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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
May. 06, 2013
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Aso, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that in a case where data is to be written into a physical area, which is the unit in which an erasing operation is performed, subjected to processing in a first non-volatile memory in response to a write request and in a case where the end of the data does not match a boundary between physical regions, which are the smallest units in which a writing operation is performed, in the first non-volatile memory, first data having a size smaller than the smallest units is stored in a predetermined temporary storage area, and thereafter in a case where second data specified by the same logical address as the first data is requested to be written, the first data and the second data are combined and written into the physical area subjected to processing.