Recorded Area Indicator on the disc may not accurately reflect the status. In order to ensure that the Recorded Area Indicator accurately ...

08/10/06 - 20060176787 - Method of storing information on an optical disc
The present invention relates in general to a method of storing information on an optical disc. More specifically, the present invention relates to a storage method according to a standard where ECC blocks are written between run-in/run-out fields. ...

08/03/06 - 20060171269 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing bca signal at high accuracy
One embodiment of the invention, a BCA signal is reproduced properly from a BCA while inhibiting influences properly from a groove contained in a reproduction signal, when a signal is reproduced from an additional writing type optical disk provided with the groove by cutting the DC component of an envelop ...

08/03/06 - 20060171268 - System and method for marking an optical disk
A method for selectively marking a surface of an optical disk includes providing an optical disk, wherein the optical disk includes a metal, an electrolyte disposed on the metal, and a photoconductor disposed on the electrolyte, applying a voltage to the optical disk, the voltage being associated with a desired ...

07/27/06 - 20060164938 - Reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing picture data
A reproducing apparatus includes an execution unit that executes a separation process by a program on a motion video stream including first video data, and graphics data that includes second video data, and executes a decoding process by a program on the second video data that is obtained through the ...

07/27/06 - 20060164937 - Portable information processing apparatus, information processing method for portable information processing apparatus, and program
An information processing apparatus including a display input device in which an image display unit and an operation input unit are integrally formed includes reproduction means for reproducing data recorded on a recording medium, storage means for storing defining data reproduced from the recording medium and defining an operation of ...

07/20/06 - 20060158980 - Method and apparatus for writing an optical disc
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for writing an optical disc. By means of storing the control information of the program obtained in one or more optical disc writing processes onto the optical disc or the assigned area of the writing means, converting the control information into control ...

07/20/06 - 20060158979 - Recording/reproducing device and recording medium
A recording/reproducing device includes a drive device 303 for recording and reproducing information on and from a disc medium 100 and a recording/reproducing control circuit 305 for controlling operations of the drive device 303. The recording/reproducing control circuit 305 controls the drive device 303 such that medium identification information that ...

07/13/06 - 20060153026 - Device and method for recording information
A device for recording records information in blocks having logical addresses in a storage space on a record carrier. The device has an interfacing unit (31) for communicating with a host system by exchanging commands and information, a record carrier status unit (32) for detecting a record carrier update status ...

07/13/06 - 20060153025 - Recording medium recording control method and recording control device
The present invention is directed to a recording control method for performing write operation of data with respect to a recording medium in which small block having a predetermined number of data is caused to be unit of read/write operation of data, erasing operation of data can be performed at ...

07/06/06 - 20060146667 - Optical disc recording apparatus and method, and disc recording apparatus with camera
The present invention has been made to increase the number of times of imaging operation in the case where a DVD+RW is used as a recording medium. The present invention provides an optical disc recording apparatus that records data onto an optical disc that adopts a format in which title ...

07/06/06 - 20060146666 - Write once information recording medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information recording device, and information reproduction device
An additionally recordable information recording medium has a complicated management structure for managing an unrecorded area. Therefore, there are problems that it takes a long time for a disk to startup and it is difficult to build a recording/reproducing system. The additionally recordable information recording medium according to the present ...

06/29/06 - 20060140082 - Methods for establishing audio track digital audio extraction speed
Methods for determining recording speeds to optical media are provided. In one example, a method includes an algorithm in which a digital audio extraction (DAX) speed is determined for a first part of an audio track is measured, a DAX speed for an end part of an audio track is ...

06/29/06 - 20060140081 - Information storage medium having flexibility for allocating an area, recording method, reproducing method and apparatus thereof
An information storage medium having flexibility of allocating an area, a recording method, a reproducing method, and an apparatus thereof. The method to obtain flexibility of allocating areas on a disc includes: recording on the disc, location information to recognize each area disposed on the disc. According to the method, ...

06/29/06 - 20060140080 - Multi-function digital optical disc player
A multi-function digital video optical disc player includes a housing; an optical disc drive installed inside the housing for reading a first video data from an optical disc; a tape drive installed inside the housing for reading a DV tape to retrieve a second video data complying with a first ...

06/29/06 - 20060140079 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, reproduction program, and recording medium
With a reproduction-only disc having a large recording capacity, an interactive function having a higher degree of freedom than the related art can be easily accomplished. A virtual player model corresponding to a function of a player is created and described in Java. BDBasicPlayer 210 detects a user input and ...

06/15/06 - 20060126460 - Optical storage device, recording method of optical storage medium and program
A write retry processing unit repeats a write retry operation of a write and a verify, while performing a setting change of a focus offset for recording a data on an optical storage medium in case a verify error occurs in executing the write and a verify try fails. A ...

06/08/06 - 20060120238 - Information-processing apparatus, information-recording apparatus, information-processing system, information-recording method, program for information recording, and storage medium
An apparatus for processing information is disclosed. The apparatus requests for recording of user data into an information-recording apparatus for recording in an information-recording medium having multiple recording layers, each of the layers having a data area for recording the user data. The medium has a first recording layer to ...

06/08/06 - 20060120237 - Information recording/playback system
An information recording medium 1 is provided with: a user data recording part 3 which records user data; a random-pattern-information recording part 4 which records random pattern information from a random physical phenomenon; and an authentication data recording part 5 which records, as authentication data, medium identification information created on ...

06/08/06 - 20060120236 - Apparatus and methods for writing data to an optical medium
In an apparatus and method for writing data to an optical medium, a optical medium write operation can be recovered with high reliability and precision in the event that it is abnormally interrupted. This is possible even in the case where the physical address of the medium is irreparably damaged, ...

