JP2003109310A - Method for recording information signal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information signal recording method capable of eliminating correlation between adjacent tracks by overlappedly using a portion of a scramble signal. SOLUTION: In this information signal recording method for scrambling an information signal S3 with the scramble signal S2 in recording the information signal S3 on an information recording medium 5 having circular information tracks, a portion of the scramble signal is overlappedly used. Thus, the correlation between adjacent tracks is eliminated and stable tracking control is made to be possible.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information signal recording method for recording an information signal on an information signal recording medium having a circular information track by using a scrambled signal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in an optical disk such as a compact disk (CD), a digital signal is recorded by forming concave and convex shapes called pits and lands on the tracks of the disk, and reflected light from the pits and lands is optical. The light is received by a four-division photodetector in the head, converted into an electric signal, and the signal is read.

Focusing is for causing the objective lens of the optical system of the pickup to follow the surface wobbling of the disc, and as a method there is an astigmatism method or the like. Further, the tracking is for causing the pickup to follow the track with respect to the eccentricity of the disk, and as a method thereof, there are a three-beam method, a push-pull method, a heterodyne method, and the like. Focusing and tracking are 2
The output signal of each divided sensor of the photodetector divided into four or four is calculated to obtain a focusing control signal and a tracking control signal, and servo control is performed thereby.

The laser beam emitted from the pickup causes a phase difference between the reflected light from the pit portion and the reflected light from the land portion, and due to the interference effect, the amount of reflected light incident on the photodetector at the pit portion and the land portion is changed. A reproduced signal is obtained due to the difference. The recorded data is recorded on a CD by a digitally modulated signal called EFM forming a pattern of pits and lands.
The recorded data is binarized from a reproduction signal due to a change in light amount at pits and lands, and is digitally demodulated to reproduce the data.

[0005]

By the way, as a signal recording system, a constant angular velocity system CA in which the angular velocity of the disk is constant is used.
V (Constant Angular Velocity
y) and a constant linear velocity method CLV (Cons) in which the linear velocity is constant.
Tant Linear Velocity) is known, and the CAV method has a structure in which the number of sectors included in each track is equal, and the heads of the sectors are completely coincident with each other on the radiation from the center of the disk for all the tracks.

Further, since the CLV method has a constant linear velocity,
Although the heads of the sectors of all the tracks do not match, the heads of the sectors may match on the radiation from the center of the disc for some adjacent tracks. In such a situation, when recording information of the same content, for example, image information or music information, when recording a large amount of silent portions between chapters and chapters, no image sections, etc. In order to prevent the recording signals having the same shape and arrangement from appearing, a scrambling operation is generally taken.

This scrambling prevents a sync signal for synchronizing the head of a sector of information from being generated as a pseudo sync signal in the data, and DS of EFM modulation.
This is performed for the purpose of improving the V controllability, and the scramble signal is generated by the exclusive OR of the information signal and the M sequence. The M sequence used for scrambling is a cyclic code represented by 2 ^x -1 0s or 1s. For example, the known scramble means used in the CD-ROM uses an M sequence of 2 ¹⁵ −1 = 32767 cycles, and the same initial value is used for each sector.

The conventional information signal recording method will be described with reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B. The sector address signal S1 is the M-sequence generator 1 of the scramble means 10.
1, the scramble signal S10 is generated, and the scramble signal S10 causes the information signal S3 to be generated.
Is subjected to scrambling by the adder 12, and the recording signal S4 to be actually recorded on the recording medium is output. The M sequence at this time is a cyclic code represented by 2 ^x -1 0s or 1s (see FIG. 6B).

In the current trend of optical discs, the recording capacity is being increased, but the conventional scramble means is used to transfer the information of the same contents as described above to the sectors on the radiation from the center of the disc. When recorded at the positions where the heads match, the shapes of pits and lands match between adjacent tracks, and the correlation increases and the amplitude of the tracking error signal decreases, resulting in a signal to noise ratio (S / N). However, there is a problem that tracking control is not performed stably.

