JPH0194581A - Information recording and reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To record sufficient information in a postscript area by postscript recording and to record information which is necessary to be undated in a rewritable area by providing the postscript area and the rewritable area on an identical recording medium. CONSTITUTION:The recording medium having the postscript area consisting of a sector formed by a photo-inductive recording member where the information can be recorded once and repeatedly reproduced and a cartridge 9 having the rewritable area 9a where the information can be repeatedly recorded and reproduced are used and the postscript area recording/reproducing means 8 of the information in the postscript area 10 and the recording/reproducing means 7 of the information in the rewritable area 9a are provided. That means, as the area 9a and the area 10 are provided on the identical recording medium, the information such as a directory or an index which cannot be recorded on the area 10 can be recorded in the area 9. Thus, the recording area where the information can be updated can be obtained and the information can be recorded with high density.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording or reproducing information on a recording medium having a cartridge having a sector-structured recording area and a magnetic stripe.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional information recording and reproducing devices include, for example,
As shown in No. 81893, a write-once information recording and reproducing apparatus has been devised for recording and reproducing information on a recording medium formed of a photosensitive recording member and consisting only of write-only sectors. FIG. 6 shows a block diagram of this conventional write-once information recording and reproducing apparatus, in which 61 is an information input section, 62 is a sector address input section, 63 is a control information input section, 64 is a control information output section, and 66 6 is an information output section, 66 is a sector address designation section, 67 is an information recording means, 68 is an information reproduction means, 6
9 is a recording area.

In the conventional write-once type information recording/reproducing apparatus configured as described above, all sectors are formed of a photosensitive recording member, so that high-density information recording is possible.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, with the above-described configuration, information can only be recorded once in every sector, so there is a problem in that information that requires updating cannot be recorded at a specific address. For this reason, the management information of the recording area of the write-once type information recording/reproducing apparatus has been recorded in an information recording/reproducing apparatus having a recording area consisting only of a rewritable area.

In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide an information recording/reproducing device that has a recording area where information can be updated and is capable of recording information at high density.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a recording medium having a write-once area consisting of sectors formed of a photosensitive recording member on which information can be recorded only once and information can be repeatedly reproduced; Information using a cartridge equipped with a rewritable area in which information formed by storing and forming a magnetic stripe can be repeatedly recorded and reproduced, and comprising a means for recording and reproducing information in the additional write area and a means for recording and reproducing information in the rewritable area. It is a recording/playback device.

Operation According to the above-described configuration, the present invention has a rewritable area and a write-once area on the same recording medium, so information such as a directory or an index that cannot be recorded on the write-once area can be recorded in the rewritable area.

Embodiment FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an information recording/reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is an information input section, 2 is an address input section, 3 is a control information input section,
4 is a control information output section, 5 is an information output section, 6 is an address designation section, 7 is a rewritable area information recording and reproducing means, 8 is a writeable area information recording and reproducing means, 9 is a cartridge, 9a is a rewritable area, and 10 is a rewritable area. This is a write-once area.

In the apparatus of this embodiment configured as described above, the operation of recording information will be described below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

(a)...An address is input into the address input section 2, control information is input into the control information input section 3, and information is input into the information input section 1 from the outside. In this case, control information indicating that the action is to record information is input.

(b) Check whether the input control information indicates recording of information in the additional write area or in the rewritable area.

As a result of the comparison in (c)... (b), if the control information indicates that information is to be recorded in the additional write area, the address specifying section 6 sends the additional write area information recording/reproducing means 8 to the additional write area 1o.
Specify the sector address.

)...The additional recording area information recording/reproducing means 8 reproduces the information of the sector specified by the address specifying section 6.

(E)...The additional recording area information recording/reproducing means 8 inspects the reproduced information and determines whether information has already been recorded in the designated sector.

(v)...If the result of checking in (e) is that no information is recorded in the specified sector, the additional area information recording and reproducing means 8
records the information input to the information input section 1 in the designated sector of the additional recording area 1o.

(g)...The additional recording area information recording/reproducing means 8 is the additional recording area 1.
Control information indicating that information has been normally recorded in the specified sector is output to the control information output unit 4.

