摘要:
An access unit, an access method, an access program and a control unit are provided which are capable of shortening the seek time of an optical head for a test record and a test regeneration. A record medium 200 includes a user area for recording user data which can be recorded and regenerated based on an instruction given by a user; a recording-system circuit section 120 records test data based on a predetermined test condition in the user area; a regeneration-system circuit section 130 reads the test data recorded in the user area by the recording-system circuit section 120; and a system control circuit 102 refers to the test data read by the regeneration-system circuit section 130 and adjusts an access parameter for accessing the record medium 200.
摘要:
This optical read/write apparatus has first and second optical heads 2a, 2b and includes location control sections 4a, 4b which make the relative arrangement of the first and second optical heads 2a, 2b variable according to either the environmental temperature or from one medium to another. The first optical head 2a performs a write operation to record a mark on an optical storage medium 1, and the second optical head 2b reads the information that has been written by scanning the recorded mark. The apparatus further includes a nonvolatile memory which saves the relative arrangement of the first and second optical heads 2a and 2b either on an environmental temperature basis or on a medium by medium basis.
摘要:
An optical read/write apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an optical head unit (2a, 2b) which focuses a write light beam and a read light beam onto an optical storage medium (100) and which generates a signal based on the light beam that has been reflected from the optical storage medium; and a control section (6) which controls the optical head unit (2a, 2b) so that the optical head unit records a mark on the optical storage medium by irradiating the optical storage medium with the write light beam and reads the recorded mark on the optical storage medium with the read light beam. After having started to record the mark on the optical storage medium by irradiating the optical storage medium with the write light beam and before forming the recorded mark completely, the optical head unit (2a, 2b) reads the recorded mark on the optical storage medium with the read light beam.
摘要:
A reproduction signal evaluation unit includes a pattern detection section for extracting, from a binary signal, a specific state transition pattern which has a possibility of causing a bit error; a differential metric computing section for computing a differential metric based on the binary signal of the extracted state transition pattern; an error computing section for computing an error rate predicted based on an integration value that is integrated by an integration section, a count value that is counted by a pattern count section, an integration value that is integrated by another integration section, and a count value that is counted by another pattern count section, and a standard deviation computing section for computing a standard deviation based on the computed error rate.
摘要:
A method for rating an information recording medium according to the present invention includes the steps of: receiving a digital read signal, which has been generated based on an analog read signal representing information that has been read from the information recording medium, and shaping the waveform of the digital read signal; subjecting the shaped digital read signal to maximum likelihood decoding, thereby generating a binarized signal showing a result of the maximum likelihood decoding; and calculating the quality of the digital read signal based on the shaped digital read signal and the binarized signal. If the quality of the read signal is calculated by a PRML method in which a number of zero-cross portions are included in a merging path of a minimum difference metric, the quality is calculated by using only a state transition pattern in which only one zero-cross portion is included in a merging path of a non-minimum difference metric.
摘要:
A reproduction signal evaluation method according to the present invention includes a step of generating a binary signal from an information recording medium on which a data sequence including marks and spaces in combination is recordable, using a PRML signal processing method from a signal obtained by reproducing the data sequence; and a differential calculation step of calculating a differential metric using a first state transition path having a maximum likelihood and a second state transition path having a second maximum likelihood, and a reproduction signal, the first state transition path and the second state transition path being obtained based on the binary signal. In a pattern including a shortest mark and a shortest space adjacent before or after the shortest mark, a shift amount of an edge of the shortest mark is obtained from a differential metric calculated regarding one of a first pattern in which a space adjacent to the shortest mark and not adjacent to the shortest space is longer than the shortest space; and a second pattern in which a mark adjacent to the shortest space and not adjacent to the shortest mark is longer than the shortest mark.
摘要:
An adaptive equalization apparatus comprises an equalizer for equalizing a playback signal read from a recording medium, using tap coefficients; a maximum likelihood decoder for subjecting an equalized signal outputted from the equalizer to maximum likelihood decoding; a first delay unit for delay-adjusting the playback signal to make the signal coincide with the timing of a tentative decoded signal that is obtained in the process of maximum likelihood decoding; a second delay unit for delay-adjusting the equalized signal to make the signal coincide with the timing of the tentative decoded signal; and a coefficient adaptive controller for adaptively controlling the tap coefficients so that an error in the maximum likelihood decoding is minimized, on the basis of the tentative decoded signal, an output of the first delay unit, and an output of the second delay unit.
摘要:
An optical disc has a plurality of sectors, where each of the plurality of sectors includes a plurality of frames. A sub information bit value of “0” or “1” is assigned to the plurality of frames constituting a sector, excluding the first and last frames. Edge positions are displaced so that leading/lagging errors appear in accordance with a certain rule when data fields of the frames to which the sub information bit value “1” is assigned are read. Edge positions are displaced so that leading/lagging errors appear in accordance with a reversal of the certain rule when data fields of the frames to which the sub information bit value “0” is assigned are read.
摘要:
An optical disc recording apparatus records a digital content onto an optical disc so that the perfect copying of the digital content is difficult without proper authorization. The optical disc recording apparatus includes a formatter for generating a channel signal corresponding to primary digital information, a secret key storing unit for prestoring secondary digital information, a pseudo random number generator for generating a pseudo random number series, an XOR for logically inverting the pseudo random number series according to each bit of the secondary digital information, a PE modulator for generating a PE modulation signal according to the logically inverted pseudo random number series, a phase modulator for modulating the phase of each edge of the channel signal by a fixed slight time according to the value of the PE modulation signal, and a recording channel for forming recording marks on a DVD according to the modulated channel signal.
摘要:
A reproduction signal evaluation method evaluates the quality of a reproduction signal reproduced from an information recording medium based on a binary signal generated from the reproduction signal using a PRML signal processing system. A pattern extraction step extracts, from the binary signal, a specific state transition pattern which has the possibility of causing a bit error; a step computes a differential metric based on the binary signal; an extraction step extracts the differential metric which is not greater than a predetermined signal processing threshold; a step determines a mean value of the differential metrics which are not greater than the signal processing threshold and extracted in the extraction step; a standard deviation computing step determines a standard deviation which corresponds to an error rate predicted from the mean value; and an evaluation step evaluates a quality of the reproduction signal using the standard deviation.