Real-time recording/reproduction on an information recording medium including a defective region
US6842580B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 26, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jan 11, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 26, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N2005/91328
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In an information recording medium for recording and reproducing data thereon on a sector-by-sector basis, the recorded data being managed as at least one file by using a file structure, the file structure includes unused space management information for identifying a used region and an unused region. At least one defective region is registered as an unused region in the unused space management information, the at least one defective region being a region on the information recording medium which is incapable of proper reproduction of the recorded data.
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