Radiation Beam Modified Or Controlling (e.g., Photosensitve, Optical Track) Patents (Class 369/284)
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Patent number: 8097324Abstract: An optical article comprising a mark disposed on the optical article; wherein the mark comprises an optical state change material; wherein the optical state change material undergoes a change in its optical state when exposed to an activation signal selected from one or more of a laser, thermal energy, infrared rays, X-rays, gamma rays, microwaves, visible light, ultraviolet light, ultrasound waves, radio frequency waves, electrical energy, chemical energy, magnetic energy, and mechanical energy; wherein the optical article is transformed from a pre-activated state to an activated state when an authorized activation method is used; and wherein the optical article is transformed from a pre-activated state to an incorrectly activated state when an unauthorized activation method is used. A method and a system for changing the functionality of the optical article are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLCInventors: Marc Brian Wisnudel, Ben Purushotam Patel, Kasiraman Krishnan, James Mitchell White, Andrea Jeannine Peters, Matthew Jeremiah Misner
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Publication number: 20120011523Abstract: An optical recording medium (disk) capable of preventing a back focus at a face thereof and reducing the interference between beams reflected by each recording surface, thereby improving a quality of a servo signal and a reproductive signal. In a disk having (N?1) layers, if N is a natural number (more than three), and if a cover-layer thickness and intermediate-layer thicknesses are d1, d2, . . . dN, then a difference of 1 ?m or above is set between the sum of di to dj and the sum of dk to dm for arbitrary natural numbers i, j, k, m (i?j?k?m?N). If refractive indexes are different from a standard value or different for each layer, then the thickness of each layer is converted based on a spread width of light according to the thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Yoshiaki KOMMA, Joji ANZAI
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Patent number: 8077579Abstract: A holographic recording medium with an improved servo structure is presented. The holographic recording medium has a hologram layer for storing holograms and a servo layer for positioning a light beam for reading and/or recording of a hologram relative to the holographic recording medium. The servo layer is an essentially flat dye recording layer. A holographic pickup for use with such a holographic recording medium includes a light source for generating a light beam, which interacts with the dye recording layer for recording servo information.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Heiko Trautner, Hartmut Richter
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Publication number: 20110273970Abstract: An optical information recording medium (1) includes, on a substrate (50), a ROM layer (20), a RE layer (40), an intermediate layer (30) separating the ROM layer (20) and the RE layer (40), and a cover layer (10) provided in a position farthest from the substrate (50). The RE layer (40) is an information recording layer provided in a position farthest from the light transmitting layer and also is a recording layer of disc type identification information and an individual identification number recorded in a format allowing easier determination as compared to an information recording format used in the layer allowing only readout of information by use of light irradiation. Therefore, it becomes easy to check a disc type in a recording/reproducing device and one recording/reproducing device can be shared with other types of optical disks. Further, disk production becomes easy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideharu Tajima, Shigemi Maeda, Yoshihisa Adachi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Atsushi Etoh, Tetsuya Okumura, Ikuo Nakano, Takashi Arimoto, Noboru Iwata
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Patent number: 8051441Abstract: An optical article for playback in a player includes a plurality of optically detectable marks disposed on a surface of the optical article; wherein the plurality of optically detectable marks are in a pre-determined combination of a first state and a second state; and at least one first control logic comprising at least one sector; wherein each optically detectable mark is associated with a particular first control logic; wherein each first control logic is executed only when its associated optically detectable mark is in a pre-determined state; and wherein a customized player-readable code is determined using a combination of the plurality of optically detectable marks and their associated first control logic. A method of making the optical article, a method of customizing the optical article, a method and a system for the playback of the optical article are also included.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLCInventors: James Mitchell White, Marc Brian Wisnudel, Mark Rogers Johnson
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Publication number: 20110242957Abstract: An optical information storage medium includes: a substrate; a cover layer; and a first information layer interposed between the substrate and the cover layer, recording of information in the first information layer and reading of information recorded in the first information layer being realized by irradiation with a light beam incoming from the cover layer side, wherein the first information layer includes a recording film and a protection film interposed between the recording film and the cover layer, and a distance between the cover layer and the recording film is not less than 0.5 nm and not more than 12 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Kitaura, Kenichi Nagata
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Patent number: 8029976Abstract: Disclosed is to provide with an optical recording medium of a write-once type in which an excellent recording characteristic can be obtained over low speed recording to high speed recording.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignees: Sony Corporation, Adeka CorporationInventors: Yutaka Wada, Masatsugu Suwabe, Junko Shimada, Toru Yano, Keiji Oya, Koichi Shigeno