As a result of checking in (a)...(e), if information has already been recorded in the designated sector, the additional area information recording/reproducing means 8 detects that information has already been recorded in the designated sector of the additional area 1o. Control information indicating that the recording operation was not performed normally is output to the control information output section 4.

As a result of the comparison in (2)... (2), if the control information indicates that information is to be recorded in the rewritable area, the address designation section 8 writes the rewritable area information recording/reproducing means 7 to the rewritable area. Specify the address of 9a.

)...The rewritable area information recording/reproducing means 7 sends information to the specified address of the rewritable area 9a by the information input section 1.
Record the information entered.

Q→...The rewritable area information recording/reproducing means 7 outputs to the control information output unit 4 control information indicating that information has been normally recorded at the designated address of the rewritable area 9a.

Next, the operation when reproducing information will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

8. An address is input into the address input section 2 from the outside, control information is input into the control information input section 3, and information is input into the information input section 1. In this case, control information indicating that the operation is reproduction of information is input.

(B)...It is checked whether the input control information indicates reproduction of information in the additional write area or reproduction of information in the rewritable area.

(q... As a result of the comparison in (B), if the control information indicates reproduction of information in the write-once area, the address specifying unit 6 sends the sector address of the write-once area 10 to the write-once area information recording/reproducing means 8. Specify.

◎...The additional recording area information recording and reproducing means 8 reproduces the information of the sector specified by the address specifying section 6.

(2)...The additional recording area information recording/reproducing means 8 inspects the reproduced information and determines whether information is recorded in the designated sector.

(2) As a result of the check in (5), if information is recorded in the designated sector, the additional area information recording/reproducing means 8 outputs the reproduced information to the information output section 5.

q... The write-once area information recording/reproducing means 8 outputs control information indicating that information has been normally reproduced from the designated sector of the write-once area 10 to the control information output section 4.

■...As a result of the check in (6), if no information is recorded in the designated sector, the additional area information recording/reproducing means 8 outputs control information indicating that the information reproduction operation was not performed normally. It is output to the control information output section 4.

As a result of the comparison in (I)...(B), if the control information indicates reproduction of information in the rewritable area, the address specifying section 6
The sector address of the rewritable area 9a is specified.

(1)...The rewritable area information recording and reproducing means 7 reproduces the information at the address specified by the address specifying section 6.

(g)...The rewritable area information recording/reproducing means 7 outputs reproduction information to the information output section 6.

(L)...The rewritable area information recording/reproducing means 7 outputs control information indicating that information has been successfully reproduced from the designated sector of the rewritable area 9a to the control information output section 4.

As described in detail, according to the present invention, by providing a write-once area and a rewritable area on the same recording medium, sufficient information can be recorded in the write-once area, and sufficient information can be recorded in the rewritable area. Information that needs to be updated can be recorded. The write-once area using a photosensitive recording member can record at high density, so it can store a large amount of information such as image data, and can be used to rewrite information that needs to be updated, such as management information of the information in the write-once area. By recording the management information on the same recording medium, it is possible to realize an information recording and reproducing apparatus that records a large amount of additional information on the same recording medium, and its practical effects are great.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an information recording and reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the information recording and reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention when recording information, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an information recording and reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. A flowchart showing the operation of the information recording/reproducing apparatus in an embodiment of the invention when reproducing information, FIG. 4 is a plan view of a recording medium of the information recording/reproducing apparatus in an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a sectional view of a recording medium of an information recording/reproducing apparatus in one embodiment, and is a block diagram of a conventional information recording/reproducing apparatus. 1...Information input section, 2...Address input section, 3...Control information input section, 4......
Control information output section, 6... Information output section, 6...
. . . address designation section, 7 . . . rewritable area information recording and reproducing means, 8 . . . additional recording area information recording and reproducing means, 9 . . . cartridge, 9a
...Rewritable area, 1o...Additional writing area. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person No. 4
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Claims (1)

[Claims] A recording medium having a write-once area consisting of sectors formed of a photosensitive recording member on which information can be recorded only once and information can be reproduced repeatedly; and a recording medium that stores said recording medium and has information recording and reproduction formed by magnetic stripes. write-once area information recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing information in the write-once area using a cartridge having a rewritable area in which the write-once area can be repeatedly written;
An information recording and reproducing device comprising: rewritable area information recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing information in the rewritable area.