JP2003296934A - Information recording method and information recording apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information recording method and an information recording apparatus capable of less-reducing a data recording area even when the scale of an append circuit increases and easily determining a final appended data location. <P>SOLUTION: A partition address in management information recorded on an optical disk at appending is read, whether or not partition data are recorded at a read partition address location is determined, when the determination indicates NO, succeeding management information is read, the determination of the partition data is repeated, when the determination indicates YES, data other than partition data are written again to the address from which the partition data are read, and the management information to be appended, appended data and the partition data are succeedingly written. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information recording method and an information recording / reproducing apparatus for recording data on a write-once optical disc which can be recorded only once.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Write-once type optical disks have been developed which can record data only once. In this write-once optical disc, the organic dye applied to the pre-groove in which the wobbling signal and the position information for keeping the linear velocity at the time of recording just before the reflection layer are formed is irradiated with laser light. Information is recorded by making an optical change.

A conventional apparatus for recording data on such a write-once type optical disc has been designed to perform recording according to the format shown in FIG. That is, FIG.
(A) shows a recording format of a write-once optical disc (CD-R), where PCA is an area for checking write power, RI is a lead-in area, DATA is a write data area, and RO is a lead-out area. .

Writing data to a conventional CD-R is shown in FIG.
As shown in (A), the RI data and RO data are added before and after the additional write data for each additional write data, and the CD-R is added.
I am trying to write to. Further, as shown in FIG. 5B, the format of each data to be written in the CD-R is such that a sync signal (SYNC) and a sync signal number (S #) are added for each fixed length of write data. I try to put it in.

[0005]

As described above, in the conventional writing of data to a CD-R, a large amount of lead-in data and lead-out data is added to each additional write data.

Therefore, the lead-in and lead-out areas increase in accordance with the number of times of additional recording on the CD-R, and the recording area for recording necessary data decreases accordingly. Also, when reproducing the data recorded in this way, it is not possible to determine the last lead-out because it is not known how much writing is done, and the last lead-out area is passed. The reading is performed, and the determination is made by knowing that the writing is not performed (not formatted) there.

Therefore, if the formatting is not performed, the synchronization signal used for the spindle servo control cannot be obtained, the synchronization is lost, and the information must be reproduced again by the complicated processing. According to the present invention, the data recording area does not decrease much even if the number of additional recordings increases,
Moreover, it is an object of the present invention to provide an information recording method and a recording / reproducing apparatus for a write-once optical disc in which the final write-once data position can be easily determined.

[0008]

Before describing the means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the principle of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4A shows a CD-ROM used in the present invention.
The recording format of R, FIG. 4B is the write data format. The write data format shown in FIG. 4B uses the same format as described in FIG. 5B.

In FIG. 4A, the write power check area (PCA), the lead-in area (RI), the data (DATA) and the lead-out area (RO) are the same as those described with reference to FIG. 5A. is there. According to the present invention, a management information area (MA) for recording a directory of data to be recorded before writing data, a partition address indicating a recording end position, and the like, and a partition area (PA) indicating a recording end position next to the recording data are provided. Set up. Since the amount of data in MA and PA is much smaller than that in RI and RO, the reduction of the data area due to the addition of MA and PA is very small.

As the data to be written in the PA, a predetermined binary data (P) is written. As shown in FIG. 5 (A),
When performing the second additional recording (Chapter) on the CD-R on which the first writing (Chapter 1) has been performed, first the MA is read to know the PA position, and the partition data (P) is recorded at the PA position. If (P) is recorded, it is determined whether or not (P) is recorded, and then the data of (E) other than (P) is rewritten, and then MA, DATA and PA shown in Chapter 2 are written. . Therefore, when a plurality of additional recordings are performed, only the last added PA of the chapter is recorded with the partition data (P) indicating the ending position, and the previous PA of the chapter is rewritten with (E). The writing end position can be easily known by changing to data other than (P).

