Optical medium reproducing device and optical medium reproducing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9990952-B2
Application number	US-201515548520-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2015
Priority date	Feb 12, 2015
Publication date	Jun 5, 2018
Grant date	Jun 5, 2018

Abstract

There is provided an optical medium reproducing device configured to optically reproduce an optical medium including a plurality of tracks formed, the optical medium reproducing device including: an optical filter configured to receive an incident returned light beam from the optical medium, and to spatially and optically form a plurality of signals having different bands in a tangential direction and a radial direction; an arithmetic unit configured to operate the plurality of first signals formed by the optical filter so as to form a plurality of channels of second signals; and an electrical filter configured to individually receive the second signals, and to perform processing to the second signals so as to acquire a reproduced signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An optical medium reproducing device configured to optically reproduce an optical medium including a plurality of tracks, the optical medium reproducing device comprising:
a light source configured to emit a laser beam;
an objective lens configured to irradiate the optical medium with the laser beam;
an optical filter configured to receive an incident returned light beam from the optical medium, and to spatially and optically divide the incident returned light beam into a plurality of regions including a plurality of first signals having different bands in a linear density direction and a track density direction with parting lines extending in a tangential direction and a radial direction;
an arithmetic unit configured to operate the plurality of first signals formed by the optical filter so as to form a plurality of channels of second signals; and
an electrical filter configured to individually receive the second signals, and to perform processing to the second signals so as to acquire a reproduced signal,
wherein the electrical filter has a filter characteristic including different amplitude-frequency characteristics and/or phase-frequency characteristics individually with respect to the plurality of signals individually generated in response to the regions separated by the optical filter.

2. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the number of the first signals is equivalent to the number of the second signals.

3. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the optical filter divides a light flux of the returned light beam into a plurality of regions having different positions in the tangential direction and the radial direction, and
a plurality of detected signals corresponding to light intensities individually incident on the plurality of regions, includes the first signals.

4. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the arithmetic unit performs addition and subtraction to the detected signals of the plurality of regions having the different positions in the tangential direction so as to form the second signals.

5. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the arithmetic unit performs addition or subtraction to the detected signals of the plurality of regions having the different positions in the radial direction so as to form the second signals.

6. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the arithmetic unit adds, between the detected signals of the plurality of regions having the different positions in the tangential direction and the detected signals of the plurality of regions having the different positions in the radial direction, the detected signals on one side to the detected signals on the other side or subtracts the detected signals on the one side from the detected signals on the other side, so as to form the second signals.

7. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the electrical filter includes:
a multi-input equalizer unit including a plurality of equalizer units individually supplied with the plurality of channels of signals, the multi-input equalizer unit configured to operate outputs of the plurality of equalizer units so as to output an equalized signal; and
a binarization unit configured to perform binarization processing to the equalized signal so as to acquire binarized data.

8. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a multi-input adaptive equalizer unit including the multi-input equalizer unit; and
an equalization error arithmetic unit configured to acquire an equalization error from an equalization target signal acquired on the basis of a binarized detected result of the binarization unit and the equalized signal output from the multi-input adaptive equalizer unit, the equalization error arithmetic unit configured to supply the equalization error to the multi-input adaptive equalizer unit as a control signal for adaptive equalization.

9. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 8 ,
wherein the multi-input adaptive equalizer unit performs partial response equalization processing to an output signal,
the binarization unit performs maximum likelihood decoding processing as binarization processing to the equalized signal of the multi-input adaptive equalizer unit, and
the equalization error arithmetic unit acquires the equalization error with an operation of using the equalization target signal acquired by convolution processing of the binarized detected result due to the maximum likelihood decoding and the equalized signal output from the multi-input adaptive equalizer unit.

10. The optical medium reproducing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the optical medium includes a land and a groove alternately formed, and
the optical medium including information recorded on both of the land and the groove, is reproduced.

11. An optical medium reproducing method of optically reproducing an optical medium including a plurality of tracks, the optical medium reproducing method comprising the steps of:
irradiating, by an objective lens, the optical medium with a laser beam from a light source;
dividing, by an optical filter, an incident returned light beam from the optical medium, into a plurality of regions including a plurality of first signals having different bands in a linear density direction and a track density direction, spatially and optically, with parting lines extending in a tangential direction and a radial direction;
operating, by an arithmetic unit, the plurality of first signals formed by the optical filter to form a plurality of channels of second signals;
performing, by an electrical filter, processing to the second signals that have been input, to acquire a reproduced signal,
wherein the electrical filter has a filter characteristic including different amplitude-frequency characteristics and/or phase-frequency characteristics individually with respect to the plurality of signals individually generated in response to the regions separated by the optical filter.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Nishi Noriaki
• Saito Kimihiro
• Shiraishi Junya
• Ando Nobuhiko

Classifications

• G11B2007/00709

  Dimensions of grooves or tracks, e.g. groove depth, track pitch · CPC title

• G11B7/1381

  Non-lens elements for altering the properties of the beam, e.g. knife edges, slits, filters or stops (G11B7/1353 - G11B7/1369 take precedence) · CPC title

• G11B20/10009 Primary

  Improvement or modification of read or write signals · CPC title

• G11B2220/2541

  Blu-ray discs; Blue laser DVR discs · CPC title

• G11B7/005 Primary

  Reproducing (G11B7/0065 takes precedence) · CPC title