Information storage medium, reproducing method, and recording method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHideo Ando, Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa
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Abstract
A machine readable information storage medium, a reproducing method and apparatus which reproduces data from the storage medium, and a recording method and apparatus for recording data on the storage medium. The information storage medium includes a control area which stores within a data structure information usable by the recording or reproducing apparatus to record or reproduce the data on or from the storage medium. The information stored within the data structure includes a version corresponding to a specification, a revision number of recording speed, and an extended part version field.
Claims5
A non-transitory machine readable information storage medium for storing data reproducible by a recording or reproducing apparatus,
- the non-transitory machine readable information storage medium comprising:
- a control area, said control area being configured to store, within a data structure, information usable by said recording or reproducing apparatus to record or reproduce the data on or from the non-transitory machine readable information storage medium, the data structure being configured to store
- a version corresponding to a specification,
- a revision number of recording speed, and
- an extended part version field, wherein
- the data structure is configured to store a revision number table including another revision number,
- the data structure is configured to store information specifying single layer or dual layer or another,
- the control area includes data ID,
- the data ID is configured to specify reflectivity, and
- the data ID includes a layer number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.