# US 2009/0153998 A1 · Storage medium reproducing apparatus and storage medium reproducing method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2009/0153998 A1 - Document ID: US20090153998A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 12/335,606 - Filed: 2008-12-16 - Published: 2009-06-18 - Earliest claimed: 2007-12-17 - Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba - Inventors: Hiroaki Nakamura; Yasushi Tomizawa; Shinji Takakura; Yoshiyuki Ishihara - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20090153998A1 ## CPC - G11B 5/82: Disk carriers - B82Y 10/00: Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic - G11B 5/012: Recording on, or reproducing or erasing from, magnetic disks (G11B17/00, G11B19/00 take precedence) - G11B 5/743: {Patterned record carriers, wherein the magnetic recording layer is patterned into magnetic isolated data islands, e.g. discrete tracks} - G11B 5/746: {Bit Patterned record carriers, wherein each magnetic isolated data island corresponds to a bit} - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) - B82Y: SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES ## Abstract A storage medium reproducing apparatus includes a storage medium that records data; a reproducing head that reads the data recorded in the storage medium; a positioning controlling unit that performs positioning control of the reproducing head with respect to tracks based on servo signals from the servo area included in the storage medium; and a reproducing processing unit that reproduces the data recorded in data area in the storage medium by reading recording dots of the data area using the reproducing head the position of which is decided on the tracks, wherein the reproducing head has a head width capable of simultaneously reading a plurality of servo dots. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A storage medium reproducing apparatus, comprising: a storage medium that records data; a reproducing head that reads the data recorded in the storage medium; a data area that is arranged on the storage medium, and includes tracks capable of writing data and recording dots formed by mutually isolated recording materials and arranged on the tracks; a servo area that is arranged on the storage medium, and includes servo dots on which position data for positioning the reproducing head is recorded, the servo dots being formed by mutually isolated recording materials having approximately the same size as the size of the recording dots; a positioning controlling unit that performs positioning control of the reproducing head with respect to the tracks based on servo signals from the servo area; and a reproducing processing unit that reproduces the data recorded in the data area by reading the recording dots of the data area using the reproducing head the position of which is decided on the tracks, wherein the reproducing head has a head width capable of simultaneously reading a plurality of servo dots. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tracks include, in the radial direction of the storage medium, a plurality of adjacent subtracks in which the recording dots are periodically arranged at a predetermined first spacing along a track direction that is a direction along which the tracks extend, and the proximal recording dots of the two adjacent subtracks are arranged at a second spacing in which centers of the recording dots are at a distance of 1/n (n is an integer of 2=n=5) of the first spacing from each other along the track direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the servo area includes a preamble portion in which data for synchronizing a clock of reproduced signals is recorded, an address portion in which data of a cylinder is recorded, and a deviation detecting portion wherein data for detecting an off-track amount of a magnetic head is recorded, and the data of the preamble portion, the address portion, and the deviation detecting portion are periodically arranged in the servo dots at the first spacing coaxially with the subtracks. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the reproducing head has the head width that enables to simultaneously reproduce at least two recording dots and at least two servo dots. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the positioning controlling unit extracts sample data of one period from the servo signals obtained from the deviation detecting portion, multiplies each of the sample data by a coefficient based on a synchronizing clock, detects a position displacement of the magnetic head based on a sum of multiplication values with respect to all the sample data, and performs positioning control of the reproducing head with respect to the tracks. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the deviation detecting portion includes a first area in which a pattern is arranged that is formed by the two servo dots that are alternately arranged with respect to a track center at the first spacing along the track direction, and a second area in which the pattern is alternately arranged on the track center at the second spacing along the track direction. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the deviation detecting portion includes a plurality of burst portions in which a pattern formed by the two servo dots is periodically arranged at the first spacing along the track direction, and the burst portions are arranged along the radial direction of a magnetic recording medium such that phases of the burst portions are shifted. ### Claim 8 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the positioning controlling unit decides the position of the reproducing head at the track center, and the reproducing processing unit reproduces the recording dots of the two adjacent subtracks by the reproducing head the position of which is decided at the track center. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the reproducing processing unit switches, for each of the subtracks, a reproduction period that is a time period in which the data recorded in the recording dots that are arranged in the subtracks is reproduced, and reproduces the recording dots of the subtrack corresponding to the reproduction period. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the positioning controlling unit decides the position of the reproducing head at centers of the subtracks, and the reproducing processing unit switches the reproduction period for each of the subtracks, and reproduces, during the reproduction period, the recording dots of the subtrack corresponding to the reproduction period. ### Claim 11 A method of reproducing a storage medium, comprising: performing positioning control of a reproducing head with respect to tracks based on servo signals reproduced by the reproducing head from a servo area in the storage medium, the storage medium recording data, and including a data area having tracks capable of writing data and recording dots formed by mutually isolated recording materials and arranged on the tracks, and a servo area in which position data for deciding a position of the reproducing head is recorded and in which servo dots having approximately the same size as the size of the recording dots are formed by mutually isolated recording materials, the reproducing head having a head width capable of simultaneously reading a plurality of the servo dots; and reproducing the data recorded in the data area by reading the recording dots of the data area using the reproducing head that is positioned on the tracks.