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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1992
Yoshio Nakajima, Higashimurayama, JP;
Kaori Ichikawa, Koganei, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This optical recording medium includes a data part which is a region for recording data and a directory part which is a region for recording its management or direction information. The directory information relating to the above-mentioned data is recorded in the above-mentioned directory part having a hierarchical tree structure. In the recording and reproducing apparatus by using the above-mentioned recording medium, in retrieving data, by retrieving the directory information in the order of a large classification, medium classification and small classification, the data can be detected. Even a large volume of data can be retrieved at a high speed and the data is efficiently managed. It is effective particularly with recording medium with small numbers of sectors per track such as an optical card.