2097 results about "Optical storage" patented technology

Optical storage media often contain data structures for a menu suitable for selection of a title, a chapter, a parameter or others. Such menus usually comprise a number of buttons to be displayed, with each button having a state. Possible states of buttons are e.g. “unselected”, “selected” or “activated”. According to the invention, the menu may contain buttons that can be selected through the keys on the remote control, but that don't have any images or text associated. This allows creating “invisible buttons” that automatically execute commands upon selection. Further, a sound or sound sequence, e.g. melody or click, may be associated to a buttons state, and may be played back when the button enters this state. Such menu data may be stored e.g. on a Blu-ray disc.

The invention enables the inclusion of voice and remaining audio information at different parts of the audio production process. In particular, the invention embodies special techniques for VRA-capable digital mastering, accommodation of PCPV / PCA and / or SCRA signals in audio CODECs, VRA-capable encoders and decoders, and VRA in DVD and other digital audio file formats. The invention facilitates an end-listener's voice-to-remaining audio (VRA) adjustment upon the playback of digital audio media formats by focusing on new configurations of multiple parts of the entire digital audio system, thereby enabling a new technique intended to benefit audio end-users (end-listeners) who wish to control the ratio of the primary vocal / dialog content of an audio program relative to the remaining portion of the audio content in that program. The invention facilitates storage of VRA audio programs on optical storage media, authoring systems for VRA-capable DVDs, playback hardware integrated into VRA-capable optical disc apparatus, and VRA playback hardware for use with non-VRA capable optical disc playback apparatus.

An interactive optical storage medium, an apparatus for and a method of reproducing data from the interactive optical storage medium. The interactive optical storage medium includes A / V data including audio or video data, and interactive data, which forms an interactive screen and includes a command to preload fonts relating to a content of the interactive screen into a memory of a reproducing apparatus during a seamless reproduction of the AV data. A font to be used is preloaded into the memory of the reproducing apparatus before an AV data screen of A / V data and a content screen of the interactive data, which are simultaneously reproduced in the interactive screen, are changed into a new interactive screen, thereby assuring the seamless reproduction of the A / V data screen.

A silver-based alloy thin film is provided for the highly reflective or semi-reflective coating layer of optical discs. Alloy additions to silver include zinc, aluminum, zinc plus aluminum, manganese, germanium, and copper plus manganese. These alloys have moderate to high reflectivity and reasonable corrosion resistance in the ambient environment.

Holographic storage media including a substrate and a dye material capable of undergoing a photo-induced change are disclosed. Data may be written into the holographic storage media using light of one wavelength and read using light of a different wavelength.

The invention discloses a control method for a grid-connected power generation system of an optical storage microgrid. According to the method, a photovoltaic power generation power supply is connected with a direct-current (DC) bus through a boost converter, and an energy storage module is connected with the DC bus through a bidirectional DC-DC converter; a DC side of a DC-AC (Alternating Current) grid-connected inverter is connected with the DC bus, and an AC side of the DC-AC grid-connected inverter passes through a filtering inductor and then is connected with a power grid and a load respectively; the photovoltaic power generation power supply is subjected to maximum power tracking control and constant-voltage control respectively through a boost converter control strategy according to the charging state of the energy storage module, the output power of the photovoltaic power generation power supply, the voltage drop conditions of grid connected points and the reactive power demand set value of the power grid, the charging and discharging of the energy storage module are controlled through a bidirectional DC-DC converter control strategy, and the voltage of the grid connected points is stabilized through a DC-AC grid-connected inverter control strategy. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the stable grid connection of the optical storage microgrid is guaranteed, and the quality of electric power of the power grid is improved; the multi-functionalization of the grid-connected inverter is realized, and the cost is reduced; the new energy absorption capacity of the power grid is enhanced, so as to meet the demands of the power grid.

A silver-based alloy thin film is provided for the highly reflective or semi-reflective coating layer of optical discs. Alloy additions to silver include zinc, aluminum, zinc plus aluminum, manganese, germanium, and copper plus manganese. These alloys have moderate to high reflectivity and reasonable corrosion resistance in the ambient environment.

