| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,408,868 |
Information storage medium, information recording method, and information
recording/reproduction apparatus This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording... |
| US-7,408,867 |
Method of aligning an optical fiber, method of manufacturing a
semiconductor laser module, and semiconductor... A method of aligning an optical fiber according to the present invention has a first step of aligning an optical fiber by moving the optical fiber and finding a... |
| US-7,408,866 |
Objective lens for optical pickup apparatus, optical pickup apparatus and
optical information recording... An objective lens, comprises a first diffractive structure having plural concentric ring-shaped zones. A n1-th order diffracted ray is converged on an... |
| US-7,408,865 |
Optical information recording apparatus and optical information
reproducing apparatus using holography It is an object of the invention to record and reproduce information successfully even when light having small energy is used for hologram. A drive means to move... |
| US-7,408,864 |
Information storage medium having optimal power control areas An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an... |
| US-7,408,863 |
Digital signal processing method, data recording and reproducing
apparatus, and data recording medium that are... With two consecutive product-coded ECC blocks, EB1 and EB2, as a set, the rth row of first ECB block EB1 is followed by the rth row of second ECC block EB2 in... |
| US-7,408,862 |
Writable recording medium identification information recording method
information recording device... An information playback method and apparatus that includes reading first identification information from an auxiliary recording region of a recording medium,... |
| US-7,408,861 |
Recording or reproduction apparatus for optical recording media having
means for increasing the resolution of a... The invention relates to a recording or reproduction apparatus for optical recording media having means for increasing the resolution of a digital-to-analog... |
| US-7,408,860 |
Method of recording information in optical recording medium, information
recording apparatus and optical... It is an object of the present invention to provide an information recording method for recording information in a data rewritable type optical recording medium... |
| US-7,408,859 |
Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information on and from
recording disc A recording disc has a lead-in area and a data area. A scrambled version of a SID code word is read out from the lead-in area of the disc. The SID code word... |
| US-7,408,858 |
Information storage medium including a system lead-in area, a connection
area, a data lead-in area and a data area According to one embodiment, a storage medium includes a burst cutting area at an inner periphery, wherein the burst cutting area has includes plural... |
| US-7,408,857 |
Method and apparatus for managing defects in recording media, a computer
readable medium including computer... A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for managing recording medium defects and a defect managed recording medium. The recording medium includes a... |
| US-7,408,856 |
Method of recording data on information storage medium having multiple
storage layers with optimal power... An information storage medium and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the information storage medium capable of controlling optimal recording power... |
| US-7,408,855 |
Disk drive with an adjustable motor and method for adjusting rotation
speed of the motor A method for adjusting rotation speed of a driving motor in a disk drive prior to power on of a computer, includes: (i) inputting an external signal into the... |
| US-7,408,854 |
Optical disc reproducing apparatus and method An optical disc reproducing apparatus including: a reading unit which reads audio data recorded in an optical disc; a storage unit which stores the audio data... |
| US-7,408,853 |
Reproduction-only recording medium, reproducing apparatus, reproducing
method, and disk manufacturing method A ROM disk having a block data format provided with linking areas as with a rewritable disk. Main data recorded in a main data area and linking data recorded in... |
| US-7,408,852 |
Rewritable optical recording medium, recording method on the same, and
optical disc recording/retrieving apparatus In a rewritable compact disc having a wobble groove on a substrate, crystal and amorphous states of a phase-change recording layer are an unrecorded/erased state... |
| US-7,408,851 |
Pseudo multi-channel play-back apparatus Compressed audio data for 5.1 channels stored in the DVD-ROM 11A is read by the AC-3 decoder 12 of a pseudo multi-channel stereo play-back apparatus and, after... |
| US-7,408,850 |
Method for decoding data received from a data source using hardware
configuration data received from the same... Today the storage of audiovisual (AV) data on storage media employs standardized coding schemes, e.g. MPEG-2. End user devices for AV presentation, like disc... |
| US-7,408,849 |
Tilt adjustment device for an optical disk drive A tilt adjustment device for adjusting tilt of a left guide bar with respect to a right guide bar, and includes a holding seat and a cylindrical-shaped bushing... |
| US-7,408,848 |
Objective lens actuator An objective lens actuator which mainly using an objective lens holder with a flat form facilitates manufacture and fabrication. Also the objective lens actuator... |
| US-7,408,847 |
Integrated type optical head with sheet waveguide and light coupler An integrated optical head is provided. In the integrated optical head, a light source emits light. A waveguide guides the light. An input coupler is located at... |
| US-7,408,846 |
Ornamental article The ornamental article is a bangle or ring which can house a watch or item of jewelry. The article has two or more planar portions fixed at a 90.degree. angle... |
| US-7,408,845 |
Radio corrected clock A radio correcting timepiece that can reduce the influence of a radio wave situation of the standard radio wave having time information according to an area, and... |
| US-7,408,844 |
