Owner Sony Corporation

Inventors Kobayashi, Shoei; Iimura, Shinichiro

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2002237554

PCT Pub. Number WO2002/073607

Priority 2001-68290 12.03.01 JP; 2001-122905 20.04.01 JP

Filing date 7 March 2002

Wipo publication date 24 September 2002

Acceptance publication date 7 February 2008

G11B 7/24 (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 - Record carriers characterised by the selection of the material or by the structure or form

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 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 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