Owner Sony Corporation

Inventors Kobayashi, Shoei

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2003242029

PCT Number PCT/JP03/07077

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/105150

Priority 2002-170266 11.06.02 JP

Filing date 4 June 2003

Wipo publication date 22 December 2003

Acceptance publication date 13 November 2008

G11B 20/12 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - Formatting, e.g. arrangement of data block or words on the record carriers

G11B 7/0045 (2006.01) Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power

G11B 7/007 (2006.01) Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power - Arrangement of the information on the record carrier, e.g. form of tracks

G11B 11/00 (2006.01) Recording on, or reproducing from, the same record carrier wherein for these two operations the methods or means are covered by different main groups of groups or by different subgroups of group

G11B 19/04 (2006.01) Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor - Arrangements for preventing, inhibiting, or warning against, double recording on the same blank, or against other recording or reproducing malfunctions

G11B 20/18 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - Error detection or correction

G11B 27/24 (2006.01) Editing