06/08/06 - 20060120235 - System and method of erasing non-volatile recording media
A method and system for the erasing of data from a non-volatile recording medium includes a non-volatile recording medium controller, a non-volatile recording medium, and a CPU. A data pattern used in an erasure command is sent to the non-volatile recording medium a single time. Consequently, the amount of data ...

06/08/06 - 20060120234 - Moving picture/audio recording device and moving picture/audio recording method
A moving image/audio recording apparatus in which failure of recording due to erroneous operation and operation timing deviation can be prevented is implemented. Moving image data and audio data prior to the start of recording are multiplexed by a multiplexing unit 103. The multiplexed data is temporarily stored in a ...

06/01/06 - 20060114778 - Disk reproduction apparatus
To provide a disk reproduction apparatus capable of reducing time required for reading a disk medium and making a retry. When a type of a disk is discriminated by making a retry because the disk cannot be read at the first time of loading, a user selects in advance one ...

06/01/06 - 20060114777 - Optical recording and reading equipment
Disclosed herewith is a data recording and reading equipment capable of reducing laser noise easily. At first, a laser beam source that can reduce the laser noise when reading data from a subject optical disk is obtained. A modulator capable of varying laser attenuation with a voltage is disposed so ...

06/01/06 - 20060114776 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing cont
An information record medium contains video information indicating a main-video, sub-video information indicating a sub-video which can be displayed at least partially over the main-video, and sub-video control information including sub-frame range information specifying at least a part of the region in the sub-video as a sub-frame and sub-frame control ...

05/18/06 - 20060104174 - Method of enhancing multimedia
The present invention relates to a method of enhancing multimedia data (24) contained on an information carrier (23). A recording and/or reproducing device (20) is able to read the information carrier (23) and to communicate with a remote unit (10) via a network (15). The information carrier (23) contains additional ...

05/11/06 - 20060098541 - Recorder, recording method, reproducer, reproducing method, and recording medium
Redundancy of data recorded on a CD is lowered. For example, a bit pattern of coupling bits to be recorded on CD is determined in accordance with sub data. The coupling bits whose bit pattern is determined in this manner are inserted in recorded/encoded audio data (and subcodes) at predetermined ...

05/04/06 - 20060092787 - Recording method and apparatus for optical recording medium
The recording method for an optical recording medium with a laminated structure with a ROM layer, from which data having been recorded beforehand can be read out, and a RAM layer, from which data is read out and in which data is recordable, includes: emitting laser light that has two ...

05/04/06 - 20060092786 - Optical disk recording and reproducing device
Prior to a start of tilt regulation measurement and when a discriminated region is a mixed region, a photodetector is moved by a predetermined amount. And then, when the tilt regulation measurement is started, an objective lens of the photodetector is tilted to an inner end and an outer end ...

05/04/06 - 20060092785 - Information-recording apparatus, information-recording method, program storage medium and program
An information-recording apparatus is disclosed wherein FSes can be optimized. The information-recording apparatus includes an FS extraction section for extracting a plurality of FSes from a plurality of FS-recording areas on a recording medium; an FS synthesis section for synthesizing the FSes extracted by the FS extraction section into one ...

04/27/06 - 20060087938 - Auxiliary operation interface of digital recording and reproducing apparatus
An auxiliary operation interface of a digital recording/reproducing apparatus includes a targeting item, a switching button set and an audio prompt generator. The targeting item is optionally triggered to have the digital recording/reproducing apparatus execute a selected function. The audio prompt generator is enabled to generate an audio prompt when ...

04/27/06 - 20060087937 - Optical information reproduction apparatus and optical information reproduction method
An optical information reproduction apparatus for reproducing a recording signal by irradiating a light beam onto a recording surface of an optical information recording medium having at least two information recording layers and by receiving reflected light of the light beam is provided. The optical information reproduction apparatus includes an ...

04/27/06 - 20060087936 - Data capture device and method of storing data
A data capture device that connects to a data storage device so as to share common components necessary for proper operation of both devices and to minimize the number of individual components necessary to store data obtained by the data capture device in the data storage device is provided. A ...

04/20/06 - 20060083131 - Information storage medium and method of recording and/or reproducing with respect to the medium
An information storage medium includes an area in which updated disc-related information and recording-related information updated with a change in at least one of a disc version number and a recording speed is recorded along with existing disc-related information and recording-related information. The existing disc-related information and recording-related information are ...

04/20/06 - 20060083130 - Recording medium, and a method and apparatus for overwriting data in the same
A method for overwriting data in a recording medium includes the steps of assigning a plurality of record areas to the recording medium, and recording the same category data in individual record areas; and performing a replacement record operation at a specific position indicative of a closest writable area, upon ...

04/20/06 - 20060083129 - Media detection apparatus and method usable with image forming apparatus
A media detection apparatus and method usable with an image forming apparatus includes a light source to irradiate light to surfaces of recording media, a light receiving part to receive light reflected from the recording media an angle changing unit to change an angle of at least one of the ...

04/20/06 - 20060083128 - Reproduction apparatus and method capable of starting to reproduce information at designated reproduction start time point
When an operation unit receives a designated time point a controller calculates an error between time point information and a reproduction time point of a tentative start packet, which is a start packet provided if packets were each reproduced for an average value of the packets' respective reproduction times. If ...

04/20/06 - 20060083127 - Storage medium for data backup and method for the same
The present invention discloses a writable storage medium with backup module contained therein to backup important data. With this writable storage medium, the user could automatically duplicate the data in the computer or the peripheral devices coupled thereto into the writable storage medium. All the user has to do is ...

