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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2004
Yong Cheol Park, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Myong Gu Lee, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Yong Cheol Park, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Myong Gu Lee, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A defect area management system for an optical storage medium including a management part producing a defect area management signal for real-time processing and transmitting the signal along with data to be written; and a write part executing a defect area management of the optical storage media, writing the data, applied by the defect area management signal from the management part, into the optical storage medium so that whenever a light pickup meets a defect block at the time of writing data requiring the real-time processing into the optical storage medium, it does not have to be moved to the spare area, thus reducing the time it takes to move the light pickup and removing shortcomings of the real-time processing.