Owner Sony Corporation

Inventors Kobayashi, Shoei

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2003242280

PCT Number PCT/JP03/07410

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/105151

Priority 2002-170265 11.06.02 JP

Filing date 11 June 2003

Wipo publication date 22 December 2003

Acceptance publication date 29 October 2009

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 7/004 (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 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 20/14 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - using self-clocking codes

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