| Sony Optiarc Inc. Patent applications |
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| 20120002519 | DISK-SHAPED RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL SPOT POSITION CONTROL DEVICE, AND OPTICAL SPOT POSITION CONTROL METHOD - In a case of performing recording/playing with an information recording layer with a first light irradiation, and controlling the recording/playing positions on the information recording layer by a second light irradiating as to a position control information recording layer provided separately from the information recording layer, corrections to shifts in recording positions and playing positions that occurs as a result of shifts in the optical axes of the first and second lights. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110061067 | DISC DRIVE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20100199129 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a memory in which an apparatus-unique key is stored, the apparatus-unique key being a key that is unique to the information processing apparatus; an input section that inputs user operation information; a communication section that performs data reception processing; a data processor that executes validity determination processing for the apparatus-unique key; and an output section that outputs a result of the validity determination processing executed by the data processor. The data processor receives, via the communication section, key-validity determination data for determining whether the apparatus-unique key is valid or invalid. The data processor also executes the apparatus-unique-key validity determination processing by using the key-validity determination data in response to a user instruction input via the input section, and outputs a result of the validity determination processing to the output section. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100182883 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING LASER POWER SETTING METHOD - A recording apparatus includes: an optical head section to irradiate a laser beam onto a recording medium and perform recording, reproduction, or erase of information; a laser drive section to drive the optical head section to output the laser beam; a modulation-degree measurement section to measure a modulation degree of a signal read out by the optical head section; and a control section to execute controlling the laser drive section and the optical head section to execute the recording and the erase on a test area of the recording medium while varying a laser power, calculating a power reference value based on an erase characteristic and a reproduced signal growth characteristic in accordance with the variation of the laser power, each of the characteristics being obtained by acquiring a modulation-degree measurement value of a reproduced signal, and setting a recording laser power by using the power reference value. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100050191 | DISK DRIVE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A disk drive device includes: a device body having a front surface that forms a disk insertion and ejection opening; a pair of arms supported at proximal end portions thereof pivotally from the front surface of the device body to a downstream side in a disk insertion direction; transport rollers respectively rotatably supported at distal ends of the arms and transporting the disk to an inside or outside of the device body by being brought into contact with a side surface of a disk; an urging member urging the arms so that the transport rollers supported respectively by the arms approach each other; and a transport roller rotation mechanism driving at least one of the transport rollers, supported respectively by the arms, for rotation, wherein the arms synchronously pivot the transport rollers in such a manner that the pivotally supported proximal end portions are coupled to each other. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20090320053 | DISC DRIVE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS - A disc drive apparatus includes: an apparatus body to which a disc is inserted and from which the disc is ejected; a disc recording and reproducing unit having a disc loading unit configured to load the disc inserted into the apparatus body, a disc rotation drive mechanism configured to rotate the disc loaded onto the disc loading unit, an optical pickup configured to record and/or reproduce a data signal with respect to the disc, and a pickup feeding mechanism configured to convey the optical pickup in a radial direction of the disc; a disc conveying mechanism configured to insert the disc into the apparatus body and eject the disc from the apparatus body; and a conveyance drive mechanism provided in the apparatus body and configured to drive the disc conveying mechanism; wherein the apparatus body includes a shoulder which is reduced in thickness in the vicinity of an insertion end of the disc. | 12-24-2009 |
