410 results about "Blu-ray disc" 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.

A method and apparatus for recording on an optical recording medium, including the recording of management information, are described as a standard for the write-once Blu-ray disc. The management information is recorded in a management area of the disc, such as a temporary defect management area (TDMA), and includes record status information and update information. The record status information is a space bitmap (SBM) indicating whether a recording operation has been performed for a predetermined area of the disc, and the update information is SBM update information indicating whether the record status information is to be continuously managed. The SBM update information controls the state of an SBM-on/off function for each of a plurality of recording areas and may be in the form of either start position information and length information corresponding to the respective areas or an SBM update flag. The SBM update information is recorded in the TDMA and is stored in a memory of an optical disc recording/reproducing device for use during recording and reproducing operations. At the time of recording in the predetermined area, an SBM-on state enables a logical overwriting operation to be performed as necessary.

A method wherein digital content, distributed on DVD (standard and High Definition variants such as Blue-Ray), CD (Computer Disk), or other digital storage media or downloaded as one or more files or streamed or broadcast is played interspersed with one or more advertising slots (also referred to in this disclosure as just-in-time content slots). Also detailed is method and steps for discovery of advertising slot information and fetching content for each slot by DVD players or end-user equipment that enable just-in-time content slots per this disclosure. Also included is method and steps for managing DVD advertising slot inventory, targeting of advertisements, building and operating advertising network including market place for buying/selling/auctioning advertising spot inventory, making available advertisements for pickup by advertising slot publishers, and tracking of advertising performance as well as tracking of advertising slot performance. Further, method and steps to enable new advertising offerings, such as variable CPM, based on the length of advertising that has been watched plus method and steps to provide auto-detection of end-of-content is detailed which can facilitate new rental/purchase business models. Included are also method and steps for integrating social networking aspects.

There is provided a system and method for dynamically transmitting a services list to a playback device. The system comprises a display device, a playback device, and a mediator server with a mediator application. The mediator application is configured to receive, from the playback device, a service request for a services list, to send a services list for presenting on a display device in response to receiving the service request, to receive an activation request for at a third-party service listed in the services list, and to activate the third-party service in response to receiving the activation request. By programming a digital video disc such as a Blu-ray disc according to an API and using such a mediator server, a dynamically adjustable list of third-party services may be supported and used by the playback device without changing the disc application code.

A high-density optical disc such as BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc Rewritable) or BD-ROM, and a recording/reproducing method thereof are disclosed. Diverse additional information such as disc reflectivity information, disc layer information or disc type information is efficiently recorded in a particular information field included in a data unit recorded on the burst cutting area of a high-density optical disc or a particular 1-byte address field included in an address unit recorded on the high-density optical disc so that it can be read when the high-density optical disc is loaded in an optical disc apparatus or when a data recording or reproducing operation for the high-density optical disc is carried out. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve optimal optical power control and automatic gain control or identification of a current position, while enabling a normal data recording or reproducing operation corresponding to the type of the optical disc.

An optical disk read signal processing system for Blu-ray disc systems to ensure stable phase-locked locked operation even with a low signal-to-noise ratio. This system changes a loop configuration of a phase lock loop circuit according to the operating state, and utilizes a FIR equalizer for phase detection. This system attains a low error rate even when the signal-to-noise ratio of an input signal is low, and avoids pulse edges with low phase detection accuracy or signal pulse streams with a high possibility of being mistakenly detected as an edge in conventional methods, and also supports diverse types of input signals.

A low-cost scaleable turnkey system and method for archiving medical image data. The archive system and method permits the selective storing of medical data (including image data) received from a medical modality (e.g., CT, MRI, etc.) onto a removable medium (e.g., DVD or Blu-ray), which may subsequently be placed via robotics in a magazine within the system housing. In addition to directing the archiving of the medical data as described, software components of the archive system permit a specific medium in a magazine to be addressed, retrieved, and read as needed.

An optical medium, such as Blu-ray Disc (BD) medium, presents audiovisual information in a user selected Karaoke mode by mixing first and second audio streams and a textual stream according to synchronization information. For instance, the first stream has instrumentation and the second stream has vocals so that the audio output from the streams may include normal play mixing both streams to have instrumentation and vocals, instrumentation-only play having only one stream presented, or instrumentation with guide vocals having the stream associated with vocals processed at a subdued volume or varied speaker location. Alternatively, the first stream has instrumentation with vocals and the second stream has inverse vocals so that mixing the streams provides subdued or no vocals. The text stream presents lyrics in a text box of a graphics plane of a display, the lyrics synchronized to the instrumentation and vocals.

The invention relates to an efficient blu-ray inhibition lens and a preparation method thereof. The lens comprises a substrate and a coating layer, wherein the substrate is made from a CR-39 material and an ultraviolet absorbent, as well as 0.5-2.5 percent of melanin; and a staining agent, a Blue Blocker staining agent, permeates the interior tissue of the substrate. The lens has the visible light transmittance kept above 65 percent, has the 380-500nm short-wave visible light transmittance smaller than 10 percent (that is, most blu-ray is filtered), and has the 280-380nm short-wave visible light transmittance of almost zero (that is, barely violet ray and ultraviolet light can penetrate), the light transmittance is moderate, and the efficient blu-ray inhibition lens is truly suitable for being worn outdoors and indoors and particularly suitable for being worn by the aged. Under the premise of ensuring the visual effect, strong light of a high-brightness display, particularly HEV (Harm Energy Visible) light mainly consisting of blu-rays, is effectively shielded to reduce injury on people, and the incidence of both glaucoma and macular degeneration is reduced.