The present invention provides a system and method for dispensing multimedia content. The invention discloses a network kiosk configured to receive multimedia materials from a variety of sources that may be stored, combined and recorded on mass storage devices such as solid state memory, multimedia players and rewriteable optical storage devices including rewriteable Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) and rewriteable Compact Discs (CDs). Users may select material for purchase or rent at the kiosk or through external wired and wireless computing devices such as computers, cellular telephones, personal data assistants (PDAs), multimedia players.

A method and miniaturizable device is described to read / write information to an optical storage medium (11). A device comprises one or more light sources (12) bounded up with an access unit (10) which is arranged to be controllable to a position, in which light beams (21, 22) are transmitted transversal towards an optical storage medium, and reflected light beams (33) are analysed by a detector element (18, 26) which further informs the access unit whether to move or stand still to keep light beams in focus and on track. A device according to the invention is possible to implement in a small size and low weight due to reduced component count and thin access unit geometries. A communication device (80) according to the invention may be implemented to fulfil a crucial need for ultraminiature range of communication devices.

A controller for use in an optical storage device is provided. The controller includes a block decoder / encoder for processing data to and from a media of the optical storage device. An ATAPI interface is also provided and is configured to process data and control signals for selectively communicating data to and from the optical storage device during operation in an ATAPI mode. Universal serial bus (USB) logic is configured to process data and control signals for selectively communicating data to and from the optical storage device during operation in a USB mode. The USB logic is configured to utilize data transfer control logic implemented by the ATAPI interface. Accordingly, the one controller can be integrated into either an external peripheral device that communicates over a USB connection in the USB mode, or into an internal peripheral device that communicates over an IDE connection in the ATAPI mode. The optical storage device can be any type of optical storage device, such as, for example a CD-RW, a CD-ROM, a CD-R, a DVD, and the like. Further, the optical storage device can be in the form of an internal or external peripheral device.< / PTEXT>

The invention enables the inclusion of voice and remaining audio information at different parts of the audio production process. In particular, the invention embodies special techniques for VRA-capable digital mastering, accommodation of PCPV / PCA and / or SCRA signals in audio CODECs, VRA-capable encoders and decoders, and VRA in DVD and other digital audio file formats. The invention facilitates an end-listener's voice-to-remaining audio (VRA) adjustment upon the playback of digital audio media formats by focusing on new configurations of multiple parts of the entire digital audio system, thereby enabling a new technique intended to benefit audio end-users (end-listeners) who wish to control the ratio of the primary vocal / dialog content of an audio program relative to the remaining portion of the audio content in that program. The invention facilitates storage of VRA audio programs on optical storage media, authoring systems for VRA-capable DVDs, playback hardware integrated into VRA-capable optical disc apparatus, and VRA playback hardware for use with non-VRA capable optical disc playback apparatus.

A varifocal optical system includes a substantially circular membrane deposited on a substrate, and a ring-shaped PZT thin film deposited on the outer portion of the circular membrane. The membrane may be a MEMS-micromachined membrane, made of thermal oxide, polysilicon, ZrO2 and SiO2. The membrane is initially in a buckled state, and may function as a mirror or a lens. Application of an electric voltage between an inner and outer electrode on the piezoelectric thin film induces a lateral strain on the PZT thin film, thereby altering the curvature of the membrane, and thus its focal length. Focal length tuning speeds as high as 1 MHz have been demonstrated. Tuning ranges of several hundred microns have been attained. The varifocal optical system can be used in many applications that require rapid focal length tuning, such as optical switching, scanning confocal microscopy, and vibration compensation in optical storage disks.

An optical storage system suitable for optical storage and retrieval of information using a storage medium comprising a substrate, an active layer for retention of the data, and an overlying optical layer, or layers for double-sided. The optical layer serves to produce an evanescent field in or adjacent to the active layer in response to an incident beam of radiation. The evanescent field is frustrated or attenuated by the data in the active layer and produces a signal.

