Patents
Patents for G11B 20 - Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor (81,980)
09/1996
09/25/1996EP0734019A1 Information processing method, information processing device and media
09/25/1996EP0734018A2 Audio data processing apparatus
09/25/1996EP0733292A1 Picture data recording apparatus and picture data reproducing apparatus
09/25/1996EP0733239A1 Database system with local information remotely supported with dynamic information
09/25/1996EP0667063B1 Process for transmitting and/or storing digital signals from several channels
09/25/1996EP0643886B1 Dynamic loader
09/25/1996EP0582583B1 Video recorder for the recording of video signals transmitted by the letterbox process
09/25/1996CN1131879A Data reproducing method and data reproducing apparatus
09/25/1996CN1131865A Apparatus for processing digital video signal
09/25/1996CN1131852A Data reproducing device
09/25/1996CN1131799A Signal reproducing apparatus and signal reproducing method
09/25/1996CN1131797A Optical disc reproducing method and apparatus
09/25/1996CN1131796A Copy prevention method and apparatus of digital magnetic recording/reproducing system
09/25/1996CN1131795A Optical disc and information management system for the same
09/25/1996CN1131794A Apparatus for modifying time scale modification of speech
09/25/1996CN1131789A Method and apparatus for detecting degradation in data storage system spindle motor performance
09/25/1996CN1131528A Cord winder for vacuum cleaner
09/24/1996US5559983 Single chip controller for optical data disk drives
09/24/1996US5559840 Digital timing recovery method and apparatus for a coded data channel
09/24/1996US5559813 Digital data processing system for transmitting information groups divided into segments comprised of video data, edc's, ecc's and sync data
09/24/1996US5559786 Information recording on a track by logical operation of the information on a neighboring track
09/24/1996US5559782 Recording method and recording and reproducing apparatus for optical disk
09/24/1996US5559781 System for recording digital information in a pulse-length modulation format
09/24/1996US5559780 Recording apparatus for an optical recording medium
09/24/1996US5559779 Digital audio recorder using external memory medium and leading portion audio data memory
09/24/1996US5559778 Apparatus and method for completing an incomplete recording on an optical disc
09/24/1996US5559777 Optical recording method employing pit edge recording on recording medium divided into a plurality of zones wherein recording parameters vary from zone to zone
09/24/1996US5559775 Clock detection device of information recording/reproducing apparatus and clock detection device of information recording apparatus
09/24/1996US5559774 Optical disc reproducing apparatus which employs a binary detector for the outer tracks and a ternary detector for the inner tracks
09/24/1996US5559765 Disk drive access controller
09/24/1996US5559764 HMC: A hybrid mirror-and-chained data replication method to support high data availability for disk arrays
09/24/1996US5559647 Magnetic disk controller which avoids erroneous write operations to ZBR-type magnetic disks upon detection of a next sector mark from the ZBR magnetic disk
09/24/1996US5559645 Disk recording apparatus with adaptive window adjusting
09/24/1996US5559644 Data recording/reproducing apparatus having a first error correcting code on both sides of a main data area of each azimuth track
09/24/1996US5559642 Reproducing device used with a record carrier containing two sides recorded in opposite directions that determines the selection of particular read back characteristics
09/24/1996US5559608 Method of digitally compressed video and audio data
09/24/1996US5559607 Apparatus for controlling reproduction speed for laser disc player
09/24/1996US5559460 Peak detection circuit for suppressing magnetoresistive thermal asperity transients in a data channel
09/19/1996WO1996028822A1 Signal recording method, apparatus using the same, and recording medium
09/19/1996WO1996028820A1 Read/write protect scheme for a disk cartridge and drive
09/19/1996WO1996028816A2 Device for optically scanning a recording medium
09/19/1996WO1996028814A1 A method and system for writing a servo-pattern on a storage medium
09/19/1996WO1996028813A1 Recording/reproducing device
09/19/1996WO1996028760A1 Combination digital and analog soundtrack system and method
09/19/1996WO1996020474A3 A method and device for use with helical scan data recording by implementing a reed-solomon product code, a unitary medium comprising such data, and a cassette comprising such medium
09/19/1996DE19603858A1 Asymmetrical signal offset detector for signal reproducing device e.g. for magnetic recording
09/18/1996EP0732698A1 Method and apparatus for encoding
09/18/1996EP0732697A1 Optical disk playback and recording device
09/18/1996EP0732653A2 Disk array system
09/18/1996EP0731970A1 Rom-ram-disk
09/18/1996EP0731968A1 Retrieving data recorded at different bit densities
