JP2007004916A - Error correcting device of optical disk apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reproduction performance by attaining a twice correction of PI-PO. <P>SOLUTION: An error correcting apparatus 15 for an optical disk apparatus is constituted so that recording information is reproduced from an optical disk 1 in which code string data to which an error code is added in the same direction as an order of recording information and recording guide information in which this code string data are previously recorded in an unerased state before it is recorded are recorded as recording guide for recording the code string data in the optical disk 1. This error correcting apparatus is provided with a pre-pit decoder 13 as a first position detection part detecting a specific point on physical structure in recording guide information as a first position, a second position generation part 16 generating a second position at which the first position detected by the pre-pit decoder 13 as the first position detecting part replaced by the position of the code string data, and an error correcting circuit 5 as the error correcting part erasure-correcting an error of the code string data using the second position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an error correction device for an optical disk device, and particularly, when reproducing data recorded on an information recordable optical disk, corresponding to a position where a physical singular point of the optical disk as recording guide information exists. The present invention relates to an error correction apparatus for an optical disc apparatus that corrects an error occurring on a correction block based on the position of a singular point on the physical side.

  In a digital versatile disc (hereinafter referred to as DVD—Digital Versatile Disc—), DVD-RAM [Random Access Memory], DVD-R [read] / RW [read & write], + R / RW, etc. are recordable DVDs. is there. A specific example of information recording in such a recordable DVD will be described with reference to the drawings of Patent Document 1. In this recordable DVD, as shown in FIG. 14A in Patent Document 1, a guide groove (recording guide) called a groove for guiding the pickup of the optical disk apparatus is pre-formatted (pre-format). ) As shown exaggeratedly in the figure, this groove is meandering slightly in the radial direction so as to be called wobble (wobble). Such a track structure in which the groove meanders is called a wobbled land groove. Further, as shown in FIGS. 14B and 14C in Patent Document 1, a pre-pit 104 is preliminarily formed on a land 101 that is a protruding portion between the grooves 102 in the DVD-R / RW.

  A conventional optical disc apparatus has a configuration as shown in FIG. After the information recorded on the optical disk 1 is read out by the pickup 2, the matrix amplifier 3 calculates a signal from the optical detector 1 in the pickup 2 and outputs an RF signal, a wobble signal, and a prepit signal. The RF signal is supplied to the demodulation circuit 4, the wobble signal is supplied to the wobble PLL circuit 12, and the prepit signal is supplied to the prepit decoder 13. These wobble signal and pre-pit signal are shown in FIG. 15A of Patent Document 1, and sync frame 1 in FIG. 15A of Patent Document 1 is an even-numbered sync frame (even-even-sync). The sync frame 2 in the figure is an odd position sync frame (odd-odd-sync frame / 1488T). The pre-pit signal as shown in FIG. 15B of Patent Document 1 is input to the pre-pit decoder 13 shown in FIG.

  The RF signal output from the matrix amplifier 3 is output to the host computer 8 via the demodulation circuit 4, the error correction circuit 5, the correction RAM 6, and the data buffer circuit 7 during reproduction. At the time of recording, recording data is output from the host computer 8 to the data buffer circuit 7 and input to the modulation circuit 10 via the parity generation circuit 9.

  The wobble PLL circuit 12 outputs a wobble clock based on the wobble signal output from the matrix amplifier 3. The prepit decoder 13 detects recording guide information (preformat information) in which address information on the optical disk 1 is recorded based on the wobble clock output from the wobble PLL circuit 12 and the prepit signal output from the matrix amplifier 3. The recording timing is generated and output to the modulation circuit 10.

  The modulation circuit 10 modulates the recording data to which the parity is added to generate a modulation signal. Based on the recording timing generated by the pre-pit decoder 13, the modulation signal is output to the laser control circuit 11 so that the sync of the generated modulation signal and the phase of the pre-pit are matched. The laser control circuit 11 drives the recording laser of the pickup 2 to write recording data on the optical disc 1. Here, the product code is composed of an inner code parity (PI-Parity of the Inner code-) code and an outer code parity (PO-Parity of the Outer code-) code.

  A feature of the product code adopted for DVD is that “erasure correction can be performed with outer code: PO (inner code: PI) based on error position information of inner code: PI (outer code: PO)”. Is used for burst errors (continuous errors that occur in the same direction as data strings continuously reproduced from the disk), error correction processing (hereinafter referred to as correction processing) for the PI code is performed first, Next, correction processing for the PO code is generally performed. By utilizing this feature, in Patent Document 2, the error pattern (burst error) that cannot be corrected by the technology prior to Patent Document 2 can be corrected by giving a weight to the burst error position information. .

