| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 369099000 |
SPECIFIC DETAIL OF INFORMATION HANDLING PORTION OF SYSTEM
| 1583 |
| 369470100 |
CONTROL OF STORAGE OR RETRIEVAL OPERATION BY A CONTROL SIGNAL TO BE RECORDED OR REPRODUCED
| 856 |
| 369530100 |
CONDITION INDICATING, MONITORING, OR TESTING
| 798 |
| 369043000 |
WITH SERVO POSITIONING OF TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLY OVER TRACK COMBINED WITH INFORMATION SIGNAL PROCESSING
| 547 |
| 369130010 |
STORAGE OR RETRIEVAL BY SIMULTANEOUS APPLICATION OF DIVERSE TYPES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
| 516 |
| 369272100 |
STORAGE MEDIUM STRUCTURE
| 475 |
| 369240010 |
INFORMATION LOCATION OR REMOTE OPERATOR ACTUATED CONTROL
| 270 |
| 369590100 |
BINARY PULSE TRAIN INFORMATION SIGNAL
| 152 |
| 369093000 |
SYSTEMS HAVING PLURAL PHYSICALLY DISTINCT INDEPENDENT TRACKS ON A SINGLE STORAGE MEDIUM SURFACE
| 107 |
| 369176000 |
DYNAMIC MECHANISM SUBSYSTEM
| 81 |
| 369084000 |
DUPLICATION OR COPYING (E.G., RERECORDING)
| 48 |
| 369001000 |
COMBINED INDEPENDENT AUDIO SYSTEMS
| 47 |
| 369750110 |
WITH PARTICULAR CABINET STRUCTURE
| 39 |
| 369083000 |
EDITING OF STORED INFORMATION
| 23 |
| 369069000 |
SYSTEMS OR SUBSYSTEMS COMBINED WITH DIVERSE ART DEVICE
| 7 |
| 369072000 |
WITH STORAGE MEDIUM CLEANING OR ELECTROSTATIC CHANRGE NEUTRALIZATION
| 7 |
| 369019000 |
CONTROL BY TIMER OR EXTERNAL EXTRANEOUS CONDITION
| 6 |
| 369520100 |
CONTROL STRUCTURE ON STORAGE MEDIUM SENSED BY OTHER THAN TRANSDUCER SUPPORT (E.G., CONDUCTIVE STRIP, NOTCHED EDGE SENSOR) | 4 |
| 20090022023 | Rotation responsive disk activation and deactivation mechanisms - Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control mechanisms. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20100315922 | ROTATION-ACTIVATED ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A rotation-activated electronic component, preferably a RFID tag mounted on or incorporated in a support that is rotated when read, e.g. a CD or DVD. The RFID tag comprises an antenna, a rotational switch and a component, advantageously a processor. The antenna is adapted to transform received RFID signals to electric energy that powers the component. In a preferred embodiment, the rotational switch is adapted to cut the circuit unless the support does not rotate at or above a certain rotational speed. Supports equipped with the RFID tag of the invention will thus respond only if they rotate sufficiently. This can avoid collisions in case more than one such RFID tag is within communication range of an antenna of a reader. In a preferred embodiment, the information returned by the component is needed for full use of the content on the support. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110273975 | SENSING DEVICE - A sensing device including a base, a pillar, an arm, a sensing element and a driving module is provided. The base has a supporting surface suitable for supporting the object. The pillar is disposed on the supporting surface. The arm has two ends and a pivot portion between the two ends. The pivot position is pivoted to the pillar along an axis substantially parallel to the supporting surface. The sensing element is disposed on the arm and located between an end and the pivot portion. The sensing element is located between the base and the object. The driving module is disposed between the arm and the base. The driving module drives the arm to pivot relatively to the pillar along the axis, and the sensing element moves toward or away from the object as the arm is pivoted. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20160125907 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING THE SAME - An information recording medium ( | 05-05-2016 |
| 369130560 |
STORAGE DIFFERENT FROM RETRIEVAL (E.G., OPTICAL RECORDING AND MAGNETIC REPRODUCTION) | 4 |
| 20110096640 | METHOD OF DRAWING A PATTERN FOR MAGNETIC TRANSFER - A method of drawing a pattern for magnetic transfer on a substrate, including the steps of rotating the substrate and scanning the substrate, by an electron beam, in a circumferential direction thereof, deflecting, using a deflection signal, the electron beam in a radial direction thereof, and switching irradiation of the electron beam on and off, so as to create the pattern of a plurality of dots. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110110202 | Thermally-Assisted Magnetic Recording Head Comprising Near-Field Optical Device with Propagation Edge - There is provided a near-field-light (NFL) generating optical system in which the point where near-field (NF) light is generated can be provided sufficiently close to the end surface of a magnetic pole that generates write field. The optical system comprises: a waveguide through which a light for exciting surface plasmon propagates; and a NF-optical device configured to be coupled with the light in a surface plasmon mode. The NF-optical device comprises: an opposed-to-waveguide surface opposed to the waveguide with a predetermined distance; and a propagation edge provided on the side opposite to the opposed-to-waveguide surface, extending to the NFL-generating end surface of the device, and configured to propagate thereon the surface plasmon excited by the light. In this optical system, the point, where NF-light is generated, of the NFL-generating end surface can be located on the side opposite to the waveguide. