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8181191 |
Media processing device and control method for a media processing device
A media processing device does not execute a media transportation process if the height of media stacked in a media storage unit is at an over capacity level, and reliably prevents problems such as...
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8149671 |
Optical disc and optical disc device
An optical disc drive according to the present invention can read and/or write data from/on an optical disc with information layers including first and second information layers (L0 and L1). The...
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7941597 |
System and method for controlling access to media libraries
Embodiments of the present invention provide a media library controller that can communicate with multiple physical libraries that are physically separate from each other. The media library...
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7752384 |
System and method for controlling access to media libraries
Embodiments of the present invention provide a media library controller that can communicate with multiple physical libraries that are physically separate from each other. The media library...
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7565486 |
Method and apparatus for handling multi-volume datasets in a tape storage system
A method and apparatus for handling multi-volume datasets in a tape storage system are disclosed. In response to a write request for a multi-volume dataset, the information of the multi-volume...
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7085884 |
System and method for storing operational data of a storage automation device to a removable nonvolatile memory component
A cartridge storage system comprising a movable component, a removable nonvolatile memory component (RNMC), and logic configured to store operational data indicative of an operational history of...
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6925034 |
Apparatus for regulating the position of a plunge mechanism of a cartridge engaging assembly
Apparatus for controlling the position of a plunge mechanism which is mounted to a cartridge engaging assembly is disclosed herein. The apparatus may be embodied in a cartridge engaging assembly...
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6766412 |
Data storage media library with scalable throughput rate for data routing and protocol conversion
A digital data storage unit, such as tape library, has a multiplicity of storage media slots, each storage media slot for receiving a storage media unit, a plurality of storage media units loaded...
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6722564 |
Method, apparatus, and program for determining correct cartridge orientation in an automated tape library
An automated media library gathers information about each readable cartridge label using a camera. From the label information, the orientation of the cartridge may be determined. For each cartridge...
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6661748 |
Position control for plunge mechanism
Methods and apparatus for controlling the position of a plunge mechanism which is mounted to a cartridge engaging assembly are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a cartridge engaging assembly...
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6625703 |
Verifying primary and backup copies of vital information for a processing system employing a pseudo-fixed reference identifier
Verification of a primary or backup copy of vital information of a processing system employs a pseudo-fixed reference identifier, defined as an identifier unlikely to change over the life of the...
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6568770 |
Climatic cabinet
A climatic cabinet with at least one door, having a storage station with at least one object storage device, which exhibits several storage locations arranged one on top of the other, and having a...
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6510110 |
Disk carrying apparatus and disk carrying method involving determining optimum stop position of disk carrier based on detected stopping state of disk carrier
A disk-type recording medium is carried by a disk carrying section and accommodated into one of layered accommodation shelves of a disk accommodation section. A memory stores position information...
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6498771 |
Data storage unit having plural removable magazines
Data storage units (1) for storing a plurality of individual data storage media (12), the units comprising at least one removable magazine (9, 10) in which the individual data storage media (12)...
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6430121 |
Disc changer capable of selecting a medium for playback again within a prescribed time
While a certain information-recorded medium is reproduced by a reproduction processing means of a reproduction apparatus, when the information-recorded medium is designated again within a...
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6421305 |
Personal music device with a graphical display for contextual information
An audio system for playing recordings of audio programming includes a relatively large display device on which contextual information about the audio programming may be displayed. The contextual...
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6400659 |
Disk manufacturing apparatus
A disk manufacturing apparatus has a recorder recording information on a blank disk-like recording medium placed on an extended recording tray provided on the recorder, in a state in which the...
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6301204 |
Jukebox with control system to retry transfer if misalignment
A jukebox apparatus including a magazine, a drive unit, a carriage for conveying a disk between the magazine and the drive unit, and a temporary storage unit movable between a transfer position in...
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6272078 |
Method for updating a memory in a recorded media player
A method and apparatus for updating a memory in a Compact Disc changer. Information identifying discs stored in a CD changer is stored in a memory. The memory is updated when a CD is loaded which...
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6044047 |
Storing CD Segments for quick scanning in multi-CD players
The present invention provides a multi-CD player with a quick scanning feature where the multi-CD player stores samples of a portion of each of the CD's into a fast access memory device such as a...
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5936794 |
Media library system using media management scheme for reducing recording medium access time
A media library system capable of carrying out an access to each recording medium in very short time. A media exchange operation is controlled such that the storage cells of the storehouse are...
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5930226 |
Storage medium storing plural data of plural types in reproduction order with identification information
A recording apparatus generates a plurality of pieces of data to be recorded on a storage medium, and to be reproduced in a plurality of modes of reproduction; generates identification information...
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5781369 |
Magnetic tape apparatus with an auxiliary entry/exit mechanism
A magnetic tape apparatus has an automatic loading mechanism for automatically loading a cartridge containing a recording medium. The magnetic tape apparatus includes, in addition to the automatic...
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5774314 |
Medium player with time-wise bar display of items
In a consumer player or recorder operating with a linear medium such as a tape or disc there is a time analog display of a representation of various identifiable discrete information items such as...
