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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Sheet 1 0119

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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

25

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33.63 34.59

32 33 34 35 36

3264 3366 3468 3570 3672

4 5 5 5 5

3160 3257 3356 3455 3554

96 99 102 105 108

4 5 5 5 5

3.04 3.04 3.04 3.04 3.04

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35.55

37

3774

5

3653

111

5

3.04

13

36.52

38

3876

5

3752

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5

3.04

14

37.48

39

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38:44

40

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3950

120

5

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41

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6

3.04

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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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