Information recording and reproducing apparatus and information recording and reproducing method

An information recording and reproducing method comprising:

• a reproducing step for generating a digital signal from an analog signal as information recorded in an information recording medium;
• a recording compensation step for decoding the digital signal into a binary signal, generating an expectation signal based on the binary signal, detecting a signal difference between the digital signal and the expectation signal, and adjusting a recording condition for recording information into the information recording medium based on the signal difference;
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• a recording step for recording the information into the information recording medium based on the recording condition,
• wherein the adjustment of the recording condition is performed by:
• first recording compensation for adjusting the recording condition using first recording data having a length with which lengths of a preceding space and a succeeding space of a first recording mark and lengths of a preceding space and a succeeding space of a second recording mark are not in intersymbol interference;
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• second recording compensation for adjusting the recording condition for the first recording mark using second recording data for changing a length of the second recording mark, while the second recording mark of which the first recording compensation has been performed is located before or after the first recording mark of which the first recording compensation has been performed, and the length of the space between the first recording mark and the second recording mark to be constant.

An information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

• a reproducing unit configured to generate a digital signal from an analog signal as information recorded in an information recording medium;
• a recording compensation unit configured to decode the digital signal into a binary signal, generate an expectation signal based on the binary signal, detect a signal difference between the digital signal and the expectation signal, and adjust a recording condition for recording information into the information recording medium based on the signal difference;
• and
• a recording unit configured to record the information into the information recording medium based on the recording condition,
• wherein the adjustment of the recording condition is performed by detecting an edge shift as displacement of an edge for each of detection patterns from the signal difference and performing recording compensation, the adjustment including:
• detecting a first matrix obtained by calculating a signal difference between a first reproduced signal and the expectation signal for each of the detection patterns;
• obtaining a second reproduced signal when an edge for each of the detection patterns is changed by a predetermined amount;
• detecting a second matrix obtained by calculating a signal difference between the second reproduced signal and the expectation signal for each of the detection patterns;
• calculating a matrix of a conversion coefficient to the edge by dividing a difference between the first matrix and the second matrix by the predetermined amount;
• and
• calculating an edge shift based on the first matrix and an inverse matrix of the conversion coefficient.

An information recording and reproducing method comprising:

• a reproducing step for generating a digital signal from an analog signal as information recorded in an information recording medium;
• a recording compensation step for decoding the digital signal into a binary signal, generating an expectation signal based on the binary signal, detecting a signal difference between the digital signal and the expectation signal, and adjusting a recording condition for recording information into the information recording medium based on the signal difference;
• and
• a recording step for recording the information into the information recording medium based on the recording condition,
• wherein the adjustment of the recording condition is performed by detecting an edge shift as displacement of an edge for each of detection patterns from the signal difference and performing recording compensation, the adjustment including:
• detecting a first matrix obtained by calculating a signal difference between a first reproduced signal and the expectation signal for each of the detection patterns;
• obtaining a second reproduced signal when an edge for each of the detection patterns is changed by a predetermined amount;
• detecting a second matrix obtained by calculating a signal difference between the second reproduced signal and the expectation signal for each of the detection patterns;
• calculating a matrix of a conversion coefficient to the edge by dividing a difference between the first matrix and the second matrix by the predetermined amount;
• and
• calculating an edge shift based on the first matrix and an inverse matrix of the conversion coefficient.