Patent ID: 8233362
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An information storage medium on which a data sequence is writable as a combination of marks and spaces, wherein the information storage medium has at least one information storage layer, and wherein the at least one information storage layer has an information storage area to store information and a control information area for use to perform a read/write operation on the at least one information storage layer, and wherein the control information area stores at least one set of control information, and wherein the at least one set of control information includes a first kind of write pulse information including information to be used as a reference value and a second kind of write pulse information including information to be used as an offset value, wherein the size of the offset value is at least a half as large as that of the reference value, wherein the reference value represents one of: wherein the offset value represents one of: