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Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2022
Applicant:

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Minoru Yamaga, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/12 (2006.01); G11B 5/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1202 (2013.01); G11B 5/00817 (2013.01);
Abstract

A servo pattern recording method includes: determining a first servo band group that includes three or more servo bands for recording a servo pattern in which first servo band identification information having a plurality of bits is to be embedded, and a second servo band group that includes three or more servo bands for recording a servo pattern in which second servo band identification information having a plurality of bits is to be embedded, the second servo band identification information being different from the first servo band identification information; and recording the first and second servo band identification information on the first and second servo band groups, respectively, such that a combination of a first pair and a second pair is not duplicated, the first pair being a pair of servo band identification information and a phase in one servo band read by a first servo read head, the second pair being a pair of servo band identification information and a phase in the other servo band read by a second servo read head.


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