  In systems that prioritize playback performance, correction processing is often performed on the basis of a single correction of PO, but there are many errors in the playback data, and errors cannot be corrected with a single correction of PO. For example, an error correction process that increases the number of corrections of PI or PO until the error is completely corrected, such as two corrections of PI-PO and three corrections of PO-PI-PO, is also considered.

  Since DVD-R / RW records information in a groove as a recess formed on a disk plane as a physical format, as described above, a land preset in which information such as an address is set in advance between lands between grooves. A pit called a pit is formed. When reading information recorded in a groove by scanning with a beam spot, if the amount of reflected light from the groove is small compared to the amount of reflected light from the prepit, the reflected light from the groove reflects from the prepit. The light component may act as noise, making it difficult to detect groove information with high accuracy. In order to avoid this problem, Patent Document 3 has been proposed. In Patent Document 3, a shape that minimizes the influence of prepits on the groove of the recording / reproducing medium is provided so as not to affect the reproduction signal. Used.

  As shown in the above conventional example, a reproduction signal reproduced from a disc having pre-pit information such as DVD-R / RW media is generally disturbed, and data is compared with a stamped DVD-ROM disc. Since the quality of reproduction is poor, the correction is frequently performed based on the PI-PO correction twice. Performing multiple corrections of PI and PO slows the playback speed in order to secure the processing time, and there is a problem that the playback performance deteriorates.

In addition, the correction processing unit must be operated at a high speed in order to repeat the correction until the error can be completely corrected by correcting the PI-PO a plurality of times while maintaining the reproduction speed. There was a problem of increasing. In addition, there is a limit in operating the correction processing unit at high speed, and when the limit is reached, the playback speed is slowed down and correction processing is performed.
JP 2004-95081 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-285053 JP 2000-132868 A

  As described above, in the conventional error correction apparatus, for example, recording data is recorded from an optical disc in which recording guide information (preformat information) is formed on a track adjacent to a recording data track such as a DVD-R / RW. When an error occurs in position data on the correction block corresponding to the position of the recording guide information due to the presence of the recording guide information, the first code string (PI) -second code An error cannot be corrected by correcting the column (PO) twice, which has a problem of affecting reproduction performance.

  An error correction apparatus according to the present invention adds a pointer for erasure correction in advance to a position on a correction block corresponding to the position of recording guide information, and then performs a first code string (PI) correction, thereby An object of the present invention is to provide an error correction device that can correct twice and improve the reproduction performance.

  An error correction device for an optical disc apparatus according to a basic configuration of the present invention records code string data in which an error code is added in the same direction as the order of recording information in the recording unit of the optical disc, and the code string data is recorded on the optical disc. An error correction device of an optical disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing recorded information from an optical disc on which recording guide information that has been recorded in advance in a state that cannot be erased before the code string data is recorded as a recording guide for recording. A first position detecting unit that detects a singular point on the physical structure in the recording guide information as a first position, and the first position detected by the first position detecting unit is set as the position of the code string data. A second position generation unit that generates the replaced second position; and an error correction unit that performs erasure correction on the error of the code string data using the second position. And butterflies.

  According to the above basic configuration, the code string data is corrected by using the second position previously added as a pointer for erasure correction to the position on the correction block corresponding to the position of the recording guide information. It is possible to provide an error correction device capable of improving the reproduction performance by realizing the correction twice with the data and the data in the direction different from the direction of the code string data (that is, PI-PO in DVD).

  Hereinafter, embodiments of an error correction device for an optical disk device will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an error correction apparatus of an optical disc apparatus according to the first embodiment as a basic configuration of the present invention. 1 having the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 20 indicate the same or corresponding components as those in the conventional error correction apparatus.

  In FIG. 1, an error correction device of an optical disk device includes code string data in which an error code is added to the recording unit of an optical disk 1 in the same direction as the order of recording information, and recording for recording the code string data on the optical disk. As a guide, there is provided an error correction device 15 of an optical disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing recorded information from an optical disc on which recording guide information previously recorded in an erasable state before the code string data is recorded is recorded. ing.

  The error correction device 15 includes a first position detection unit (pre-pit decoder) 13 that detects a singular point on the physical structure in the recording guide information as a first position, and the first position detected by the first position detection unit 13. A second position generation unit 16 that generates a second position replaced with the position of the code string data, and an error correction circuit 5 as an error correction unit that erasure-corrects the code string data using the second position. It is characterized by providing.

