Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
369083000 | EDITING OF STORED INFORMATION | 23 |
20080212441 | Apparatus and Method for Digital Content Concealment - A copy protected compact disc ( | 09-04-2008 |
20080212442 | Methods, programs, storage media and systems for recording and compiling a music section - This disclosure relates to a method for recording and compiling a music section, wherein multiple takes of the music section are recorded; and wherein the method uses a take folder to store the multiple takes. The take folder may belong to a single track. Sections of one or more takes can be selected to be part of a resulting compilation which is composed of the selected sections. In one embodiment, a method automatically ensures that selected sections do not overlap in time and that there are no breaks between adjacent selections. In addition, the present invention relates to programs, a storage media and data processing systems having the above features as well as to a storage medium containing the music produced thereby. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212443 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program recording medium, and data recording medium - A management center registers user information that includes user identification information for identifying a user terminal and improvement-information identification information for identifying improvement information recorded in an optical disk and processed by the user terminal. When a user terminal requests improvement information through a network, the management center searches for another user terminal that can provide necessary information, according to user information, and obtains the improvement information from the another user terminal searched for, through the network. The management center then provides the obtained improvement information for the user terminal that requested it, through the network. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219122 | Dead on demand technology - The present invention relates to a system and method for destroying at least the data contained on a data storage media upon the occurrence of certain events. | 09-11-2008 |
20080273439 | MOBILE RECORDING MEDIUM INCLUDING REPRODUCTION SETTING INFORMATION, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING CONTENTS USING REPRODUCTION SETTING INFORMATION - An apparatus for reproducing contents includes a reading unit which reads at least one of a plurality of reproduction setting information and at least one of a plurality of contents from a mobile recording medium, a control unit which analyzes the at least one of the plurality of reproduction setting information and sets a reproduction environment to reproduce the contents recorded on the mobile recording medium based on the analyzed at least one of the plurality of reproduction setting information, and a reproduction unit which reproduces the at least one of the plurality of contents based on the set reproduction environment. | 11-06-2008 |
20090080308 | RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - A recording apparatus for recording information on a recording medium on which rewrite can be performed by using an optical element, the recording apparatus including: an information recording unit adapted to record overwrite inhibit information indicating that overwrite on the recording medium is inhibited, in a predetermined zone before start of recording on the recording medium; and a recording determination unit adapted to determine whether or not the recording on the recording medium is succeeded, in which the information recording unit performs the recording by filling the predetermined zone with overwrite permit information indicating that overwrite on the recording medium is permitted in a case where the recording determination unit determines that the recording on the recording medium is succeeded. | 03-26-2009 |
20090147649 | Sound Playback and Editing Through Physical Interaction - The disclosure relates to sound playback and editing apparatus. The editing apparatus uses user interaction to allow the user to instinctively modify recorded sound. This can be achieved by converting a quality of the user's physical interactions with the editing apparatus into instructions for processing the sound. For example, in one embodiment the user can mix sound files by ‘mixing’, i.e. shaking, physical representations of those sound files (such as the recording medium on which the files are stored) alone or together. | 06-11-2009 |
20090245062 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING AN OPTICAL DISC - A method is provided for editing an optical disc having a plurality of application-functional-layers. The method comprises the steps of obtaining description information of an edit performed on a program data in one of the layers, and generating a sharing information according to the description information in order to correspondingly edit application files in the other layer (s) of the optical disc. With the method and apparatus, the edit performed on one layer of the optical disc may be identified in other functional layer (s) and be used to edit and update the corresponding application files in those layers, so as to avoid conflict between the program data and application file. | 10-01-2009 |
20090257335 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing method includes the steps of: dividing an audio signal data stream into a plurality of selection segments; determining a target segment in the audio signal data stream, the target segment including a splice point for splicing a splice segment thereto; selecting one of the selection segments as the splice segment according to at least one parameter of the target segment; and processing the target segment and the splice segment to splice the splice segment to the target segment, and outputting a processed segment. | 10-15-2009 |
20090323491 | DISK IMAGE OPTIMIZATION - Incremental optimizations and modifications to a disk image can be made after the initial generation of the disk image. In the case of video games, publishers who have access only to a final game image can use the invention to make small improvements to the game disc image without the original game assets and without incurring the cost of generating an entirely new disc image. A mapping data structure represents physical locations of data on disk. The mapping data structure is modified with an editor, and the resulting modified layout is tested using an emulator that emulates interaction between a computer readable medium with the modified layout and computer hardware. | 12-31-2009 |