04/13/06 - 20060077821 - Method of recording information on optical disks at recording density proportional to the actual information volume and disk nominal capacity
A method is designed for recording contents information along a track of an optical disk of a writeable type. A volume detection step is carried out for detecting an actual volume of the contents information to be recorded into the optical disk. A capacity detection step is carried out for ...

04/13/06 - 20060077820 - Optical disk apparatus
An optical disk apparatus for recording data on an optical disk having a land pre-pit (LPP). An encoder of a DVD-R/RW drive records data while inserting synchronization information having a length of 14T at the top of a synchronous frame. The encoder sets synchronization information of the i-th frame (wherein ...

04/13/06 - 20060077819 - Optical disk recording apparatus and method thereof
An apparatus and a method for optical disk recording includes a storing unit to store recording patterns according to an optical disk type and an optical disk manufacturer. A; recording unit reads basic information from a provided optical disk and records data according to a predetermined recording pattern. A MI ...

04/13/06 - 20060077818 - Optical disc processor
A controller in an optical disc processor serves as a visual information recording unit for recording visible information by forming visual information-display pits to be closely aggregated together in a given display pattern, the visual information-display pits having a width larger than that of other pits, wherein the title information ...

04/13/06 - 20060077817 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data from recording medium using local storage
A method and apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium using a local storage is disclosed. The method for reproducing data of a recording medium using a local storage includes (a) reading a binding unit associated with a specific recording medium from the local storage; (b) forming a virtual ...

04/13/06 - 20060077816 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus of recording and reproducing data on the same
An apparatus of recording data on a recording medium includes a pickup unit and a microcomputer. The pickup unit records data in a plurality of data frames included in a cluster. The microcomputer controls the pickup unit to record status information within the cluster, which indicates a status of the ...

04/13/06 - 20060077815 - Disk device
A disk device is arranged to select an appropriate rotation control method according to a kind of an optical disk, a recording format or a recording method so that a recording operation for a certain amount of information may be completed as fast as possible, even if a waiting time ...

04/13/06 - 20060077814 - Disc playing method without interruption and system thereof
A disc playing method and related system without interruption is disclosed. First, the data blocks on a disc (such as a DVD) is previewed without playing. Next, the error ratio of the data block is determined. If the error ratio of the data block exceeds a predetermined threshold, the address ...

04/13/06 - 20060077813 - Method and disc reading device for detecting unbalanced disc
A method and disc reading device for detecting an unbalanced disc are disclosed. The disc reading device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a cache memory, an operating unit and a data table. The first sensor and the second sensor respectively detect a first parameter and a second parameter ...

04/13/06 - 20060077812 - Player/recorder, contents playing back method and contents recording method
In order to protect the copyright of content and to achieve fast playback of content and improvement in the operability of a player/recorder, content are encrypted and recorded to a removable first recording medium by using a key unique to the first recording medium and, at the same time, content ...

04/13/06 - 20060077811 - Method and apparatus for recording data on a recording disc, and method and apparatus for restoring data recorded on a recording disc
Video object units are generated from a program stream. The generated video object units have navigation portions respectively, and compose video objects. The navigation portions are void of ending time information and search information. The video object units are sequentially recorded on the recording disc without being buffered. Ending time ...

04/06/06 - 20060072402 - Information recording-reproducing apparatus and method
An information recording-reproducing apparatus and method is provided wherein control information sequence (ADIP address) is read out based on the detection of a sync mark and whereby the recovery from the state where control information sequence cannot be restored can be quickened and the speed and efficiency of reading of ...

04/06/06 - 20060072401 - Optical data processing
An optical system configured for optical data processing is disclosed. In one example of the system, a photodetector array is configured to obtain an image of light modulated by reflection off a data track defined on optical media. In this example, the image contains at least one framing mark and ...

04/06/06 - 20060072400 - System and method for optimizing a storage system to support short data lifetimes
A system and method for optimizing a storage system to support short data object lifetimes and highly utilized storage space are provided. With the system and method, data objects are clustered based on when they are anticipated to be deleted. When an application stores data, the application provides an indicator ...

04/06/06 - 20060072399 - Data processing device and method
A data processor includes: a receiving section for receiving a data stream including first data on a compressed and encoded video content, first time information setting the presentation time of the first data, second data on a different type of content from the video content, and second time information setting ...

04/06/06 - 20060072398 - Data transmission control method
A transfer control method is provided to enable efficient data transfer when a single optical disk device (2) is accessed by a plurality of host computers (3). The method includes: an access position obtaining step of interpreting instructions issued from a plurality of tasks provided on the plurality of host ...

04/06/06 - 20060072397 - Method and device for recording, transmitting, or reproducing data
Reproduction AV data obtained from an optical disc 41 is stored into a RAM 50. An AV signal whose reproduction start timing has been controlled is outputted from the RAM 50. Breath of a viewer is measured by a sensor 61. A measured signal is supplied to a peak detecting ...

04/06/06 - 20060072396 - Method for storing data on an optical recording medium
The invention relates to a method for storing data in a prerecorded area of an optical recording medium, and to an optical recording medium having at least one prerecorded area in which data is stored according to the method. It is an object to propose a method for storing data ...

04/06/06 - 20060072395 - Av data conversion device and method
An AV data conversion apparatus has a verification file confirmation means (11) for reading an AV data file (101) containing AV data including video information and audio information, and a verification file (102) for the AV data file, and confirming if the AV data file and verification file mutually correspond; ...

04/06/06 - 20060072394 - Method and device for writing a multi-layer optical disc
A method is described for writing an optical disc (2) having a multi-layered storage space (30) comprising at least a first storage layer (31) and a second storage layer (32) below the first layer (31). The method comprises the step of preventing a write operation to a portion of the ...