The present invention focuses on the above problems,
The present invention was devised to effectively solve this problem, and its purpose is to provide an information signal recording method capable of removing the correlation between adjacent tracks by using a part of scrambled signals in an overlapping manner. It is in.

[0011]

According to the present invention, the above-mentioned problem is that scrambling is performed using an M-sequence scramble signal having a short period, even if one track includes a plurality of sectors. It was made by obtaining the knowledge that it is caused by.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides
When an information signal consisting of a binary digital signal sequence divided into a plurality of sectors is recorded on the information signal recording medium having a circular information track by the CLV system, the information signal is M
In an information signal recording method in which each sector is scrambled by a scramble signal using a part of a cyclic code of a sequence, a part of the M-sequence scramble signal to be scrambled in each sector is used in duplicate and the scrambling operation is performed. This is done by adding the M-sequence scrambled signal to the information signal. According to the present invention, in the scramble operation for the recording signal of each sector, by using the scramble signal which is partially overlapped, the information of the same contents are adjacent to each other before the information signal is recorded on the information signal recording medium. I try not to show up on the track. As a result, the stability of the tracking control can be ensured, so that the distance between adjacent tracks can be narrowed and a high recording density disk can be realized. Further, according to the present invention, since the scrambled signals which are partially overlapped with each other are used, the stability of the tracking control can be secured even if the cycle of the scrambled signal is shortened to some extent.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of an information signal recording method according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing scrambling means of a recording signal generator for carrying out the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1A, the scramble means 1 generates an initial value stored in advance on the basis of the address signal S1.
And an M-sequence generator 3 for generating an M-sequence scramble signal S2 based on the output from the memory 2, and a scramble operation by adding the scramble signal S2 to the information signal S3 consisting of a digital signal sequence. And an adder 4 which forms the recording signal S4. At this time, as shown in FIG. 1B, a predetermined length Dw from the initial value of one M sequence to the initial value of the next M sequence.
It is just staggered. The initial value storage unit 2 naturally reads the initial value based on the address value of the address signal S1.

FIG. 2 illustrates the scrambling procedure and M according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a relationship between streams, for example, a Tn-th track and a T (n + 1) -th track are recorded concentrically or spirally in a recording area of an information recording medium 5 such as a disc as shown in FIG. 2A. To be done. In the illustrated example, the CLV recording method is shown, and the sector of each track starts with the radiation L from the center point O of the disk. Figure 2
FIG. 2B shows a diagram in which the information recorded on the adjacent track at this time is linearly rewritten, and FIG. 2C shows the arrangement of the recording signals at this time.

When describing the method of determining the order and initial value of the M sequence used in the scramble means of the present invention, the recording method will be described by taking the CLV method as an example, and the constants relating to the recorded disk are given as follows. Keep it. Smin: Number of sectors included in the innermost circumference Smax: Number of sectors included in the outermost circumference Dw: Shift width from the initial value of one M sequence to the initial value of the next M sequence (unit: sector) (0 <Dw) , However,
This Dw is variable. Cycle: Maximum number of sectors that can be represented by cyclic period (2 ^x -1) of M sequence Bsect: Number of bytes of information included in one sector

<Embodiment 1> FIG. 3 shows a positional relationship of information recorded on the outermost track and a track adjacent to the outermost track through a scrambling procedure according to the first embodiment. In the diagram of the M sequence in FIG. 3A, it is assumed that the cyclic period of the scrambled signal corresponds to the information recorded in the outermost circumference in a ratio of 1: 1 if the length of the scrambled signal is longer than the amount of information recorded in the outermost circumference. It shows that.

