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7502294 Information recording and playback apparatus, content management method, and content management program capable of preventing illegal copying of content  
Information recording and playback apparatus, content management method, and content management program. When data of copyright-protected content is recorded in a general-purpose HDD, illegal...
7483341 Optical disk apparatus capable of recording broadcast program with visible symbol  
In an apparatus for recording a broadcast program on an optical disk, a broadcast reception section receives a broadcast signal containing various programs broadcasted from a broadcast station. A...
7475188 Automatic drive selection in optical media recording  
Methods and systems are provided for the automatic selection of a source drive and a destination drive when an operation to record content is performed. The method includes an evaluation of all...
7471598 Apparatus and method for copying data  
The present invention relates to an apparatus for copying the data content of a source multi-session DVD-storage medium to a destination multi-session DVD-storage medium, wherein the data content...
7469314 Magnetic tape write once overwrite protection  
A magnetic tape cartridge, a recording system, and a magnetic tape drive are configured to, for example, guard against tampering with a write once overwrite protection pointer which allows a...
7463815 Recording apparatus  
In a recording apparatus that is capable of recording information on a plurality of recording media, i.e., first and second memory cards, the information is recorded on the first and second memory...
7457220 Information recording device and method, information recording medium, and recording control computer program  
An information recording device includes: acquisition elements for acquiring corresponding definition information, arrival time information, and display time information from a primary recording...
7448086 Recording apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus and method, and memory medium  
Data areas AR 1 and AR 2 , lead-in areas LIN 1 and LIN 2 , and lead-out areas LOUT 1 and LOUT 2 are provided on a disc. For example, in case of encrypting and recording data into the data area...
7447126 Recording device, and related control method, computer program and system LSI  
A recording device executes unattended recording after suspending dubbing when a preset recording time draws near during the dubbing, and saves dubbing-status information showing the suspension...
7433574 Audio-video stream data recording, replaying, and editing system  
A stream data recording apparatus records stream data in such a manner that the head of each video coding unit and the head of a series of audio coding unit corresponding to each video coding unit...
7430542 System and method for activating a rendering device in a multi-level rights-management architecture  
A digital rights management system for the distribution, protection and use of electronic content. The system includes a client architecture which receives content, where the content is preferably...
7415619 Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information on and from recording disc  
A recording disc has a lead-in area and a data area. A scrambled version of a SID code word is read out from the lead-in area of the disc. The SID code word represents a producer of the disc. The...
7414930 Method of accessing data on a copy protected data carrying disc  
The method and apparatus described utilise the fact that CDs manufactured from the same master will have distinctive physical characteristics attributable to the physical manufacturing process of...
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...
7362685 Press key operating type optical disk duplicating system  
The present invention discloses a press key operating type optical disk duplicating system, which comprises an optical disk burner, and the optical disk burner is connected to a personal computer...
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...
7345975 Metrological digital audio reconstruction  
Audio information stored in the undulations of grooves in a medium such as a phonograph record may be reconstructed, with little or no contact, by measuring the groove shape using precision...
7321539 Locating information on an optical media disc to maximize the rate of transfer  
A user-interactive program assists a user in locating files on optical media discs such as CD-ROMs and DVDs to enhance file-transfer rates and program installation times in computers with a...
7307935 Recording and playback apparatus, music-data recording and playback method, and music-data recording and playback program  
A recording and playback apparatus according to the present invention includes a duplicating section for duplicating music data from a music CD in a CD read-out section onto a hard disk and a...
7286451 Copy control using digital speed bumps  
A digital media recorder and a method of controlling such are provided. During attempts to copy media content, sub-sequences are extracted from an input media sequence. A digital fingerprint of the...
7277544 Local content security system  
The present invention is a system for securing broadcasting content locally at receiving stations that may be remote to a broadcaster. Embodiments of this invention implement controllable and...
RE39811 Musical information recording and reproducing technique for use with a recording medium having a UTOC area  
There is generated a rhythm corresponding to a designated tempo and meter of a music piece to be recorded. Performance of a musical instrument is started at specific timing according to the...
7225310 Method for successively recording data in hybrid digital recorder  
A method for successively recording data in a hybrid digital recorder. If an optical disc has no redundant area when a hybrid digital recorder in which an optical disc recorder and an HDD recorder,...
7196986 Digital information processing method  
A content access method and apparatus includes decompressing an input stream read from a storage medium to produce an output signal. The output signal is then multiplexed with timing information...
7190654 Disc burner and its control method  
A disc burner and its control method applicable to high speed disc burner, to solve disc burning failure problem due to burning speed exceeding encoding speed. A buffer is inserted to store the...
7190646 Apparatus for and method of recording and reproducing information  
An information recording and reproducing apparatus (S) is provided with: a first reproducing device ( 11 ) for reproducing audio information from a first information record medium (DK), in which...
7130251 Communication system and its method and communication apparatus and its method  
A communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus. The second apparatus has a second storage...
7130249 Device for inputting title of recording medium  
A device for inputting the title of a recording medium readily. When a capturing key of a tuner unit ( 1 ) is depressed, a first system controller ( 7 ) stores the text information, received...