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20140347966 | Data storage system & apparatus - A data storage system, having a data processor operable to convert digital data signals into ink dot patterns, and a data processor operable to receive the ink dot patterns and convert them into digital signals, the system having at least one print media receiving carrier or panel, a printing member operable to deposit ink dot patterns in a print medium on the carrier panel, and a print media reader operable to read the ink dot patterns and create data signals there from, and a method of storing and retrieving data. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20160042759 | Data storage system and apparatus - A data storage system, having a data processor operable to convert digital data signals into ink dot patterns, and a data processor operable to receive the ink dot patterns and convert them into digital signals, the system having at least one print media receiving carrier or panel, a printing member operable to deposit ink dot patterns in a print medium on the carrier panel, and a print media reader operable to read the ink dot patterns and create data signals there from, and a method of storing and retrieving data. | 02-11-2016 |
| 369063000 |
SOUND REPRODUCTION FOR TOY OR NOVELTY DEVICE (E.G., TALKING DOLL) | 4 |
| 20080205232 | Vehicle sound enhancing system and method of producing - Methods, systems and storage media are disclosed for enhancing the sounds of any vehicle, motorized conveyance, vehicle simulator, video game or vehicle like device by feeding the output of a playback device of the invention fed by a storage medium of the invention containing signals including one or more sounds of an operating DEV of choice and a signal indicating the RPM of the operating vehicle, motorized conveyance, vehicle simulator, video game or vehicle like device into one or more speakers and/or headphones. DEV's (Driving enthusiast vehicles) includes performance vehicles, race cars, trucks, tanks, motorcycles, power boats and the like. Using the invention, a driver or passenger is able to produce, inside the passenger compartment of any vehicle, etc., the sounds that a DEV makes at the corresponding RPM's of the separate engines. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20100097911 | System and method for inter-connectable multi-track media-based trading cards - There are provided systems and methods for inter-connectable multi-track media-based cards. There is provided a card for media playback, the card comprising a media output, a memory storing at least one of a plurality of media tracks of a media, a communications interface inter-connectable with one or more additional cards storing other media tracks of the plurality of media tracks of the media, and a media processor. The media processor is configured to detect, via the communications interface, any of the one or more additional cards connected to the communications interface to determine connected cards, and cause a playback of at least one of the plurality of media tracks in the memory in combination with at least one of the other media tracks of the plurality of media tracks on the connected cards. This enables concurrent playback of multi-track media-based trading cards, providing entertainment and collectible value for users. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20080316887 | Game system and method employing reversible voice recorder - A handheld recording device and a method of play that can be played with either one or two recording devices. Each recording device has a microphone for converting sound into an electronic sound signal. The recording device also has a digital memory with a limited sound recording capacity. The digital memory records the sound signal when a record button is pressed. A backward play button is also located on the recording device. The backward play button causes any sound signal recorded in the digital memory to play backward and be broadcast through a speaker. A game is played using one or two of the recording devices. A first player records a message and plays it backwards. The other players can decipher the backward message by recording it in their own recording device and playing the backward message in reverse. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20100128588 | 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 recorder/audio player; and a remote control unit for triggering the voice recorder/audio player to play a recorded message. | 05-27-2010 |
| 369300000 |
DETAIL OF OPTICAL SLIDER PER SE | 3 |
