摘要:
An optical disc using a single-spiral land and groove track format enabling accurate tracking offset correction and reliable detection of the transition point between a land track and a groove track, and a driving apparatus therefor, are disclosed. Four physical address areas PID1, PID2, PID3, and PID4 are recorded to a header area such that PID1 and PID2 are offset one-half track pitch toward the outside circumference of the disc from the groove track center, and PID3 and PID4 are offset one-half track pitch toward the inside circumference of the disc from the groove track center, and the physical address areas PID1 - PID4 can be detected by means of a difference signal in the radial direction. The single frequency pattern area VFO at the beginning of each PID is lengthened by PID1 and PID3, thereby enabling tracking offset correction using a sum signal, and detection of the land-groove transition point using a difference signal obtained from the PID offset. The frequency of the VFO pattern may be set lower than the highest frequency of the channel bit sequences of the modulation method used on the disc. Address marks may employ a channel bit pattern which includes two sequenses which are longer than the longest mark length of the modulation method.
摘要:
An optical disc using a single-spiral land and groove track format enabling accurate tracking offset correction and reliable detection of the transition point between a land track and a groove track, and a driving apparatus therefor, are disclosed. Four physical address areas PID1, PID2, PID3, and PID4 are recorded to a header area such that PID1 and PID2 are offset one-half track pitch toward the outside circumference of the disc from the groove track center, and PID3 and PID4 are offset one-half track pitch toward the inside circumference of the disc from the groove track center, and the physical address areas PID1 - PID4 can be detected by means of a difference signal in the radial direction. The single frequency pattern area VFO at the beginning of each PID is lengthened by PID1 and PID3, thereby enabling tracking offset correction using a sum signal, and detection of the land-groove transition point using a difference signal obtained from the PID offset. The frequency of the VFO pattern may be set lower than the highest frequency of the channel bit sequences of the modulation method used on the disc. Address marks may employ a channel bit pattern which includes two sequenses which are longer than the longest mark length of the modulation method.
摘要:
An optical disk has a rewritable first recording area and a read-only second recording area. The first recording area includes first tracks composed of groove tracks and land tracks formed on an optical disk substrate alternately in a spiral or concentric shape. Each of the first tracks is divided into a plurality of first sectors, and each of the first sectors includes a first header region having identification data for identifying the first sector and a first data region for recording user data by forming recording marks by changing optical characteristics of a recording surface. The second data recording area includes second tracks formed with physical concave and convex shaped pit rows arranged on the optical disk substrate in a spiral or concentric shape. Each of the second tracks is divided into a plurality of second sectors, and each of the second sectors includes a second header region having identification data for identifying the second sector and a second data region having read-only data recorded as the pit rows. The first header region includes a physical concave and convex shaped first pit row. Each pit of the first pit row has a width in a radial direction of the optical disk substantially equal to a width of the groove track and is wobbled outward or inward from a center line of the groove track by about a quarter of a pitch of the groove track. The second header region includes a physical concave and convex shaped second pit row. Each pit of the second pit row has a width in the radial direction of the optical disk smaller than the width of the groove track and is formed substantially along the center line of the second track.
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:
The operating and other procedures of an optical disk application system of the type for which a network is used are simplified. Optical disks have auxiliary data recording areas, where different IDs for individual disks, and/or cipher keys and/or decoding keys for ciphers are recorded in advance in a factory. By using the IDs to release the soft ciphers, using the cipher keys when sending the ciphers, and using the decoding keys when receiving the ciphers, user authorization procedures are simplified.
摘要:
A rotating disk-shape recording medium (1) has, on each of its opposite sides, a recording area which is divided in a radial direction into n recording zones (a₁,a₂,b₁,b₂). A disk apparatus for reproducing information from and/or reproducing information from the recording medium has a first group of n heads (A₁,A₂) disposed to respectively oppose to the n recording zones on one side of the recording medium, and a second group of n heads (B₁,B₂) disposed to respectively oppose to the n recording zones on the other side of the recording medium, each head being movable to scan its corresponding recording zone. A head drive unit (4) causes each of the first group of n heads to move within its corresponding recording zone in a direction from an outer circumference to an inner circumference of the zone and each of the first group of n heads to move within its corresponding recording zone in a direction from an inner circumference to an outer circumference of the zone so that a sum of linear velocities of the first and second groups of n heads is substantially constant. Further, the first group of n heads and the second group of n heads respectively constitute n pairs of heads each being consituted by an i-th head from an outermost head of the first group and an i-th head from an innermost head of the second group ( i = 1 through n) such that a sum of linear velocities of each pair of heads is substantially constant and equal to a sum of linear velocities of another pair of heads.