Abstract: A case management system and method of managing and organizing documents within the case portfolio for efficient review includes data that is dynamically updated to result in a final report that includes real-time updated data. The system collects and displays the data on a secure portal for interactivity with a professional stakeholder reviewing the data. The data is automatically transformed into different formats when received, including a standard text-and-image file, a text-only file, and an image-only file, thereby allowing the reviewing stakeholder to interact with the data in multiple ways. As the system translates the document into different viewable formats, the system automatically scans the data within the document for important information, such as dates, times, names, locations, and other important pieces of information. The system then assigns date-and-time associations with each document, and automatically organizes the documents in a chronological order on a display.

Abstract: The present technology can receive audio segments from sources within one or more conference room, and can create audio fingerprints from the sources. The audio fingerprints are optimized for audio in conference room environments, which include distortions from room impulse responses, and various encoding used by telecommunication networks. In some embodiments, when two audio segments are matched, a user equipment can be instructed to mute its speakers to avoid feedback. In some embodiments, when two audio segments are matched, a user equipment can be given instructions to join a conference taking place in the room in when the audio segment originated.

Abstract: Systems and methods for crowdsourced noise monitoring are provided. An example for crowdsourced noise monitoring includes a noise monitoring system receiving and storing audio files and context data associated with a noise event in a database. A log of the audio files and context data can be created. Noise complaints can also be received from users by the noise monitoring system. Additional logs of the noise complaints can then be created. The log of the noise event and the additional logs of the noise complaints are analyzed to determine whether the noise complaints are related to the noise event. If the noise complaints are related to the noise event, the log and additional logs can automatically be forwarded to an authorized user.

Abstract: A method and system of performing high-throughput identifications of broadcast content is provided. A device can send a content identification query, which includes a sample of content being broadcast, to a server to request an identity of the content. The server will perform a computational identification of the content, return the result to the device, and store the result. For all subsequently received content identification queries requesting an identity of content being broadcast from the same source and in a time during which the content is still being broadcast from the source, the server will send the stored content identification in response to the subsequent queries. If a subsequent content identification query does not request the identity of content being broadcast from the same source or is not received during the time that the content is still being broadcast, the server will perform a computational identification of a content sample.

Abstract: This invention provides a means to identify unknown media programming using the audio component of said programming. The invention extracts audio information from the media received by consumer electronic devices such as smart TVs and TV set-top boxes then conveys said information to a remote server means which will in turn identify said audio information of unknown identity by way of testing against a database of known audio segment information. The system identifies unknown media programming in real-time such that time-sensitive services may be offered such as interactive television applications providing contextually related information or television advertisement substitution. Other uses include tracking media consumption among many other services.

Abstract: A novel system and method for adjusting the dynamic range of an audio recording or signal, which does not require user manipulation of threshold and ratio (and other parameters). Unlike prior audio compressors or limiters, the present invention provides for the ability to set the dynamic range without complicated user settings and knowledge. The process can be done automatically by a computer or processor.

Abstract: A media item fingerprint consolidation system is described that merges fingerprints into a consolidated fingerprint. Fingerprints can be generated to compactly represent media items. Fingerprints of common media items can be merged to generate a consolidated fingerprint that compactly represents the common media items. The consolidated fingerprint can replace existing fingerprints.

Abstract: System and methods for characterizing interest points within a descriptor are disclosed herein. The systems include generating a set of interest points related to an audio sample. A set of gradients relating to respective interest points in the set of interest points can be generated. A set of descriptors can then be generated based upon the set of interest points and the set of gradients and used in comparison to reference descriptors to identify the audio sample. The disclosed systems and methods provide for an audio matching system robust to pitch-shift distortion by using gradients that characterize the time-frequency neighborhood around an interest point rather than solely relying on interest points themselves. Thus, the disclosed system and methods result in more accurate audio identification.

Abstract: A data storage system, having a data processor operable to convert digital data signals into ink dot patterns, and a data processor operable to receive the ink dot patterns and convert them into digital signals, the system having at least one print media receiving carrier or panel, a printing member operable to deposit ink dot patterns in a print medium on the carrier panel, and a print media reader operable to read the ink dot patterns and create data signals there from, and a method of storing and retrieving data.

Abstract: A data storage system, having a data processor operable to convert digital data signals into ink dot patterns, and a data processor operable to receive the ink dot patterns and convert them into digital signals, the system having at least one print media receiving carrier or panel, a printing member operable to deposit ink dot patterns in a print medium on the carrier panel, and a print media reader operable to read the ink dot patterns and create data signals there from, and a method of storing and retrieving data.

