Optical disk having sub-blocks and sub-block indentification marks
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsJunichi Minamino, Atsushi Nakamura, Shigeru Furumiya, Hiromichi Ishibashi, Takashi Ishida, Toyoji Gushima
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Abstract
On an optical disk medium according to the present invention, address information is recorded along a wobbling track groove 2. The track groove 2 is made up of a plurality of unit sections 22, 23. Each of these unit sections 22, 23 has side faces that are displaced periodically in a disk radial direction. This displacement oscillates at a single period in a tracking direction. However, the displacement pattern differs depending on “each bit of address information (subdivided information)” allocated to each of the unit sections 22, 23.
Claims4
An optical disk which comprises a true groove and on which positional information indicating a physical location on the track groove is represented by a wobble shape of the track groove,
- wherein the optical disk includes a plurality of positional information units that are arranged on the track groove, and
- wherein each said positional information unit includes:
- a positional information section that represents the positional information by a combination of wobble patterns selected from multiple types of wobble attains that have been defined so as to correspond to respective signal waveforms that rise and fall mutually differently;
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- a sync mark section having a wobble pattern in a shape distinguishable from the wobble patterns of the positional information section wherein the wobble patterns of each said positional information section are each defined by either a first displacement shape or a second displacement shape, the first displacement shape having been defined so as to correspond to a signal waveform that rises relatively steeply and falls relatively gently, the second displacement shape having been defined so as to correspond to a signal waveform that rises relatively gently and falls relatively steeply.
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