| 20090135712 | SOLID IMMERSION LENS AND FOCUSING LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, AND DATA RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A solid immersion lens (SIL) is provided. The SIL includes a spherical part, a cone-shaped part, a tip part, and an edge part between the cone-shaped part and the tip part. The edge part includes a curved surface. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20120147729 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DISC DRIVE - A portable electronic device includes a first main body and a disc drive. The disc drive is received in the first main body. The disc drive includes a second main body, a driving element, and a laser assembly. The second main body is rotatably received in the first main body. The driving element is arranged on the second main body for driving a disc. The laser assembly includes a laser slidably received in the first main body. The disc drive is in a use state when the second main body is rotated to cause the driving element to face the laser. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20130114389 | NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A near-field optical head which can be manufactured using a silicon process and illuminate and detect sufficient light from a very small aperture at all times in a state of stably proximate to a media. | 05-09-2013 |
| 369086000 |
STORAGE OR RETRIEVAL OF SPATIALLY RELATED ACOUSTIC SIGNALS (E.G., STEREO) | 3 |
| 20130051207 | MULTITRACK RECORDER AND MIXDOWN METHOD - An apparatus and a method for efficiently converting, by means of mixdown, audio signals recorded in multiple tracks into stereo signals. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20090141607 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE AND METHOD FOR PLAYING A FAST ROLLING MUSIC DISC - A method for playing a fast rolling music disc is provided. A music disc is read at an accelerated rate and played at a standard rate by discretely buffering data blocks into a ping pong buffer. Playing of a first data block stored in the first buffer, and buffering of a second data block into the second buffer are concurrently executed. When the playing of the first data block is concluded, the playing order of the first buffer and the second buffer are interchanged, and the concurrent playing and buffering step is repeated. Such that the second data block is played in the second buffer while a third data block is buffered into the first buffer. Discreteness between the second data block and the first data block is dependent on a skipping ratio, and the skipping ratio is dependent on the accelerated rate. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100165815 | GAPLESS AUDIO PLAYBACK - Various embodiments related to the performance of gapless audio playback of two or more audio tracks are provided. One disclosed embodiment provides a method of performing gapless audio playback comprising rendering a plurality of samples of a current audio track via a current filter graph, and notifying an end-of-stream soon event via a current filter graph. Upon detecting the end-of-stream soon event, a next filter graph corresponding to a next audio track is pre-rolled and then paused. An end-of-stream event is notified at the current filter graph signaling an end of the current audio track. Then, upon detecting an end-of-stream event, the next filter graph is signaled to begin rendering samples of the next audio track. | 07-01-2010 |
| 369071000 |
WITH STYLUS CLEANING OR TREATMENT (E.G., GRINDING) | 2 |
| 20080212440 | Method of Cleaning a Refractive Element and Optical Scanning Apparatus For Nearfield Optical Systems - A method of cleaning an optical exit face of refractive element of a near field optical scanning apparatus for scanning an optical disc, the method comprising a contacting step, comprising bringing into mechanical contact the refractive element and a cleaning pad such that the optical exit face of the refractive element is non-parallel to a surface of the cleaning pad, the refractive element contacting the surface pad along a contact edge and a first cleaning step, comprising at least a relative movement of the cleaning pad relative to the refractive element at least along cleaning axis, wherein the cleaning axis is in the plane of the surface of the cleaning pad and substantially perpendicular to the contact edge. The invention also related to a near field optical scanning apparatus enabled to clean a refractive element according to the said method. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20140140183 | INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE, CLEANING TAPE, AND OPTICAL PICKUP CLEANING METHOD - An information recording and reproduction device comprises an optical pickup that has an objective lens and records information to a tape-form medium or reproduces information from a tape-form medium using laser light; a tape threading component that allows the tape-form medium to be arranged opposite the objective lens; a controller that detects that the tape-form medium is a cleaning tape; a movement mechanism that operates so as to bring the tape-form medium and the objective lens into contact with each other, in response to the detection by the control unit; and a first drive mechanism that plays out the tape-form medium in a state in which the tape-form medium and the objective lens are in contact with each other. The information recording and reproduction device is capable of cleaning the optical pickup even with a tape-form medium. | 05-22-2014 |