Calendar watch provided with locking means A calendar watch is arranged to allow time-setting to be carried out without this operation altering the state of the calendar mechanism at the passage to... |
| US-7,408,843 |
Medicine cap timing apparatus A medicine cap with a timing mechanism that automatically resets upon the removal of the cap from a medicine bottle. A timing device is housed within a medicine... |
| US-7,408,842 |
Sonar dome The Invention is a reinforced plastic sonar dome having a low acoustical insertion loss combined with sufficient mechanical strength. Acoustical and structural... |
| US-7,408,841 |
System and method for calculating the directivity index of a passive
acoustic array A software system and method is presented that calculates the sensor directivity at all spatial angles, and stores these values in a two dimensional matrix.... |
| US-7,408,840 |
System and method for disambiguating shooter locations Systems and methods for determining and disambiguating the location of the shooter of supersonic projectiles based on shockwave-only signals are described. Using... |
| US-7,408,839 |
Distance measurement for wireless building automation devices In a building environment, a distance associated with a building automation device is determined as a function of an inserted time delay between a wireless... |
| US-7,408,838 |
Digitizing planimeter A planimeter includes a movable housing in which are mounted orthogonally aimed x- and y-position sensors. Each position sensor comprises a piezoelectric... |
| US-7,408,837 |
Measurement while drilling tool and method An apparatus for telemetering a downhole parameter from a well. The apparatus comprises a housing having a bore. The apparatus further comprises an annular main... |
| US-7,408,836 |
Method of and apparatus for processing seismic data in the presence of
anisotropy A method of and apparatus for processing seismic data. A method of processing seismic data comprising the steps acquiring seismic data in at least two shots that... |
| US-7,408,835 |
Optically readable molecular memory obtained using carbon nanotubes, and
method for storing information in said... Described herein is an optically readable memory device comprising a molecular memory obtained using carbon nanotubes. In particular, the molecular memory uses,... |
| US-7,408,834 |
Flash controller cache architecture A buffer cache interposed between a non-volatile memory and a host may be partitioned into segments that may operate with different policies. Cache policies... |
| US-7,408,833 |
Simulating a floating wordline condition in a memory device, and related
techniques A memory device and methods to exploit extra or dummy wordlines in the memory device, wherein the extra wordlines are not part of a main memory area of the... |
| US-7,408,832 |
Memory control method and apparatuses A memory control method, a memory controller, and a memory device implementing the method are provided. The memory controller controls the memory device... |
| US-7,408,831 |
Semiconductor device including voltage level conversion output circuit A semiconductor device for easily changing an operating voltage of an I/O circuit. The I/O circuit includes a first I/O cell, which operates with a first... |
| US-7,408,830 |
Dynamic power supplies for semiconductor devices This invention discloses a power supply management circuit which comprises at least one switching circuit coupled between a power supply and a power recipient... |
| US-7,408,829 |
Methods and arrangements for enhancing power management systems in
integrated circuits Methods and arrangements to configure power management systems for integrated circuits are provided herein. A group of IC components that are functionally... |
| US-7,408,828 |
System and method for reducing power consumption during extended refresh
periods of dynamic random access... A dynamic random access memory ("DRAM") device is operable in either a normal refresh mode or a static refresh mode, such as a self-refresh mode. A cell plate... |
| US-7,408,827 |
Pulse generation scheme for improving the speed and robustness of a
current sense amplifier without... Disclosed herein is a current sense amplifier (ISA) circuit with increased speed, less insensitivities to process variation, better stability and improved output... |
| US-7,408,826 |
Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device that includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells that are connected between a bit line pair, which transfers... |
| US-7,408,825 |
Apparatus and method for repairing a semiconductor memory An apparatus and method for repairing a semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell array, a first redundant cell array and a repair circuit... |
| US-7,408,824 |
Ferroelectric memory with spare memory cell array and ECC circuit A semiconductor memory comprising a memory cell array, a spare memory cell array, a spare data replacing circuit, a syndrome computing circuit, and an ECC... |
| US-7,408,823 |
Semiconductor device and method thereof A semiconductor device and method thereof. The semiconductor device may include a protection unit receiving an input signal and outputting a switching control... |
| US-7,408,822 |
Alignment of memory read data and clocking Circuits and methods are provided for aligning data read from a memory with an output clock signal when the memory is operated at very high clock frequencies. To... |
| US-7,408,821 |
Method for error compensation and a memory control device adapted for
error compensation A memory control device and a memory control method are provided to compensate for additional delay subsequent to the change in environmental factors and to... |
| US-7,408,820 |
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory with virtual ground array A nonvolatile semiconductor memory of virtual ground array in which a common connection of the sources and a common connection of the drains of nonvolatile... |
| US-7,408,819 |
Semiconductor memory device with a page buffer having an improved layout
arrangement A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a matrix of memory cells adapted to store data and arranged in a plurality of bit lines, the bit lines... |