摘要:
The invention concerns an optical/reproducing apparatus for optical discs having land and groove tracks. The apparatus has means to identify whether a land or a groove track is scanned, by using the polarity of the tracking error signal. The tracking error signal is gated by envelope detection, the polarity by comparing two differently low-pass filtered versions of the tracking error signal.
摘要:
An optical disc medium 10 having a wobbled track groove 12 includes three wobble patterns including a flat wobble pattern, a positive pulse wobble pattern, and a negative pulse wobble pattern. In the flat wobble pattern, the amplitude of the wobble from the lengthwise direction of the track groove is zero such that the track groove is flat. In the positive pulse wobble pattern, the amplitude of the wobble from the lengthwise direction of the track groove is positive such that the track groove is wobbled in a first direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction. Further, in the negative pulse wobble pattern, the amplitude of the wobble from the lengthwise direction of the track groove is negative such that the track groove is wobbled in a second direction opposite to the first direction. Then, three data values can be recorded using three distinctive wobble patterns.
摘要:
An optical disc having marks for dispersed addresses that can be easily detected with high precision. A dispersed address comprises synchronization marks, positive marks, and negative marks. Synchronization marks, positive marks, and negative marks are formed along a groove as partial discontinuities or partial modifications in the wobbled groove.
摘要:
At the time of heterodyne detection, information (e.g. address information) is reproduced constantly in the optimum condition. A method reproduces information recording medium including a reference wobble block (102) which has a first wobble pattern representing a first information content; and an information wobble block (104) which follows the reference wobble block and which has at least one of the first wobble pattern and a second wobble pattern representing a second information and different from the first wobble pattern. The method includes reading the reference wobble block and the information wobble block; comparing a wobble pattern read from the information wobble block with the first wobble pattern of the reference wobble block; judging that information recorded in the information wobble block is the first information or the second information according to the wobble pattern read from the information wobble block; and outputting one of the first and the second information based on the judging result.
摘要:
An optical disk medium includes a track groove thereon. On the optical disk medium, information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis. The block unit has a predetermined length. The block unit having the predetermined length includes a number of sub-blocks that are arranged along the groove. A sub-block mark is provided within each of the sub-blocks and used to identify the sub-block.
摘要:
Address groups are composed of two of address blocks 16 , 17 , 18 , and 19 , where the address blocks 16 , 17 , 18 , and 19 are disposed in a sector address region 5 and include identifiable information of address numbers 13 and overlapping sequential numbers 14 . The address groups are disposed so that each group is alternately shifted from a track center 2 toward the inner periphery side or the outer periphery side, by a width substantially equal to half the track pitch, along the radius direction.
摘要:
A data recording method is provided in which data are recorded on a rewritable optical disk in a form of record marks which are uniform in width and erasability in over-writing is much improved, thus ensuring a high-density storage of the data. In action, a continuous strip of storage area which is smaller in width than a recording track is produced by irradiation of a first laser beam of a recording power, and discontinuous regions of the storage area having a width greater than the recording track are crystallized by irradiation of a second laser beam multi-value modified according to the data. As a result, remaining regions of the storage area are record marks to represent the data.
摘要:
A disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing data stored on plural disc surfaces at a constant linear density comprises: plural heads for reproducing the data on the plural disc surfaces at the same time respectively; a controller for controlling positions of the heads such that a total data rate of data reproduced form the plural heads is constant, each of the disc surfaces being divided into N circumference zones; N signal processing circuits, having N processing speeds corresponding to N data rates corresponding to the N circumference zones, for processing the reproduced data respectively; a switch for supplying the reproduced data to the N signal processing circuits such that data reproduced by each of the plural heads is supplied to either of the N signal processing circuits suitable for the data rate of the supplied data thereto; and a combining circuit for combining the processed data signals from the N signal processing circuits into a combined serial data signal of which data rate corresponds to the total of data rates. A disc reproducing method of reproducing data stored on a plurality of disc surfaces at a constant linear density using N signal processing circuits and the switch is also disclosed.