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Optical card having an identifier for identifying track construction and apparatus for writing and/or reading data on and/or from the optical card
Assignee: Olympus Corp
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Filing: 1988-02-04
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Granted: 1992-05-12
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Expires: 2008-02-04
Abstract
Abstract An optical card for storing a large amount of data in an optically readable manner, including a plurality of tracks formed in a data record layer in parallel with each other, each track being divided into a data record area and an address record area, and identifiers each recorded in address record areas of respective tracks. By optionally reading the identifier from the optical card, it is possible to recognize automatically the track construction denoting the number of sectors per track and the number of bytes per sector.
Inventors
- 👤 Hisakatsu Tanaka
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 23:38
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B20/00; G11B20/10; G11B20/12; G11B20/1215; G11B27/00; G11B27/10; G11B27/19; G11B27/28; G11B27/30; G11B27/3027; G11B7/00; G11B7/002; G11B7/0033; G11B7/007; G11B7/00745
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
258 words
An optical card for storing data in an optically readable manner, comprising: a substrate in the form of a sheet; a data record layer on one surface of the substrate, said record layer including a plurality of rectilinear tracks arranged parallel with each other and having the same length, each of said plurality of tracks being divided into a data record area for recording data therein and an address record area in which at least address data of one or more selected tracks has been recorded, said plurality of tracks comprising a plurality of data tracks and a single management track, said plurality of data tracks being arranged in data track groups of different construction, each of said plurality of data tracks belonging to a single data track group having the same construction, said construction being defined by a number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks, said number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks being a value selected from at least two different whole numbers; and a plurality of identifiers for identifying the construction of said plurality of data tracks, said plurality of identifiers being recorded seriatim in said management track, wherein said management track is automatically readable by scanning said management track in its length direction, said identifiers including track numbers of a first and last data track in each of said data track groups and a number corresponding to the number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks in each of said data track groups.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
258 words
An optical card for storing data in an optically readable manner, comprising: a substrate in the form of a sheet; a data record layer on one surface of the substrate, said record layer including a plurality of rectilinear tracks arranged parallel with each other and having the same length, each of said plurality of tracks being divided into a data record area for recording data therein and an address record area in which at least address data of one or more selected tracks has been recorded, said plurality of tracks comprising a plurality of data tracks and a single management track, said plurality of data tracks being arranged in data track groups of different construction, each of said plurality of data tracks belonging to a single data track group having the same construction, said construction being defined by a number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks, said number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks being a value selected from at least two different whole numbers; and a plurality of identifiers for identifying the construction of said plurality of data tracks, said plurality of identifiers being recorded seriatim in said management track, wherein said management track is automatically readable by scanning said management track in its length direction, said identifiers including track numbers of a first and last data track in each of said data track groups and a number corresponding to the number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks in each of said data track groups.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
The optical card of claim 1, wherein said identifiers comprise a plurality of pits which have been recorded in said record layer in an optically readable manner.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
22 words
The optical card of claim 1, wherein each of said identifiers has a different content for identifying different kinds of track construction.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The optical card of claim 1, wherein each of said identifiers has the same content for identifying the same kind of track construction.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
294 words
A system for writing and reading data comprising: an optical card; optical unit means for writing and reading data on said optical card; and receiving means for automatically receiving identifiers from said optical unit means and recognizing track construction, wherein said optical card comprises: a) a substrate in the form of a sheet; b) a data record layer on one surface of the substrate, said record layer including a plurality of rectilinear tracks arranged parallel with each other and having the same length, each of said plurality of tracks being divided into a data record area for recording data therein and an address record area in which at least address data of one or more selected tracks has been recorded, said plurality of tracks comprising a plurality of data tracks and a single management track, said plurality of data tracks being arranged in data track groups of different construction, each of said plurality of data tracks belonging to a single data track group having the same construction, said construction being defined by a number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks, said number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks being a value selected from at least two different whole numbers; and c) a plurality of said identifiers for identifying the construction of said plurality of data tracks, said plurality of identifiers being recorded seriatim in said management track, wherein said management track is automatically readable by scanning said management track in its length direction, said identifiers including track numbers of a first and last data track in each of said data track groups and a number corresponding to the number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks in each of said data track groups.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
294 words
A system for writing and reading data comprising: an optical card; optical unit means for writing and reading data on said optical card; and receiving means for automatically receiving identifiers from said optical unit means and recognizing track construction, wherein said optical card comprises: a) a substrate in the form of a sheet; b) a data record layer on one surface of the substrate, said record layer including a plurality of rectilinear tracks arranged parallel with each other and having the same length, each of said plurality of tracks being divided into a data record area for recording data therein and an address record area in which at least address data of one or more selected tracks has been recorded, said plurality of tracks comprising a plurality of data tracks and a single management track, said plurality of data tracks being arranged in data track groups of different construction, each of said plurality of data tracks belonging to a single data track group having the same construction, said construction being defined by a number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks, said number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks being a value selected from at least two different whole numbers; and c) a plurality of said identifiers for identifying the construction of said plurality of data tracks, said plurality of identifiers being recorded seriatim in said management track, wherein said management track is automatically readable by scanning said management track in its length direction, said identifiers including track numbers of a first and last data track in each of said data track groups and a number corresponding to the number of sectors in each of said plurality of data tracks in each of said data track groups.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
43 words
The system of claim 5, wherein said receiving means comprises: a signal processing circuit for receiving a signal supplied for said optical unit means to produce an identifier signal; and a recognizing circuit for receiving said identifier signal to recognize said track construction.
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