Abstract: Producing a servo pattern on a media involves rotating a master, and during a first revolution of the master, forming a first transition at a first radial position on the master, and forming a first transition at a second radial position. During a second revolution of the master, a second transition at the first radial position is formed, and a second transition at the second radial position is formed. By exposing individual servo burst transitions located at the first and second radial positions, in separate disk revolutions, only one of the magnetic transitions will inherit a particular deflection from a nominal radial position. If there are any mechanical disturbances, each magnetic transition will be randomly displaced from its nominal position, reducing the written-in run-out by ?n, where n is the number of magnetic transitions in a particular servo burst.

Abstract: An indolium compound is represented by formula (I): Ring A: a benzene or naphthalene ring. Ring B: 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic or aromatic ring. Z: alkyl group having 1-8 carbon atoms, may be substituted with a halogen atom or interrupted by —O—, —CO—, —OCO—, or —COO—, a sulfonyl group having a hydrocarbyl group having -8 carbon atoms, a sulfinyl group having a hydrocarbyl group having 1-8 carbon atoms, an alkylamino group having an alkyl group having 1-8 carbon atoms, a dialkylamino group having alkyl groups having 1-8 carbon atoms, a cyano group, a nitro group, a hydroxyl group, or a halogen group. R1: group represented by formula (II) or (II?). R2: organic group having 1-30 carbon atoms or group represented by formula (II), (II?), or (III). Y: group represented by formula (III). n: integer 0-4; Anm?: m-valent anion, m is 1 or 2. p: coefficient for neutral charge.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for compensating for differences in translation path geometries of transducers used to access a data storage medium. A compensation profile is generated in relation to radial error between a first translation path geometry of a first transducer and a different, second translation path geometry of a second transducer. A control circuit directs the first transducer to write data to a rotatable data storage medium in relation to the compensation profile to emulate the second translation path geometry. In some embodiments, the control circuit comprises a data signal clock generator, a motor rotation clock generator, and a transducer radial translation clock generator. A nearest pulse detector identifies a closest clock signal pulse to a once-per-revolution (OPR) rotational reference, and the control circuit adjusts a frequency of the associated clock signal coincident with the closest pulse.

Abstract: After a reception start request of contents is issued, the presence or absence of a PD connected to a PC is discriminated. If no PD exists, the received contents is recorded into only the PC. If the PD exists, a media type of PD is discriminated. If it is a built-in type, the received contents is recorded into the PC, also transferred to the PD, and recorded into a storing medium in the PD. If it is a media type, whether or not the storing medium has been loaded into the PD is discriminated. If it has been loaded, the received contents is recorded into the PC, also transferred to the PD, and recorded into the storing medium in the PD. If it is not loaded, the user is urged to load the storing medium. Since the recording of the received contents into the PC and the recording into the PD are automatically executed, there is no need to individually execute those processes.

Abstract: A master disk for magnetic transfer of a reference servo signal in a spiral mode, having a pattern including a plurality of dots groups, which are disposed at different radial positions of the master disk with a first pitch, and correspond to the reference servo signal in the spiral mode. Each of the plurality of dot groups includes a plurality of dots, successively disposed with a second pitch along a circumferential direction of the master disk at a same one of the radial positions. Each of the plurality of dots is of a ferromagnetic material, and has four sides, two opposing sides thereof extending in the circumferential direction, and the other two opposing sides thereof extending in a radial direction of the master disk.

Abstract: There is provided a near-field-light (NFL) generating optical system in which the point where near-field (NF) light is generated can be provided sufficiently close to the end surface of a magnetic pole that generates write field. The optical system comprises: a waveguide through which a light for exciting surface plasmon propagates; and a NF-optical device configured to be coupled with the light in a surface plasmon mode. The NF-optical device comprises: an opposed-to-waveguide surface opposed to the waveguide with a predetermined distance; and a propagation edge provided on the side opposite to the opposed-to-waveguide surface, extending to the NFL-generating end surface of the device, and configured to propagate thereon the surface plasmon excited by the light. In this optical system, the point, where NF-light is generated, of the NFL-generating end surface can be located on the side opposite to the waveguide.

