Owner Sony Disc & Digital Solutions Inc.

Inventors Saito, Akiya; Tsukahara, Makoto; Usui, Yoshinobu; Yanagisawa, Yoshitake

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2010246389

Parent 2007202951

Filing date 23 November 2010

Wipo publication date 16 December 2010

Acceptance publication date 10 November 2011

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 7/26 (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 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of record carriers

G11B 19/12 (2006.01) Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor - by sensing distinguishing features of records, e.g. diameter

G11B 20/00 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing

G11B 20/14 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - using self-clocking codes

G11B 23/36 (2006.01) Record carriers not specific to the method of recording or reproducing

G11B 27/30 (2006.01) Editing - on the same track as the main recording