Abstract:
The present invention is aimed at providing an optical disk, an optical disk device, and an optical disk reproduction method, for allowing for stable and efficient reading of address information. The optical disk includes a plurality of tracks each divided into a plurality of recording sectors. Each of the recording sectors includes a header region. The header region includes address information for identifying the position of the corresponding recording sector and address synchronous information for identifying the recording position of the address information for bit synchronization. The address information has been modulated using a run length limit code of a maximum inversion interval of Tmax bits (Tmax is a natural number), and the address synchronous information includes two patterns of which inversion interval is (Tmax+3) bits or more, so that the reproduced signal of the address synchronous information is distinguished from the reproduced signal of other information.
Abstract:
An information recording method has;a history determination step for determining whether or not a medium being cased and capable of being used for information recording and reproduction has previously been taken out from the case by using an identification section having historical information as to whether the medium has previously been taken out from the case or not; anda verification step for verifying correctness of information recorded always or on condition that a predetermined condition is satisfied when a result of the determination shows that the medium has previously been taken out from the case.
Abstract:
In an optical disc, a sector is sequentially formed with a first gap field, a first guard data recording field, a data recording field composed of synchronous signal and user data, a second guard data recording field, and a second gap field, wherein the length of the first and second gap fields, and the length of the first and second guard data recording fields is changed randomly in every recording, and the changing amount of the first and second guard data recording fields is set smaller than the changing amount of the first and second guard data recording fields, thereby suppressing optical disc medium deterioration in every sector and every mark resulting from repeated recording.
Abstract:
An optical disk includes a read-only area in which a plurality of read-only tracks are formed and a rewritable area in which a plurality of rewritable tracks are formed, wherein each of the plurality of read-only tracks is divided into a plurality of first sectors, a signal is prerecorded in at least one of the plurality of first sectors under a predetermined reproduction format, each of the plurality of rewritable tracks is divided into a plurality of second sectors, a signal is recordable in at least one of the plurality of second sectors under a predetermined recording format including the predetermined reproduction format, and the read-only area is located on an inner portion of the optical disk, while the rewritable area is located on an outer portion of the optical disk.
Abstract:
There is provided an optical information recording/reproducing device for recording, reproducing, or erasing information on an optical information recording medium including information tracks formed on a disk substrate including alternating groove tracks and land tracks each including: a header region for recording identification data representing location information in pre-pits; and a data region for recording user data, the pre-pits being grouped into blocks, the blocks wobbling alternately toward an inner periphery or an outer periphery of the disk substrate along a radius direction from a center line of each information track by a distance which is substantially 1/2 of the information track pitch. The pre-pits are provided along the radius direction at a pitch twice as large as the track pitch. The device includes: an optical system for radiating a light beam as a converged beam spot on an information track; an optical detector including two light receiving portions divided in parallel to the track direction for receiving the light beam reflected from the recording medium; a signal generator for generating a differential signal and an addition signal of output signals respectively output from the light receiving portions; a header region detection circuit for determining whether the converged beam spot is tracing the header region or the data region using the differential signal; and at least one reading circuit for reading the identification data from the differential signal and for reading information recorded in the data region from the addition signal.
Abstract:
In an optical disc, a sector is sequentially formed with a first gap field, a first guard data recording field, a data recording field composed of synchronous signal and user data, a second guard data recording field, and a second gap field, wherein the length of the first and second gap fields, and the length of the first and second guard data recording fields is changed randomly in every recording, and the changing amount of the first and second guard data recording fields is set smaller than the changing amount of the first and second guard data recording fields, thereby suppressing optical disc medium deterioration in every sector and every mark resulting from repeated recording.
Abstract:
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. 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.
Abstract:
An optical disc having both rewritable area and read-only area is disclosed. The rewritable area has a single spiral pattern of start track land at a leading edge, and a single spiral pattern of end track land at a trailing edge, whereby portions of the physical address area PID deviated approximately Pa/2 from the track of the rewritable area are being intruded into the start track land and the end track land.
Abstract:
An optical disk according to the present invention includes a first track having a spiral shape and a second track having a spiral shape, the first track and the second track adjoining each other, and information being recorded on or reproduced from the first track and the second track. The optical disk further includes an address region including: a first address block formed so as to be on both the first track and the second track adjoining the first track on an inner periphery side; and a second address block formed so as to be on both the first track and the second track adjoining the first track on an outer periphery side.
Abstract:
A video data sending device comprises a receiving part for receiving sending requests from terminals, a second request section part for determining whether the sending request is for video data, a video data management part for executing sending control of the video data, a video data sending part for returning the video data to the terminal corresponding to the sending request for the video data, a data management part for executing sending control data other than video data and a data sending part for returning the data other than video data to the terminal. A data high-rate returning device comprises a data storing part for storing returning data; a receiving part for receiving a packet having a sending request from each terminal; a header information storing part for storing sending-request-packet header information and returning packet header information; a returning packet preparation part which obtains i) sending-request-packet header information from the packet, ii) returning packet header information from the header information storing part, and iii) returning data from the data storing part, and prepares a returning packet and a sending part for sending the returning packet to the terminal.