The arrangement of recording signals shown in FIG. 3B is as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, information in which recording signals are actually arranged concentrically or spirally from the center point O of the disc is recorded on an adjacent track starting from the radiation L from the center point O of the disc in FIG. It is the figure which rewritten in the shape of a straight line. Due to the nature of the M-sequence, even when a large amount of the same information is recorded, different recording signals are generated within the range of the length of the information recorded in the outermost circumference, so from the innermost circumference to the outermost circumference. In all the tracks, different signals are recorded on the radiation L from the center point O of the disc on the adjacent tracks.

From the above, the condition of the order of the M-sequence to be used is as shown in Expression 1. Smax ≦ Cycle ············································ (1) Here, if the Cycle is expressed in sector units, it becomes as shown in Formula 2. Cycle = (2 ^x −1) / (8 · Bsect) ···· (2) Therefore, the order x of the M sequence to be obtained should be obtained by Equation 3, Equation 4, and Equation 5. You can

Smax ≦ (2 ^x −1) / (8 · Bsect) ···· (3) 2 ^x ≧ 8 · Bsect · Smax +1 ···· (4) x ≧ log ₂ (8 · Bsect · Smax + 1) ··· (5) Therefore, the information signal S3 is defined by the order obtained by the above equation (5). By performing the scrambling operation with the scrambled signal S2 of the cyclic sequence (2 ^x -1) of the M sequence, it is possible to obtain the recording signal S4 capable of performing stable tracking.

For example, in a CD-ROM, the amount of information contained in one sector is 2352 bytes, and the number of sectors contained in the outermost circumference is about 22 sectors. If you use M series of
In all the tracks from the innermost circumference to the outermost circumference, different signals are recorded on the radiation from the center point of the disk on the adjacent track. As described above, since the cycle of the scramble signal S2 is set to a length equal to or larger than the information amount of the track having the largest recording capacity, that is, the outermost track, it is possible to completely eliminate the correlation between adjacent tracks. it can. Therefore, stable tracking control can be performed even if the track pitch is narrowed to increase the recording medium density.

<Embodiment 2> FIG. 4 shows the positional relationship of information recorded on the innermost track and a track adjacent to the innermost track through a scrambling procedure according to the second embodiment.

In the diagram of the M sequence in FIG. 4A, it is assumed in this case that the scramble signal has a cyclic period larger than the number of information bits included in at least two sectors. As shown in the M sequence in FIG. 4A, the scrambling operation is performed on each sector by using an initial value shifted by a shift width Dw from the initial value used in the previous sector. The arrangement of the recording signals shown in FIG. 4B is actually the center point O of the disc as shown in FIG.
3 is a diagram in which information recorded in adjacent tracks is linearly rewritten in a concentric or spiral arrangement from the center point O of the disk in FIG. 2 as a starting point.

The problem here is that the sector 1 which is the signal of the first sector recorded on the innermost track and the sector at the same position as the sector 1 on the adjacent (innermost track + 1) th track. Signal (sector (n + 1), sector (n +
2)). In FIG. 4B, when a scramble signal including the scramble signal used in the sector is used in the problematic part, if the recorded information is the same, a signal equal to that in the sector 1 is recorded. Will be done.

Therefore, in the case of a disc capable of recording information for a sector corresponding to Smin on the innermost circumference, one sector from the portion of the M sequence used in sector 1 when performing the scrambling procedure for sector (Smin + 1) Used in
It suffices to perform the scrambling operation using the initial value of the M sequence that is shifted by more than the code of the sequence. The above contents are expressed as shown in Expression 6 when expressed. Smin ・ Dw ≧ 1 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ (6)

Next, consider the outermost track of the disk. Originally, the outermost track and the (outermost track-1) track are considered, but here it is assumed that the (outermost track + 1) track exists. The idea of not generating equal scramble patterns in adjacent tracks is exactly the same, so the method of giving a constant is shown here.

