Patent ID: 9355670
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G11B

Claim Text:
1. An optical storage system, comprising: one or more encoders configured to encode source data into optical data to be recorded on multiple data tracks of an optical storage disk, wherein the source data comprises multiple data streams, the encoders are configured to separately encode the multiple data streams, and each of the multiple data streams is to be recorded to one of the multiple data tracks and wherein one of the encoders is configured to encode a timing marker in only one data stream of the multiple data streams an optical head configured to impinge a beam on each of the multiple data tracks to record the optical data in the multiple data tracks; a multi-head detector comprising multiple detector heads, wherein each of the multiple detector heads is configured to detect recorded data from each of the multiple data tracks; and recovery circuitry configured to process the detected recorded data from each of the multiple data tracks together in parallel to recover the source data, wherein the recovery circuitry is configured to recover the timing marker and use the recovered timing marker to recover clock information for the multiple data streams from the only one data stream.