The present invention relates in general to nanoparticles exhibiting luminescence such as photostimulated luminescence or photoluminescence and optical switching processes based upon such properties, in more particular, the use of such photostimulated luminescence exhibiting nanoparticles and switching nanoparticle for optical storage apparatuses and sensors as well as methods of making and using same.

The invention relates to an optical storage alternating current and direct current hybrid micro-grid system and a control method of the system. The system and the method are characterized in that a hybrid micro-grid comprises an alternating current micro-grid subsystem, a direct current micro-grid subsystem and a power exchange control system; the alternating current micro-grid subsystem comprises an alternating current side photovoltaic power generation unit, an alternating current load and a grid-connected interface; the direct current micro-grid subsystem comprises a direct current side photovoltaic power generation unit, a storage battery energy storage unit and a high / low voltage direct current load; the power exchange control system comprises a two-way AC / DC power converter, a transformer, a micro-grid controller and a communication system, the storage battery energy storage unit is used for controlling direct current bus voltages, and P / Q control is adopted in the two-way AC / DC power converter. Under the stabilizing effect of direct current side energy storage, the direct current micro-grid subsystem conducts photovoltaic power generation and is connected to a large power grid through the alternating current micro-grid subsystem at constant power, and the photovoltaic utilization rate is increased. By means of the control method, the power supply reliability and economical efficiency of the hybrid micro-grid are effectively improved.

System and methods are described for inhibiting the readability of an optical media due to changes in a pseudo-reflective material that composes the optical media after the optical media has been exposed to air for a predetermined time. An optical media includes a data encoded component. At least a fraction of the data encoded component transforms from a substantially optically reflective state to a substantially optically non-reflective state as at-least-in-part a function of time from an initializing event. The systems and methods provide advantages because of low cost, limited content lifetime, avoidance of rental returns and minimum changes to existing manufacturing processes.

The present disclosure relates to a limited play optical storage media and a method for limiting access to data thereon. This storage media comprises: an optically transparent substrate; a reflective layer; a data storage layer disposed between said substrate and said reflective layer; an oxygen penetrable UV coating disposed on a side of said substrate opposite said data storage layer; and a reactive layer disposed between said UV coating and said substrate, said reactive layer having an initial percent reflectivity of about 50% or greater and a subsequent percent reflectivity of about 45% or less.

Systems and methods are described for inhibiting the readability of an optical media due to changes in a pseudo-reflective material that composes the optical media after the optical media has been exposed to air for a predetermined time. An optical media includes a data encoded component. At least a fraction of the data encoded component transforms from a substantially optically reflective state to a substantially optically non-reflective state as at-least-in-part a function of time from an initializing event. The systems and methods provide advantages because of low cost, limited content lifetime, avoidance of rental returns and minimum changes to existing manufacturing processes.

A hardware and software system including a controller that can be operatively combined with several methods of display on a display screen under software and hardware control for the purpose of browsing through data stored in a memory device. The browsing of the data stored in a memory device is facilitated in such a way that it allows a rapid view of what contents are present and the organization of the material in the data, as well as rapid access to the items in the data involved. The controllers in the system have specialized functions for effecting various actions on the data displayed on the display screen in such a way that users can rapidly browse through the data involved. The methods of display may include interaction with CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, a portable optical large volume storage disk, a portable large volume non-optical storage medium, a TV, and an HDTV.

The present invention provides a formulation for a reactive dye layer for a limited-play optical storage medium, the reactive formulation including at least one carrier material or curable acrylate monomer, at least one reactive material disposed within the carrier material or acrylate monomer, and at least one photo-bleaching retarder material disposed within the at least one adhesive material. The at least one photo-bleaching retarder material includes at least one polymeric polyhydroxy compound selected from the group consisting of polyhydroxystyrenes, cellulose, and functionalized cellulose derivatives.

The present disclosure relates to a limited play optical storage media and a method for limiting access to data thereon. This storage media comprises: an optically transparent substrate; a reflective layer; a data storage layer disposed between said substrate and said reflective layer; an oxygen penetrable UV coating disposed on a side of said substrate opposite said data storage layer; and a reactive layer disposed between said UV coating and said substrate, wherein said optical storage media has an initial percent reflectivity of about 50% or greater and a subsequent percent reflectivity of about 45% or less.

