摘要:
A reproducing device includes a detection circuit and an integration circuit. The detection circuit detects a push-pull signal PP. The integration circuit carries out integration processing with respect to one or greater frames of the push-pull signal, and carries out binarization processing with respect to integration results thus obtained, thereby detecting sub data. In the integration circuit, the more the frames to be used for detecting sub data is, the higher the accuracy of the detected sub data is. The reproducing device further includes a control circuit for controlling the total number of the frames to be used for generating valid sub data in the integration circuit. The control circuit controls the total number of the frames in accordance with a result of an error correction made by an error correction circuit.
摘要:
A storage medium managing device is provided which can employ a set of management information containing suitable information from a plural sets of management information contained in the storage medium. An optical disc apparatus (1) manages an optical disc (2) having a plurality of management areas for containing management information with which data is managed and which is recorded in the management areas in a predetermined sequence. The apparatus includes a management information retrieving section (52) for reading the management information in the same sequence as the predetermined recording sequence to retrieve primary management information which is management information that is first retrieved normally.
摘要:
A reproducing light quantity control method for an optical memory device includes the steps of (1) recording test data on an optical recording medium; (2) reproducing the test data recorded on the optical recording medium by changing a reproducing light quantity in a plurality of light quantity values; (3) measuring a quality value and a signal quantity of each of a plurality of reproducing signals from the test data; (4) selecting an optimum reproducing signal quantity from a plurality of reproducing signal quantities in accordance with quality values of the plurality of reproducing signals so as to decide a target value of reproducing signal quantity; and (5) recording the target value on a target value recording region of the optical recording medium. This method reduces the time required to obtain a target value of a reproducing signal quantity and speeds up an operation from installing of the optical recording medium to finishing of preparation for recording and reproducing.
摘要:
A lens shape measuring apparatus is provided which comprises lens rotating shafts (16, 17) for rotatably holding an uncut lens, a feeler (63, 219, 220) disposed in contact with a working locus of the front or rear surface of the lens, and a calculation/control circuit (100) for detecting a difference in surface level of the lens from a change in data measured by the feeler (63, 219, 220) and controlling the contact of the feeler with the lens.
摘要:
An optical disk driving apparatus projects an optical beam onto a certain track on an optical disk and forms a light spot thereon. In an access operation onto an adjacent track, the light spot makes a 3-track jump from the position P1 onto the position P2, then a 2-track jump in the opposite direction onto the position P3. With such an arrangement, since the light spot moves by at least 2 tracks even in an access operation onto an adjacent track, it is possible to detect a zero crossing in a tracking error signal. Therefore, it is enabled to steadily adjust the speed of the movement of an objective lens based on the zero crossing. In consequence, a stable access to an information recording medium can be realized with an inexpensive arrangement.
摘要:
An optical information recording medium reproducing apparatus 1 includes: a signal detecting/extracting section 15 extracting, from reproduction signal data, extracted reproduction signal data corresponding to a predetermined data pattern; a calculating circuit 10 calculating, from the extracted reproduction signal data, a reproducing power control value for controlling laser light reproducing power; and a reproducing power control section 16 controlling the reproducing power based on the reproducing power control value. The predetermined data pattern is obtained from a space which is sandwiched between marks of λ/2NA or longer and is shorter than λ/4NA and/or a mark which is sandwiched between spaces of λ/2NA or longer and is shorter than λ/4NA. Therefore, even when environmental temperature changes in reproduction, the optical information recording medium reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing a super resolution medium including marks each shorter than λ/4NA optimally controls laser light reproducing power and prevents degradation of reproduction signal quality.
摘要:
A reproducing device includes a detection circuit and an integration circuit. The detection circuit detects a push-pull signal PP. The integration circuit carries out integration processing with respect to one or greater frames of the push-pull signal, and carries out binarization processing with respect to integration results thus obtained, thereby detecting sub data. In the integration circuit, the more the frames to be used for detecting sub data is, the higher the accuracy of the detected sub data is. The reproducing device further includes a control circuit for controlling the total number of the frames to be used for generating valid sub data in the integration circuit. The control circuit controls the total number of the frames in accordance with a result of an error correction made by an error correction circuit.
摘要:
An optical information recording medium reproducing apparatus 1 includes: a signal detecting/extracting section 15 extracting, from reproduction signal data, extracted reproduction signal data corresponding to a predetermined data pattern; a calculating circuit 10 calculating, from the extracted reproduction signal data, a reproducing power control value for controlling laser light reproducing power; and a reproducing power control section 16 controlling the reproducing power based on the reproducing power control value. The predetermined data pattern is obtained from a space which is sandwiched between marks of λ/2NA or longer and is shorter than λ/4NA and/or a mark which is sandwiched between spaces of λ/2NA or longer and is shorter than λ/4NA. Therefore, even when environmental temperature changes in reproduction, the optical information recording medium reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing a super resolution medium including marks each shorter than λ/4NA optimally controls laser light reproducing power and prevents degradation of reproduction signal quality.
摘要:
A signal evaluation device for evaluating a decoded signal of maximum likelihood decoding includes: a differential metric circuit for finding differential metrics; comparators for judging whether a difference of differential metrics exceeds a predetermined threshold; counters for counting respective output pulses of the comparators; and a controller for finding the probability of the differential metrics falling at or below the predetermined threshold, based on the number of measured samples and the number of samples counted by the counters, and processing the probability by arithmetic operations so as to obtain an index of signal evaluation. With this arrangement, signal evaluation devices for evaluating a recording medium or a recording medium driving device can have a simpler structure and can perform evaluations in a plurality of PR modes.
摘要:
There is provided a signal evaluation apparatus and signal evaluation method capable of consistently measuring an accurate bit error rate regardless of the distribution profile of the difference of likelihoods (difference metrics) of data sequences. In the signal evaluation apparatus for decoding data sequences by means of maximum likelihood decoding, at least one pair of paths between which a distance has a minimum value are selected by a path selector circuit 10. With regard to the paths selected by the path selector circuit 10, a difference metric obtained by a difference metric calculator circuit 9 is statistically processed by a μ- and σ-calculator circuit 13 to calculate a bit error rate. Then, the bit error rate is corrected by correction means (11, 12, 14) on the basis of the number of measurement samples of the paths selected by the path selector circuit 10 and the number of all samples.