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7444064 Broadcast receiver, program recording method and program product  
The broadcast receiver that incorporates an HDD as a recording medium and records programs on the recording medium, when recording a program on the recording medium, determines whether the program...
7430452 Apparatus, system, and method for selectivity protecting a motion sensitive component in a computerized device  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for balancing the read and write requirements of applications running in a computerized system against the requirements to protect a motion sensitive...
7426087 Information recording apparatus  
An information recording apparatus has a write canceling circuit that monitors interface signals fed from a host and that, when the interface signals are recognized to be abnormal, inhibits write...
7423828 Off-track write error recovery  
Method and apparatus for off-track write error recovery. A storage medium is provided with at least first and second tracks, and a write protected status is assigned to the second track to inhibit...
7414803 Write protected magnetic storage media and associated methods  
According to one aspect and example, a method is provided for handling write protected storage devices. The method includes generating a read signal from a portion of a magnetic storage medium and...
7409142 Receiving apparatus, receiving method, and supplying medium  
Digital television broadcast signals are received and AV signals are reproduced in a common apparatus. A digital television signal is received and is separated into a compressed first video signal,...
7408732 Shock resistant, high reliability rotating magnetic storage device and method  
An information recording method in a rotating storage apparatus comprising a rotating recording medium for recording information, a head for performing at least a write operation onto the rotating...
7406605 Information recording medium, manufacturing method of its recording medium, information process unit and copyright management system  
Medium individual information formed an information recording medium is obtained, and a management key used for recording or regeneration on the information recording medium corresponding to the...
7403616 Electronic apparatus, data recording method for the electronic apparatus, and storage medium storing program for executing the data recording method  
There is provided an electronic apparatus which once makes a user conscious of copyright and the like of digital data, such as audio data and image data, when the user records the digital data or...
7400465 Recording medium cartridge and recording/reproducing apparatus therefor  
The present invention relates to a recording medium cartridge memory and recording/reproducing apparatus. A recording medium cartridge consists of a recording medium and a cartridge memory in which...
7398008 Copy protection for analog video signals from computing devices  
A copy protection method and apparatus is provided to inhibit unauthorized viewing or copying of a video signal. A varying set of additional or invalid video pulses are generated onto a typical...
7394607 Disk drive with position detection  
Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive capable of writing information on data tracks even more positively when a shingle write method is adopted. In one embodiment, the disk drive is...
7382969 Method and system for preventing the unauthorized copying of video content  
A method for preventing the copying of useable video content is disclosed. The method includes identifying the video signal content of a video signal that is suitable to be extracted, extracting...
7382563 Storage apparatus, and control method and program  
Upon obtaining a detection signal of a shock sensor that detects a shock applied to an apparatus for output, a write disabling unit disables writing by a head on a medium over a predetermined time...
7376337 Video signal recording apparatus for copyrighted works  
In a video signal recording apparatus for digitally recording a first video signal, a copyright information detecting unit extracts copyright information inserted in the first video signal. An...
7369344 Method and apparatus for compensating for offset of disk drive  
A method for compensating an offset of a disk drive which is accomplished by recording actual spin jitter while performing track following, extracting a DC component from a recorded actual spin...
7369343 Disk drive correcting track address during a write operation  
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk having a plurality of servo tracks, wherein each servo track comprises a plurality of servo sectors and each servo sector comprises...
7362535 Magnetic disk drive and recording method  
Embodiments of the invention provide a recording method capable of improving reliability of write data in a magnetic disk drive employing the servo area data system. In a magnetic disk drive...
7359137 Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital data  
Copying, dubbing or reproducing copyrighted digital data can be inhibited or restricted to properly protect a copyright. AV data recorded on a pre-recorded tape is output from a reproducing unit of...
7356514 Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method of digital video signal or audio signal  
A reproduction method and apparatus for reproducing video data and/or audio data from a recordable medium having video data and/or audio data recorded thereon. The video data and/or audio data is...
7356437 Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, information processing method, and computer program  
An information processing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, and an information processing method, and a computer program are provided. An information processing apparatus includes: an acceleration...
7342737 Off track write protection using filtered position error signal  
Methods of filtering a position error signal (PES) indicative of a position of a transducer of a disk drive include obtaining sample position data for the transducer, eliminating selected data of...
7336887 Content play back, information processing, and play back restriction  
Provided is a content play back apparatus including: a play back means for playing content including audio or video; a play list managing means for managing a play list which is a list of...
7336786 Reproduction apparatus  
Information or contents cannot be reproduced even from a regular storage medium which is encrypted in accordance with a predetermined encryption system, due to erroneous detection of watermarks....
7333716 Duplication controlling method, duplication controlling apparatus, recording medium, and duplication controlling program embodied on computer-readable medium  
The present invention is directed to a duplication controlling method for controlling duplication by embedding an electronic watermark indicating duplication-related control information into...
7333282 Data storage device and data storage device control method  
Embodiments of the invention avoid an off-track write when an impact is applied. A hard disk drive according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a magnetic disk; an actuator for...
