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.
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 maximum recording speed,
- a revision number of minimum recording speed,
- an extended part version field, and
- information relating to recording power corresponding to one of the revision number of minimum recording speed and the revision number of maximum recording speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.