A mirror 1a transmits a cyan (Cy) ray and reflects an R ray, and a mirror 1d transmits a yellow (Ye) ray and reflects a B ray. The mirrors 1a and 1d are arranged inside a light-transmitting member 3 and are also tilted so that the light reflected from each of them is further reflected from the interface between the light-transmitting member 3 and the air and then incident on an adjacent photosensitive cell. Photosensitive cells 2a and 2d receive the light rays that have been transmitted through the mirrors 1a and 1d, respectively. No mirrors are arranged over photosensitive cells 2b and 2c. The photosensitive cell 2b receives directly incident light and the light ray reflected from the mirror 1a. The photosensitive cell 2c receives the directly incident light and the light ray reflected from the mirror 1d. Color information is obtained by making computations on the output signals of the respective photosensitive cells.

A method and apparatus converting a Bluray disc file system (BDFS) format recorded on an optical disc into a universal disc format (UDF), the method including: recording information on a reserved area including a management information area of the BDFS format as a system file of the UDF format; and converting BDFS format file data into UDF format file data. Accordingly, compatibility between a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus complying with BDFS file system format and an apparatus complying with the UDF file system format can be guaranteed.

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 “unselected”, “selected” or “activated”. According to the invention, the representation of a menu button may vary, depending on its state. An image or an image sequence, e.g. cartoon, may be associated to a buttons state, providing user animation. 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. A data structure is disclosed which allows storage of such menu data e.g. on a Blu-ray disc.

A method for optimizing a scheduler for an optical pick-up reduces switch times required for seamless video angle switching. The pick-up reads data streams from different files on an optical storage medium, e.g. Blu-Ray disc. Seamless video angle switching requires reading and buffering a new video data stream from another file, delaying the switch to be visible. Labels that mark entry points for seamless angle switching are attached to the video stream, and are stored together with the video data in a buffer. When an angle switch is requested, and thus a switch to a new video data stream, the scheduler determines the time before data from the new data stream can be buffered, detects the next label, and stores the new data beyond the label, thus flushing non-relevant parts of the previous buffer contents.

Multiple image processors, also known as a multiviewer or multiple input video wall processing is a device that allows multiple image inputs and combined them to form one or several outputs that consists of multiple images that can cross display boundaries. The invention provides a universal platform to allow multiple format input signals with unlimited expansion for number of inputs and unlimited expansion for number of outputs as well as unlimited expansion for resolutions. The different input sources can be from multimedia devices such as computers, DVD/Blu-ray players, and compressed IP streams as well as broadcast quality devices such as professional cameras or video servers. This universal platform allows the flexibility in multi-format configuration while provide real time throughput with minimal latency for video processing.

The invention belongs to the technical field of photoelectric measurement, relating to a chlorophyll measuring apparatus. A mechanical structure part of the device comprises a light source, a T-shaped object stage and a sensor seat, wherein the light source contains a white light LED, the bottom of the sensor seat is provided with a color sensor, and a photophobic probe structure is formed by the light source, the object stage and the sensor seat; a circuit part of the apparatus comprises a light source module driving the white light LED, a digital signal sensor module and a digital signal processing and controlling module; the digital signal sensor module collects the light intensity information of red light, green light and blue light in probe light transmitting an object to be measured at different time by the color sensor, and transforms light intensity signals into square signals for outputting; the digital signal processing and controlling module captures the three square signals so as to obtain frequency signals representing the light intensity information of red light, green light and blue light, and simultaneously calculates the chlorophyll content in the objected to be measured according to the multiplex linear regression equation between the three frequency signals and the chlorophyll content. The apparatus has the advantages of simple and stable lighting source, relatively accurate measured chlorophyll content and the like.

A curable composition which comprises: a) silane-functionalized colloidal silica; b) at least one curable monomer selected from the group consisting of aliphatic cyclic acrylate, urethane diacrylate and epoxy resin; and, c) at least one curing agent for curable monomer (b). The composition when cured exhibits scratch and abrasion resistant properties making it particularly well-suited for use as a protective coating for many different kinds of articles, e.g., CD and DVD discs and especially the more recent Blu-ray Discs, where these properties are highly desirable and even necessary.

A method, capable of being implemented in executable instructions or programmes in device(s), including computer system(s) or computer-controlled device(s) or operating-system-controlled device(s) or system(s) that is/are capable of running executable code, providing for the creation in Device(s) of executable code, such as boot code, programmes, applications, device drivers, or a collection of such executables constituting an operating system, in the form of executable code embedded or stored into hardware, such as embedded or stored in all types of storage medium, including read-only or rewriteable or volatile or non-volatile storage medium, such as in the form of virtual disk in physical memory or internal Dynamic Random Access Memory or hard disk or solid state flash disk or Read Only Memory, or read only or rewriteable CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray DVD or hardware chip or chipset etc.; the executable code being in the form of Polymorphic Executable (PE) or Executable with Unexecutable Code (EUC) or Polymorphic Executable with Unexecutable Code (PEUC) or Polymorphic Operating System (POS) containing PE, EUC and PEUC runnable in an authenticated or authorized state for the protection of intellectual property.