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Patent number: 8031574Abstract: An optical disk compliant with both a conventional optical disk such as a BD, HD DVD, and the like and a next-generation high-density optical disk according to a near-field light recording system and the like is provided. An information recording medium includes a first information recording layer and a second information recording layer, to/from which information is recorded or reproduced using laser beam. The first information recording layer is formed at a laser beam entrance surface, and is configured so that information can be recorded thereupon and/or reproduced therefrom using a first objective lens having a first numerical aperture NA1 and laser beam of a first wavelength ?1. The second information recording layer is formed so as to have a distance to the laser beam entrance surface is 0.05 mm to 1.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Fumitomo Yamasaki, Kanji Wakabayashi, Yoshiaki Komma, Toshiyasu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8027238Abstract: The invention relates to a data support (1) with a core layer (15) and at least one adjacent layer (14a), laminated to the core layer and a corresponding production method, said core layer being embodied from a holographic data store in the form of a volume hologram (5). The surface (141) facing the core layer, on the layer directly adjacent to the core layer, has a roughness (19), before lamination to the core layer, which affects the wavelength shift of the image reconstructed by the volume hologram.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Bundesdruckerei GmbHInventors: Jens Ehreke, Michael Knebel, Tomas Loeer, Oliver Muth, Rainer Seidel
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Patent number: 8026021Abstract: The present invention is directed to a film forming, photoactive, homogeneously mixed material comprising a complex prepared from (a) at least one ionic photosensitive compound which may undergo a photoreaction, selected from photoisomerizations, photocycloadditions and photoinduced rearrangements, and/or (a?) at least one photosensitive polyelectrolyte (“second polyelectrolyte”) carrying residues which may undergo said photoreaction, and (b) at least one (“first”) polyelectrolyte carrying charges which are opposite to those of the active groups of the photosensitive material. This material has unique photochemical properties in that non-scattering, optically clear films may prepared therefrom which allow light-induced generation of optical anisotropy and of topological surface structures, e.g. such as surface relief gratings (SRG).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2005Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Joachim Stumpe, Leonid Goldenberg, Olga Kulikovska
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Publication number: 20110222392Abstract: Provided is a read-only optical information recording medium (for instance, a dual-layer BD-ROM), which uses blue laser and is provided with a reflecting film which has sufficiently high reflectivity while ensuring optical transparency required in manufacture, has excellent reproduction stability when used for an optical information recording medium and has excellent durability. The read-only optical information recording medium includes a structure wherein a plurality of laminated layers of the reflecting film and the optical transparent layer are formed on a substrate, and reproduces information by means of blue laser. The reflecting film closest to the substrate among the reflecting films is substantially composed of an Al-based alloy containing 0.5-3.0 atm % of Ti, and has a film thickness of 10 nm or more but not more than 30 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Yuuki Tauchi, Yoko Shida
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Patent number: 8014261Abstract: An optically-readable disk includes a device that disrupts readability of the disk when the disk is spun at an angular velocity substantially greater than required to play the disk in its intended playing device, or for when a defined integral of velocity and time is exceeded. The device may include a fluid container that disperses a data-disruptive fluid. The device may include a membrane or layer that is disrupted when the disk is rotated above a defined angular velocity, or when a defined integral of velocity and time is exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Inventor: Gary Stephen Shuster
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Patent number: 8014260Abstract: An optical information recording medium is provided with a substrate having a pregroove formed on one main plane; a reflecting layer arranged on the one main plane of the substrate and reflecting an access controlling laser beam; a selective reflecting layer arranged on the reflecting layer, transmitting the access controlling laser beam and reflecting a recording laser beam; a recording layer arranged on the selective reflecting layer for having information recorded thereon by the recording laser beam; and a reflection preventing layer arranged on the recoding layer. On the substrate, a dummy groove having a shape similar to that of the pregroove is formed on forming regions adjacent to an effective access region on the one main plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Yoshihisa Usami
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Patent number: 8007982Abstract: An optical information recording medium, which is made of a resin provided with photoreactivity containing organometal compound, has a recording layer on which, after a photoreaction are brought about when predetermined initialization light is irradiated to the medium and then the resin is hardened, at a time of recording information, a recording mark is formed when predetermined recording light is condensed to the medium, and a temperature of the medium near a focal point of the recording light is increased and the organometal compound is transubstantiated, and at a time of reproducing information, the information is reproduced based on returned light according to predetermined reading light being irradiated.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Uchiyama, Hisayuki Yamatsu, Norihiro Tanabe
