Patents
Patents for G11B 19 - Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor; Control thereof; Control of operating function (26,229)
07/2004
07/20/2004US6766462 System for playing music CDs on a computer in power-saving mode
07/20/2004US6765855 Signal detection circuit for optical disk
07/20/2004US6765754 Flexible disk drive comprising an index detection hall element having an improved detection sensitive condition of a magnetic field
07/15/2004WO2004059644A1 Writing data to an optical disc
07/15/2004WO2004059640A1 Copy protection for a data carrier
07/15/2004WO2004059639A1 Data recording/reproducing device, and data processing method and program
07/15/2004WO2004059638A1 Disk device, method for controlling disk device, and program for disk device controlling method
07/15/2004WO2004059453A1 Optical record carrier recording apparatus
07/15/2004WO2004042530A3 Controller and removable user interface (rui) for media presentation
07/15/2004US20040139454 Disk identifying device
07/15/2004US20040136694 Recording apparatus and recording method
07/15/2004US20040136693 Recording apparatus and recording method
07/15/2004US20040136692 Apparatus for recording and/or playing back catalog information
07/15/2004US20040136625 Hydrodynamic bearing and disc rotation apparatus using the same
07/15/2004US20040136308 Apparatus for manufacturing information record medium, information record medium, information recording apparatus and information recording method
07/15/2004US20040136297 Method for determining disc type
07/15/2004US20040136296 Method for correcting disc type determination
07/15/2004US20040136293 Disc player system
07/15/2004US20040136284 Disk drive and pre-pit detection method
07/15/2004US20040136114 Servo track writer with helium bearing
07/15/2004US20040136108 Method and apparatus write control in a disk drive
07/15/2004US20040136105 Information storage system, and a method of operating it
07/15/2004US20040135462 Spindle motor
07/15/2004US20040135450 Magnetic levitation motor
07/14/2004EP1437739A2 Information playback apparatus and information playback method
07/14/2004EP1437732A1 Portable Digital Video Recorder
07/14/2004EP1437716A1 Storage medium type identifying method
07/14/2004EP1436983A1 Universal remote control capable of simulating a skip search
07/14/2004EP1282899B1 Copy protection system
07/14/2004EP0920694B1 Disc-shaped information carrier provided with two portions having different read-out speeds
07/14/2004CN1512501A Play list management device and method
07/14/2004CN1157732C Recording medium, recording device and read-out device
07/14/2004CN1157728C Reproduction apparatus, and reproduction method of informaton storing disk
07/14/2004CN1157726C Driving unit and driving method
07/13/2004US6763429 Method and apparatus for recording and playing back information
07/13/2004US6762983 Optical disc drive and method of controlling rotation number of a spindle motor for rotating an optical disc
07/08/2004WO2004057603A1 Electronic device and system for reproducing content
07/08/2004WO2004057595A1 Recording medium device
07/08/2004WO2004057475A1 Module for reading a data carrier
07/08/2004WO2004057455A2 Power saving method for portable streaming devices
07/08/2004WO2002043065A3 A copy protected dvd disc and method for producing and validating same
07/08/2004US20040133523 Method for controlling access to disc data and method for indentifying disc
07/08/2004US20040133519 Method for preventing unauthorized copy application program execution, its program, its program recording apparatus, and its program recording medium
07/08/2004US20040131343 Partitioning of spindle motor driver control and waveshape circutry between mixed signal and digital IC's
07/08/2004US20040131334 Apparatus for reproducing AV data in interactive mode, method of handling user input, and information storage medium therefor
07/08/2004US20040131327 Portable recording playback apparatus
07/08/2004US20040130991 Recording medium type determining apparatus and recording medium type determining method
07/08/2004US20040130990 Medium judgment method, storage medium, medium judgment program, and optical disk drive using the medium judgment method
07/08/2004US20040130988 Method for detecting upside down disk placement in an optical disk reading device
07/08/2004US20040130987 Method and device of detecting the disk type of an optical disc
07/08/2004US20040130986 Optical disk apparatus which determines the type of optical disk
