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US20110317303 MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PARAMETER IN THE SAME  
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive includes a parameter management table, a parameter adjustment module and an interpolation module. The parameter management table stores a...
US20060239173 Optical storage with direct digital optical detection  
Optical data storage devices and techniques that use digital optical detection to obtain digital signals from light returned from optical storage media without analog processing and analog to...
US20120008482 SYSTEM FOR HOLOGRAPHY  
The present invention provides systems of recording holograms that reduce the writing time, increase the diffraction efficiency, improve the resolution, or restitute color. These systems are well...
US20110141870 OPTICAL DISC DRIVE  
An optical disk drive (ODD) is provided. The ODD includes an optical pickup unit; and at least one pickup guide for contacting with at least one guide that guides a motion of the pickup unit,...
US20050007926 Optical storage medium with optically detectable marks  
Optically detectable marks readable by a wide range of optical systems are included on an optical storage medium. Among other uses, the marks may be used to determine the type of the optical...
US20060028966 Braille atomic storage at room temperature and open air  
A process of providing storage for data on a storage medium includes precisely placing an atom onto a surface of the storage medium as an interstitial impurity, and moving the atom to a specific...
US20050190660 Library for storing and retrieving removable information storage elements  
A library for storing and retrieving removable information storage elements such as tape cartridges that uses unique identifiers of the removable information storage elements stored in non-volatile...
US20110305132 Management Of Air-Borne Vibration  
A storage device testing system that includes a rack and a vibration management material. The rack includes at least one test slot that is configured to receive a storage device for testing. The...
US20090034387 OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM AND PLAYER  
An optical storage medium that allows the user to recognize a given disk as a hybrid one, no matter whether the disk is loaded into a single format player or a multi-format player, is provided. The...
US20060098554 Chromatic aberration-correcting optical system and optical pickup device using the same  
Provided is a chromatic aberration-correcting optical system which corrects chromatic aberrations in light beams for a high-density recording medium using a large numerical aperture in addition to...
US20110122740 SIMPLE RESUME REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND SIMPLE RESUME REPRODUCTION METHOD  
A simple resume reproduction device which performs resume reproduction after reproduction of content is interrupted. Content; an application that is a program for reproducing the content; and at...
US20060209639 Scanner for optical storage media  
The present invention relates to a scanner for optical storage media, and to an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media which uses a scanner such as this. The invention...
US20050036408 Automated storage library cartridge gripper with cartridge detector  
In one exemplary embodiment a mechanical gripper mechanism for transporting storage devices and having a cartridge detector is provided. The gripper includes a pair of opposing gripper fingers,...
US20060268667 Playlist-based content assembly  
A method of and apparatus for content assembly is provided by which an automation playlist of media events is created, a relationship is defined between the media events, the media events are...
US20080031118 COMBINED HOLOGRAM OPTICAL ELEMENT, COMPATIBLE OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME  
A hologram optical element, usable in a compatible optical pickup including the hologram optical element and an optical information storage medium system including the compatible optical pickup, is...
US20120008488 TURNTABLE  
An improved turntable is described with inherent properties for reducing noise generated by external sources or by the parts of the turntable. The plinth of the turntable is comprised of an...
US20110188365 DISK APPARATUS TO WHICH ITERATIVE DECODING IS APPLIED AND METHOD FOR OPERATING LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIOS IN THE SAME  
According to one embodiment, a method for operating log likelihood ratios in a disk apparatus is disclosed. Iterative decoding is applied to the disk apparatus. The method can set windows for a...
US20110176400 METHOD OF SERVO SPIRAL SWITCHING DURING SELF SERVO-WRITE FOR A DISK DRIVE  
A recording medium for a disk drive has a plurality of tracks defined by servo wedges that are written using a first servo spiral set, a second servo spiral set, and a correction factor that...
US20090052296 Computer with Multiple Hard Drives  
One exemplary embodiment is a computer having a base and first and second hard disk drives enclosed in the base. The second hard disk drive is stacked on the first hard disk drive and is removable...
US20060028931 Optical head device  
An optical head device includes a laser beam emitting element, a light receiving element, an optical system which guides an emitted light beam from the laser beam emitting element to the optical...
US20110090601 Suspension with flexure tail and manufacturing method thereof, head stack assembly and disk drive unit with the same  
A suspension for a head stack assembly, comprises a flexure with a suspension tongue, a flexure tail and a plurality of conductive traces extending between the suspension tongue and the flexure...
US20110051577 Using an Atmospheric Pressure Sensor in a Hard-Disk Drive (HDD)  
Approaches for determining the likelihood that a hard-disk drive (HDD) will experience an imminent error in operation, and preventing the same, using an atmospheric pressure sensor are provided....
US20100074090 STORAGE SYSTEM AND OPTICAL PICK-UP UNIT  
Disclosed herein are aspects of optical tape technology, tape manufacturing, and tape usage. Methods and systems of tape technology disclose optical tape media including: configurations,...
US20080212451 Optical Sound Track Scanner System  
The present invention relates to an optical scanner system for scanning of an optical sound track with a beam of light, comprising a light emitter for emission of a light beam, a device for...
US20090278908 LIGHTSCRIBE OPTICAL DISC DRIVE  
An optical disc drive for marking a label side of a lightscribe disc is provided. The optical disc drive includes a spoke detecting device, a traverse assembly frame, a spindle motor PCB and an...
US20090010136 Beam Shaper for an optical storage system  
The present invention relates to a beam shaper and to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media using in such a beam shaper. According to the invention, a beam shaper...