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Publication number: 20110205867Abstract: In a multilayer optical recording medium, it is an object to suppress generation of crosstalk while reducing an interlayer distance of recording and reading layers. In an optical recording medium including three or more recording and reading layers, a first distance, and a second distance greater than the first distance by 3 ?m or more are alternately defined as interlayer distances of recording and reading layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Takashi KIKUKAWA, Atsuko KOSUDA, Motohiro INOUE, Hideki HIRATA
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Publication number: 20110205868Abstract: Efficient recording and reading are achieved in an optical recording medium including servo layers and recording and reading layers. The optical recording medium includes: a first servo layer having a projection and a depression for tracking control that are formed in a first spiral direction; a second servo layer having a projection and a depression for tracking control that are formed in a second spiral direction opposite to the first spiral direction; and a plurality of recording and reading layers having a flat structure with no projection and depression for tracking control. Information is recorded on each of the plurality of recording and reading layers while tracking control is performed using the first servo layer or the second servo layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Motohiro Inoue, Takashi Kikukawa, Atsuko Kosuda, Hideki Hirata
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Publication number: 20110199873Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110199872Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110194387Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110194389Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Koji TAKAZAWA, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110194392Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Koji TAKAZAWA, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110194394Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Koji TAKAZAWA, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110194388Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110194395Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Koji TAKAZAWA, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
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Patent number: 7989139Abstract: The azo-metal chelate dye to which the present invention is applied is a compound formed as follows: for example, 1,3,4-thiadiazole ring is selected as the diazo component; the diazo component is combined with a coupler component having condensed rings including a fluorine-substituted alkylsulfonylamino group and an amino group, to form an azo dye compound; and the azo dye compound forms chelate bonds with at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Cu and Pd. Here, two absorption bands (OD1 and OD2) are seen in the absorption spectrum, which is measured in a range of 400 to 800 nm wavelengths. The azo-metal chelate dye is characterized in that the optical density ratio (OD2/OD1) of the two absorption bands is greater than 1.25. By using this azo-metal chelate dye, an optical recording medium capable of high-speed recording is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Satake, Yuko Naitou, Hisashi Shoda, Yuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 7990838Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing inexpensively and effectively a stamper utilized for producing multi-valued ROM discs, which comprises: (i) irradiating a light onto a laminate, thereby producing reacted portions within a thermo reactive layer, (ii) maintaining the reacted portions, which are produced by irradiating the light, within the thermo reactive layer, (iii) maintaining an optical absorption layer under the reacted portions, (iv) maintaining a substrate under the reacted portions, and (v) removing the maintained optical absorption layer and the maintained thermo reactive layer, wherein the laminate comprises the optical absorption layer and the thermo reactive layer on the substrate, the optical absorption layer and the thermo reactive layer are disposed adjacently.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Katsunari Hanaoka, Hiroshi Miura
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Publication number: 20110176402Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To perform highly accurate focus control in an optical recording medium of multilayer structure having an interface of each layer with a reflectance reduced as much as possible. [SOLVING ELEMENT] In a focus control apparatus with optical pickup for use in an optical recording medium of multilayer structure, laser light irradiating device including a laser light source (50) and an objective lens (54) irradiates laser light to an optical recording medium (D), a photodetector (55) detects an optical characteristic change associated with multiphoton absorption caused when the laser light is condensed to at least one of recording layers, and in accordance with the detection result, focus control in the optical pickup is performed for an arbitrary recording layer (L1 to Ln).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2008Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Takanobu Higuchi
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Patent number: 7983129Abstract: The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, and a data layer disposed on the substrate layer, the data layer comprising data being arranged in tracks as marks and spaces. A protection code is coded in one of the tracks or a part of a track which code comprises marks of a first size and marks of a smaller, second size. The marks of the second size have in particular a width being smaller than the width of the marks of the first size. To obtain the protection code, a method is used comprising the steps of reading a track or a part of a track with a first laser power for obtaining a first data signal, reading the same track or the same part of a track in another step with a second laser power being different from the first laser power for obtaining a second data signal, and calculating the protection code by taking into account the first and the second data signals. The protection code may be calculated for example by a microprocessor of a respective data reading apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Thomas LicensingInventors: Gael Pilard, Frank Pizygodda, Christophe Fery
