Optical disk medium and method and apparatus for reading information
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiromichi Ishibashi, Shigeru Furumiya, Atsushi Nakamura, Junichi Minamino, Takashi Ishida
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Abstract
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.
Claims4
An apparatus for reading address information using an optical head from an optical disk medium which comprises a track groove thereon and on which information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis, the block unit having a predetermined length, wherein the block unit includes a number of sub-blocks that are arranged along the groove, wherein a part of the track groove has a wobble shape that is defined by a combination of a steep displacement pattern and a smooth displacement pattern to represent address information of the block unit, the apparatus comprising:
- a differential operating circuit for obtaining a wobble signal corresponding to the wobble shape;
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- a signal processor for measuring a phase polarity of a second harmonic of a fundamental wobble frequency of the wobble signal and for judging the measured phase polarity as information 0 or 1 for each sub-block.
A method for reading address information using an optical head from an optical disk medium which comprises a track groove thereon and on which information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis, the block unit having a predetermined length, wherein the block unit includes a number of sub-blocks that are arranged along the groove, wherein a part of the track groove has a wobble shape that is defined by a combination of a steep displacement pattern and a smooth displacement pattern to represent address information of the block unit, the method comprising:
- a first step for obtaining a wobble signal corresponding to the wobble shape using differential operating circuit;
- a second step for measuring a phase polarity of a second harmonic of a fundamental wobble frequency of the wobble signal;
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- a third step for judging the measured phase polarity as information 0 or 1 for each sub-block.
A digital signal processing device for reading address information using an optical head from an optical disk medium which comprises a track groove thereon and on which information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis, the block unit having a predetermined length, wherein the block unit includes a number of sub-blocks that are arranged along the groove, wherein a part of the track groove has a wobble shape that is defined by a combination of a steep displacement pattern and a smooth pattern to represent address information of the block unit, the digital signal processing device comprising:
- a first unit for measuring a phase polarity of a second harmonic of a fundamental wobble frequency of a wobble signal which is obtained by a differential operating circuit corresponding to the wobble shape;
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- a second unit for judging the measured phase polarity as information 0 or 1 for each sub-block.
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