Further, when the additional recording to the CD-R is completed, as shown in FIG. 4A, the last PA is followed by RO.
Write. Next, a means for solving the problem will be described. An information recording method for recording data on a write-once optical disc, comprising: a data format for additionally writing data on the optical disc, management information such as a directory of recording data and a partition address indicating a recording end position, data to be additionally written, and It is composed of partition data that indicates the recording end position, and at the time of additional recording, the partition address in the management information recorded on the optical disc is read, and it is determined whether the partition data is recorded at the read partition address position. Is NO, the next management information is read and the determination of the partition data is repeated. If the determination is YES, the data other than the partition data is rewritten at the address where the partition data is read, and then the additional data is added. The management information, write the additional data and partitions the data, so as to.

In addition to the management information to be written at the time of additional recording, management information for the data recorded on the optical disk is also written in addition to the management information for the additional data. Further, at the time of additional writing, the partition data is not written to the additionally written data, but if the data is not written at the partition address position at the time of the additional writing position search, the partition data is written, and subsequently the management information and the additional writing data are added. Let me write it down.

Further, in the information recording apparatus for recording data on the write-once type optical disc, the management information reading means for reading the management information written on the optical disc and the partition read by the management information reading means at the time of additional writing. Partition data reading means for reading address data, judging means for judging whether or not the data value read by the partition data reading means is a partition data value, and YES if the judgment by the judging means is NO. Partition data rewriting means for rewriting the data other than the partition data to the address where the partition data is read when YES, and the data other than the partition data. A management information writing unit that writes information such as a directory and a partition address of data to be additionally written after rewriting data, and a management information writing unit that is written after writing additional data Partition data writing means for writing the partition data to the partition address.

Further, the management information writing means writes the management information to be written at the time of additional recording, in addition to the management information for the additionally recorded data, the management information for the data recorded on the optical disk. Further, without writing the partition data by the partition data writing means, the judging means judges whether or not the partition data is unwritten, and when it is judged as unwritten, the partition data is rewritten. Means writes partition data.

Further, in the information reproducing apparatus for reproducing the information from the optical disc recorded by the information recording apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, the management for reading the management information recorded on the optical disc during reproduction. Information reading means, partition data reading means for reading the data of the partition address read by the management information reading means, and determination of whether or not the data value read by the partition reading means is a partition data value Means and the determination means repeats the determination of the partition data until it is determined to be the partition data value, and the determination is YES.
Then, the address corresponding to the input command is searched for the read management information, and the head is shifted to the obtained address to read the recording data.

Further, in the information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information from the optical disk recorded by the information recording apparatus described in claim 6, the management information reading for reading the management information recorded on the optical disk during reproduction. Means, partition data reading means for reading the data of the partition address read by the management information reading means, and judging means for judging whether or not the data value read by the partition reading means is a partition data value. The determination of the partition data is repeated until the determination means determines that it is not the partition data value, and when the determination is YES, the address corresponding to the input command is obtained by searching the read management information, and the obtained address is obtained. Shift the head to And a control means reads record data.

[0017]

In the information recording method of the present invention, the partition address in the management information recorded on the optical disc is read at the time of additional recording, and it is judged whether or not the partition data is recorded at the read partition address position. Is NO, the next management information is read and the determination of the partition data is repeated. If the determination is YES, the data other than the partition data is rewritten at the address where the partition data is read, and then the additional writing is performed. Write management information, additional data and partition data.

In addition to the management information to be written at the time of additional recording, the management information for the data recorded on the optical disk is also written in addition to the management information for the additional data. Further, at the time of additional writing, the partition data is not written to the additionally written data, but if the data is not written at the partition address position at the time of the additional writing position search, the partition data is written, and subsequently the management information and the additional writing data are added. Let me write it down.

The management information reading means reads the management information written on the optical disc at the time of additional recording. The partition data reading means reads the data of the partition address read by the management information reading means. The determining means determines whether or not the data value read by the partition data reading means is a partition data value. The partition data rewriting means repeats the determination of the partition data until it becomes YES when the judgment made by the judging means is NO, and when YES becomes, the data other than the partition data is rewritten to the address where the partition data is read. Write. Management information writing means,
Following rewriting of data other than the partition data, information such as a directory of data to be additionally written and a partition address is written. The partition data writing means writes the partition data at the partition address written by the management information writing means, following the writing of the additional write data.