The error correction device 15 according to the first embodiment of FIG. 1 has the same configuration as the conventional optical disc device shown in FIG. 20, that is, the optical disc 1, the pickup 2, the matrix amplifier 3, the demodulation circuit 4, the correction RAM 6, the data buffer 7, Although the host computer 8, the parity generation circuit 9, the modulation circuit 10, the laser control circuit 11, the wobble circuit 12, and the system controller 14 are also provided, only the configuration of the error correction circuit 15 according to the first embodiment is indicated by a solid line. Constituent elements similar to those of the conventional optical disc apparatus are indicated by blocks in broken lines. Matrix amplifier 3 outputs a radio frequency signal _{S RF} with respect Likewise demodulation circuit 4 and FIG. 20, and outputs a _{S W} against the wobble PLL circuit 12, the pre-pit signal _{S P} output as the first position information setting unit Is output.

  Hereinafter, the operation of the optical disk apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described. The operation of the components other than the error correction device 15 is the same as the operation of the conventional optical disk device shown in FIG. The operation of the optical disk device shown in FIG. 20 is shown in FIGS. 2 to 12, and the operations other than the error correction device 15 are the same as those in the first embodiment. In a system that prioritizes reproduction performance, correction processing is often performed based on a single PO correction as shown in FIG. However, if there are many errors in the reproduced data and the error cannot be corrected by correcting the PO once, the PI-PO is corrected twice as shown in FIG. 3, and the PO-PI as shown in FIG. -Increase the number of corrections of PI or PO until the PO can be corrected three times and the error can be corrected.

  Since DVD-R / RW records information in grooves as shown in FIGS. 14 (a) and 14 (b) of Patent Document 1 as a physical format, a land in which information such as an address is set in advance between lands between grooves. A pit called a pre-pit as shown in FIG. 14C of Patent Document 1 is formed. This pre-pit is a singular point on the physical structure that is artificially formed in advance on the recording portion of the optical disc, and the first position detector (pre-pit decoder) 13 detects this pre-pit as the first position. The recording part is an area where code string data is recorded, but the pre-pit as a physical singular point is, for example, a disk manufacturer before the code string data is recorded at a position corresponding to the recording part. It has been artificially formed in advance. As shown in the figure, when the information recorded in the groove is read by scanning with a beam spot, if the change in the amount of reflected light from the groove is small compared to the amount of reflected light from the prepit, the reflected from the groove It is conceivable that the reflected light component from the prepit acts as noise on the light component, making it difficult to detect groove information with high accuracy. In order to avoid this problem, the above-mentioned Patent Document 2 proposes a shape that minimizes the influence of the grooves and prepits of the recording / reproducing medium so that the reproduction signal is not affected.

  As shown in the example of Patent Document 2 above, in general, when a pre-pit signal such as a DVD-R / RW media exists, a signal (reproduced signal) reproduced from a disk is easily disturbed, and a stamped DVD-ROM or the like Since the reproduction quality of the reproduced data is lower than that of the conventional disk, correction processing is often performed based on the PI-PO correction twice.

  Performing multiple corrections of PI and PO secures the processing time, thereby reducing the playback speed and lowering the playback performance. In order to repeat correction of PI and PO a plurality of times until the error can be corrected while maintaining the reproduction speed, the correction processing unit is operated at high speed, leading to an increase in power consumption. There is a limit in operating the correction processing unit at high speed, and when the limit is reached, the playback speed is lowered and correction processing is performed, so that the playback performance is degraded. For this reason, in the error correction apparatus of the first embodiment, PI erasure correction is first performed using the second position information, so that error correction can be performed even with normal PI-PO correction twice without operating at high speed. Can be done.

  Next, the relationship between the pre-pit recording format and the correction block data will be described. One sector is configured as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, one correction block has a configuration in which PO parity is interleaved. One sector is formed by 26 sync frames, and one ECC block is formed by 16 sectors. One symbol represents 1-byte data, and 1-byte data corresponds to 16 times (16T) a channel bit length (hereinafter referred to as T) defined by a recording format when recording information is recorded. The sync frame shown in FIG. 5 has a length of 1488T. Further, the first 32T length portion of one sync frame is used as synchronization information for synchronizing each sync frame.

  When recording the recording data, the recording data is recorded so as to be synchronized with the synchronization signal of the preformat information in accordance with the standard. Therefore, when the recording data is reproduced, the preformat information (prepit) is a sync frame of the recording data. Will appear on the land adjacent to the area where the sync information (sync) is recorded.

  FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 schematically show the relationship between the sync frame of the recording data and the pre-pits of the preformat information. In the sync frame at the even position, a prepit sync code (Prepit SYNC code) shown in FIG. 7 is formed to indicate a synchronization signal in the preformat information, and the prepit shown in FIG. 8 is used to indicate data. Data: 1 (Prepit data: 1) or prepit data: 0 (Prepit data: 0) is formed. In the case of an odd (Odd) position sync frame, as in the case of an even (Even) position sync frame, a prepit sync code (Prepit SYNC code) shown in FIG. As data, prepit data: 1 (Prepit data: 1) or prepit data: 0 (Prepit data: 0) shown in FIG. 8 is formed.

  The pre-pit usually appears in the sync frame in the even (Even) position, but the sync frame in the odd (Odd) position is used to avoid crosstalk when close to the pre-pit on the adjacent land formed in advance. A pre-pit appears. When the prepit sync code and the prepit data appear in the even-numbered sync frame, they do not appear in the odd-numbered sync frame. Conversely, if it appears in a sync frame at an odd (Odd) position, it does not appear in a sync frame at an even (Even) position.

  A pre-pit sync code (Prepit SYNC code) as shown in FIG. 7 is shown in the even (Even) position sync frame in the first row of each sector, and a sync frame in the odd (Odd) position is shown in FIG. Prepit data as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 appears in the second to thirteenth columns where the prepit sync code appears, depending on the contents of the preformat information.

  The position of the prepit having preformat information in the sync frame at the even position (Even) and the position on the correction block have a relationship as shown in FIG. Since the recording data is recorded so as to be synchronized with the preformat information, the position of the second prepit of the prepit sync code of the even number (Even) position is the position of the 11th symbol of the PI code string. Become. The position of the third prepit is the position of the 23rd symbol in the PI code string.

  In the conventional error correction apparatus shown in FIG. 20, the reproduction performance when an error as shown in FIGS. 10, 11, and 12 occurs due to the influence of the pre-pits will be described. When an error as shown in FIG. 10 occurs due to the influence of pre-pits, correction of all errors cannot be performed by correcting PO once as shown in FIG. 2, but correction of PI-PO as shown in FIG. 3 is corrected twice. Now you can correct all errors. For this reason, reproduction performance does not deteriorate in a system based on the PI-PO correction twice. FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 show a case where an error of two consecutive symbols occurs due to the influence of the prepit.

  In the DVD standard, when demodulating data of one symbol, the demodulation result of one symbol afterward is reflected. Therefore, when a symbol at a prepit position becomes an error, it is adjacent to the error symbol due to the prepit position. It is possible that the symbol is in error. Further, as shown in FIG. 15 (b) of Patent Document 1, in the DVD standard, it is determined that the prepit of the optical disc and the center of the 14T period of the recording sync are matched. There may be a case where it is difficult to match the sync and prepit phases of recording data modulated by a clock generated based on wobble due to wobble signal fluctuation. In order to avoid this problem, Patent Document 1 proposes a method for controlling the recording operation so that the data position is determined by the original standard.

  As shown in the above example, the positions of the sync and prepits of the recording data are often different from the phase defined in the standard depending on the recording system and the recording disk. When the prepit is positioned near the boundary between symbols, an error may occur in two consecutive symbols across the boundary. When an error as shown in FIG. 11 occurs due to the influence of the pre-pit, all errors cannot be corrected by correcting the PO once as shown in FIG. 2, but all errors are corrected by correcting the PI-PO twice. it can. For this reason, reproduction performance does not deteriorate in a system based on the PI-PO correction twice.

  When an error as shown in FIG. 12 occurs due to the influence of the pre-pits, all errors cannot be corrected by correcting the PO once as shown in FIG. 2 and correcting the PI-PO twice as shown in FIG. Then, PO-PI-PO correction as shown in FIG. 4 is performed three times. For this reason, in a system based on the two-time correction of PI-PO, the reproduction speed is reduced in order to gain time for performing the three-time correction of PO-PI-PO, and the reproduction performance deteriorates.

  The PO 1 time correction, PI-PO 2 time correction, and PO-PI-PO 3 time correction will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 shows the processing operation of PO 1 time correction. In FIG. 2, when correction processing is first started in step S1, PO code data is read from the correction RAM 6 in step S2. Next, in step S3, error correction processing using only the PO code is performed, and in addition to this, erasure correction based on the error position information of the PI code is performed. Thereafter, the information data in the correction RAM 6 is corrected in step S4 to generate the PO code error position, and the correction process is terminated in step S5.

