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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:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
May. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 32 ; 3692754 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method are provided for moving an optical head to a desired track on a disk shaped recording medium having a pair of spiral tracks. A common address is recorded on the pair of spiral tracks. The addresses of the tracks before and after the access process are compared. Based on this comparison, a judgment is made as to whether the optical head has landed on a spiral track having a common address or a track having another address after the access process.