The management information writing means writes the management information to be written at the time of additional recording, in addition to the management information for the additional recording data, the management information for the data recorded on the optical disc. In addition, the partition data is not written by the partition data writing means, the determination means determines whether or not the partition data is unwritten, and when it is determined that the partition data is not written, the partition data is rewritten. Allows the means to write partition data.

Further, the management information reading means reads the management information recorded on the optical disc during reproduction. The partition data reading means reads the data of the partition address read by the management information reading means. The determining means determines whether or not the data value read by the partition reading means is a partition data value. The control means repeats the determination of the partition data until the determination means determines that it is the partition data value.
When it becomes ES, the address corresponding to the input command is obtained by searching the read management information, and the head is shifted to the obtained address to read the recording data.

Further, the management information reading means reads the management information recorded on the optical disc during reproduction. The partition data reading means reads the data of the partition address read by the management information reading means. The determining means determines whether or not the data value read by the partition reading means is a partition data value. The control means repeats the determination of the partition data until the determination means determines that it is not the partition data value, and the determination is Y.
When it becomes ES, the address corresponding to the input command is obtained by searching the read management information, and the head is shifted to the obtained address to read the recording data.

As described above, the management information such as the directory of the recording data and the partition address indicating the recording end position is added before the data to be additionally recorded, and the partition data indicating the recording end position is added after the recording, and additionally recorded. At this time, since the partition data of the last data written on the write-once type optical disc is rewritten so that it becomes data other than the partition data, additional writing is performed. The decrease is small, and the final write-once data position can be easily found.

Further, in addition to the management information for the data to which the management information is additionally written, the management information for the previously written data is also added and written, so that the management information of the last additionally written data is recorded. All the management information of the recorded data is included, and the recording device can be easily known by referring to this management information.

Further, when reproducing the information, if the partition data is recorded, it is determined that the position is the recording end position, and the reproduction is performed by shifting to the position designated by the input command. Since the head does not appear in the unformatted part and the loss of synchronization disappears, the reproduction can be started immediately.

[0026]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a write-once optical disc (CD-R), 2 is a motor,
3 is a pickup, 4 is a servo circuit, 5 is a laser, 6 is an encoder, 7 is a power control circuit for the laser 5, 8 is a reproduction amplifier, 9 is a decoder, 10 is a guide signal decoder, 1
Reference numeral 1 is a management information reading unit, 12 is a management information writing unit, 13 is a partition data reading unit, and 14 is a partition data reading unit.
Is a determination unit, 15 is a partition data (re) writing unit,
Reference numeral 16 is a control unit, 17 is an input unit, 18 to 23 are interfaces (I / O), and 24 is a processor (CP) for processing.
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Next, the recording operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In process S1, the servo circuit 4 performs a servo process for controlling the rotation of the motor 2 and the tracking and focus of the pickup 3. In process S2, the control unit 16 instructs the power control circuit 7 to execute the operation shown in FIG.
The output of the laser 5 is increased in the PCA area of the CD-R shown in (A), and the optimum power value for writing is checked.

In step S3, if the CD-R 1 is an unwritten optical disc, the process proceeds to step S4, and if it is a written disc, the process proceeds to step S9. In step S4, the management information writing unit 12 creates management information and
It is output via O18, encoded by the encoder 6 to modulate the output of the laser 5, and the CD-R from the pickup 3.
1 is irradiated and management information is written.

In process S5, the control unit 7 outputs the recording data input from the I / O 22 via the I / O 18,
Write data to CD-R1. When the writing of the data is completed, in step S6, the partition data (re) writing unit 15 writes the partition data (P).

In step S7, the CD-R1 is input from the input unit 17.
If the input for terminating the writing has not been input, the processing is ended, and if the input has been input, the processing proceeds to step S8 and the processing shown in FIG.
As shown in (A), the lead-out data and the MO are written, and the process ends. Further, if the determination in process S3 is NO, the process proceeds to process S9, and in process S9, the management information reading unit 11 reads the management information from the CD-R 1 via the I / O 20.

