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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2002
Fumiya Ohmi, Sagamihara, JP;
Fumiya Ohmi, Sagamihara, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A phase-change optical disc formatting device which formats a phase-change optical disc so that signal characteristics of an area in which at least one of a file structure and application data is to be recorded are substantially equal to signal characteristics of a format area. A phase-change optical disc formatting method including: formatting a phase-change optical disc so that signal characteristics of an area in which at least one of a file structure and application data is to be recorded are substantially equal to signal characteristics of a format area. A phase-change optical disc formatted such that signal characteristics of an area of the phase-change optical disc in which at least one of a file structure and application data is to be recorded are substantially equal to signal characteristics of a format area of the phase-change optical disc.