7110544 Optical disk, an optical disk barcode forming method, an optical disk reproduction apparatus, a marking forming apparatus, a method of forming a laser marking on an optical disk, and a method of manufacturing an optical disk  
Disclosed is an optical disk barcode forming method wherein, as information to be barcoded, position information for piracy prevention, which is a form of ID, is coded as a barcode and is recorded...
7103074 Laser video projection system and method with anti-piracy feature  
A pulsed laser device and a laser display system using the pulsed laser device are disclosed that thwart recording of displayed video images with electronic imaging devices. The pulsed laser device...
7085205 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus  
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for causing data recorded on a first recording medium to be stored in a second recording medium. This recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a...
7061837 Digital-audio-signal recording apparatus  
Audio data are read out, via an ATAPI interface, from an audio CD set in a CD drive. Thus, even where an inexpensive low-speed CPU is used, high-speed copying can be performed. When audio data...
7020780 Method apparatus and systems for producing and writing cipher keys, reproducing information with a cipher key, and for permitting reproduction of information with a cipher key, and permitting reproduction of information with a cipher key, and optical disc recorded with a cipher key  
Plural program information and a BCA (Burst Cutting Area) number of the optical disc 100 is previously recorded in the optical disc 100 . A drive ID is stored in the nonvolatile memory 104 a ...
7017190 Portable recordable media anti-theft system  
An anti-theft system for a portable recordable media that contains a downloadable, user-sensitive software program files or data that the publisher wants to prevent multi-installations and...
7006424 Information recording/reproducing system, music recording/reproducing system, information recorded medium and music recording/reproducing method  
An information recording/reproducing system has an information recording/reproducing apparatus and a portable information recording/reproducing apparatus. The information recording/reproducing...
6983314 Recording mechanism for recording information specified from an external source using capacity information  
A client transmits the title and artist of a particular music piece to a Web server via the Internet. The Web server accesses a music piece playing time information database and searches the...
6973015 Optical disk, method for recording and reproducing additional information to and from optical disk, reproducing apparatus for optical disk, and recording and reproducing apparatus for optical disk  
An optical disk comprises a first recording area for recording contents data and data for recording and reproducing the contents data, and a second recording area for recording secondary data on...
6937553 Recorder for recording copy of production on the basis of copy attribute embedded as electronic watermark in the production, reproducing device for reproducing recorded copy, recorded medium, recording method, and reproducing method  
A recording apparatus for recording a duplicate of a product onto a recording medium, the product being a copyrighted digital product having a copy attribute embedded as a watermark thereon and the...
6937540 Information recording device which handles a plurality of recording surfaces and information recording method which handles a plurality of recording surfaces  
An information recording device which handles a plurality of recording surfaces has a recording device which, when the remaining recording capacity of a first recording surface is less than a...
6917566 System and method of creating digital recordings of live performances  
In one embodiment, the present invention provides an event recording system that has an event-capture module, an editing module, and a media recording module. The event-capture module captures an...
6915377 Recording/reproduction apparatus and group-based editing method  
A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and...
6885626 Information recording/reproducing apparatus  
An information recording/reproducing apparatus which allows freer utilization of data compressed under different data compression schemes. When data recorded on a magneto-optical disc of an MD...
6816444 Method and apparatus for digital information processing  
A content access method and apparatus includes decompressing an input stream read from a storage medium to produce an output signal. The output signal is then multiplexed with timing information...
6810200 Digital data processing device that restricts usage of data present on a recording medium  
A digital data recording control system reads music data from a CD and records (i.e., copies) the music data onto an SD card. The CD also stores an ISRC that specifies the content of the CD, that...
6804181 Dubbing apparatus and dubbing method  
A dubbing apparatus for inhibiting high-speed dubbing for a predetermined time period if, at a time of high-speed dubbing of a program from a first storage medium onto a second storage medium, the...
6801487 Integrated optical disc label scanner system and method of scanning an optical disc graphic display  
An integrated optical disc label scanner system can comprise a substrate configured for spinning an optical disc, wherein the optical disc has a graphic display on a first surface; an emitting...
6779080 Serial data storage system with automatically adjusted data protection to implement worm media with limited overwrite allowing write appending  
In a data storage subsystem, drive-level processing treats data storage media as WORM by automatically advancing a write append limiter as data is written, and preventing changes to data occurring...
6754548 REPRODUCING DEVICE HAVING REPRODUCING LIMITING FUNCTION, APPARATUS FOR REWRITING REPRODUCING LIMITATION INFORMATION, REPRODUCING LIMITING METHOD, METHOD OF REWRITING REPRODUCING LIMITATION INFORMATION AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM  
According to this invention, when the header is detected from the digital music contents that has been stored in the flash memory and has the header composed of the reproducible period of time, the...
6754347 Input/output unit, input/output method, and receiving unit  
A switching portion of an IRD supplies a non-descrambled TS (transport stream) received from a front end portion or a descrambled TS received from a descrambler to a DVCR connected to an IEEE 1394...
6747930 Data protection on an optical disk  
A method and system is disclosed for purposefully modifying the accessibility of information encoded upon an optical medium for indicating a state or history of the optical medium and/or a state or...
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