03/30/06 - 20060067185 - Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information on and from optical disc
An apparatus for recording and reproducing an information signal on and from an optical disc includes a memory. The information signal is written into the memory. The information signal is read out from the memory. An optical head generates a laser beam in response to the readout information signal, and ...

03/30/06 - 20060067184 - Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information on and from optical disc
An apparatus for recording and reproducing an information signal on and from an optical disc includes a memory. The information signal is written into the memory. The information signal is read out from the memory. An optical head generates a laser beam in response to the readout information signal, and ...

03/30/06 - 20060067183 - Method and apparatus for initializing optical
A method and apparatus for initializing optical recording media is provided that detects the intensity of a reflective light off of an optical recording media and analyzes the initializing condition based on the detected intensity during an initializing process. The light is radiated on a rotating phase-change optical recording medium. ...

03/30/06 - 20060067182 - Apparatus for assigning spare areas for defect management and apparatus for handling fragmented ecc blocks
A recording medium having a spare area for defect management, and a method and apparatus for allocating and assigning the spare area. A plurality of zones are formed as one group without prescribing the relationship between a zone and a group. Spare areas include a spare area for slipping replacement ...

03/30/06 - 20060067181 - Recording medium for storing linking type information and method of processing defective area using the same
A recording medium storing information indicating that linking is applied immediately after the defective area, distinguishing a linking type which occurs in a general incremental recording mode from a linking type which occurs after the defective area. Defective areas are detected and registered in a predetermined area (recording management data ...

03/30/06 - 20060067180 - Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and apparatus and method for reproducing data from write once disc
A write once disc allowing management of a data area, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation information which indicates whether at least one section of the data area is allocated for disc defect management. ...

03/30/06 - 20060067179 - Optical information recording device and optical information reproduction device
The present invention comprises a light source 103, a deflection element 109 for changing the traveling direction of light emitted from the light source, a means 113 for generating information light holding information using light of which the traveling direction has been changed by the deflection element, a means 113 ...

03/23/06 - 20060062111 - Recording apparatus
The present invention relates to a recording apparatus for improving operability of a DVD camcorder that performs recording in a video format. When an instruction for starting recording is given at a time T11 and then an instruction for stopping the recording is given at a time T12, a DVD ...

03/23/06 - 20060062110 - Data recording and readingout system
In a data recording and readingout system in which data is recorded and readout, or is readout on, or from an optical recording medium 1 by irradiating a laser beam having a wavelength “λ” via an objective lens of a numerical aperture “NA” onto said optical recording medium, while the ...

03/23/06 - 20060062109 - Additional data channel in between marks
A device has a head for recording information by writing marks in a track on a record carrier via a beam of radiation. The radiation is controlled to write the marks (40) having a main mark intensity (44) and a mark length within a predefined range of mark lengths. Further ...

03/02/06 - 20060044967 - Channel expansion communication system
In a channel expansion communication system for transmitting control data to remotely control a controlled object through a plurality of control channels which are allocated time-divisionally in one frame, the communication system includes an expansion encoder which forms expansion control channels corresponding to a plurality of the control data by ...

03/02/06 - 20060044966 - Method of determining the type of an optical disc and a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus
A method of determining an optical disc type and a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus. The method of determining the type of an optical disc loaded in a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes reading optical disc type determination order stored in a memory included in the data recording and/or ...

03/02/06 - 20060044965 - Emergency recording on an information recording apparatus
The invention comprises an information recording apparatus (1) incorporating a memory device (3) having a defined quantity of storage space, and an interface (2) for use by a user in initiating the recordal of data onto the memory device (3), wherein a selected portion of the storage space of the ...

02/23/06 - 20060039255 - Method for configuring composite file structure for data reproduction, and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the composite file structure
A method and apparatus for reproducing data is disclosed. The method and apparatus configures a composite file structure to simultaneously reproduce data recorded in a recording medium and other data recorded in a local storage, and reproduces data using the configured composite file structure. A variety of methods for configuring ...

02/23/06 - 20060039254 - Recording and reproduction apparatus and method, program, and recording medium
A recording and reproduction apparatus and method is disclosed by which the copyright of a content can be protected appropriately and the convenience to a user can be enhanced. When a content stored on a first disk is to be copied on a second disk, the apparatus identifies a first, ...

02/09/06 - 20060028938 - Method of formatting recording medium, host apparatus, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus
A method of formatting a recording medium, and a host apparatus and/or recording and/or reproducing apparatus which use the method. The method includes providing information regarding a size and/or location of a user data area actually allocated on the recording medium after allocation of the user data area in a ...

02/09/06 - 20060028937 - Sound fast-forward method and device
A sound fast-forward method and device. The method comprises a sound-data classifying process, a play-data transforming process, and a gain treating process. The sound-data classifying process classifies an inputted sound data into at least one first play data and at least one skip data. The play-data transforming process multiplies the ...

02/09/06 - 20060028936 - Apparatus for managing removable storage media that can be connected thereto, and method, program, and system lsi for managing removable storage media
A storage media management apparatus includes a dividing unit 63e that divides a content into a plurality of content parts, a management information generating unit 63c that generates a plurality of pieces of content management information in correspondence to the plurality of content parts, each piece of content management information ...

02/02/06 - 20060023588 - Optical information recording method, optical information recording and reproducing device, and optical information recording medium
A plurality of types of recording pulse control rules for which the recording pulse waveform is determined according to the information signals to be recorded are stored in advance in an optical disk. When recording to the optical disk, information is recorded using a recording pulse where, due to the ...