Abstract: A pattern drawing apparatus which is capable of reducing manufacturing costs of information recording media. A partial drawing process is executed in response to output of a reference signal, for drawing, after being on standby for a predetermined standby time period, pattern segments, which are obtained by dividing patterns forming a servo pattern in the direction of the width of the patterns, by irradiation of a resin layer with an electron beam. A drawing position-changing process is executed for changing the irradiation position of the electron beam on the resin, toward a center of rotation of a substrate or away from the center of rotation, within a range of the effective drawing width of the electron beam. These processes are executed a plurality of times to draw an exposure pattern on the resin layer.

Abstract: A method of drawing a pattern for magnetic transfer on a substrate, including the steps of rotating the substrate and scanning the substrate, by an electron beam, in a circumferential direction thereof, deflecting, using a deflection signal, the electron beam in a radial direction thereof, and switching irradiation of the electron beam on and off, so as to create the pattern of a plurality of dots.

Abstract: An information storage medium with an array of laterally magnetised dots, as well as a process for producing this medium is disclosed. Each dot (2) contains at least one magnetic domain formed by a thin layer (4) of at least a magnetic material laterally covering this flat material and deposited at oblique incidence relative to the normal (z) to the plane (6) of the array. The invention applies in particular to computer hard drives.

Abstract: To copy a copy protected DVD (32), and thereby subvert the copy prot-ection technique, a DVD drive (50) is controlled by a disc copying program (54) to access data at a level other than that at the user data level. For example, if it is the data frame (44) which is read, the DVD drive (50) is controlled to write a data frame (12) to a copy disc (52). During the copying process, the program (54) may be arranged to remove sector IDs and error detection codes from the read data frames (44) and to generate new sector IDs and appropriate ID error detection codes for the data frames (12) to be written to the copy disc (52). This circumvents any copy protection which has been incorporated in the identification data in a data frame of the original disc (52).

Abstract: In general, the invention features methods by which more-than one client program connected to a network stores the same data item on a storage device of a data repository connected to the network. In one aspect, the method comprises encrypting the data item using a key derived from the content of the data item, determining a digital fingerprint of the data item, and storing the data item on the storage device at a location or locations associated with the digital fingerprint. In a second aspect, the method comprises determining a digital fingerprint of the data item, testing for whether the data item is already stored in the repository by comparing the digital fingerprint of the data item to the digital fingerprints of data items already in storage in the repository, and challenging a client that is attempting to deposit a data item already stored in the repository, to ascertain that the client has the full data item.

Abstract: A video information recording apparatus includes a first obtaining unit operable to obtain video information to be recorded; a second obtaining unit operable to obtain thumbnail picture information to be recorded in correspondence with the video information; an encrypting unit operable to encrypt the thumbnail picture information; and a recording unit operable to record the video information and the encrypted thumbnail picture information onto a recording medium.

Abstract: There are provided an image processing apparatus and method. In this apparatus and method, high-frequency components are converted by multiple-frequency transformation in accordance with tone conversion used to change the dynamic range, thereby obtaining a high-quality image. For example, an original image undergoes tone conversion on the basis of a tone conversion curve, and the converted image then undergoes discrete wavelet transformation. After that, subbands obtained by discrete wavelet transformation undergo a conversion process in correspondence with the slope of the tone conversion curve.

Abstract: For a reproduction of optical sound information in a double variable-area track (DZ) an optoelectronic converter device scans the optical sound track of a film. The converter device generates a digital image signal for buffer storage in the memory of a program-controlled data processing device. The data processing device derives the profile of the two edges of the double variable-area track from data values of the buffer-stored image signal. Audio data for a sound reproduction are generated using data about the edge profile determined.

Abstract: The present invention provides a CPU-containing LSI in which software stored in an external memory is incorporated partially into a RAM and thereby the capacity of the RAM to be used can be held down, and an optical disk device including the same. In the CPU-containing LSI, the RAM includes a software storage region where software read in from the external memory on a module-by-module basis is stored, and an entry table in which entries are stored, with the entries each containing at least information as to a location and a size of a module stored in the software storage region. The CPU refers to the entry table to decide the location where a module to be read in from the external memory to the software storage region is to be stored, according to an incorporation-location search program.

Abstract: There are provided an image processing apparatus and method. In this apparatus and method, high-frequency components are converted by multiple-frequency transformation in accordance with tone conversion used to change the dynamic range, thereby obtaining a high-quality image. For example, an original image undergoes tone conversion on the basis of a tone conversion curve, and the converted image then undergoes discrete wavelet transformation. After that, subbands obtained by discrete wavelet transformation undergo a conversion process in correspondence with the slope of the tone conversion curve.

