Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090040890 | Information recording/reproduction apparatus, information recording method and information recording medium - Provided is a recording/reproduction apparatus capable of securing a backup area for management information on a recording medium without affecting the capacity of a user data area. Before a hard disk drive or a disc medium (recording medium) is finalized, metadata is recorded in a metadata area and when the hard disk drive or the disc medium are finalized, a user data area portion corresponding to the volume of metadata required for the finalizing is set as a metadata mirror area and then the metadata recorded in the metadata area is copied to the metadata mirror area. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041432 | Record/reproduction apparatus and record mode setting method for the same - A record/reproduction apparatus capable of performing record-reproduction with high definition and standard definition appropriately records information, and includes: at least one of a display unit and an output unit to an external display device; a hard disk drive; and a disc drive corresponding to record-reproduction using a disc for record-reproduction in a high definition mode and a disc for record-reproduction in a standard definition mode. With the configuration, the record/reproduction apparatus performs a display on the display unit in the high definition mode or a display-output to the output unit in the high definition mode at activation, recognizes one of the hard disk drive and the disc drive as a record medium after the display-outputting, and sets a record mode to one of the hard disk drive and the disc drive based on a result of the recognition. | 02-12-2009 |
20100008649 | INFORMATION RECORD/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION RECORD/PLAYBACK METHOD - A hybrid video camera with a built-in hard drive and optical disk drive plus removable media read/write unit is disclosed. The video camera has a face detection function, which is used to split a video stream of a scene shot at the position of a frame containing no human face images, thereby realizing automatic scene-split dubbing without impairing the scene continuity. With this feature, it is possible, when watching a home video movie, to avoid sudden stop of playback of the scene otherwise occurring due to improper splitting of the scene at its run-on part during dubbing by letting the scene be dividedly recorded on a plurality of disks. | 01-14-2010 |
20100118180 | IMAGING DEVICE - The present invention provides an imaging device that reduces its power consumption and prevents an upload failure due to power insufficiency when it uploads movie content. The imaging device includes a power supply identification section which determines whether a drive power supply is a battery or an AC power supply, and a remaining battery power value acquisition section which, when a battery is employed as the drive power supply, acquires a current remaining battery power value P and compares it against a predetermined value P | 05-13-2010 |
20110022741 | RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of devices in which a first device has a connecting unit connected with a host device to perform a data transfer with the host device, a second device shares a temporarily recording area with the first device to perform the data transfer between the first and second devices via the temporarily recording area, and the data transfer is performed by using the temporarily recording area shared with the first device and using the connecting unit of the first device when the second device performs the data transfer with the host device, in this way, a power consumption is reduced. | 01-27-2011 |
20110131575 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording/reproducing apparatus, for producing a virtual disc independent upon a host PC, and for managing virtual discs with an easy operation, comprises a CPU | 06-02-2011 |
20110202580 | STORAGE EQUIPMENT - [Object] Portable-type storage equipment that by itself enables data control such as analysis of data recorded or to be recorded in recording media even under the environment where a host system such as a host PC does not exist. | 08-18-2011 |
20110235481 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FILE SYSTEM IN THE STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system, which includes a plurality of ODDs, is configured so as to easily retrieving a predetermined file from files stored in a plurality of optical discs. The storage system includes a storage controller connected to the plurality of ODDs and a nonvolatile memory via a storage bus. Each of the optical discs mounted in the ODDs has a file system representing the storage structure of files stored in the optical disc. The nonvolatile memory stores copies of the file systems of all the mounted optical discs. A user refers to the file system stored in the nonvolatile memory to retrieve a file. When an optical disc is ejected, the optical disc stores copies of the file systems of the other optical discs and is ejected. If the optical disc is installed into another storage system, the user can search for a file stored in the other optical discs. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235805 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ENCRYPTION KEY IN THE STORAGE SYSTEM - In a storage system including a plurality of recording medium drives and encrypting and recording data with a device key, even if a recording medium drive fails and is replaced with another drive, the data stored by the failed recording medium drive can be reproduced. The plurality of recording medium drives has not only their own device keys, but also copies of the device keys of the other recording medium drives. If any one of the recording medium drives is replaced and data in a recording medium mounted in the replaced recording medium drive cannot be decrypted, the drive queries the other recording medium drives to acquire a copy of a device key of a recording medium drive used in the past and decrypts the encrypted data. | 09-29-2011 |
20130223197 | LIBRARY APPARATUS - In a library apparatus, it is not considered that eliminated is an operation for reversing a direction of a double-sided readable/writable recording medium. In the library apparatus having a function of transporting and loading a recording medium from a recording medium storage unit to a recording and reproducing unit through a recording medium transportation unit, a direction in which an unrecorded recording medium is first loaded in the recording and reproducing unit is afterward treated as a front surface, and a direction opposite to the above direction is treated as a rear surface. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227217 | ARCHIVE SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD - In a RAID group using a plurality of recording media readable and writable on both sides, a data configuration such that data on front sides of other disks may be held on back sides of respective double-sided disks is formed and managed, and data for restoration is created from readout data of other data disks than that with failure. | 08-29-2013 |
20130258826 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND SERVER - A reproducing process of related data is efficiently performed also in a recording medium having recording surfaces at both of front and rear surfaces in a recording and reproducing system including a plurality of recording media. | 10-03-2013 |
20140036089 | MONITOR CAMERA CONTROLLER - A function of being controlled by a second monitor camera controller is added to a first monitor camera controller which controls a plurality of monitor cameras. The second monitor camera controller is caused to recognize the first monitor camera controller as a monitor camera. The first monitor camera controller synthesizes videos from the monitor cameras as one video, and transmits the synthetic video to the second monitor camera controller. Control of the monitor cameras or acquisition of videos is conducted by controlling the first monitor camera controller recognized as a monitor camera by use of a control function of a part or all of pan, tilt and zoom. | 02-06-2014 |