02/02/06 - 20060023587 - Reproducing and/or recording apparatus and method determining whether sessions are open for a medium for reproduction and/or recording
An optical disc player and method reproducing data from an optical disc. The optical disc player may include a data reproducing module irradiating a laser signal onto the optical disc to reproduce a predetermined radio frequency signal corresponding to the data, and a controller determining that a reproduction area of ...

02/02/06 - 20060023586 - Optical disk, apparatus and method for recording and reproducing information, and apparatus and method for reproducing information
When an information recording and reproducing apparatus records pieces of user data on a write-once optical disk on which information can additionally be written, the information recording and reproducing apparatus performs a closing process so that the pieces of user data can also be reproduced with the reproduction-only apparatus. The ...

02/02/06 - 20060023585 - Reproducing apparatus
A reproducing apparatus includes a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data from a recording medium, a management unit configured to classify a plurality of content data recorded on the recording medium into a plurality of groups, and a control unit configured to, responsive to stopping reproducing content data, output ...

02/02/06 - 20060023584 - Optical information storage apparatus and optical information storage system
The present invention provides an optical information storage apparatus incorporates in a housing: a medium storing section in which optical storage media are stored; an information access section that makes an information access to the optical storage medium; and a medium moving section that moves the optical storage medium between ...

02/02/06 - 20060023583 - Channel optimization metrics
A recording system, such as a magnetic or optical recording system, employs optimization metrics that are independent of a target partial response for equalization of a signal read from a recording channel. The optimization metrics employ samples adjacent to codeword boundaries of codewords representing encoded data, such as servo data, ...

01/26/06 - 20060018220 - Optical information storage medium and method of recording information thereon
An optical information storage medium includes a lead-in area, a user data zone in which user data is recorded, and a lead-out area. Write protection information is recorded in at least one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area, together with defect management information. Information is recorded and/or reproduced ...

01/26/06 - 20060018219 - Optical information storage medium and method of recording information thereon
An optical information storage medium includes a lead-in area, a user data zone in which user data is recorded, and a lead-out area. Write protection information is recorded in at least one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area, together with defect management information. Information is recorded and/or reproduced ...

01/26/06 - 20060018218 - Method and apparatus for increasing the ability of decoding a land pre-pit
A method and apparatus for increasing the ability of decoding a land pre-pit are disclosed. The steps of the method include providing a host for executing an interface seek command. A seeking servo action is generated by the interface seek command. A first pre-pit slicing level is regulated to make ...

01/26/06 - 20060018217 - Disc detecting method in a multi-disc optical storage apparatus
The present invention relates to a disc detecting method in a multi-disc optical storage apparatus, which comprises receiving an electronic signal and determining whether to perform a complete disc detecting process or not when the multi-disc optical storage apparatus is turned on or a multi-disc magazine is inserted into the ...

01/26/06 - 20060018216 - Apparatus and method of providing separate control and data channels between arrays of light emitters and detectors for optical communication and alignment
A method of aligning optical data communication channels between system functions comprises: emitting an array of light beams from a corresponding array of data emitters in response to electrical data signals generated from a first system function; emitting light beams from two control emitters in response to electrical control signals ...

01/19/06 - 20060013085 - Power failure recovery method
The present invention relates to a method of recovering blocks of data recorded on an optical record carrier in case of a power failure affecting a recording and reproducing device. Said device comprises means for writing a recording indication information on the optical record carrier to indicate that a recording ...

01/12/06 - 20060007817 - Optical information recording device
The invention provides a method effective in detecting a reproduction signal in real time correction in which correction is simultaneously performed with recording. In this method, a laser beam emitted from a laser diode 110 is divided into a plurality of beam spots by a diffraction grating 114. One of ...

01/12/06 - 20060007816 - Digital video recording and reproducing apparatus having data recovery function and method thereof
A video recording and reproducing apparatus and a method having a data recovery function, wherein the method includes recording a temporary recording information file concerned with recovery information while recording data, file system and recording information on a disc. The temporary recording information file is read upon disc reproduction to ...

01/12/06 - 20060007815 - 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 ...

01/12/06 - 20060007814 - Av data recording method, av recording device, data recording medium, program and program recording medium
An original stream file and an after-recording data file are managed as different files. In the original stream file, data is made up of sets of partial data (CU) divided in accordance with a predetermined interval. Likewise, in the after-recording data file, data is made up of sets of partial ...

01/05/06 - 20060002263 - Method for rendering surface layer of limited play disk lightfast
An optically readable media (10) has an information-encoding layer (16) and at least one color-forming layer (12) that embodies an optical readout-limiting mechanism. In a first embodiment the at least one color-forming layer contains an additive that does not interfere with the optical readability of the media for a duration ...

01/05/06 - 20060002262 - Information recording method
A reproducing apparatus for reproducing information recorded on an optical recording medium including a disk-like substrate, a spiral or concentric-shaped groove structure along a track formed on the substrate, wherein the groove structure is wobbled in a radial direction of the medium. The wobbled groove structure is utilized for recording ...

01/05/06 - 20060002261 - Data reproduction apparatus having resume reproduction function, and program product for implementing resume reproduction function
When a reproduction operation of data recorded on a recording medium is stopped, a stop position of the reproduction operation on the recording medium is obtained and stored in a position storage unit. Thereafter, when an input instructing resume reproduction is received, a time period elapsed from the time of ...

01/05/06 - 20060002260 - Information recording device
An information recording device 20 includes an encoding unit 22 for encoding program data digitally converted by an ADC 21 from the signal of a user-selected broadcast received via a tuner 10, a split recording unit 23 for recording encoded program data split into fixed units to a fixed disk ...