Abstract: A storage device comprises a probe having a tip. The storage device also comprises a storage medium, with the tip of the probe to form the groove in the storage medium. The probe tip interacts with a surface of the groove to store and read data.

Abstract: An optical recording device includes: a light source for emitting light of plural wavelengths; an optical waveguide formed by a crystal defect in a photonic crystal, into which light emitted from the light source is launched; an information recording/erasing unit for changing the shape of the photonic crystal near the optical waveguide; and a light detecting unit for detecting the light emitted from the optical waveguide. A contact probe of the information recording/erasing unit applies pressure to one of a plurality of periodically arranged columnar holes of the photonic crystal to widen its diameter, thereby capturing light of a wavelength ?k corresponding to the information to be recorded. Since the optical waveguide extends parallel to the crystal surface, the optical recording device can be integrated with an optical circuit.

Abstract: Electromagnetic radiation from an optical source is directed onto an optical aperture in a metallic structure. The metallic structure in turn emits optical output from an emission region in the structure and onto a recording medium (e.g., a magnetic recording disk), thereby heating the medium. The optical output is enhanced when the electromagnetic radiation from the optical source includes a frequency that matches a waveguide mode resonance in the metallic structure. Features (such as ridges or trenches) in the metallic structure may be used to further increase the emitted optical output beyond what the emitted optical output would be in the absence of these features. The apparatus and associated method are useful for data recording, e.g., thermally assisted data recording.

Abstract: A magnetic head system, and method for manufacturing a magnetic head are provided. Included is at least one layer and a heating element positioned adjacent the at least one layer. The at least one layer includes a plurality of sub-layers for providing an optimal thermal barrier.

Abstract: A patterned magnetic recording medium for use in heat assisted magnetic recording comprises an electrically conductive heat sink layer and a plurality of discrete magnetic recording elements positioned adjacent to a first surface of the heat sink layer. Disc drives that include the patterned medium and a method of magnetic recording using the patterned media are also included.

Abstract: Electrons are directed from an electron emitter towards a magnetic recording medium to heat a recording portion of the magnetic recording medium and magnetic information is written by a magnetic recording head to the temperature-elevated recording portion. Otherwise, a magnetic head having a magnetic pole is used and the magnetic pole serves as an electron emitter as well. Alternatively, a space between the electron emitter and recording medium is made shorter smaller the mean free path of electrons in the atmosphere to considerably improve the recording density.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for reproducing a data stream having a multiple reproduction paths recorded on a high-density optical disk. The present method ensures seamless reproduction of video and audio data of a multi-path data stream by removing possible buffer underrun even when the reproduction path is changed during reproduction.

Abstract: A device for writing data to a recording medium and a method for fabricating the device is presented. According to one embodiment, the device includes an electrical conductor having a cross-track portion, wherein the cross-track portion includes first and second opposing surfaces, and wherein the cross-track portion defines an aperture extending from the first surface to the second surface. The device also includes a dielectric portion disposed in the aperture such that the dielectric portion defines a ridge waveguide having a lowest-order mode cut-off frequency that is less than the frequency of incident optical energy used to heat the recording medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information recording medium, to which information can be recorded and from which the information can be replayed by irradiating the medium with a laser having a short wavelength, specifically a highly-versatile semiconductor laser having a wavelength near 405 nm, and having superior recording properties, as well as information recording method capable of recording information at high density using a laser having short wavelength.

Abstract: A heat assisted magnetic recording head having a planar waveguide for heating a recording medium proximate to where a write pole of the recording head applies a magnetic write field thereto. The planar waveguide includes at least one edge, which may have a substantially parabolic shape, that is shaped to reflect an electromagnetic wave to a focal point within the planar waveguide. The planar waveguide includes a truncated end adjacent the focal point such that the truncated end intersects the focal point.

Abstract: In a multimedia system for a vehicle, a plurality of multimedia units are connected to one another by an optical bus laid as a ring line. An interface unit, situated at an arbitrary point in the ring line or integrated into one of the multimedia units establishes a radio connection between the multimedia system and an external unit, which for example transmits traffic information to the multimedia system.

