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KOBAYASHI SHOEI
JP106 patents
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SONY CORP
49 patentsUS5886985AMar 23, 1999
Optical recording medium having a plurality of sectors separated by sync signals
SONY CORP150 citations99
US6097695AAug 1, 2000
Optical disk with a groove for defining serial data modulated into a signal using modulation processing
SONY CORP136 citations98
US6091700AJul 18, 2000
Optical disk and optical disk fabrication method
SONY CORP93 citations98
US7349301B2Mar 25, 2008
Write-once recording medium on which portion of the data is logically overwritten
SONY CORP89 citations97
US5978336ANov 2, 1999
Optical disk finalization method and optical disk finalization apparatus
SONY CORP94 citations97
US5754522AMay 19, 1998
Method for forming disk, disk forming apparatus, data recording/reproducing method, data recording/reproducing apparatus, and disk capable of recording/reproducing data in high density
SONY CORP130 citations97
US6262950B1Jul 17, 2001
Optical disc recording method and access method, optical disc, optical disc recording apparatus, and optical disc apparatus
SONY CORP70 citations96
US6067281AMay 23, 2000
Rewritable disc and device for recording data in the same disc
SONY CORP73 citations96
US5878024AMar 2, 1999
Optical disc, apparatus and method for recording and reproducing data
SONY CORP82 citations96
US5835461ANov 10, 1998
Optical disc, apparatus and method for recording and reproducing data
SONY CORP65 citations96
US5835478ANov 10, 1998
Optical disc having address information for recording and reproducing data at correct positions
SONY CORP55 citations96
US5805564ASep 8, 1998
Optical disk capable of detecting errors in address area and correcting errors in data area and recording method and apparatus therefor
SONY CORP90 citations96
US6256282B1Jul 3, 2001
Optical recording medium and recording method thereof
SONY CORP74 citations95
US7403461B2Jul 22, 2008
Disc recording medium, disc drive apparatus, reproduction method, and disc manufacturing method
SONY CORP12 citations93
US7274635B2Sep 25, 2007
Method and apparatus for recording address information on disc medium
SONY CORP11 citations93
US7151727B2Dec 19, 2006
Disc-shaped recording medium, disc-state recording medium cutting apparatus, and disc drive apparatus
SONY CORP15 citations93
US6631114B1Oct 7, 2003
Optical disc, tracking controlling apparatus and method, and focus controlling apparatus and method
SONY CORP16 citations93
US6411585B1Jun 25, 2002
Method for manufacturing optical disk, optical disk apparatus, and optical disk with using phase-shifted signal for wobbling grooves
SONY CORP24 citations93
US6147945ANov 14, 2000
Recording/reproducing apparatus and method
SONY CORP29 citations93
US6122764ASep 19, 2000
Disc recording medium for reproduction data from disc recording medium
SONY CORP20 citations93
US6064639AMay 16, 2000
High speed data recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus with increased data sector access speed
SONY CORP22 citations93
US5978333ANov 2, 1999
Recording/reproducing apparatus and method
SONY CORP36 citations93
US5966368AOct 12, 1999
Data recording disk
SONY CORP18 citations93
US5828639AOct 27, 1998
Recording/playback device and method thereof, and disc
SONY CORP30 citations93
US5815486ASep 29, 1998
Optical disk, recording/reproducing apparatus and method for rapidly recording/reproducing data on/from an optical disk using gray coding
SONY CORP32 citations93
US5587975ADec 24, 1996
Magneto-optical disk reproducing apparatus with gain and offset controlled by a reference pattern read from the disk
SONY CORP23 citations93
US7414938B2Aug 19, 2008
Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method
SONY CORP15 citations92
US7203153B2Apr 10, 2007
Recording medium, recording device, reproduction device, recording method and reproduction method
SONY CORP28 citations92
US7203139B2Apr 10, 2007
Recording medium, recording device, reproduction device, recording method and reproduction method
SONY CORP21 citations92
US7123557B2Oct 17, 2006
Disc-shaped recording medium disc driving device and method and apparatus for producing disc
SONY CORP27 citations92
US6999391B2Feb 14, 2006
Disc driving device and wobble information detection method
SONY CORP26 citations92
US6564009B2May 13, 2003
Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data onto and/or from an optical disk and method thereof
SONY CORP52 citations92
US6192018B1Feb 20, 2001
Recordable disc and device for recording data in the same disc
SONY CORP26 citations92
US7486607B2Feb 3, 2009
Disc-shaped recording medium, cutting apparatus for same, and disc drive
SONY CORP10 citations84
US7313062B2Dec 25, 2007
Disc recording medium, recording method, disc drive device
SONY CORP16 citations84
US6636465B2Oct 21, 2003
Optical disc, tracking controlling apparatus and method, and focus controlling apparatus and method
SONY CORP13 citations84
US7440374B2Oct 21, 2008
Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method
SONY CORP10 citations83
US7397744B2Jul 8, 2008
Recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus
SONY CORP9 citations83
US7277371B2Oct 2, 2007
Recording medium, recording device, reproduction device, recording method and reproduction method
SONY CORP10 citations83
US7057985B1Jun 6, 2006
Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method
SONY CORP11 citations83
US7414932B2Aug 19, 2008
Method of, and apparatus for, recording address information to disc medium
SONY CORP4 citations74
US7391686B2Jun 24, 2008
Disc-shaped recording medium, cutting apparatus for same, and disc drive
SONY CORP4 citations74
US7236435B2Jun 26, 2007
Address information recording device and recording method and reproducing device and reproducing method
SONY CORP9 citations74
US7190655B2Mar 13, 2007
Disk recording medium, disk manufacturing method, and disk drive apparatus
SONY CORP7 citations74
US6661758B2Dec 9, 2003
High speed data recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus with increased sector access speed
SONY CORP9 citations74
US6373816B1Apr 16, 2002
Optical disk fabricating method, optical disk, and optical disk apparatus
SONY CORP11 citations74
US6256276B1Jul 3, 2001
Disk recording and reproducing apparatus and method for use in a rewritable type disk
SONY CORP12 citations74
US6252836B1Jun 26, 2001
Tracking control method and apparatus, recording/reproducing apparatus and optical disc
SONY CORP9 citations74
US5917783AJun 29, 1999
Optical disk, a recording/reproducing apparatus and method for the optical disk
SONY CORP6 citations74
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