Abstract:
An operation of a reliability value of |Pa-Pb|-Pstd of maximum-likelihood decoding results of a portion, which is equivalent to a start/end edge of a recording mark edge and has a high error generating probability in the maximum-likelihood decoding method, is performed for each combination of a prescribed mark length and a length of a space just before the mark, and for each combination of the mark length and a space just after the mark. Based on the operation results, a recording parameter is optimized, and recording is performed by having the optimized recording parameter reflected.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information recording medium that includes three or more information recording layers and that can record information in each information recording layer on appropriate conditions; and to provide an information recording apparatus adapted to the information recording medium. SOLUTION: Each of the n information recording layers (n is an integer of three or greater) laminated each other has a test recording area for determining a recording power of laser light, and a difference between a radial position of an outer circumferential end of the test recording area arranged at an inner circumference side and a radial position of an inner circumference end of the test recording area arranged at an outer circumference side among the test recording areas of the i-th (2≤i≤n-1) information recording layer counted from the farthest from an incident plane of the laser light and the (i+1)-th information recording layer is larger than a difference between the radial position of the outer circumference end of the test recording area arranged at the inner circumference side and the radial position of the inner circumference end of the test recording area arranged at the outer circumference side among the test recording areas of the j-th (1≤j≤i-1) and the (j+1)-th information recording layers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an increase in starting time of an apparatus even when both types of disks are present, one type which performs recording on a groove track and the other which performs recording on a land track. SOLUTION: An optical disk 101 is a type which performs recording on a groove track, and an optical disk 107 is a type which performs recording on a land track. The optical disks 101 and 107 have control data areas 102 and 108, and data recording areas 103 and 109 in which user data are recorded. A code indicating to which track tracking servo is to be applied is recorded in the control data area 102 and 108 of both the optical disks 101 and 107. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disk of information recording medium capable of maintaining the quality thereof even when the medium is used in a piled up state.SOLUTION: A disk of information recording medium 10 having the outer diameter side and the inner diameter side includes: a board 11 having a predetermined thickness; a first plane as one plane of the board 11; a second plane as the other plane of the board 11; a cylinder portion 13 formed with a through hole 12 going through the center of the board 11; a thin portion 130 formed to be thinner than the predetermined thickness of the board 11 and enclosing the outer diameter of the cylinder portion 13; a non-inclined plane 134 formed in the thin portion 130; and an inclined plane 132 which is formed at the outer diameter side of the non-inclined plane 134 in the thin portion 130 and inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the non-inclined plane 134, and the occupancy of which in the thin portion 130 is larger than that of the non-inclined plane 134.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a disk format with high format efficiency. SOLUTION: An optical recording medium has a plurality of identifiers in association with address information formed thereon, wherein: each identifier is provided on the optical recording medium; and each identifier comprises at least one of: a first pattern provided on the optical recording medium and representing a first code expressed by one bit; a second pattern provided on the optical recording medium and representing a second code expressed by one bit; and a third pattern provided on the optical recording medium and representing a third code expressed by one bit. An optical playback device plays back information recorded on the optical recording medium and includes: a semiconductor laser for applying a light spot obtained by converging a light beam onto the optical recording medium; a light detection means for receiving the light beam reflected from the optical recording medium, and outputting a voltage signal corresponding to the amount of the reflected light beam; and an address detection means for detecting the address information on the basis of the voltage signal output from the light detection section. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information recording medium that has three or more information recording layers and can record information in each of the information recording layers on appropriate conditions; and also to provide an information recorder. SOLUTION: The laminated n-layered information recording layers each have a test recording zone for determining recording power, and when the n information recording layers are counted from the one most distant from the incidence plane of a laser beam, a difference in the radial location between a radial location of the outer peripheral end of the test recording zone arranged on the inner peripheral side and a radial location of the inner peripheral end of the test recording zone arranged on the outer peripheral side with respect to the test recording zone in the i-th information recording layer (i representing an integer that satisfies 2≤i≤n-1) and the test recording zone in the (i+1)-th information recording layer is larger than that between a radial location of the outer peripheral end of the test recording zone arranged on the inner peripheral side and a radial location of the inner peripheral end of the test recording zone arranged on the outer peripheral side with respect to the test recording zone in the j-th information recording layer (j representing an integer that satisfies 1≤j≤i-1) and the test recording zone in the (j+1)-th information recording layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time required to reproduce a disk information area. SOLUTION: An information recording medium has a plurality of recording layers. Each of the plurality of recording layers includes a test area for determining the recording power of laser light, a first buffer area adjacent to an inner end of the test area, a second buffer area adjacent to an outer end of the test area, a first defect list area provided to an inner periphery area of the first buffer area, a second defect list area which is provided to an outer periphery area of the second buffer area and in which the same data as that in the first defect list area is recorded, a spare area provided to the outer periphery area of the second defect list area, and a data area provided to the outer periphery area of the spare area. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording medium for performing a learning process with high accuracy. SOLUTION: The recording medium 101 is provided, which comprises at least one recording area 102. The at least one recording area 102 includes at least one learning area 109 and at least one positional information recording area 111. The at least one learning area 109 is used for learning an access parameter for accessing the recording medium 101, and positional information 112 showing the position of the at least one learning area 109 is recorded in the at least one positional information recording area 111. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem, i.e., if data is recorded using a disk with deviating characteristics and a recorder with deviating characteristics, data is not appropriately recorded, and errors occur in the read signal. SOLUTION: Standard recording pulse conditions specifying recording pulse positions for plural possible mark length and space length combinations are read from a writable optical disk. These standard recording pulse conditions are used for test writing. The standard pulse conditions are changed uniformly or individually, and a best recording pulse condition is obtained, thereby reducing jitter. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical storage medium and an optical information apparatus that can record or reproduce data with high reliability even when using an optical storage medium in which jitter from the shortest marks and spaces is worse than jitter from marks and spaces longer than the shortest marks and spaces. SOLUTION: This optical information apparatus has an optical pickup head that emits a light beam to the optical storage medium, detects the light beam reflected from the optical storage medium, and outputs a signal based on the received reflected light, a jitter measuring unit for measuring jitter in signals output from the optical pickup head and an evaluation unit for determining from the measured jitter if the optical storage medium is good or defective. The jitter measuring unit measures jitter in a train of 3T or longer marks or spaces from an optical storage medium to which digital information is recorded as a train of marks or spaces of length kT based on a period T and an integer k of two or more. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT