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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2005
Applicant:
Don Charles Eklund, Ii, Culver City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Don Charles Eklund, II, Culver City, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical media disk is treated with a light-sensitive material that impedes the ability of a optical media player from reading data stored on the disk. This light-sensitive material is a material changes phase upon exposure to one or more wavelengths of light. During the initial phase, the light-sensitive material will render the disk unreadable. After activation, however, the disk becomes readable by conventional optical media players. In this fashion, theft of yet-to-be-activated optical media is deterred.