USO0RE42826E
(19) United States (12) Reissued Patent
(10) Patent Number: US RE42,826 E (45) Date of Reissued Patent: Oct. 11, 2011
Ohata et a]. (54)
REWRITABLE OPTICAL DISK WITH SPARE AREA AND OPTICAL DISK PROCESSING APPARATUS
(75) Inventors: Hiroyuki Ohata, Tokyo (JP); Kazuhiko
Nakane, Tokyo (JP) (73) Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha,
Tokyo (JP) (21) Appl.No.: 11/192,460 (22) Filed:
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS EP EP EP GB
0798712 0798714 0813189 2326015 A
JP JP JP JP JP JP JP JP
62-209776 2-235264 3-46164 5-159472 5-298858 6-242892 7-57375 7-73606
* * * *
A A A A A A A A
10/1997 10/1997 12/1997 12/1998
9/1987 9/1990 2/1991 6/1993 11/1993 9/1994 3/1995 3/1995
(Continued)
Jul. 29, 2005 Related US. Patent Documents
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Reissue of:
(64) Patent No.: Issued: Appl. No.:
6,738,341 May 18, 2004 10/174,958
PCT Filed:
Jun. 20, 2002
JIS X 6272 (ISO/IEC10090); Section 3, 16. to 17.; 1992. International Standard ISO/IEC 10090: Information technolggyi 90mm optical disk cartridges, rewritable and read only, for data
interchange, Oct. 15, 1992. Standard ECMAi272 120 mm DVD Rewritable Disk (DVD-RAM) pp. 41-42.
US. Applications: (62)
Division of application No. 09/206,402, ?led on Dec. 7, 1998, now Pat. No. 6,469,978.
(30)
Foreign Application Priority Data
(Continued) Primary Examiner * Paul Huber
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Dec. 18, 1997
(JP) ..................................... .. 9-349805
(51) Int. Cl. GIIB 7/00 (52) (58)
(57)
(2006.01)
US. Cl. ................................ .. 369/275.3; 369/5317 Field of Classi?cation Search ...................... .. None
See application ?le for complete search history. (56)
U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS A * A * A * B1*
5/1992 8/1993 6/1994 7/2002
Fukushima et a1. ..... .. Bish et al. ............. .. Ozaki et al. .... .. Takemura et a1. ....... ..
ABSTRACT
In order to enable recording and reproduction from optical disks with defect management formatted with different group con?gurations without changing the ?rmware of the conven tional apparatus and to allow the size of the spare area to be
speci?ed at initialization, the position information indicating
References Cited
5,111,444 5,235,585 5,319,626 6,418,111
Birch, LLP
369/5317 369/5317 369/5317 369/275.3
the position of the defect management area is recorded in the control data area provided in the read-only area of the optical disk, and the information indicating the ?rst address or size of the spare area is included in the defect management area.
14 Claims, 19 Drawing Sheets
DMAl. DMA2 CONTROL DATA AREA
US RE42,826 E Page 2 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS JP JP JP JP JP JP
7-235139 8-36846 8-124304 8-212708 8-227371 8-329610
A A A A A A
9/1995 2/1996 5/1996 8/1996 9/1996 12/1996
OTHER PUBLICATIONS Standard ECMAiZOI Data Interchange on 90 mm Optical Disk
Cartridfes Capacity: 230 Megabytes per Cartridge pp. 41, 43, 44, 47, 48.
* cited by examiner
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FIG. 1
OPTICAL DISK
DMA3. DMA4
DMAI, DMA2
CONTROL DATA AREA
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FIG. 5 READ PHYSICAL FORMAT INFORMATION SECTION AND SPECIFY
RECORDING POSITIONS. SIZES AND NUMBER OF DMAs AND OBTAIN
PHYSICAL INFORMATION READ DDS AND IDENTIFY THE ZONE CONFIGURATION OF THE DISK
I PHYSICAL-LOGICAL ADDRESS CONVERSION AND DEFECT MANAGEMENT CAN BE PERFORMED
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FIG. 14 ZONE NO. 0
RADIUS sn (N) bn(N) G81 UB SB G82 SB/UB (mm) (SECTORS) (BLOCKS) (BLOCKS) (BLOCKS) (BLOCKS) (BLOCKS) (96) 24.00 24.96
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FIG. 15 ZONE NO. 0
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FIG. 16 PRIOR ART
RADIALLY INWARD CONTROL ZONE
7—— DATA ZONE
BUFFER TRACKS DMA 1 DMA 2
USER AREA
REWRITABLE AREA DMA 3
DMA 4
BUFFER TRACKS
RADIALLY OUTWARD CONTROL ZONE
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