Owner Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Inventors Ishida, Takashi; Nakamura, Atsushi; Ishibashi, Hiromichi; Furumiya, Shigeru; Gushima, Toyoji; Minamino, Junichi

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-B-2001282561

PCT Pub. Number WO02/21518

Priority 2001-219292 19.07.01 JP; 2000-397621 27.12.00 JP; 2001-77897 19.03.01 JP; 2000-275988 12.09.00 JP; 2001-196258 28.06.01 JP; 2000-264978 01.09.00 JP; 2001-212071 12.07.01 JP; 2001-185729 20.06.01 JP

Filing date 30 August 2001

Wipo publication date 22 March 2002

Acceptance publication date 20 July 2006

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 7/005 (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 20/10 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - Digital recording or reproducing

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 27/19 (2006.01) Editing - by using information detectable on the record carrier

G11B 27/24 (2006.01) Editing

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