Owner Sony Disc & Digital Solutions, Inc.

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

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2002304151

PCT Number PCT/JP02/05416

PCT Pub. Number WO2002/101733

Priority 2001-173781 08.06.01 JP; 2001-269100 05.09.01 JP

Filing date 3 June 2002

Wipo publication date 23 December 2002

Acceptance publication date 23 August 2007

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 20/00 (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