07/08/2004DE10305633A1 Hydrodynamic pressure bearing for spindle motor of disk drive, provides bearing clearance with groove between sleeve and plate, to generate pressure larger than atmospheric pressure
07/08/2004DE10261045A1 Kopierschutz für Datenträger Copy protection for media
07/07/2004CN2624345Y Integrated information recording/reproduce device
07/07/2004CN1510821A Mainshaft motor
07/07/2004CN1510676A Optical medium identification method
07/07/2004CN1510671A Disc self-aligning apparatus
07/07/2004CN1510664A Actuation of compact disc after completion of writing program
07/07/2004CN1510316A Fluid dynamic pressure bearing, motor and recording medium driver
07/07/2004CN1156846C Data reproducing method and apparatus, and data processing system
07/07/2004CN1156844C Recording method and apparatus, reproducing method and apparatus
07/07/2004CN1156843C Device and method for code judging, record medium judging and information record
07/07/2004CN1156838C Device and method distinguishing CD disc
07/07/2004CN1156837C Data conversion apparatus with safety circuit
07/07/2004CN1156827C CD Playing-back device
07/06/2004US6760846 System for determining and supplying stabilized voltage from a power supply to a data processor after a fluctuating period
07/06/2004US6760540 Information storage medium and apparatus for reproducing the same
07/06/2004US6760289 Optical disc drive and method of discriminating various types of optical discs
07/06/2004US6760287 Optical disk unit
07/06/2004US6760281 Push-button speed change device for CD ROM drive
07/06/2004US6760187 Hydrodynamic bearing and disk apparatus
07/06/2004US6759824 Motor controller and method of driving DC motor
07/06/2004US6759821 Disk drive apparatus and motor
07/06/2004US6759784 Spindle motor having spindle motor stator with laminate layers for increased head stack assembly access
07/06/2004US6758597 Bearing member and method for manufacturing the same and dynamic pressure bearing device
07/01/2004WO2004056095A1 System,method and apparatus for searching for and automatically recording broac ast programmes
07/01/2004WO2004055820A1 Method and circuit for operating a storage device
07/01/2004WO2004055817A1 Recording and reproducing system, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, record medium, recording and reproducing method, recording method, reproducing method, program and record medium
07/01/2004WO2004055812A1 Recorder data recording method, recorder, data recording program, recorded medium on which the program is recorded
07/01/2004WO2004055787A1 Record carrier comprising multiple sets of recording parameters
07/01/2004WO2004044911A3 Method and device for preventing use of non-original optical media
07/01/2004US20040128457 Disk drive with copy function
07/01/2004US20040128411 Regulating real-time data capture rates to match processor-bound data consumption rates
07/01/2004US20040128409 Optical storage transfer performance
07/01/2004US20040126095 Optical disk apparatus and optical disk processing method and optical disk
07/01/2004US20040125727 Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device
07/01/2004US20040125497 Devices and systems for setting thresholds for rotatable storage media
07/01/2004US20040125496 Methods for setting thresholds for rotatable storage media
07/01/2004US20040125495 Devices and systems for setting end-of-seek criteria for rotatable storage media
07/01/2004US20040125493 Magnectic disk protection mechanism, computer system comprising protection mechanism, protection method for magnetic disk, and program for protection method
07/01/2004US20040125490 Electronic apparatus and shockproof method
07/01/2004US20040125075 DVD remote control with interchangeable, title-specific interactive panels
07/01/2004US20040124800 Method for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk drive startup operation
07/01/2004US20040124799 Apparatus for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk drive startup
07/01/2004US20040123725 Playlist managing apparatus and method
07/01/2004CA2508629A1 Record carrier comprising multiple sets of recording parameters
06/2004
06/30/2004EP1434334A1 Magnetic disk device
06/30/2004EP1434227A2 Data storage and reproduction apparatus storing and reproducing multimedia data
06/30/2004EP1434217A2 Optical disk drive and method of setting recording power at different recording speeds
06/30/2004EP1434216A2 Method and device for discriminating type of multi-layer optical disc