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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:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masayoshi Kanno, Tokyo, JP;
Masatsugu Suwabe, Miyagi, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
Abstract
To stably perform optical recording and optical reproducing under optimum conditions, in an optical recording medium having a writable recording layer on a substrate and having a maker recording area in which recording is performed by a maker on the recording layer, individual drive control information of the optical recording medium is recorded in the maker recording area, and, in optical recording and optical reproducing, optical recording and optical reproducing are performed by the drive control information under optimum conditions.