Abstract: For a reproduction of optical sound information in a double variable-area track (DZ) an optoelectronic converter device (1, 2, 4, 9 to 13) scans the optical sound track (3) of a film (4). The converter device (1, 2, 4, 9 to 13) generates a digital image signal for buffer storage in the memory (19) of a program-controlled data processing device (15). The data processing device (15) derives the profile of the two edges of the double variable-area track (DZ) from data values of the buffer-stored image signal. Audio data for a sound reproduction are generated using data about the edge profile determined.

Abstract: Surface-enhanced Raman optical data storage (SERODS) systems having increased reading and writing speeds, that is, increased data transfer rates, are disclosed. In the various SERODS read and write systems, the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) data is written and read using a two-dimensional process called parallel signal transfer (PST). The various embodiments utilize laser light beam excitation of the SERODS medium, optical filtering, beam imaging, and two-dimensional light detection. Two- and three-dimensional SERODS media are utilized. The SERODS write systems employ either a different laser or a different level of laser power.

Abstract: On an original of a master information carrier, a phase servo pattern is drawn by scanning the original with an electron beam. The phase servo pattern is drawn element by element by causing the electron beam having a beam diameter not larger than the minimum width of the element to scan a disc-like substrate of the original, which has been provided with a resist layer for electron beam drawing, in a diametrical direction of the disc-like substrate while rotating the substrate in one direction at a constant speed.

Abstract: An information recording program, device, media and method are provided. The disclosure comprises a selection receiving procedure for receiving the selection of an output file; a moving picture creating procedure for converting the output file into moving picture format data, by which contents of the output file is displayed per page when the output file selected in the selection receiving procedure is a document file or an image file; and a recording procedure for recording the moving picture format data, which is converted in the moving picture creating procedure, in an information recording medium. Executing these procedures creates the information recording medium, in which the contents of the above output file is recorded by an information recording device. When the output file is a document file, it is recommended to convert the text information included in the document file into audio format data and record it also in the recording procedure.

Abstract: A thermomagnetic recording medium includes a thermal change layer whose thermal conductivity is induced to change by a metal-to-insulator transition, is greater on a lower temperature side of a transition temperature and is smaller on a higher temperature side thereof. A thermomagnetic recording method includes setting a recording or reproducing temperature higher than the temperature of the recording medium at the circumference of a light spot and higher than a threshold temperature for change of the thermal conductivity of the thermal change layer. A thermomagnetic recording and reproducing device is provided with the above-mentioned thermomagnetic recording medium, an optical pickup and a magnetic head and conducts recording and reproduction by the above-mentioned thermomagnetic recording and reproducing device.

Abstract: Copies of original sound recordings are identified by extracting features from the copy, creating a vector of those features, and comparing that vector against a database of vectors. Identification can be performed for copies of sound recordings that have been subjected to compression and other manipulation such that they are not exact replicas of the original. Computational efficiency permits many hundreds of queries to be serviced at the same time. The vectors may be less than 100 bytes, so that many millions of vectors can be stored on a portable device.

Abstract: An optical disc made by recording music on the disc in codes is placed on the rotor plate of the CD player, and the rotor plate is rotated by a hand. The codes are detected and decoded by a sensor substrate and a main circuit board to output tones having corresponding frequencies from a speaker. A plurality of unit code setting regions are formed on a surface of white color of the disc, and unit code regions selected at every unit code setting region are coated out in black color. And, white color and black color are respectively represent binary signals having logical values of “0” and “1” thereby combination and coding of the binary signals are performed.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a structure of pick-up head and its method for accessing signals, which operates in coordination with a disk made by ferroelectric material. An electric field is generated around the ends of two conductive wires by exerting a voltage on the wires. When the ends of the two wires are being close to the disk, the electric field polarizes the data-storing surface, which is formed by the ferroelectric material, so as to reach the function of writing. And as reading is needed, the two wires are also utilized of being induced by the electric lines of polarized area on the ferroelectric material to solve the data signals stored on the disk. Because the structure of pick-up head is simple and it is able to generate a smaller effective electric field, it is advantaged for the trend of miniaturization of pick-up head and capable of increasing the density of data on the disk.

Abstract: A simple method of manufacturing a magnetic head having a head face and including a planar magnetic coil (7) which extends parallel to the head face. According to the method, the magnetic coil is formed at a first side of a first substrate (1). Thereafter, the first substrate provided with the magnetic coil is adhered with its first side to a side of a second substrate, whereafter material of the first substrate is removed from a second side of the first substrate (9), the second side being turned away from the first side, in order to form the head face, in such a manner that the magnetic coil is situated near to the head face.