Optical disc medium and optical disc device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9454985-B2
Application number	US-201514641936-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2015
Priority date	May 31, 2013
Publication date	Sep 27, 2016
Grant date	Sep 27, 2016

Abstract

An optical disc medium includes a land and a groove at which information can be recorded. A predetermined number of address information units which record address information of the land or groove are provided in a circumferential direction of the optical disc medium. The address information unit of the land includes three or more address recording areas capable of recording address information. The address information is recorded on one area selected from among the three or more address recording areas. The address information unit of the land has address information which is recorded, in the same modulation, on the side of the inner adjacent groove and on the side of the outer adjacent groove. The one area to be selected from among the three or more address recording areas for recording the address information of the land is different among three address information units adjacently arranged in a radial direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An optical disc medium comprising a land and a groove at which information can be recorded, wherein
a predetermined number of address information units which record address information of the land or groove are provided in a circumferential direction of the optical disc medium,
each address information unit of the land includes a plurality of unit areas, each unit area includes three or more types of address recording areas capable of recording address information,
each type of address recording area is an address recording area that has a predetermined circumferential position in the circumferential direction at which the address information is recorded that is different from the predetermined circumferential position of the other types of address recording areas,
the address information for each address information unit is recorded on the same type of address recording area selected from among the three or more types of address recording areas,
the address information unit of the land has address information which is recorded, in the same modulation, on the side of the inner adjacent groove and on the side of the outer adjacent groove, and
the type of the area to be selected from among the three or more types of address recording areas for recording the address information of the land is different among three address information units adjacently arranged in a radial direction.

2. The optical disc medium according to claim 1 , wherein
wobbles are formed on the land or groove,
the wobbles include a base wobble and an information wobble indicating a predetermined logical value,
the address information unit records the address information with the information wobble in the wobbles on the land or groove, and
the information wobble represents “0” or “1” by a waveform with a phase different from that of a waveform of the base wobble by approximately −90 or +90 degrees.

3. The optical disc medium according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the address information units provided in the circumferential direction and the number of the address recording areas are coprime to each other.

4. An optical disc device that reproduces information from the optical disc medium according to claim 1 , comprising:
a signal generating unit configured to generate a signal in accordance with the wobbles formed on the land or groove;
a phase-shifted waveform generating unit configured to generate a signal having a phase difference of 90 degrees with respect to the base wobble, from the signal generated by the signal generating unit;
a phase detection unit configured to perform phase detection by using the signal generated by the signal generating unit and the signal generated by the phase-shifted waveform generating unit to generate an signal;
an area determining unit configured to determine a type of an area on which address information is recorded from among three or more types of address recording areas, according to an absolute value of a signal generated by the phase detection unit; and
an address detection unit configured to detect an address from the area of the type determined by the area determining unit based on a detection result of the phase detection unit.

5. A method of reproducing information from the optical disc medium according to claim 1 , comprising:
generating a wobble signal in accordance with the wobbles formed on the land or groove;
generating a signal having a phase difference of approximately 90 degrees with respect to the base wobble, from the generated wobble signal;
performing phase detection by using the wobble signal and the signal having the phase difference of approximately 90 degrees to generate a signal;
determining a type of area on which address information is recorded from the three or more address recording areas, according to an absolute value of a signal generated by the phase detection; and
detecting an address from the area of the determined type based on a result of the phase detection.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Minamino Junichi
• Miyashita Harumitsu
• Nakata Kohei

Classifications

• G11B7/0053

  Reproducing non-user data, e.g. wobbled address, prepits, BCA · CPC title

• G11B20/1217

  on discs · CPC title

• G11B7/24085

  Pits · CPC title

• G11B20/10

  Digital recording or reproducing · CPC title

• G11B7/24079

  Width or depth (G11B7/24076 takes precedence) · CPC title