MDCP: Patent Abstact US05363362: Apparatus for reproducing recorded data comprising interleaved clusters and cluster linking sectors

US05363362 Apparatus for reproducing recorded data comprising interleaved clusters and cluster linking sectors

Assignee Sony Corporation

Assign./Filed Nov. 8, 1994/ April 15, 1993

Inventors Maeda; Yasuaki, Ando; Ryo, Obata; Hideo, Nagashima; Hideki, Yoshida; Tadao, Fujiie; Kazuhiko, Fujisawa; Hirotoshi, Mukawa; Hiroshi

Summary Similar to US05224087 and US05243588, discussing the necessity of the cluster-linking sector (used as a place for the error correction code to run out).

Abstract There is provided a disc recording apparatus for recording digital data by an optical unit in such a manner that time compressed digital data are arranged into a plurality of clusters at an interval of a predetermined number of sectors, a cluster-linking sector having a length longer than an interleaving length is provided at each linking part of each cluster, and the digital data are subsequently interleaved and recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium so that interleaving at the time of data recording on the cluster-by-cluster basis is within the range of the cluster-linking sector. There is also provided a disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing digital data by an optical unit in which playback data are obtained by reproducing record data recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium in such a manner that a cluster-linking sector longer than an interleaving length is provided in a linking section of each cluster composed of a predetermined number of sectors, the resulting data is interleaved and recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium, and the playback data are deinterleaved and freed or the cluster-linking sectors so as to be stored transiently in a storage unit. Playback data are written in the storage unit when the data volume of playback data stored in the storage unit becomes smaller than a predetermined volume to maintain a readout space in the storage unit which is in excess of the predetermined data volume. In this manner, data may be read out continuously from the storage unit at a predetermined rate without interrupting the reproducing operation at the cluster-linking sector of the data recorded on the medium.

US05363362	Apparatus for reproducing recorded data comprising interleaved clusters and cluster linking sectors
Assignee	Sony Corporation
Assign./Filed	Nov. 8, 1994/ April 15, 1993
Inventors	Maeda; Yasuaki, Ando; Ryo, Obata; Hideo, Nagashima; Hideki, Yoshida; Tadao, Fujiie; Kazuhiko, Fujisawa; Hirotoshi, Mukawa; Hiroshi
Summary	Similar to US05224087 and US05243588, discussing the necessity of the cluster-linking sector (used as a place for the error correction code to run out).
Abstract	There is provided a disc recording apparatus for recording digital data by an optical unit in such a manner that time compressed digital data are arranged into a plurality of clusters at an interval of a predetermined number of sectors, a cluster-linking sector having a length longer than an interleaving length is provided at each linking part of each cluster, and the digital data are subsequently interleaved and recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium so that interleaving at the time of data recording on the cluster-by-cluster basis is within the range of the cluster-linking sector. There is also provided a disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing digital data by an optical unit in which playback data are obtained by reproducing record data recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium in such a manner that a cluster-linking sector longer than an interleaving length is provided in a linking section of each cluster composed of a predetermined number of sectors, the resulting data is interleaved and recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium, and the playback data are deinterleaved and freed or the cluster-linking sectors so as to be stored transiently in a storage unit. Playback data are written in the storage unit when the data volume of playback data stored in the storage unit becomes smaller than a predetermined volume to maintain a readout space in the storage unit which is in excess of the predetermined data volume. In this manner, data may be read out continuously from the storage unit at a predetermined rate without interrupting the reproducing operation at the cluster-linking sector of the data recorded on the medium.