01/05/06 - 20060002259 - Information recording apparatus, information recording method and information recording program
An information recording apparatus which irradiates a laser light onto a recording medium such as a DVD+R to record information records an adjustment RF signal in a PCA used for calibration of the laser light (OPC process). Thereby, on the recording medium having no recorded area of an RF signal ...

01/05/06 - 20060002258 - Method and apparatus for ejecting a medium
An electronic apparatus and a method for ejecting a medium are provided that can ensure identification of eject keys for media even when the display of a touch panel surface is difficult to view. In the electronic apparatus, a touch panel 50 is slid to open a plurality of medium ...

01/05/06 - 20060002257 - Information reproducing apparatus and control method therefor
An information reproducing apparatus is disclosed which recovers a video signal and an audio signal from input information, displays the video signal on a display unit, and reproduces the audio signal by a loudspeaker. When restriction information extracted from a broadcast signal indicates restrictions on video display, reproduction restrictions based ...

01/05/06 - 20060002256 - Network-based information recording/reproducing system and information recording/reproducing apparatus
Disclosed is a network-based information recording/reproducing system including: a first information recording/reproducing apparatus that transmits a session start request to a second information recording/reproducing apparatus connected thereto via a router or network, receives a session establishment notice in response thereto, transmits an information content to the second apparatus, receives a ...

01/05/06 - 20060002255 - Optimized audio / video recording and playing system and method
An optimized audio/video recording and playing system and method executed on the computer executable platform, which is capable of optimally recording various stream files into a recording medium during the recording process based on optimized image resolution, sound sampling rate, the display settings of the display device and the sound ...

12/29/05 - 20050286364 - Optical disc having plurality of recording layers, and method and apparatus for recording data thereon
Provided are an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers, and a method and apparatus for recording data thereon. The optical disc has a plurality of recording layers, each recording layer including: a data area; a connecting area; and a remaining area. The data, connecting, and remaining areas are ...

12/29/05 - 20050286363 - Optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus for automatically making copy of optical disc and method thereof
An optical recording and/or reproducing method, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including reading data from an original optical disc, recording the data on another recording medium, and reading the data on the other recording medium to record the data onto one or more target optical discs, ...

12/29/05 - 20050286362 - Disc reproduction apparatus capable of digest reproduction
A disc reproduction apparatus reading and reproducing data containing a plurality of chapters recorded on a disc-like recording medium includes an input unit for accepting an input of an instruction from a user and a control unit for controlling a reproduction operation in accordance with the instruction accepted through the ...

12/29/05 - 20050286361 - Information processing device and program
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus adapted to execute a sequence of processing operations for recording video data recorded to a first recording medium in a first format to a second recording medium in a second format, without user's manual intervention. Any one of three settings is ...

12/22/05 - 20050281152 - Scanning optical media during label
A visible light characteristic changing layer formed from photosensitive or heat-sensitive material is formed in a location which can be viewed from a part of a label surface of an optical disk. The optical disk is set on a turntable of an optical disk unit while the label surface of ...

12/15/05 - 20050276185 - Information storage medium and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the same
An information storage medium and a method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the information storage medium. The information storage medium includes a plurality of recording layers, each having a user data area, on which data can be recorded by a pickup. Data is recorded in the order of recording ...

12/15/05 - 20050276184 - Optical disk, optical disk device, and method for setting optical disk device
An optical disk, an optical disk device, and a method for setting an optical disk device are disclosed, in which the optical disk can enter a good state of recording and reproduction within a shorter amount of time. Specific information including parameters that determine the recording and reproduction state of ...

12/15/05 - 20050276183 - Image data recording apparatus
An image data recording apparatus includes an area producing device producing a plurality of areas on a recording medium, an initialization device initializing the areas produced by the area producing device in accordance with desired forms, an area production designating device causing a user to designate a number of the ...

12/15/05 - 20050276182 - Disk unit
A pair of guide shafts 230 supporting an information processing section 240 equipped with a pickup 240 (translator's comment: correctly, 242) is provided on a mount 210 rotatably disposed in a casing 110 with a turn table for rotatably supporting the optical disc 10 being provided on the rotation end ...

12/15/05 - 20050276181 - Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method and information storage medium therefor
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage medium having one or more information recording layers; and a control unit controlling ...

12/15/05 - 20050276180 - Data processing apparatus
There are cases where image contents with a limited number of copies allow data transfer although not dubbing operations. Transfer of temporarily recorded data from a recording medium such as a hard disk to a recording medium such a DVD-R raises a problem of erasing hard disk data for transfer ...

12/08/05 - 20050270932 - Optical disc and method of identifying recording layer
An optical disc in which a physical address of each smallest recording unit and a recorded address increase or decrease on first and second recording layers, and a method of identifying the recording layers. Embodiments are provided for discs having first and second recording layers with a same or an ...

12/08/05 - 20050270931 - Utilizing an incentive point system based on disc and user identification
A system and method for awarding incentive points utilizing unique disc identification to provide access to disc storage media includes a disc storage medium with a permanently recorded disc identification, a user console with a set identification, a network, and a host server managing a user database and a disc ...

12/08/05 - 20050270930 - Disk drive, control method thereof and disk-falsification detection method
Embodiments of the invention provide a falsification detection method which is capable of recognizing the substance of a falsification, applicable to not only a specific file system, but any arbitrary application writing data with a logical structure, usable in a standalone environment and able to prevent its performance from deteriorating ...

12/08/05 - 20050270929 - Television apparatus embedded with optical disk device
An television apparatus embedded with an optical disk device includes a television unit having a microcomputer for a television and a power source for a television and an optical disk unit having a microcomputer for an optical disk, a power source for the optical disk and an oscillation stop controller. ...