In process S10, the partition data reading unit 13 reads the partition data from the address corresponding to the address where the partition data is recorded in the management information read in process S9. In process S11, the determination unit 14 determines whether the data read in process S10 is regular partition data (P). If the determination is YES, the process proceeds to process S12, and if the determination is NO. The process proceeds to step S9, the management information is read, and steps S9 to S11 are repeated.

In step S12, if there is no writing area on the CD-R 1, the process proceeds to step S8, and if there is a writing area, the process proceeds to step S13. In the process S13, the partition data (re) writing unit 15 rewrites the data (E) different from the regular partition data (P) into the address of the partition data read in the process S10.
Go to 4.

That is, the PA of Chapter 1 in FIG.
If (P) is detected in, the (E) is rewritten to the PA of Chapter 1 so that the recording is not (P), and only the PA of the last recorded Chapter (P) is recorded. It In the embodiment, the management information is written in the processing S4 by writing only the management information for the data to be written. However, the management recording for the data recorded before being read in the processing S9 is performed. Information may also be added and writing may be performed.

In the embodiment, when the partition data (P) is detected, (E) is written to write the additional write data so that (P) is written only in the PA of the last Chapter. However, the data is not written in the PA for the additional write data, and when there is an unwritten PA in the additional write, it is determined that this position is the previous write end position, and (P) is written, Then, additional write data may be written.

That is, in the additional chapter PA, the SYNC and S # shown in FIG. 4B are written, but the write data is not written. Even with this, S
Since the YNC is written, there is no problem of loss of synchronization. Next, the operation during reproduction will be described with reference to FIG.

When a reproduction command is input from the input section 17 in the process S21, the process moves to the process S22 and the focus, spindle and tracking servo system processes are performed. In step S23, the management information reading unit 11
Reads the management information from the MA of the first Chapter.

In process S24, the partition data reading unit 13 reads data from the address of the partition data in the management information read in process S23. In process S25, the determination unit 14 determines whether the data read in process S24 is regular partition data (P). If the determination is NO, the process proceeds to process S23 to read the management information of the next chapter. Processing S
23 to S25 are repeated.

If the determination in step S25 is YES, the process moves to step S26, the read management information is referred to, the head is skipped to the position corresponding to the command input in step S21, and the process proceeds to step S27. Read the recorded data. When the reading of the data is completed and the next command is input, the process proceeds to step S26, and when not input, the process ends.

[0039]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. Management information such as a directory of recording data and a partition address indicating a recording end position is added before the data to be additionally recorded, and partition data indicating a recording end position is added after the recording, and the data is written to the write-once optical disc at the time of additional recording. Since the partition data of the last data that has been written is rewritten so that it becomes data other than the partition data, additional recording is performed, so even if the number of additional recordings increases, the data recording area does not decrease much and the final additional data The location can be easily found.

Further, in addition to the management information for the data to which the management information is additionally written, the management information for the previously written data is added and written, so that the management information of the last additionally written data is recorded. All the management information of the recorded data is included, and the recording device can be easily known by referring to this management information.

Further, when reproducing the information, if the partition data is recorded, it is determined that the position is the recording end position and the reproduction is performed by shifting to the position designated by the input command. Since the head does not appear in the unformatted part and the loss of synchronization disappears, the reproduction can be started immediately.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an operation at the time of recording in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart during reproduction according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a recording format on a write-once optical disc of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a recording format on a conventional write-once optical disc.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Write-once optical disc (CD-R) 2 motor 3 pickups 4 Servo circuit 5 laser 6 encoder 7 Power control circuit 8 Regenerative amplifier 9 decoder 10 Guide signal decoder 11 Management information reading section 12 Management information writing section 13 Partition data reading section 14 Judgment section 15 Partition data (re) writing section 16 Control unit 17 Input section 18-23 interface (I / O) 24 processors (CPU)

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The present invention relates to a data recording method and information recording RokuSo location to record the data on a recordable write-once optical disc only once.

