Patent ID: 9036286
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A device for reading data recorded on a recording medium having a plurality of tracks, the device comprising: a receiver that receives a designation of a data record to be read; and an acquisition unit that acquires a data association for the data record including a plurality of data elements of main data and a plurality of elements of metadata which is additional information of the main data, location information pieces indicating the recorded locations of the data elements in the direction along the tracks on which the plurality of data elements are recorded, and identification information pieces for identifying the tracks on which each of the plurality of data elements is recorded; and a determination unit that determines an order of reading the plurality of data elements so that, no matter on which track of the plurality of tracks each of the plurality of data elements is recorded, the plurality of data elements are read in an order of recorded locations of the data elements in a direction along the tracks on which the data elements are recorded.