Optical disk reproducing device selectively using a channel bit frequency or a frequency that is half of the channel bit frequency

An optical disk reproducing device comprising:

• a channel rate process data demodulation part operable to demodulate digital data from an optical recording medium on which the data is digitally recorded in a form of recording codes having a restriction that at least three continuous bits have a same value, by employing a channel bit frequency;
• a half rate process data demodulation part operable to demodulate the digital data from the optical recording medium by employing a frequency that is half of the channel bit frequency;
• and
• a process rate switching part operable to switch between the channel rate process data demodulation part and the half rate process data demodulation part for demodulating the digital data, thereby switching a process rate at data demodulation,
• wherein the process rate switching part is operable to generate a process rate switching signal so that:
• the half rate process data demodulation part is selected when in a favorable data demodulation state;
• and
• the channel rate process data demodulation part is selected when in a deteriorated data demodulation state, and
• wherein the process rate switching part has a jitter information detection part operable to detect jitter information as an index relating to phase deviation which is generated when digital data is recorded on the optical recording medium, and
• the process rate switching part is operable to generate the process rate switching signal so that the channel rate process data demodulation part is selected when it is judged from the jitter information obtained by the jitter information detection part that jitter in a reproduction signal is large, and the half rate process data demodulation part is selected when it is judged that the jitter is small.