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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:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/596 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/596 ;
Abstract
An information recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic information detecting section for magnetically detecting magnetic information recorded at a given position on a recording medium, an optical information detecting section for optically detecting optical information recorded at a given position on each track of the recording medium, and a positional control section for controlling a position on the track using the detected magnetic information and optical information.