7327934 Data reproduction apparatus, data recording apparatus, circuit element, data reproduction method and data recording method  
A circuit element is disclosed which restricts reproduction of an illegally duplicated recording medium and prevents illegal duplication of a recording medium. The circuit element is incorporated...
7324298 Electronic appliance and fall detection method  
In an electronic appliance, accelerations in X-direction, in Y-direction that is orthogonal relative to the X-direction and in Z-direction that is orthogonal relative to both the X-direction and...
7321720 Method and apparatus for preliminary erasing parts of a bitstream recorded on a storage medium, and corresponding storage medium  
DVD Stream Recording allows to recover or permanently erase on-the-fly preliminarily erased cells on the disc. In case of very low-bitrate stream recording there could be less than one application...
7321477 Disk control apparatus, disk control method, and computer product  
A disk control apparatus controls a disk driving unit that performs read/write of data with a head. A vibration detecting unit detects a vibration of the disk driving unit. A disk control unit...
7312941 Disk drive with head-disk interaction sensor integrated with suspension  
A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) includes a write-inhibit signal that is generated by a head-disk interaction sensor during a write process that is integrated with a suspension of the HDD when fly-height...
7295393 Data converting apparatus, data converting method, and recording medium  
A data converting apparatus is disclosed which receives packet data made of content data supplemented with recording control information to be referenced upon recording of the content data. When...
7277248 Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital data  
Copying, dubbing or reproducing copyrighted digital data can be inhibited or restricted to properly protect a copyright. AV data recorded on a pre-recorded tape is output from a reproducing unit of...
7268970 Method and apparatus for storing data on magnetic tape  
Electromagnetic tape head position is adjusted according to vibration indicative information received from vibration sensor secured to tape transport mechanism that supports the tape head.
7265927 Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital data  
Copying, dubbing or reproducing copyrighted digital data can be inhibited or restricted to properly protect a copyright. AV data recorded on a pre-recorded tape is output from a reproducing unit of...
7265923 Apparatus and method for controlling inhibition of data writing in disk drive  
An HDC has first and second terminals. The first terminal is used to output a first write gate signal that dictates writing of data to the disk. The second terminal is used to input a second write...
7253982 Dynamic shock detection in disk drive using hair trigger timer  
Dynamically detecting off-track errors in a disk drive by adjusting transducer head position control parameters in response to shock events. In an embodiment, shock events with large magnitude...
7245447 Magnetic read/write apparatus having a write inhibit slice setting circuit  
A magnetic read/write apparatus comprises: a recording medium; and a head for writing/reading data to/from each sector on the recording medium; wherein the magnetic read/write apparatus further...
7237001 Downloading system  
A downloading system which can be used freely by many and unspecified persons. A recording medium is loaded in a public downloading apparatus, and use condition confirmation processing is performed...
7236686 Method and apparatus for transmitting a signal, method and apparatus for receiving a signal, VBI signal generating apparatus, video signal transmitting apparatus, video signal processing apparatus, video signal receiving apparatus, decoding apparatus, and recording medium for recording a video signal  
Additional information is transmitted by means of assigning a code to a particular scanning line in a VBI (vertical blanking interval). An initial value of a CRCC (Cyclic Redundancy Check Code) or...
7236320 Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital data  
Copying, dubbing or reproducing copyrighted digital data can be inhibited or restricted to properly protect a copyright. AV data recorded on a pre-recorded tape is output from a reproducing unit of...
7228060 Copy guard method and digital broadcast receiving apparatus  
According to a copy protection method of the present invention, as for a component video signal which is composed of a luminance signal and two color-difference signals, copy inhibition information...
7227714 Methods for conditional servowriting  
To account for head misplacement while servowriting, conditional writing and/or trimming of servo information can be used. Conditional servowriting allows servowriting to be disabled when it is...
7227711 System, method, and apparatus for in-situ stray magnetic field measurement  
A hard disk drive (HDD) detects and measures external stray magnetic fields with existing HDD components. After detecting a strong external magnetic field, read and write operations of the HDD are...
7224543 Method and apparatus for reducing off-track writes in data storage devices  
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for reducing off-track writes in a data storage device. In one embodiment, a command is received to perform a write operation using a...
7221853 Digital recording apparatus and copyright protection method thereof  
The CGMS unacceptable recorder accepts transmission frames only when the copyright protection information in a transmission header transmitted to the IEEE1394 serial bus indicates copy free. The...
7209642 Terminal apparatus and recording method  
A terminal apparatus comprising an insertion hole into which to insert a copyright-compliant first memory card and a copyright-noncompliant second memory card. The first and the second memory cards...
7206681 Adaptive vibration management system for a work machine  
A vibration management system for a work machine may include at least one machine component configured to respond to input commands from an operator of the machine. One or more vibration sensors...
7200323 Restricted content viewing methods and arrangements for use in a DVD player  
In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, enhancements have been developed to further extend the performance of the generic DVD navigator with respect to restricted access, such...
7190540 Portable apparatus having head retracting function and head retracting method  
A portable apparatus for reproducing audio data includes a recording medium on which the audio data is recorded, a reading head for reading the audio data from the recording medium, an acceleration...