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Further, when the additional recording to the CD-R is completed, as shown in FIG. 4A, the last PA is followed by RO.
Write. Next, a means for solving the problem will be described. In order to solve the above problems, the method according to claim 1,
The invention is the data to be recorded on the optical disk and the data.
Management information about
The relevant data and management information in accordance with
A method for recording information on an optical disc, comprising:
The other data already recorded according to the recording format
According to the recording format on the optical disc
When recording the new data, the new data
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Information recording method for recording information on the optical disc.
Therefore, it is judged whether the optical disk is unwritten and
For the optical disc that is writable, the recording
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Record the data in the write data area on the disc
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Management on the optical disc where information should be recorded
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New write data on the optical disc to be recorded
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Information recording device for recording information on the optical disc.
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Information recording device for recording information on the optical disc.
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On the optical disc where the new data is to be recorded
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Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. An information recording method for recording data on a write-once optical disc, wherein the data format for additionally writing the data on the optical disc includes management information such as a directory of recording data and a partition address indicating a recording end position.
It is composed of data to be additionally written and partition data indicating the end position of recording. At the time of additional recording, the partition address in the management information recorded on the optical disc is read, and whether the partition data is recorded at the read partition address position or not If the judgment is NO, the next management information is read and the judgment of the partition data is repeated. If the judgment is YES, the data other than the partition data is rewritten to the address where the partition data is read, An information recording method, characterized in that the management information, additional recording data and partition data to be additionally recorded are written. 2. Management information to be written at the time of additional recording,
2. The information recording method according to claim 1, wherein management information for the data recorded on the optical disk is written in addition to the management information for the data to be additionally written. 3. When the additional recording is performed, the partition data is not written to the additional recording data. If the data is not written in the partition address position at the additional recording position search, the partition data is written, and the management information to be additionally recorded is added. 3. The information recording method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein write-once data is written. 4. An information recording apparatus for recording data on a write-once type optical disc, wherein during additional recording, management information reading means for reading management information written on the optical disc, and a partition read by the management information reading means. Partition data reading means for reading the data of the address, judging means for judging whether or not the data value read by the partition data reading means is a partition data value, and YES if the judgment by the judging means is NO Partition data rewriting means for rewriting the data other than the partition data to the address where the partition data was read when YES, and the data other than the partition data. After rewriting the data, a management information writing means for writing information such as a directory and a partition address of the data to be additionally written, and a writing to the management information writing means after writing the additionally written data. An information recording device comprising: partition data writing means for writing partition data to the partition address. 5. The management information writing unit writes the management information to be written at the time of additional recording, in addition to the management information for the additional recording data, the management information for the data recorded on the optical disc. The information recording device according to claim 4. 6. The partition data writing unit does not write the partition data, the judgment unit judges whether or not the partition data is unwritten, and when it is judged as unwritten, the partition data is written. 6. The information recording device according to claim 4, wherein the rewriting means writes the partition data. 7. An information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information from an optical disk recorded by the information recording apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, wherein management for reading management information recorded on the optical disk during reproduction. Information reading means, partition data reading means for reading the data of the partition address read by the management information reading means, and determination of whether or not the data value read by the partition reading means is a partition data value Means and the determining means repeats the determination of the partition data until it is determined to be the partition data value, and when the determination is YES, the address corresponding to the input command is searched for the read management information and obtained. The head to the assigned address And a control means for reading the recorded data. 8. An information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information from an optical disc recorded by the information recording apparatus according to claim 6, wherein management information reading for reading the management information recorded on the optical disc during reproduction. Means, partition data reading means for reading the data of the partition address read by the management information reading means, and judging means for judging whether or not the data value read by the partition reading means is a partition data value. The determination of the partition data is repeated until the determination means determines that the data is not the partition data value, and when the determination is YES, the address corresponding to the input command is obtained by searching the read management information, and the obtained address is obtained. Shift the head to Information reproducing apparatus characterized by comprising a, a reading controlling means for recording data.