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Disk-shaped recording medium and disk recording or reproducing device

US5953297A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 22, 1998
Grant dateSep 14, 1999
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Expiry dateOct 22, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/2525
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A disk-shaped recording medium has a groove only one of whose side-walls wobbles or deviates in radial directions of the disk in order to prerecord first address information. In addition, the disk medium has block areas in the groove and in the land where the first address information is given and sector areas provided with second address information for every piece of recording data which is divided into predetermined lengths, wherein `m` pieces of sector areas are allocated for `n` pieces of block areas and recorded in the groove and the land (both n and m are integral numbers, and n is smaller than m). The second address information based on the first address information enables the sectors to be set at any length, and improves reliability of the address information. Moreover, the second address information realizes high density recording using both the land and the groove.

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