US20090073820 METHOD FOR INVENTORY OF AN AUTOMATED DATA STORAGE LIBRARY  
An automated data library system employing a plurality of cartridges, one or more cartridge storage slots and an inventory controller. Each cartridge includes a cartridge memory. The cartridge...
US20070070832 Secure removable media drive  
A drive comprises a computer interface to communicatively couple the drive to a computer and a user-accessible eject switch located on the drive in a location that is physically accessible by a...
US20110080819 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELIABILITY TESTING OF OPTICAL MEDIA USING SIMULTANEOUS HEAT, HUMIDITY, AND LIGHT  
Methods and systems for the rapid evaluation of optical media reliability are disclosed. Simultaneous exposure of optical media to heat, humidity, and light has been found to be an effective test...
US20080285419 HOLOGRAM OPTICAL DEVICE, AND COMPATIBLE OPTICAL PICKUP HAVING THE HOLOGRAM OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE COMPATIBLE OPTICAL PICKUP  
A hologram optical device, and a compatible optical pickup having the hologram optical device and an information storage medium system employing the hologram optical device. The hologram optical...
US20100128588 Halloween greeting system  
A Halloween greeting system for prompting young children to remember to say “trick or treat” and “thank you” is provided. The greeting system includes a Halloween treat container that has a voice r...
US20060077779 Optical pickup device with elastic member  
An optical pickup device with elastic member, the device comprises a driver, a gear, a rack, an optical head, a guide bar and an elastic member. The gear associated with the driver is rotated by...
US20070097819 Laser positioning in an optical disc drive  
Various apparatuses and methods for laser positioning in an optical disc drive are provided. In one embodiment, a laser positioning apparatus is provided in which a first positioning assembly...
US20090067316 Method and system for recordable DVDS  
Methods, systems and computer program products for causing recordable DVD storage media to be identified as non-recordable DVD storage media by a DVD drive are described. Data used to identify a...
US20090274027 STORAGE DEVICE AND ITS DRIVE STARTUP METHOD  
The time required for starting up drives in a storage device mounted with both hard disk drives and solid state drives is shortened. A storage controller of the storage device identifies the type...
US20050063286 Control module for an automatic gain control device of an optical disc playback apparatus  
A control module for an automatic gain control device of an optical disc playback apparatus includes a constant-gain setting member and a switch member. The playback apparatus includes an optical...
US20120014233 Methods, Systems, And Program Products For Controlling The Playback Of Music  
Methods, systems, and program products for controlling the playback of music are disclosed. In an embodiment a method for controlling the playback of music includes the steps of: initiating the...
US20070036049 Dual-deck optical disc system and method of controlling the same  
A dual-deck optical disc system and a method of controlling the dual-deck optical disc system enable data to be simultaneously recorded and reproduced. The dual-deck optical disc system may include...
US20080253246 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BALL AUTO-BALANCE SYSTEM OF OPTICAL DISK DRIVE  
A method for controlling a ball auto-balancing system of an optical disk drive is provided. A rotational member is fixed on a rotating axis of an optical disk drive and rotates synchronously...
US20070291598 Servo Branch of Optical Disc Drive Comprising a Switchable Diaphragm and a Device for Beam Deflection, and Methods for Measuring Beam Lanking and Spherical Aberration  
A switchable diaphragm (9) and a device for beam deflection (10) are placed in the servo branch of an optical drive, in a path of light beams of different diffraction orders. This permits...
US20080212432 Aberration Correcting Apparatus, Optical Pickup, and Aberration Correcting Method  
An optical pickup to be used for both DVD and CD is provided with an aberration correcting device using liquid crystal on an input side of an objective lens. A spherical aberration of a CD is...
US20090016208 Storage Medium comprising a security feature and method for producing a storage medium comprising a security feature  
The invention relates to a storage medium comprising a security feature, having a substrate (1, 4, 10), at least one functional layer (2, 5, 11), at least one feature which is written into the...
US20110038243 METHOD FOR CALIBRATING OFFSET OF MICRO ACTUATOR  
A method for calibrating the offset of a micro actuator includes: setting a reference reflective plane with different focus voltage levels; focusing on test points on the reference reflective plane...
US20070247979 Jukebox with customizable avatar  
A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user is provided. For example, information specific to a recognized user may be stored and...
US20060245343 Dummy links in storage medium content  
A rewritable storage medium comprising predefined content which is adapted for being integrated with additional user-defined content is described, the storage medium comprises: a first portion...
US20090003147 Apparatus comprising a pickup providing three beams for reading data from or writing data to an optical storage medium, and respective optical storage medium  
The apparatus comprises a pickup with a laser, a detector unit and an objective lens for reading data from or writing data to a Super-RENS optical storage medium having a track pitch below the...
US20100091625 TEST DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING MATERIALS USED FOR OPTICAL STORAGE  
The subject matter is a test device for characterizing a material used in an optical storage medium (10). It comprises a laser source (20) intended to direct an incident laser beam (21) towards the...
US20110086591 METHOD TO MINIMIZE DATA DOWNLOAD DURING SATELLITE RADIO BROADCASTS  
A system and method for limiting the amount of satellite radio digital bandwidth used by allowing a vehicle to record and store songs broadcast by the satellite and then play the songs from the...
US20060044947 Headrest type media player device  
A headrest type media player device includes a liquid crystal panel, an indicator light, a card reader, a plug & play slot, a compact disk reader slot and a power cord. The card reader fixedly...
US20110019516 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT IN TWO FORMATS ON ONE DRM DISK  
A DRM disk such as a Blu-ray stores content in a high resolution version for playing by a disk player. The disk also stores the same content in a lower resolution version for playing by a secondary...