Card-form recording medium and data recording device therefor

Claim 2

A card-form recording medium comprising: a plurality of recording tracks provided on said card-form recording medium; and means for indicating a data recording direction lengthwise along said plurality of recording tracks, including a direction indicating section provided on said card-form recording medium and formed at least at one of both ends of, respectively, each of said plurality of recording tracks.

Claim 3

A card-form recording medium according to claim 1, further comprising: an ID section, provided on said card-form recording medium, formed to include address information of a data section on each of said plurality of recording tracks, and formed at least at one of both ends of, respectively, each of said plurality of recording tracks; and a plurality of sector marks, provided nearer to the center of said card-form recording medium than said ID section, and formed to divide said data section into a plurality of sectors and to include a particular mark pattern which will not appear in said data section.

Claim 4

A card-form recording medium according to claim 1, wherein said means for indicating a data recording direction is provided outside said data section on said plurality of recording tracks.

Claim 5

A card-form recording medium according to claim 1, wherein said means for indicating a data recording direction is provided inside said data section on said plurality of recording tracks.

Claim 6

A card-form recording medium comprising: a plurality of recording tracks provided on said card-form recording medium; an ID section, provided on said card-form recording medium, including address information of a data section on each of said plurality of recording tracks, and formed at least at one of both ends of, respectively, each of said plurality of recording tracks; and a plurality of sector marks, provided nearer to the center of said card-form recording medium than said ID section, and formed to divide said data section into a plurality of sectors and to include a particular mark pattern which will not appear in said data section.

Claim 7

A card-form recording medium comprising: a plurality of recording tracks provided on said card-form recording medium; an ID section, provided on said card-form recording medium, including address information of a data section on each of said plurality of recording tracks, and formed at least at one of both ends of, respectively, each of said plurality of recording tracks; and a plurality of sector marks, provided nearer to the center of said card-form recording medium than said ID section, and formed to divide said data section into a plurality of sectors and to include a particular mark pattern which will not appear in said data section.

Claim 8

A data recording device for a card-form recording medium comprising: recording means for recording data on a plurality of recording tracks provided on said card-form recording medium, said data being recorded along a longitudinal direction of said tracks; and formation means, coupled to said recording means, for forming a data recording direction indicating section at least at one of both ends of each of said plurality of recording tracks.

Claim 9

A data recording device for a card-form recording medium comprising: recording means for recording data on a plurality of recording tracks provided on said card-form recording medium, said data being recorded along a longitudinal direction of said tracks; and formation means, coupled to said recording means, for forming a data recording direction indicating section at least at one of both ends of each of said plurality of recording tracks.

Claim 10

A data recording device according to claim 6, wherein said recording means forms an ID section, which includes address information of a data section provided on each of said plurality of recording tracks, at least at one of both ends of said recording tracks, and forms a plurality of sector marks nearer to the center of said card-form recording medium than said ID section, so that said data section is divided into a plurality of sectors, said ID section including a particular mark pattern which will not appear in said data section.

Claim 11

A data recording device according to claim 6, wherein said formation means places said data recording direction indicating section outside said data section on said recording tracks.

Claim 12

A data recording device according to claim 6, wherein said formation means places said data recording direction indicating section inside said data section on said recording tracks.

Claim 13

A data recording device according to claim 6, further comprising: recording means for reproducing from said cardform recording medium a reproduction signal, including information of said data recording direction indicating section and data of said recording tracks; data detection means, coupled to said reproduction means, for detecting recording track data of said recording tracks from the reproduction signal; data recording direction detection means, coupled to said reproduction means, for detecting information of said data recording direction indicating section from the reproduction signal; and memory means, coupled to said data detection means and data recording direction detection means, for storing the recording track data from a lower address when the information of said data recording direction indicating section represents a first direction, and storing the recording track data from an upper address when the information of said data recording direction indicating section represents a second direction opposite to the first direction, wherein the data stored in said memory means is used as data to be recorded on the recording tracks on said card-form recording medium.

Claim 14

A data recording device according to claim 7, further comprising: readout means for reading out data from said plurality of recording tracks of said card-form recording medium; moving means for moving said card-form recording medium relative to said readout means; reproduction means, coupled to said readout means, for generating a reproduction signal including the data readout from a selected one of the plurality of recording tracks; and sector mark detection means, coupled to said reproduction means, for detecting the sector mark from the reproduction signal.

Claim 15

A data recording device according to claim 11, further comprising: position signal generating means, coupled to said moving means, for generating a position signal indicating a relative position between said card-form recording medium and said readout means, wherein said sector mark detection means includes a sector mark detection circuit connected to said reproduction means and said position signal generating means, for detecting the sector mark based on the logical sum of the reproduction signal and the position signal.