09/18/1996EP0631686B1 Computer disk drive integrated data path circuit optimized for handling both data and servo signals
09/18/1996EP0446261B1 Improved disc unit
09/18/1996CN1131373A NTSC/PAL-M discrimination circuit and chrominance signal reproducing method
09/18/1996CN1131369A Method and apparatus for reproducing/recording at variable speeds dependent upon the bit rate of the MPEG encoded signal
09/18/1996CN1131360A Data decoding method and system
09/18/1996CN1131323A Disk medium drive apparatus equipped with display function and display method for the same
09/18/1996CN1131320A Method of and apparatus for recording and reproducing data and transmitting data
09/18/1996CN1131319A Decoder for decoding still picture data and data on with data length of still picture data is recorded, reproducing apparatus for reproducing recording medium, and reproducing method thereof
09/18/1996CN1131314A Optical recording medium
09/18/1996CN1131311A Mass production of multisession discs
09/18/1996CN1131310A Video-song accompaniment apparatus using CD and having double use of CD-ROM driver
09/17/1996US5557770 Disk storage apparatus and method for converting random writes to sequential writes while retaining physical clustering on disk
09/17/1996US5557602 Optical recording medium, recording and reproducing method and tracking error generating method
09/17/1996US5557594 Apparatus for processing digital data
09/17/1996US5557593 System for recording digital information in a pulse-length modulation format
09/17/1996US5557592 Reproducing apparatus for reproducing information from a recording medium with pit edges shifted in a step-wise fashion
09/17/1996US5557591 Track counting servo circuit and method therefor
09/17/1996US5557590 Auto changer capable of recording/reproducing information signals on a selective disc-shaped recording medium
09/17/1996US5557541 Apparatus for distributing subscription and on-demand audio programming
09/17/1996US5557482 Multipath channel apparatus and method for data storage devices and communications systems wherein a data path is selected based on errors
09/17/1996US5557481 NRZ to RLL encoder circuit in disk drive read/write channel
09/17/1996US5557418 Video tape format for providing special effects capabilities
09/17/1996US5557336 Video recording and/or reproducing apparatus that records a signal indicating aspect ratio
09/17/1996US5557335 Time base corrector for video signal
09/17/1996US5557274 Ad converter and magnetic recording/regenerating apparatus using the same
09/17/1996US5557183 Method and apparatus for predicting failure of a disk drive
09/17/1996CA2074691C Information reproducing circuit
09/12/1996WO1996027882A1 Defect management for automatic track processing without id field
09/12/1996WO1996027881A1 Device and method for reproducing data from disk, method for controlling rotation of disk, and reproduction clock generating device
09/11/1996EP0731606A2 Digital signal recording and reproducing method and recording medium therefor
09/11/1996EP0731455A2 Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus and method
09/11/1996EP0731454A1 Optical recording method, optical recording apparatus and optical recording medium
09/11/1996EP0731421A2 Information recording medium and information recording and reproducing method
09/11/1996EP0731420A2 System for optically recording/reproducing multimedia information using code data
09/11/1996EP0730796A1 Apparatus and methods for displaying text in conjunction with recorded audio programs
09/11/1996EP0700568A4 Synchronizing digital audio to digital video
09/11/1996EP0455749B1 Read channel detector for use in digital magnetic recording systems
09/11/1996CN1130961A Method and device for encoding signal, method and device for decoding signal, recording medium, and signal transmitting device
09/11/1996CN1130953A Data recorder
09/11/1996CN1130843A Program information broadcasting system, program information display method, and receiving device
09/11/1996CN1130792A Record/reproducing machine for information data
09/11/1996CN1130786A Video compact disc having caption data recorded thereon and reproducing method and apparatus thereof
09/10/1996US5555516 Multipurpose error correction calculation circuit
09/10/1996US5555278 Semiconductor circuit having phase lock function
09/10/1996US5555237 Contamination detection apparatus and method using write power calibration values
09/10/1996US5555231 Information recording method, method for reproducing recorded information, and apparatus therefor
09/10/1996US5555230 Multichannel digital-signal reproducing apparatus for switching access timing relative to reproducing timing
09/10/1996US5555229 Method and arrangement for recording/reproducing compressed program information on a recording medium containing a plurality of programs
09/10/1996US5555098 Method and apparatus for providing multiple programmed audio/still image presentations from a digital disc image player