20100214900 | METHOD FOR DELETING DATA OF OPTICAL DISK AND OPTICAL DISK DRIVE INCLUDING OPTICAL DISK EMULATION - Provided are a method and a device for permanently erasing data of an optical disk in an optical disk drive including an optical disk emulation. According to the method, an erase command of data recorded on an optical disk is received and it is determined whether the optical disk is a rewritable optical disk or not. Then, an output power of a laser to be projected is raised when the optical disk is the rewritable optical disk and then the data recorded on the optical disk are erased through an output power of the laser. Furthermore, the optical disk drive includes an optical disk storage unit, a contents memory unit, a disk type determination unit, a laser power adjustor, a pick-up unit, and a controller. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220571 | Optical disc medium and data recording method and apparatus - An optical disc medium and corresponding optical recording method and optical recording apparatus. The optical disc medium comprises a substrate on which a shape according to modulated information data has been formed, and a coating film formed on the substrate. Known data is recorded in a predetermined location of the information data, with the known data being rewritten as postscript information by recording a postscript portion to the coating film to alter a portion of the known data, wherein the postscript information comprises readable non-error data. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220572 | HARD DRIVE ERASER - Systems, apparatuses and methods for erasing hard drives. A system, which can be configured as a stand alone and portable apparatus, includes a control device configured to support an erase module. The erase module is configured to erase a hard drive such that data erased from the hard drive is forensically unrecoverable. The system further includes a user interface and at least one drive bay configured to provide communication between a hard drive and the control device. | 09-02-2010 |
20100246360 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, ERASURE APPARATUS AND ERASURE METHOD THEREOF - A new optical recording medium capable of reducing the burden in erasing data in the optical recording medium is provided. The optical recording medium includes an organic pigment recording layer | 09-30-2010 |
20100246361 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING STANDARD DVDS INTO BLU-RAY FORMAT - In various embodiments, systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided to repurpose DVD authored content allowing any movie experience, high definition video, high quality sound, and/or interactivity provided by the DVD authored content to be accessed via next generation optical disc players. In one embodiment, DVD authored content may be stored as-is on a Blu-ray Disc for playback on a Blu-ray Disc player. The Blu-ray Disc player can be configured to interpret DVD navigations information in the DVD authored content and/or reformat audio/video information in the DVD authored content allowing any movie experience, high definition video, high quality sound, and/or interactivity provided by the DVD authored content to be experienced by users. | 09-30-2010 |
20100290330 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERMANENTLY DELETING DATA OF OPTICAL DISK - The present invention relates to a method for eternally erasing data recorded on an optical disk by generating an optical scratch on the optical disk. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for eternally erasing data recorded on an optical disk by disturbing a laser beam at a predetermined frequency and amplitude while irradiating the laser beam having a predetermined power and at the same time moving a sled. | 11-18-2010 |
20110075540 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus that performs recording of data on a disc-shaped recording medium including a recording area, which is capable of recording user data therein, and a replacement area, which is replaced by a defect area included in the recording area, includes a setting section configured to replace a portion of the recording area by the replacement area, and set the portion of the recording area as an area for adjustment, and an adjustment section configured to perform adjustment by using the area for adjustment. | 03-31-2011 |
20110134738 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUGGESTING DATA FOR DELETION - An approach is provided for suggesting data for deletion from an electronic data storage medium. An external device detects initiation of transfer of data from first storage medium to second storage medium. Next, the external device determines an available storage in the second storage medium for the data. Then, the external device generates a list to suggest content for deletion within the second storage medium to accommodate the data. | 06-09-2011 |
20120014240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING MANUFACTURER INFORMATION ON A RECORDING MEDIUM AND FOR DETERMINING WHETHER THE MANUFACTURER INFORMATION IS EFFECTIVE - A recording medium and a recording apparatus for storing manufacturer information for supporting specific functions for each manufacturer and a method therefor. A reproducing apparatus for reproducing manufacturer information for supporting specific functions and a method therefor is also provided. If a recording apparatus modifies the contents of the recording medium, then it should record its manufacturer's identification code. A recording apparatus/reproducing apparatus should check the identification code on the recording medium before using its own manufacture information item for some specific function. Also, it is possible to reduce the time required to determine whether the manufacturer information items are effective. | 01-19-2012 |
20130100791 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - An optical information recording medium includes: a recording layer | 04-25-2013 |
20130163397 | OVERWRITE CONTROL FOR DATA IN TAPE RECORDING APPARATUS - A tape recording apparatus in communication with a tape medium, and includes a head and a controlling unit to control the head to read and write data to the tape medium, wherein the controlling unit performs operations, comprising: determining an overwrite starting position by skipping data units whose beginning position cannot be determined until a data unit is reached having a beginning position that can be determined; and performing an overwrite operation at the overwrite starting position at the data unit whose beginning position can be determined. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163398 | MEDICAL-DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A medical-data management device includes: a medical data determination unit | 06-27-2013 |
20130229899 | MEDIA RECORD/PLAY DEVICE AND MEDIA RECORD/PLAY METHOD - In the case where a spare area management method using an NAP of a spare area on a recordable medium is applied to a spare area management method of a spare area on a rewritable medium, in order to alleviate a recording stop caused by retry over in a replacement process or unnecessary conversion processes in a record/reproduce device, the NAP is updated in a format process or in the replacement process in such a way as to avoid defective blocks within the spare area which is registered as Unusable Cluster or Usable Cluster Type 2 entries on the DFL. | 09-05-2013 |