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Patent number: 7983117Abstract: The invention concerns a optical data memory, said memory comprising at least one layer of supporting material, said supporting material including molecules having, in a local zone, a collective state of molecules from at least one first collective state of molecules, and a second collective state of molecules. The invention is characterized in that only molecules having the first collective state of molecules in said local zone are capable of generating a second-harmonic signal when they are excited in said local zone by a reading electromagnetic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRSInventors: Alain Fort, Kokou Dorkenoo, Denis Gindre, Alberto Barsella
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Publication number: 20110141872Abstract: According to one embodiment, a write-once type information storage medium comprises a recording layer which is formed by mixing a plurality of organic dye based recording materials whose molecular weights are different from each other, and wherein a mixture ratio of organic dye based recording materials whose molecular weight is small is larger than a mixture ratio of organic dye based recording materials whose molecular weight is large.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Hideo ANDO, Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa, Yasuaki Ootera, Naoki Morishita, Kazuyo Umezawa
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Publication number: 20110134743Abstract: In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, LimitedInventors: Tetsuya Kondo, Eiji Nakagawa, Hirofumi Nagano
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Patent number: 7955681Abstract: An optical article configured to transform from a pre-activated state of functionality to an activated state of functionality is provided. The optical article includes an optical data layer for storing data, wherein the data is read from the optical data layer in an activated state of functionality, and a material capable of undergoing a morphological transformation being disposed on the optical data layer and adapted to irreversibly alter from a first morphology to a second morphology upon interaction with the external stimulus to alter the state of functionality of the optical article from a pre-activated state to the activated state.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLCInventors: Kasiraman Krishnan, Marc Brian Wisnudel, Ben Purushotam Patel, Lifeng Zhang
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Patent number: 7948861Abstract: Multicolor characters or pictures are written in an optical disk in a visible manner. The optical disk comprises a figure writing layer for writing a visible figure in addition to a data recording layer for recording data. Recording of user data in the data recording layer and the writing of a visible figure in the figure writing layer are performed using the same optical disk drive. In one example, the figure writing layer comprises phase change layers that are formed via protection layers in a region sandwiched between a pair of reflective layers. By writing figure data separated into individual basic colors in the phase change layers individually, a multicolor figure can be made visible.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Akemi Hirotsune
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Patent number: 7932015Abstract: An optical recording medium includes a substrate and a plurality of recording layers laminated via at least intermediate layers, at least one of the recording layers other than a recording layer farthest from a light incidence plane among the plurality of recording layers containing at least one metal M selected from a group consisting of Ni, Cu, Si, Ti, Ge, Zr, Nb, Mo, In, Sn, W, Pb, Bi, Zn and La and an element X which can combine with the metal M upon being irradiated with a laser beam for recording data, thereby forming a crystal of a compound of the element X with the metal M. According to the thus constituted optical recording medium, it is possible to record data in and reproduce from a farthest recording layer from a light incidence plane in a desired manner and it is possible to record data in and reproduce from recording layer(s) other than the farthest recording layer from the light incidence plane in a desired manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Koji Mishima, Hiroyasu Inoue, Tsuyoshi Komaki, Daisuke Yoshitoku, Hitoshi Arai, Kenji Yamaga, Hironori Kakiuchi
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Patent number: 7933194Abstract: The present invention relates to a read-once record medium that comprises a data substrate, a sensitive layer; a reflective layer, an adhesive layer and a transparent substrate; thereby, the structure of the sensitive layer or the data substrate will be changed when laser beams with specific power emitted from an optical storage device pass through the data substrate and focus on the sensitive layer, and the laser beams will be reflected by the sensitive layer and can not be recognized by the optical storage device.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2006Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Inventor: Wellen Sham
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Patent number: 7929395Abstract: A multilayer information storage medium according to the present invention includes: a substrate; at least three information storage layers, which are stacked one upon the other on the substrate; a plurality of transparent layers, each of which is arranged between its associated adjacent ones of the information storage layers; and a transparent coating layer. At least two of the transparent layers have mutually different thicknesses. If a laser beam with a wavelength of 400 nm to 410 nm is incident perpendicularly on the medium through the transparent coating layer, two of the information storage layers that sandwich the thinnest one of the transparent layers have a higher returning light intensity and/or a higher degree of modulation than the other information storage layers.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Morio Tomiyama, Masahiko Tsukuda, Haruhiko Habuta