12/08/05 - 20050270928 - Optical disc device
An optical disc device is disclosed. The optical disc device includes a thermal head that is disposed at a side opposite to an optical pickup, which irradiates a laser beam for writing and erasing information, relative to a mounted optical disc, and is configured to bring a thermal head into ...

12/08/05 - 20050270927 - Disk array device and battery output control method for disk array device
The disk array device supplies appropriate power to various parts in accordance with the operating mode in cases where the output of the main power supply drops. The disk array device adjusts the power from a commercial power source 6 with an AC/DC power supply 5, and supplies this power ...

12/08/05 - 20050270926 - Phonographic turntable with built-in audio to usb or firewire device
The present invention is a turntable which includes an internal analog to digital converter and a controller for a standard digital format. This allows a jack for a standard digital frat to be incorporated into the turntable, so that digital signals are generated to be received by the soundcard of ...

12/01/05 - 20050265164 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and recording and reproducing method
A recording and reproducing apparatus comprises a communication section which acquires content information from an external device via a network, a recording section which records in a storage region the content information, and a control section which, after it has been detected that the content information stored in the recording ...

12/01/05 - 20050265163 - Recording method, information recording medium, reproducing method, information recording device, and information reproducing device
A recording method for recording information into an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers includes a step of recording information, for specifying a non-recording layer where user data are not recorded, onto at least one of the recording layers. ...

12/01/05 - 20050265162 - File system, file recording method, and file reading method
A file system is capable of reading and writing a large amount of stream data, such as digital video/audio data, in real time, and is also capable of efficiently dealing with a normal data file of a small size. In the file system, realtime stream data is recorded in a ...

12/01/05 - 20050265161 - Method of reproducing multimedia data using musicphotovideo profiles and reproducing apparatus using the method
A method and apparatus for reproducing multimedia data using a MusicPhotoVideo (MPV) profile. The method for reproducing multimedia data using a profile complying with the MPV standard, includes: detecting a reference element indicating that a predetermined profile among a plurality of supported profiles is used, in an MPV document; updating ...

12/01/05 - 20050265160 - Disk information display device
A disk information display device capable of displaying display data responding to the operation of operating part in a complete and in real time, the disk information display device includes: a disk information acquiring unit for acquiring information recorded on a disk; an operating part for making a request to ...

12/01/05 - 20050265159 - Digital information reproducing apparatus and method
High audibility output is realized when audio output is provided in special playback. In special playback with audio output, skip/repeat control is done so that decoding and outputting of the audio data is periodically repeated/skipped during part of one frame. The output level may be corrected so as to emphasize ...

12/01/05 - 20050265158 - Optical disk apparatus and optical-disk image forming method
An optical disk apparatus has a rotation section which rotates an optical disk having a photoimageable layer, a pickup section having a laser radiation section which irradiates the laser light onto the photoimageable layer, a driving section for the pickup section, an irradiation driving section which supplies a driving current ...

12/01/05 - 20050265157 - Optical disk apparatus and optical-disk image forming method
An optical disk apparatus comprises a rotation section which rotates an optical disk having a photoimageable layer that is made imageable by laser light, a pickup section having a laser radiation section, a driving section for the pickup section, an irradiation drive section for the laser radiation section, an input ...

12/01/05 - 20050265156 - Optical disc label recording method and apparatus using this method
A label position where a label is to be recorded is determined. Information of digital contents is recorded by a normal method at a position other than the label position on the information recording surface of a disc. On the other hand, information of the label is recorded at the ...

12/01/05 - 20050265155 - Optical disc apparatus
An optical disc apparatus has a disc motor which rotates an optical disc, a pickup which has a laser element driven by a drive current and irradiates the optical disc with a laser beam, a plurality of signal lines which transfers control information of the drive current to the pickup, ...

12/01/05 - 20050265154 - Optical disk apparatus and optical-disk image forming method
An optical disk apparatus has a rotation section rotates an optical disk having a photoimageable layer that is made imageable by laser light, a pickup section having a laser radiation section, a driving section of the pickup section, an irradiation driving section supplies a driving current in a continuous pulse ...

11/24/05 - 20050259536 - Automatically configuring storage array including a plurality of media storage devices for storing and providing data within a network of devices
An automatically configuring storage array includes a plurality of media storage devices coupled together within a network of devices. Preferably, the network of devices is an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network of devices. The media storage devices are utilized to record and retrieve streams of data transmitted within the network ...

11/24/05 - 20050259535 - Information reproduction and recording apparatus and information transfer module
An information reproduction and recording apparatus able to prevent invalid data not required for recording from being recorded on a recording medium when transferring reproduced information by a small number of signal lines such as a three-line serial peripheral interface, wherein a music data reproducing unit outputs a data signal ...

11/24/05 - 20050259534 - Changer type disc apparatus
A changer type disc apparatus having a disc changer portion, on which plural discs are mountable, a recording/playing portion for recording a video signal on a disc mounted on the disc changer portion and for playing the video signal recorded thereon, a tuner portion for outputting a video signal obtained ...

11/24/05 - 20050259533 - Tray drive
In the configuration including: a tray drive mechanism for reciprocally moving a tray with a drive motor as a power source; and a motor drive unit for driving the drive motor, after the movement of the tray in a retracted position is started by applying a first drive voltage to ...

11/24/05 - 20050259532 - All-in-one disc jockey media player with fixed storage drive and mixer
An all-in-one media player and mixer for a disc jockey has a fixed storage device capable for storing media thereon. The media player also has two interfaces having independent selectable settings and corresponding removable media devices attached thereto. Each interface is connected to the fixed storage device and generates its ...

