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7619847 Head controller, storage device, and head controlling method  
A level peak-acquiring unit acquires a peak of a signal level during a calibration wherein a heater power is increased from zero to a predetermined power. A sample acquiring unit acquires in a...
7616394 Storage apparatus, control method and control apparatus  
The heads have write head elements which record data onto a disk medium capable of coping with perpendicular magnetic recording and read head elements which reproduce data. The monitored band...
7613182 Distributed and secured method and system for protecting and distributing audiovisual flows  
A process for secure distribution of digital audiovisual streams according to a standard, normalized or proprietary format, on which streams a separation of the stream into two parts is made prior...
7613181 Process and device for securing the transmission, recording and viewing of digital, audiovisual packetized streams  
A process for secure distribution of original digital audiovisual streams including audio, video components or other data, including packetizing the original stream into packets that can be...
7609473 Dissipation of liquid droplets in a magnetic disk drive  
Magnetic disk drives and associated methods are described for an improved process for dissipating liquid droplets that may accumulate on a slider of the magnetic disk drive. For the droplet removal...
7603025 Method and apparatus for copy protection detection in a video signal  
A method and apparatus for detecting copy protection included in an input video signal is described. Two types of copy protection are particularly addressed, including techniques that imbed copy...
7600054 Apparatus, system, and method for protecting a motion-sensitive device  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for protecting a motion-sensitive device. The apparatus includes an identification module, a determination module, and a scheduler. The identification...
7595958 System including a hard disk drive and stray magnetic field sensor and associated method  
A system includes a host device and a disk drive interfaced with the host device are described as well as an associated method. The disk drive includes a magnetic media for storing information...
7587125 Reproducing/recording apparatus  
A playback unit ( 3 ) reproduces contents which are recorded on a video cassette tape ( 2 ), and a recording unit ( 6 ) records the contents on another video cassette tape ( 7 ) and,...
7586713 Control apparatus, storage apparatus, and head control method  
A control apparatus, storage apparatus and control method uses a correction value for head position written in a recording medium to control head position and prevents a use of a correction value...
7576938 Hard disk drive, method for controlling FOD voltage thereof, and computer readable recording medium recording the method  
A flying on demand (FOD) voltage of a hard disk drive (HDD) is controlled by detecting a shock occurring to the HDD on which a magnetic head that records data on a disk or reproduces data from the...
7567400 Method and apparatus for improving the error rate of track information on a magnetic storage device  
An apparatus and method for improving the error rate of track information on a magnetic storage device is disclosed. One embodiment provides a counter for counting the number of writes to a first...
7567397 Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) identification methodology  
A method for identifying adjacent track interference for a head is provided. The method comprises writing a first data track at a predetermined track position; writing a second data track two track...
7558013 Programming a sensitivity level into an inertial sensor based on a proxy of whether a system is in transit  
A system comprises a sensor and logic coupled to the sensor. The logic programs a sensitivity level into the sensor to a first sensitivity level if a proxy indicates that the system is in transit...
7551381 Device and method for reading data from and writing data in storage medium  
A disk device writes data in or reads data from a disk. The disk device includes a head. The head includes a reading element that reads data from the disk and a writing element that writes data in...
7548390 HDD write control method and apparatus  
A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and related write control method are disclosed. The write control method includes; detecting a free fall state during a current write operation to a current sector, waiting...
7545596 System and method for WORM magnetic recording  
WORM safeguards are provided in a magnetic disk drive in which the disks are pre-magnetized or pre-recorded such that all magnetic domains on each recording surface are completely aligned pointing...
7545593 Magnetic storage systems and methods with tighter write fault window to improve reliability  
A magnetic storage system includes a disk, a head, an actuator, and a servo controller. The servo controller monitors a value, such as a position error signal (PES) sample value, a predicted PES...
7539919 Optical recording medium, apparatus and method of recording/reproducing data thereon/therefrom, and computer-readable recording medium storing program to perform the method  
A recording medium on which a recording/reproducing unit block is recorded, an apparatus to record and/or reproduce data on/from the recording medium, and a method of recording/reproducing the data...
7532419 Apparatus and method for writing and reproducing data  
High-rate writing of data recorded on a CD into a hard disk drive (HDD) is performed while reproducing data read out of the CD at the standard bit rate prescribed for the CD. PCM data corresponding...
7529791 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...
7522366 Preservation of hard drive data via preliminary detection of adjacent track interference potential  
Systems and methods for managing adjacent track interference in a hard drive. Adjacent track interference potential is ascertained in at least one track, and data corruption is averted via...
7518816 Method and apparatus for disc drive data security using fields in servo wedges  
The present invention includes a method and apparatus to write and read copy protected data on a disc drive storage system by encoding and decoding data to be copy protected using servo wedge data...
7515370 Recorder and cassette containing recording medium  
A recording apparatus capable of recording data either in a current-used format or a new format on a recording medium accommodated in a current-used tape cassette or a new tape cassette. The...
RE40689 Method and apparatus for disabling anti-copy protection system in video signals  
A method and apparatus for disabling the effect of copy-protect signals placed in a recording video signals which is based on differences in the characteristics of television and VCR circuitry....
7508616 Regulating data writes responsive to head fly height  
Write commands through a read/write head are regulated in response to head fly height. The head fly height is determined, and the rate at which the write command is carried out is regulated in...
7499232 Media player with acceleration protection  
An improved media player and a method for operating a portable computing device (e.g., media player) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a portable computing device is able to protect its disk...
7474493 Alternative DC-burst servo pattern for perpendicular recording  
The invention provides a servo pattern that is stable for long time, easily writable, and excellent in S/N. DC-signal area included in a burst area of a servo pattern comprises combination of...
7474489 Storage medium housing device  
In a magnetic tape device, upon receiving a magnetic tape cartridge from an insertion slot, an authentication unit reads data that is stored in an electronic tag and based on the read data, checks...
7471484 Patterned medium and recording head  
A magnetic recording system includes a patterned medium comprised of land areas and trough areas, a write element which writes the data to the patterned medium, and a read element which reads the...
7471479 System for protection against copying on magnetic tape recorders  
An audio or other programme signal is modified to provide protection against copying on a magnetic tape recorder. The signal from a source ( 10 ) is amplified ( 16 ) and then subjected to Fourier...
7469094 Medium recording method, medium recording device, and information recording medium  
This invention is a recording medium recording method for an optical disc or the like. Every time one VTS is prepared, padding processing is executed to secure a recording area for new TMP_VMGI...
7463441 Automatic data update method of data storage system and disk drive using the same  
A data storage device and method of controlling the same. An automatic data update method of a data storage system, includes: counting a number of times a write mode is executed in tracks adjacent...
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...