When the order of the M sequence is determined by the information bit included in the outermost circumference, the scramble pattern used in the outermost circumference is recorded in (outermost circumference + 1), so that the outermost circumference is recorded. It suffices to select an M-series having a cycle equal to or greater than the number of sectors included in the number of sectors included, plus the number of sectors (1 / Dw) until a part of the M-series used first in the outermost circumference is no longer used. become.
Therefore, it suffices to satisfy the condition shown in Expression 7. (Smax + 1 / Dw) ・ Dw ≦ Cycle ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ (7)

From the above equations 6 and 7, the following equation 8 can be obtained. 1 / Smin≤Dw≤ (Cycle-1) / Smax (8) Here, Smin and Smax can be determined by the disc to be recorded. Therefore, when the Cycle shown in the equation is re-expressed in sector units, the equation 9 is obtained. Cycle = (2 ^x -1) / (8 · Bsect) ····· (9)

Therefore, from the left and right sides of the above equation 8, M
The order x of the sequence can be calculated by the following mathematical formulas 10, 11, and 12. 1 / Smin ≦ [(2 ^x −1) / (8 · Bsect) −1] / Smax ··· (10) 2 ^x ≧ 8 · Bsect · (1 + Smax / Smin) +1 (11) x ≧ log ₂ [8 · Bsect · (1 + Smax / Smin) +1] ·· (12) By this, the order x of the M sequence can be determined.
The left side and the right side of Equation 7 are both constants, and the deviation width Dw
Can also be determined.

For example, in a CD-ROM, the amount of information contained in one sector is 2352 bytes, and the number of sectors contained in the outermost circumference and the number of sectors contained in the innermost circumference are approximately 22 sectors and 9 sectors, respectively. And calculate the order x,
It turns out that it is sufficient to use M-sequences of 16th order or higher. With this, on all tracks from the innermost circumference to the outermost circumference,
Different signals will be recorded on the radiation L from the center point O of the disc on the adjacent track. Further, as compared with the results of the first embodiment, the function of removing the correlation between adjacent tracks requires the M-th order of 19th order when the method described in the first embodiment is used. By using the above method, the same effect can be obtained by using the 16th-order M series.

As described above, by using a part of the scrambled signals redundantly, the correlation between adjacent tracks can be completely eliminated, and stable tracking can be achieved even if the track pitch is narrowed. Control can be performed.

<Third Embodiment> Next, a third embodiment, which is a modification of the second embodiment, will be described. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the positional relationship of information recorded on the innermost and outermost tracks when a scrambling procedure different from that of the above embodiment is performed. In the case of the M sequence shown in FIG. 5A, in this case, it is assumed that the cyclic cycle of the scramble signal is a cyclic cycle larger than the number of information bits included in at least two sectors, and one scramble pattern An initial value is given so that the scramble pattern to be given next includes the same pattern in the range of 1-Dw. Figure 5
The arrangement of the recording signals shown in FIGS. 5B and 5C is actually the arrangement of concentric circles or spirals from the center point O of the disc as shown in FIG. It is the figure which rewritten the information recorded on the adjoining track linearly starting from the radiation L from the center point O.

First, consider the innermost track of the disk. As a concept, as in the second embodiment, the problem is that the radiation L from the center area O of the disk of the sector 1 and the recording area of the sector 1 which is the signal of the first sector recorded in the innermost circumference is a problem. This is a place within the area drawn at the beginning and end of sector 1. In FIG. 5B, after the sector (n + 1), the scrambling procedure can be performed using the initial value of the scramble signal having a distance deviated from the initial value of the scramble signal used in the sector 1 by the amount of information included in one sector or more. It's good. Here, the number of times that one scramble signal is repeatedly and repeatedly used is Mlo.
If op is given, it is expressed as shown in Expression 13. (Smin / Mloop) ・ Dw ≧ 1 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ (13)

Next, consider the outermost track of the disk. Originally, the outermost track and the (outermost track-1) track are considered, but here it is assumed that the (outermost track + 1) track exists. The idea of not generating equal scramble patterns in adjacent tracks is exactly the same, so the method of giving a constant is shown here.

