Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Csk Corporation

Computer Services, Inc.

Kiyoshi Horie

Takashi Sato

Akihiko Kobayashi

Niro Watanabe

Kazuhisa Hoshino

Tatsuya Morimitsu

Naoaki Shindo

Yoshiaki Tada

An intermediate transfer medium comprises a heat-resistant base sheet and provided thereon a release layer and an image-receiving adhesive layer on which an image pattern is formed by a sublimation transfer means in accordance with image data, said image-receiving adhesive layer, on which said image pattern has been formed, being transferred to a transfer substrate together with said release layer to produce an image-recorded article, wherein said image-receiving adhesive layer is comprised of a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition point of 50.degree. C. or above and a filler added to the thermoplastic resin and selected from the group consisting of an inorganic filler having a melting point of 200.degree. C. or above and an organic filler having a softening point or decomposition point of 200.degree. C. or above.

Intermediate transfer medium and process for producing image-recorded

An optical recording medium having a plurality of tracks juxtaposed each other and capable of easily and rapidly detecting a desired track. An optical recording medium includes a data recording region in which the tracks are juxtaposed each other and a track detecting region provided at a part of the data recording region. The track detecting region includes track guides juxtaposed along respective tracks and track number guides corresponding to a locus of the movement of an optical head in the access to a desired track, the track number guides intersecting the track guides.

Optical recording medium with track and track number guides

A method and apparatus for correcting an angular deviation or a skew of an optical recording medium in the reading/writing of data from or into the medium and a specific optical recording medium to which this method and apparatus are applicable. The optical recording medium comprises strip patterns formed on part of a substrate. This optical recording medium is relatively moved in a direction of the width of the strip patterns with respect to a pattern detecting device so that an optical system of the pattern detecting device detects the patterns at plural detecting points along the length of the strip patterns. A correction control device counts the number of the strip patterns passed, according to the relative movement as mentioned above and compares the count values at the respective detecting points to detect an angular deviation amount in a plane of the optical recording medium. The angular deviation is corrected by a rotation drive mechanism based on the detected angular deviation amount and direction of the deviation.

Optical recording medium and method for correcting angular deviation

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Horie