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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1980
Peter J Janssen, Eindhoven, NL;
U. S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A record carrier is described with an optically readable trackwise-arranged information structure, and an apparatus for reading said carrier. The distances between the tracks of the information structure vary so that by projecting, in addition to a read spot, at least one address spot to the information structure of a size such that is spans a number of tracks approximately equal the quotient of the average track distance and the amplitude of the track distance variation, the read spot can be rapidly addressed to a specific group of tracks. This is done with the aid of two detectors which are disposed in the path of the address-beam radiation which is diffracted in a first order by the information structure in a direction transverse to the track direction.