Owner Sony Corporation

Inventors Iimura, Shinichiro; Yamagami, Tamotsu; Kobayashi, Nobuyoshi; Kobayashi, Shoei

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2002238978

PCT Pub. Number WO2002/075730

Priority 2001-78239 19.03.01 JP; 2001-170610 06.06.01 JP

Filing date 19 March 2002

Wipo publication date 3 October 2002

Acceptance publication date 14 June 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 7/0045 (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 20/14 (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

G11B 27/19 (2006.01) Editing - by using information detectable on the record carrier

G11B 27/24 (2006.01) Editing

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