When the order of the M sequence is determined by the information bits included in the outermost circumference, the (outermost circumference +1) is recorded exactly the same as the scramble signal used in the outermost circumference. +1) The scramble signal used in the sector located on the same radiation as the first outermost track in the track may be a scramble signal that is before Bsect of the first used scramble signal in the outermost track. 14 is given. [(Smax / Mloop) + 1 / Dw] ・ Dw ≦ Cycle ... ・ (14)

The following expression 15 can be obtained from the above expressions 13 and 14. Mloop / Smin ≤ Dw ≤ (Cycle
-1) · Mloop / Smax (15) where Smin
And Smax can be determined by the disc to be recorded. Therefore, the Cycle shown in the equation can be expressed as the following Equation 16 in units of sectors. Cycle = (2 ^x -1) / (8 · Bsect) ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ (16)

From the left side and the right side of the above equation 15, the order x of the M sequence can be obtained by the following equations 17, 18, and 19. Mloop / Smin ≤ [(2 ^x -1) / (8 · Bsect) -1] ・ Mloop / Smax ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・・ ・ ・ (17) 2 ^x ≧ 8 · Bsect · (1 + Smax / Smin) +1 ・ ・ ・ ・ (18) x ≧ log ₂ [8 · Bsect · (1 + Smax / Smin) +1] ・ (19) Formula 19 is It can be seen that the formula is exactly the same as the formula 12 of the second embodiment, and the same result can be obtained.

Therefore, in comparison with the result of the method of the first embodiment, the action of removing the correlation between adjacent tracks requires the 19th-order M series when the method of the first embodiment is used.
Using the method of Example 3, the result of Example 2 is 1
A similar effect can be obtained by using a sixth-order M series. Furthermore,
By repeatedly using one scrambled signal, it is possible to obtain the effect of reducing the number of initial values recorded in the initial value storage unit 2 in FIG. 1 as compared with the case of the second embodiment. In the above-mentioned embodiment, the case of recording by the CLV system has been described, but it is needless to say that the present invention can be applied to the case of recording by the CAV system.

[0039]

As described above, according to the information signal recording method of the present invention, the following excellent operational effects can be exhibited. By using a part of the scrambled signal redundantly, the correlation between adjacent tracks can be completely removed. Therefore, stable tracking control can be performed even if the track pitch is narrowed to increase the density of the information signal recording medium. Furthermore, the period of the scramble signal can be shortened to some extent, and the scramble operation can be simplified accordingly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing scrambling means for implementing the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the relationship of M sequences in the scrambling procedure of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram linearly showing a scramble pattern in the outermost circumference and in the next embodiment in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram linearly showing a scramble pattern in the innermost circumference and in the second embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram linearly showing scramble patterns in tracks adjacent to each of the innermost circumference and the outermost circumference in the third embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a conventional scramble means.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Scramble means, 2 ... Initial value storage part, 3 ... M sequence generation part, 4 ... Addition part, 5 ... Information recording medium, L ... Radiation,
O ... central point, S1 ... sector address signal, S2 ... scramble signal, S3 ... information signal, S4 ... recording signal.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. When an information signal composed of a binary digital signal sequence divided into a plurality of sectors is recorded on an information signal recording medium having a circular information track by the CLV system, the information signal is circulated in M series. In an information signal recording method of scrambling each sector by a scramble signal using a part of a code, a part of the M-sequence scramble signal to be scrambled in each sector is overlapped and the scramble operation is performed on the information signal. An information signal recording method, characterized in that it is performed by adding the M-sequence scrambled signal to. 2. When recording an information signal consisting of a binary digital signal sequence divided into a plurality of sectors on an information signal recording medium having a circular information track by the CLV system, the information signal is a 16th order M signal. In an information signal recording method in which each sector is scrambled by a scramble signal using a part of a cyclic code of a sequence, a part of the 16th-order M-sequence scramble signal to be scrambled in each sector is used in duplicate, and An information signal recording method, wherein a scrambling operation is performed by adding the 16th-order M-sequence scrambling signal to the information signal.