| 369014000 |
SIMULTANEOUS DIVERSE TYPES OF STORAGE OR RETRIEVAL | 2 |
| 20090122660 | Data retrieval systems - Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a data storage device previously deactivated by modification or degradation of at least a portion of the data storage device are disclosed. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100080089 | Storage medium reproducing apparatus or storage medium recording/reproducing apparatus - In a recording/reproducing apparatus, a pair of detection sliders, in which pins coming into contact with an outer peripheral edge of a storage medium being inserted are formed and which approach and are separated from each other, are disposed in the vicinity of a storage medium insert port, and a detection lever coupled with one of the pins is rotatably and slidably attached to a frame. Further, the recording/reproducing apparatus has a support member, which is slid by being pressed by the outer peripheral edge of the storage medium being inserted, and an intermediate guide lever rotated in association with a sliding operation of the support member. Two select grooves are formed in the detection lever, and a first projecting piece, which is selectively fit into the select grooves, is disposed in the intermediate guide lever. | 04-01-2010 |
| 369292000 |
MISCELLANEOUS | 1 |
| 20090022048 | DATA RECORDING WRITE STRATEGY OPTIMISATION - The present invention relates to determining at least one write strategy, using a write strategy model comprising first and second parameters, for recording data on a recording medium comprising, providing at least one set of randomised first parameters, ( | 01-22-2009 |
| 369018000 |
OPTICAL READING OF MECHANICAL RECORD | 1 |
| 20090168613 | OPTICAL DEVICES BASED ON INTERNAL CONICAL DIFFRACTION - Optical devices based on internal conical refraction for developing new set-ups, methods and applications based on the specific properties of internal conical diffraction. The devices include several set-ups, methods and applications consisting of biaxial crystal(s)—one or more polarization elements and optical elements. The biaxial crystal is an optical crystal which may belong to the trigonal, orthorhombic or trigonal crystal classes. | 07-02-2009 |
| 369017000 |
TRACK CONVERSION | 1 |
| 20090109803 | Data storage device container - A method of storing a data storage device includes but is not limited to emplacing a data storage device in a container, the container having surfaces; and writing storable data to the data storage device by transmitting energy through a surface of the container. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. Other methods and apparatuses are also disclosed. | 04-30-2009 |
| 369015000 |
ALTERNATIVE DIVERSE TYPES OF STORAGE OR RETRIEVAL | 1 |
| 20150117171 | CD-Vinyl Record Player - A CD-vinyl record player comprising a CD door, small turntable, bearing tablet, record axle, mini-bearing, big turntable, record player main base, CD engine frame, turntable frame, CD main base, bearing, bearing cover, and CD engine. The CD door is connected to the small turntable through a mini-bearing, and the record axle is installed in the center of the CD door. The bearing tablet is above the CD door and connected to the record axle. The big turntable is above the record player main base. The bottom of the record player main base connects to the turntable frame. The CD engine frame is above CD main base. The bearing is at the center of record player main base, and has the bearing cover on top. The CD engine is at center of the bottom of the turntable frame. The invention combines a vinyl record player and CD player into one player. | 04-30-2015 |
| 369600010 |
SIGNAL PROCESSING BY STORAGE AND SUBSEQUENT RETRIEVAL (E.G., FREQUENCY SHIFT, DELAY, ETC.) | 1 |
| 20160111122 | OPTICAL DISC MEDIUM AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical disc medium includes a land and a groove at which information can be recorded. A predetermined number of address information units which record address information of the land or groove are provided in a circumferential direction of the optical disc medium. The address information unit of the land includes three or more address recording areas capable of recording address information. The address information is recorded on one area selected from among the three or more address recording areas. The address information unit of the land has address information which is recorded, in the same modulation, on the side of the inner adjacent groove and on the side of the outer adjacent groove. The one area to be selected from among the three or more address recording areas for recording the address information of the land is different among three address information units adjacently arranged in a radial direction. | 04-21-2016 |
| 369062000 |
STORAGE OF SIGNAL MODULATING COMPONENT | 1 |
| 20160155468 | OPTICAL MEDIUM REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING OPTICAL MEDIUM | 06-02-2016 |