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Patent number: 7916619Abstract: An optically-readable disk includes a device that disrupts readability of the disk when the disk is spun at an angular velocity substantially greater than required to play the disk in its intended playing device, or for when a defined integral of velocity and time is exceeded. The device may include a fluid container that disperses a data-disruptive fluid. The device may include a membrane or layer that is disrupted when the disk is rotated above a defined angular velocity, or when a defined integral of velocity and time is exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Inventor: Gary Stephen Shuster
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Patent number: 7903524Abstract: An optical signal recording medium includes at least one signal recoding plane in which an optical signal is to be recorded, and a control information region which is a portion other than the signal recoding plane, and in which a diffraction grating is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shin Yasuda, Kazuhiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 7887993Abstract: To provide an optical information recording medium including a pigment appropriate for high-density and high-speed optical recording by the blue laser light of 350 to 500 nm and especially around 400 nm (for example, 405 nm), enabling recording at low power, suppressing thermal affect of recording to the optical recording layer, and assuring a reflection ratio or modulation degree by the change of a refraction index n and an attenuation coefficient k; and to provide a recording method thereof. Instead of the recording based on the optical phase difference obtained by a change ?n of the refraction index n of the pigment as in the conventional method, a pigment capable of performing recording based on the change ?k of the attenuation coefficient k has been obtained. Recording may be performed mainly by the change ?k of the attenuation coefficient k.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi Ida, Daisuke Morishita
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Patent number: 7843789Abstract: Multilayer optical disk is recordable or partly recordable. Parallel reading of information data from the group of layers by the same focused laser beam is possible. Only one layer of said group has the guide grooves for tracking. Alignment of the information data disposition on the layers of the group is provided. The signals reflected from the different layers of the group have different tilts and are directed onto the different photodetectors. Optical disk management for preventing its illegal use is proposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2006Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Inventor: Anatoly M. Smolovich
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Publication number: 20100290332Abstract: An optical information carrier is presented. The information carrier comprises at least one active layer for recording/reading data in/from as a result of one- or multi-photon interaction; and at least one reference layer structure associated with said at least one active layer. The reference layer structure comprises at least one dielectric material and is different from that of the active layer in its optical properties with respect to one- or multi-photon interaction. Detection of light returned from the reference layer structure allows to control a process of focusing an optical beam onto an addressed recording plane in the active layer during at least one of the recording and reading processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2008Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: MEMPILE INC.Inventors: Andrew Shipway, Kozo Nakao, Ilya Rubinovich, Yoshihiro Takatani, Ariel Litwak, Adam Paul Olsen, Mark Anthony Aubart, Robert Adam Wabat, Ryan Richard Dirkx, Harold Reid Banyay
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Patent number: 7830779Abstract: Because conditions for recording identification data of a medium vary in accordance with the structure of different media, such as a single-layer or a multiple-layer structure, stable data recording has been a difficult task. To solve this problem, an incident side of the laser beam for recording identification data on a single-layer optical disk 5 and a double-layer optical disk 6 is the opposite side of a substrate 1 upon which user data is recorded. From this structure, even in a double-layer optical disk 6, the recording is not affected by the recording layer of a second layer 12b and the like. Therefore, in the double-layer optical disk 6, identification data of the medium can be recorded under the same conditions as the single-layer optical disk 5.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2004Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Takahashi, Kenichi Nishiuchi, Naoyasu Miyagawa, Takashi Nishihara
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Patent number: 7813258Abstract: A disc structure for making an inverted optical response through a super-resolution process using a recorded mark portion and a space portion, which is realized to amplify a signal amplitude and solve a conventional problem that a conventional super-resolution technique can obtain only small signals, since the super-resolution area is reduced to realize high density recording of data.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshimichi Shintani, Hiroyuki Minemura, Yumiko Anzai, Soichiro Eto
