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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Katsuji Igarashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 4427 ; 369 58 ; 369 94 ;
Abstract
A system for initializing an optical disc player when reproduction of data from a side of a multilayer disc is desired. The initialization procedure involves determining one or more initialization values for a first layer of data on the side, storing the initialization values determined for the first layer, and repeating the determining and storing steps for the other layers on the side.