11/24/05 - 20050259531 - Method for recording and reproducing representative audio data to/from a rewritable recording medium
The present invention writes location information on representative audio sections, each being specified within an audio track by a user, for audio tracks recorded in a high-capacity storage medium, and, if requested, reproduces representative audio sections only using the written location information, thereby helping a user find a desirable audio ...

11/17/05 - 20050254370 - Mass storage using modern compact disk
A mass storage device using an optical disk such as a compact disk, DVD-RW, BLU-RAY disk or the like to mimic to the operating system and BIOS of a electronic device the operations of a traditional magnetic fixed media device (hard drive). The invention teaches that an optical disk may ...

11/17/05 - 20050254369 - Disc reproducing apparatus
A disc reproducing apparatus is constructed so that an identification code of an optical disc is read out and contents of the optical disc are selected and the contents reproduced by a reproduction program of the optical disc are selected and a reproduction mode of the contents reproduced by the ...

11/17/05 - 20050254368 - Method for dynamically adjusting header region rf gain while accessing header regions of dvd-ram disc and apparatus thereof
A method for dynamically adjusting a header region RF gain of a variable gain amplifier while accessing header regions of a DVD-RAM disc, and apparatus thereof. The method includes the following steps: irradiating a light spot on the DVD-RAM disc with a pickup head; detecting a 4T peak-to-peak level of ...

11/17/05 - 20050254367 - Microminiature optical disc drive with wireless capability
A battery-operated, hand-held disc drive for an optical data storage disc contains a radio transceiver. Data read from the disc, for example a game or movie, are delivered to the transceiver and transmitted, preferably using a WiFi protocol, to a host device, such as a smartphone, PDA, ultra-light tablet or ...

11/17/05 - 20050254366 - Method and apparatus for selecting an audio track based upon audio excerpts
Methods, devices, systems and data structures are provided for selecting an audio track on a digital audio player. A user of a digital media player is able to select a desired audio track by listening to excerpts of various tracks until the desired track is identified. One exemplary technique for ...

11/17/05 - 20050254365 - Portable media player
The invention provides a portable media player comprising: a processor; a drive mechanism coupled to said processor, said drive mechanism being adapted to receive a disc having data stored thereon; memory coupled to said processor; an output device coupled to said processor through which an audio signal may be output; ...

11/17/05 - 20050254364 - Information generation device, information reproduction device, and information recording device
Change copy control information (XCI1, XCI2, XXI1, and XXI2) and normal copy control information (CCI1 and CCI2) are superimposed on reproduced information and are distributed. The change copy control information is used when a changing operation for changing the quality of reproduced information is performed, and the normal copy control ...

11/17/05 - 20050254363 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, reproduction program, and recording medium
For a large capacity recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility and enriched representation is accomplished. A flag that represents whether a play item has a multiple angle structure of which the play item is reproduced with a plurality of angles is described. In addition, a flag that represents ...

11/10/05 - 20050249071 - Optical reproducing method for optical medium with aligned prepit portion
A recording method for an optical recording medium having an aligned prepit portion straddled on a plurality of tracks in a radial direction, wherein the prepit portion includes first and second prepit portions divided in a track direction. A prepit of the respective first and second prepit portions is arranged ...

11/10/05 - 20050249070 - Optical reproducing method for optical medium with aligned prepit portion
A recording apparatus for recording information to an optical recording medium having an aligned prepit portion straddled on a plurality of tracks in a radial direction, which prepit portion includes first and second prepit portions divided in a track direction. A prepit of the respective first and second prepit portions ...

11/10/05 - 20050249069 - Disk apparatus and entertainment apparatus
A disk apparatus has a main assembly and a casing housing the main assembly therein. The main assembly includes: an actuating unit for rotating a disk for recording information thereon and/or reproducing information therefrom; an information reading/writing unit for reproducing information recorded on the disk which is being rotated by ...

11/10/05 - 20050249068 - Recording apparatus, visible image forming method, recording medium and computer data signal
When an optical recording device of a recording apparatus that is for executing optical recording of information on an optical disk records data on an optical disk, it obtains information by which the content of the data optically recorded can be guessed from the data recorded or from data of ...

11/10/05 - 20050249067 - Recording medium having efm demodulation unit for adaptively re-aligning efm demodulation point, device and method for playing the same
Provided are a recording medium, a recording medium playing device and method, which has an EFM demodulation unit for adaptively realigning an EFM demodulation point. The recording medium demodulates first data into second data in response to a channel clock signal recovered from the first data, compares a demodulation point ...

11/10/05 - 20050249066 - Apparatus for retrieving data from detachable optical driver
A detachable optical driver includes a detachable box, a signal import and export device installed in the detachable box, a playing platform; and an encoding/decoding module connecting to and positioned inside the playing platform for being able to export said data to a display facility. The detachable optical driver is ...

11/10/05 - 20050249065 - Recording medium having high melting point recording layer, information recording method thereof, and information reproducing apparatus and method therefor
A simple-structured recording medium without a mask layer and information recording and reproducing methods, which resolve thermal stability related problems arising during reproduction, the recording medium including a high melting point recording layer between first and second dielectric layers. The method of recording information on the recording medium involves irradiating ...

10/20/05 - 20050232101 - Filter circuit
An R-2R resistor circuit network 12 used in a filter circuit according to the present invention has a path through which each branch current flows to a next integrating capacitor and a path through which each branch current flows to a low impedance analog midpoint (ground potential) Vss. The path ...

09/29/05 - 20050213445 - Device for processing demonstration signals and demonstration control data
At a playback device (10) comprising at least one signal processing means for processing a signal and switching means for switching the playback device (10) into a demonstration mode a demonstration of an inherent function of the playback device (10) can be performed. Therein supply means (40) for supplying demonstration ...

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