Semiconductor nano-particles, due to their specific physical properties, can be used as reversible photo-bleachable materials for a wide spectrum, from far infrared to deep UV. Applications include, reversible contrast enhancement layer (R-CEL) in optical lithography, lithography mask inspection and writing and optical storage technologies.

The present invention provides an organic semiconductor material with a carbazole unit, a method of synthesizing an organic semiconductor material with a carbazole unit and the preparation method; the material in the category is applied in the field of the organic flat panel display, organic photovoltaic cell, organic optical storage, organic field effect tube, chemical and biological sensing and organic laser and other organic electronic fields. The material is a compound material with a substituted base introduced into the first and eighth levels of the carbazole unit, and has the structure as show in (A). The material has the advantages: (1) the synthesis is convenient and easily accessible and can be flexibly modified; (2) the material can effectively realize the modulation of the photoelectric nature of the material; and (3) the material has the high thermal stability and glass transition temperature, etc. Thus, the material can be expected to be a photoelectric functional material with the commercial potential.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to locate a group of units of digital information in a volume, optical-storage disk. The apparatus includes a first optical recording layer, a second optical recording layer, and an optical disk reading sled. The first optical recording layer stores a first group of units of digital information in a distinct region of the optical disk. The second optical recording layer stores a first locator for the first group of units of digital information in substantially the same distinct region of the optical disk. A first laser in the optical disk reading sled reads the first locator stored in the second optical recording layer, which indicates the contents of the units of digital information stored in the first optical recording layer being read by a second laser, also in the optical disk reading sled.

A silver-based alloy thin film is provided for the highly reflective or semi-reflective layer of optical discs. Alloy additions to silver include gold, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, platinum, palladium, copper, silicon, cadmium, tin, lithium, nickel, cobalt, indium, chromium, antimony, gallium, boron, molybdenum, zirconium, beryllium, titanium, and zinc. These alloys have moderate to high reflectivity and reasonable corrosion resistance in the ambient environment.

An optical switch and optical storage loop are used as the basis of a single-photon source and a quantum memory for photonic qubits. To operate as a single-photon source, the techniques include a source of a pair of photons, such as a parametric down-conversion crystal, which is known to emit photons in pairs. The detection of one member of the pair activates the switch, which re-routes the other member into the storage loop. The stored photon is then known to be circulating in the loop, and can be switched out of the loop at a later time chosen by the user, providing a single photon for potential use in a variety of quantum information processing applications. To operate as a quantum memory for photonic qubits, a single-photon in an arbitrary initial polarization state is coherently stored in the loop, and coherently switched out of the loop when needed.

Hybrid optical storage media enable various combinations of read-only, write and read / write functionality. The hybrid optical storage media can include, for example, read-only or write data portions, referred to as restricted data portions, as well as unrestricted read / write data portions. Primary data, such as multimedia, software applications and templates are written to the restricted data portions in an intended state of preservation and secondary data, such as advertisements, saved games, updates, form data and security information, are written to the unrestricted data portions in a state that allows them to be erased and / or overwritten without undesirably affecting the primary data. In some instances, the secondary data controls access to and use of the primary data. Coloring schemes can also be used to distinguish between different types of data portions and portions of disks that have been written to.

An improved optical recording medium is provided, and includes a surface of the optical recording medium having at least pits and grooves formed therein, a recording layer formed adjacent the surface of said optical recording medium, and a light transmissive layer formed adjacent the recording layer. Information is recorded and / or reproduced by irradiation of light from an optical pickup employing an objective lens having a numerical aperture of 0.7 or larger through the light transmission layer. At least a surface layer of said light transmissive layer is formed of a material having a Young's modulus of 70 GPa or larger thereby greatly reducing or eliminating scratches from the surface of the optical recording medium while allowing for an increase in the storage capacity of the optical storage medium.