Information processing apparatus, optical storage apparatus, and method for processing information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10978107-B2
Application number	US-201716304873-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 1, 2017
Priority date	May 31, 2016
Publication date	Apr 13, 2021
Grant date	Apr 13, 2021

Abstract

An apparatus comprises a photodetector (PD) that irradiates a disk with laser light and outputs a signal based on a reflected light from the disk, a front monitor that outputs a reference signal based on an emitted light of a laser diode, and a data detection processing unit to which an output signal of the PD is input to generate a reproduction signal. The data detection processing unit includes a reproduction signal adaptive equalizer that outputs an equalization signal by adaptive equalization processing based on the PD output signal, and a laser noise adaptive equalizer that outputs the equalization signal by the adaptive equalization processing based on a laser noise signal, and generates the reproduction signal in which the laser noise is reduced on the basis of an arithmetic operation result of the output of the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer and the output of the laser noise adaptive equalizer.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a photodetector configured to output a signal based on reflected light from a disk with respect to light emitted from a laser diode;
a front monitor configured to output a reference signal based on the light emitted from the laser diode; and
a data detection processing unit to which an output signal of the photodetector is input, wherein
the data detection processing unit is configured to generate a reproduction signal, and
the data detection processing unit includes:
a reproduction signal adaptive equalizer to which the output signal of the photodetector is input, wherein the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer is configured to output an equalization signal by an adaptive equalization process based on an input signal;
a laser noise adaptive equalizer to which a laser noise signal included in the reference signal output from the front monitor is input, wherein the laser noise adaptive equalizer is configured to output the equalization signal by the adaptive equalization process based on the input signal;
a computing unit configured to execute an arithmetic operation on an output of the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer and an output of the laser noise adaptive equalizer; and
a signal identification unit configured to generate an identifying signal based on an output of the computing unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the signal identification unit is further configured to generate, based on an input of the computing unit, an equalization error signal to be applied to the adaptive equalization process in the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer,
the equalization error signal is output to the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer, and
the laser noise adaptive equalizer is further configured to input a sum total of the equalization error signal input to the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer as the equalization error signal to be applied to the adaptive equalization process in the laser noise adaptive equalizer.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the photodetector is a multi-channel signal output type photodetector configured to output a plurality of channel signals corresponding to an amount of received light in a unit of a divided area, and
the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer is a multiple input adaptive equalizer including a plurality of adaptive equalizers to which respective signals of the plurality of channel signals output from the photodetector are input.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the laser noise adaptive equalizer is further configured to input the sum total of the equalization error signal input to the plurality of adaptive equalizers as the equalization error signal to be applied to the adaptive equalization process in the laser noise adaptive equalizer.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the computing unit is further configured to subtract an output value of the laser noise adaptive equalizer from an addition value of outputs of the plurality of adaptive equalizers.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the signal identification unit is further configured generate based on an input of the computing unit, an equalization error signal to be applied to the adaptive equalization process in the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer and the laser noise adaptive equalizer,
the equalization error signal is output to the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer and the laser noise adaptive equalizer, and
the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer and the laser noise adaptive equalizer are further configured to execute the adaptive equalization process to which the equalization error signal is applied.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein
the photodetector is a multi-channel signal output type photodetector that is configured to output a plurality of channel signals corresponding to an amount of received light in a unit of a divided area, and
the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer is a multiple input adaptive equalizer including a plurality of adaptive equalizers to which respective signals of the plurality of channel signals output from the photodetector are input.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the computing unit is further configured to execute an addition process on an output of the plurality of adaptive equalizers and an output value of the laser noise adaptive equalizer.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer has a configuration in which a digital signal obtained by conversion of the output signal of the photodetector in a reproduction signal A/D converter (ADC) is input, and
the laser noise adaptive equalizer has a configuration in which a digital signal obtained by conversion of, in a laser noise A/D converter (ADC), the laser noise signal obtained as an analog signal from the front monitor is input.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein
a relationship between a sampling frequency of the reproduction signal A/D converter (ADC) (fs 1 ) and a sampling frequency of the laser noise A/D converter (fs 2 ) is represented by fs 2 ≥fs 1 .

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the signal identification unit includes a binarization processing unit, and
the binarization processing unit is configured to execute a binarization process based on an output signal of the computing unit and generate the reproduction signal.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the binarization processing unit is further configured to execute a maximum likelihood decoding process as the binarization process with respect to the output signal of the computing unit.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the signal identification unit includes:
a partial response (PR) convolver configured to generate an equalization target signal based on a binary signal generated by the binarization processing unit; and
an equalization error computing unit configured to calculate an equalization error from the equalization target signal and the output signal of the computing unit, wherein
the equalization error is input to the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer; and
the adaptive equalization process is executed by the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the photodetector is further configured to output a plurality of signals corresponding to an amount of received light in a unit of a divided area,
an output of the photodetector is input to a matrix operation circuit,
the matrix operation circuit is further configured to output the plurality of signals corresponding to the amount of received light in the unit of the divided area of the photodetector,
the reproduction signal adaptive equalizer is a multiple input adaptive equalizer including a plurality of adaptive equalizers,
respective signals of the plurality of signals output from the matrix operation circuit are input to the plurality of adaptive equalizers, and
the plurality of adaptive equalizers output the equalization signal by the adaptive equalization process based on the input signal.

15. An optical storage apparatus comprising:
a photodetector configured to output a signal based on reflected light from

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Kobayashi Nobuyoshi
• Shiraishi Junya

Classifications

• G11B20/10314

  amplitude of the recorded or reproduced signal · CPC title

• G11B7/005 Primary

  Reproducing (G11B7/0065 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G11B20/10046 Primary

  filtering or equalising, e.g. setting the tap weights of an FIR filter · CPC title

• G11B7/13

  Optical detectors therefor · CPC title

• G11B7/133

  Shape of individual detector elements · CPC title