Owner Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Sony Corporation Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

Inventors Ogawa, Hiroshi; Heemskerk, Jacobus, Petrus, Josephus; Yamagami, Tamotsu; Schep, Cornelis, Marinus; Kobayashi, Shoei; Tanaka, Shinichi; Ishibashi, Hiromichi; Stek, Aalbert; Furumiya, Shigeru

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2002334422

PCT Number PCT/JP02/10558

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/034414

Priority 2001-318669 16.10.01 JP

Filing date 10 October 2002

Wipo publication date 28 April 2003

Acceptance publication date 15 May 2008

G11B 20/10 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - Digital recording or reproducing

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 20/12 (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 20/14 (2006.01) Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing - using self-clocking codes

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