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5657180 |
Management information updating method and mass storage system employing the method
Management information necessary to manage storage media in a mass storage system. A rotatable cell drum has a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of cell columns disposed in spaced...
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5535190 |
Driver system for an updatable optical storage-media
The invention is a recording system for recording and playing back information stored on an updatable optical storage medium. In the optical storage medium digital data is permanently present in...
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5442500 |
Cartridge library apparatus for handling a number of cartridges in one operation
A cartridge library apparatus adapted to large number of cartridges in one operation, comprising magazines each of which can be loaded with the large number of cartridges, and a magazine rack in...
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5416914 |
Management of removable media for multiple device types
The removable media management system operates with a manual, an automated, or a combination of subsets of manual and automated library system to store and retrieve media cartridges for an...
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5412791 |
Mass data storage library
A mass data storage unit includes a plurality of first data storage modules that form a mass information storage library, a data directory archive for maintaining a directory of the information...
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5353179 |
Auto-loading of tape cartridges
Auto-loader apparatus for tape cartridges comprises a cartridge deck having an exposed or exposable supply hub; a device that moves a cartridge along a first, preferably linear, path from an...
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5343403 |
Method for host-independent cartridge entry in an automated library system
A method is disclosed for providing a host-independent cartridge entry mode in an automated tape cartridge library connected to more than one host computer. In host-independent cartridge entry...
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5293284 |
Cassette autochanger
A cassette autochanger comprising a cassette container for containing a plurality of cassettes placed in a vertical posture, a reproducing unit for reproducing the signal recorded on the medium of...
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5247406 |
Tape cartridge magazine
A magazine for handling a plurality of tape cartridges. The magazine includes a plurality of vertically spaced, parallel shelves having tapered front edges with notches formed therein for ease of...
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5182687 |
Method and apparatus for aligning cartridges with a cartridge insertion slot
The present invention provides an automated cartridge loader 10 of novel design for use with a cartridge drive 12. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a...
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5164915 |
Cascading analog record/playback devices
Cascading analog record/playback devices allowing the recording and the playback duration of individual devices to be extended by connecting together multiple devices of the same type. Each such...
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5006940 |
Automatic changer for digital audio cassette tape player
An automatic changer for a digital audio cassette tape player is disclosed which comprises holders for holding tape cassettes inserted into insertion openings with lids of the cassettes being...
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5001582 |
Apparatus for automatically changing an information storage medium
An apparatus for automatically changing an information storage medium includes a main body, a storage section having a plurality of storage portions in the main body for storing a plurality of...
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4984106 |
Cartridge library system and method of operation thereof
An automated magnetic tape cartridge library system includes a cabinet (24) having a door (26) removably and pivotally connected thereto. The cabinet (24) houses a plurality of tape drives...
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4945429 |
Data security arrangement for an automated magnetic tape cartridge library system
This data security arrangement provides a significant level of data security in an automatic magnetic tape cartridge library by isolating the actual data from the control of the data retrieval...
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4918548 |
Cartridge loader
A tape drive is mounted on a carriage alongside a horizontal or vertical rack of tape cartridges. The carriage supports an arm with a linear actuator for removing a selected cartridge from the rack...
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4912575 |
Apparatus for automatically changing an information memory medium
An automatic changing apparatus includes a storage section wherein a number of optical disk cassettes are stored, a disk drive apparatus, and a transfer frame for transferring the disk cassette...
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4910619 |
Automatic changing system for cassette-type mediums
An automatic changing system for a cassette-type medium, having at least one recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a cassette storage apparatus includes multiple cassette storage compartments,...
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4864438 |
Tape cartridge movement management in an automated tape cartridge library system
The tape cartridge movement management apparatus for an automated tape cartridge library system includes a database that identifies each tape cartridge stored in the library system and its physical...
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4839875 |
Technique for automatic tracking of cassette rentals and managing of information related thereto
A rental control system for controlling the rent and return of cassettes is disclosed. Each cassette internally contains an article such as a recorded information medium, with an IC circuit for...
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4839758 |
Magnetic disk cartridge loading-and-unloading device
A magnetic disk cartridge loading-and-unloading device for loading a magnetic recording disk cartridge into a recording and reproducing system and unloading it from the recording and reproducing...
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4839505 |
Apparatus and method for storing and retrieving articles
A machine from which a customer can selectably purchase or rent a videocassette or other such product, e.g., blank videotapes, music disks, and the like, or return a previously rented...
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4805049 |
Positioning device for an automatic changing apparatus employing and absolute encoder
An automatic changing apparatus includes a holder portion for storing a number of optical disks and a carriage for transferring a desired disk in the holder portion to a disk drive device. The...
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4792865 |
Disk container supporting a detachable memory
A removable container holds a plurality of video disks each storing prerecorded video pictures that are played back in a multi-disk video player. The container includes a magazine for storing the...
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4757401 |
Cartridge handling mechanism for disk file system
A cartridge handling mechanism for use in a disk file system having a stocker in which a multiplicity of thin cartridges respectively having disks accommodated therein are respectively accommodated...
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4717971 |
Partitioned editing method for a collection of video still pictures
A method is provided for establishing an electronic picture file composed of pictures prerecorded on a plurality of video disks that are disposed in a multi-disk video player. The arrangement and...
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