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Patent number: 7782747Abstract: In order to realize (A) an optical information recording medium in which information is stored in high density and can be precisely and securely reproduced, (B) a method for reproducing the optical information recording medium, and (C) an optical information processing apparatus using the optical information recording medium, an optical information recording medium 1, 2, or 3 of the present invention includes: (a) a substrate 12, having pits and/or grooves, each of which is made up of a rise and a recess, and each of which corresponds to recorded information that is optically reproduced by irradiation of a light beam; and (b) at lease one super resolution reproducing film 13, which has an optical property to be changed in response to a temperature increase caused by the irradiation of the light beam, the optical property of the super resolution reproducing film being reversibly changed depending on a temperature change in the super resolution reproducing film.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Go Mori, Hideharu Tajima, Nobuyuki Takamori, Masaki Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Harada
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Publication number: 20100182896Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer that includes a mark layer in which recording marks formed in accordance with condensed recording light are aligned and has a recording light absorption amount of 20.8% or less with respect to an innermost depth as a depth of the mark layer from a side thereof that the recording light enters to a side thereof that is most distant from the side that the recording light enters, and a change amount of a light absorption amount with respect to measurement light having a wavelength 10 nm shorter than that of the recording light at a time a light absorption amount with respect to measurement light having the same wavelength as the recording light is used as a reference, of 8.0% or more per 0.30 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Uchiyama, Yusuke Suzuki, Takao Kudo, Katsumi Miura
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Publication number: 20100182895Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer in which a recording mark formed of a cavity is formed in accordance with a light for recording, and which contains therein a compound having a skeleton expressed by the general formula (1): where R1, R2, R3, and R4 are either hydrogen atoms or substituents.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuaki Oyamada, Takashi Iwamura, Daisuke Ueda, Takehide Endo
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Publication number: 20100172228Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to use an optical pickup in common with conventional optical disks. In a three-dimensional mark recording layer (111v) of a voluminal medium (100v), information is recorded by forming a three-dimensional record mark (RM) in the vicinity of the focus (Fb) of a blue light beam (Lb) according to the blue light beam (Lb) that is concentrated and has a light intensity equal to or larger than a predetermined intensity. The information is reproduced from the three-dimensional mark recording layer (111v) on the basis of a reproducing blue light beam (Lbr) deriving from irradiation of the blue light beam (Lb). A servo layer (114v) of the voluminal medium (100v) reflects at least part of the red light beam (Lr) which is irradiated in order to square the position of the blue light beam (Lb) in the three-dimensional mark recording layer (111v) with an arbitrary target mark position and whose wavelength is different from that of the blue light beam (Lb).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kimihiro Saito, Hisayuki Yamatsu
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Publication number: 20100110858Abstract: The invention is able to enhance a recording speed. In the invention, a recording mark (RM) composed of a cavity is formed by vaporizing a two-photon absorbing material by a two-photon absorption reaction as an embodiment of a photoreaction against a recording light beam (L1) as recording light to be condensed at the time of recording information. Also, in a recording layer (101), the information is reproduced on the basis of a return light beam (L3) formed by modulation of a readout light beam (L2) irradiated as prescribed readout light at the time of reproducing inform in conformity with the presence of absence of the recording mark (RM).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Iwamura, Mitsuaki Oyamada, Daisuke Ueda
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Publication number: 20100110871Abstract: The recording/reproducing quality of a multilayer optical information recording medium deteriorate not only due to interference from other layers caused by light converging on other information layers but also due to stray light converging on the surface of a protective layer and stray light that does not converge on other information layers but rather returns to an optical head through the same optical path as the reproducing signal. The thickness composition of intermediate layers (106, 107, and 108) and the protective layer (109) in a four-layer optical information recording medium are set so as to eliminate the influence of interference caused by stray light from other layers reflected up to three times.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Masahiko Tsukuda, Morio Tomiyama, Kenji Narumi, Joji Anzai, Yuuko Tomekawa, Haruhiko Habuta
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Patent number: 7709181Abstract: Cyanine compounds represented by the general formula (I) which exhibit decomposition behavior suitable for the optical recording material to be used in optical recording layers of optical recording media for high-speed recording: (I) wherein A and B are each an optionally substituted benzene or naphthalene ring; X is O, S, Se, CR3R4, or NY; at least either of R1 and R2 is a group represented by the general formula (II) or (III) and when only either is a group represented thereby, the other is an organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; R3 and R4 are each an organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; Y is hydrogen or an organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; at least either of Y1 and Y2 is a group represented by the general formula (IV) and when only either is a group represented thereby, the other is hydrogen or an organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; Z is hydrogen, halogeno, or cyano; Anm? is an m-valent anion; m is an integer of 1 or 2; and p is a coefficient capable of keeping the electric charType: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Adeka CorporationInventors: Koichi Shigeno, Toru Yano