Owner Sony Corporation

Inventors Kobayashi, Shoei

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2002238928

PCT Pub. Number WO2002/075729

Priority 2001-76228 16.03.01 JP

Filing date 15 March 2002

Wipo publication date 3 October 2002

Acceptance publication date 6 September 2007

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 7/005 (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 11/105 (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 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

G11B 7/00 (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 7/26 (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 20/18 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - Error detection or correction