  FIG. 3 shows the processing operation of the PI-PO twice correction. In FIG. 3, when the correction process is started in step S1, the PI data code is read from the correction RAM 6 in step S12, and the PI data code is read in step S13. Error correction by the code alone is performed, and in step S14, the information data in the correction RAM 6 is corrected to generate error position information of the PI code. Steps S12 to S14 are PI corrections, and then PO corrections in steps S2 to S4 are performed, and the correction process is terminated in step S5. This process is based on the conventional configuration shown in FIG. 20, but in the first embodiment, “determines whether or not the optical disk is recordable” between steps S12 and S13. Step (step S31 in FIG. 14 to be described later) and a step of “performing error correction using PI code alone and erasure correction using pre-pit position information” when it is determined that the optical disk is recordable (step S31). This is a processing operation in which step S33) of FIG. 14 is inserted.

  FIG. 4 shows the PO-PI-PO three-time correction processing operation. In FIG. 4, when correction processing is started in step S1, PO code data is read from the correction RAM 6 in step S2. Next, in step S3, error correction processing using only the PO code is performed, and in addition to this, erasure correction based on the error position information of the PI code is performed. Thereafter, in step S4, the information data in the correction RAM 6 is corrected to generate an error position of the PO code. The operation up to this point is the same as in FIG. 2, but after that, the PI data code is read from the correction RAM 6 in step S22, and error correction is performed with the PI code alone in step S23. After the erasure correction is performed using the error position information, the information data in the correction RAM 6 is corrected in step S24 to generate the error position information of the PO code. Steps S22 to S24 are PI corrections similar to steps S12 to S14 in FIG. 3, and thereafter, PO corrections in steps S2 to S4 are performed again, and the correction process ends in step S5.

  When the conventional configuration of FIG. 20 is used, if correction of the PI-PO twice is insufficient for the reason described above, the PO-PI-PO shown in FIG. 4 must be corrected three times. There wasn't. According to the error correction apparatus of the first embodiment, the step of determining whether or not the optical disk is recordable between steps S12 and S13 in the PI-PO twice correction shown in FIG. When the optical disk is recordable, the erasure correction as shown in step S23 of FIG. 4 is performed by the pre-pit position information instead of the PO code error position information.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, the configuration includes providing the second position information generation unit 16 in the error correction device 15 of FIG. 1, and the operation includes steps S12 and S13 of FIG. By inserting an operation of performing erasure correction based on pre-pit position information when the optical disc is recordable between the two, even if error correction is insufficient with two PI-PO corrections, the PO-PI-PO It is not necessary to make corrections three times, and error correction can be performed and reproduction performance can be improved without reducing the reproduction speed when reproducing information from the optical disk.

[Second Embodiment]
In the first embodiment described above, only the basic configuration of the error correction device of the optical disk device has been described. However, the error correction device of the second embodiment showing a more detailed configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 13 and 14. To do. FIG. 13 shows a schematic configuration of the error correction apparatus according to the second embodiment, and FIG. 14 shows a flow of processing operations based on the configuration of FIG.

  In FIG. 13, the pre-pit position information generating circuit 16 constituting the error correction apparatus 15 is supplied with disc information relating to the optical disc 1 being reproduced, and based on this information, the optical disc 1 being reproduced can be recorded. The erasure correction process is performed based on the pre-pit position information.

A correction process in the case where the error as shown in FIG. 12 has occurred will be described. In reproducing recorded data, the RF signal S _RF output from the matrix amplifier is output to the host computer 8 via the demodulation circuit 4, error correction circuit 5, correction RAM 6, and data buffer circuit 7. The pre-pit position generation circuit 16 outputs pre-pit position information on the correction block set by the system controller to the error correction circuit 5 when the reproduction disc is a DVD-R / RW. The error correction circuit 5 converts the prepit position information received from the prepit position generation circuit 16 into an erasure correction pointer for use in PI correction. In the PI correction, erasure correction of the pre-pit position on the correction block and error correction at other positions are performed.

  The system controller adds a pointer for erasure correction to PO column-3 adjacent to PO column-1 and PO column-4 adjacent to PO column-2 in FIG. 12, and performs PI correction. The positions of PO column-1 and PO column-2 are the pre-pit positions shown in FIG. 9, and data is normally recorded according to the standard. Therefore, PO column-1 is the 11th symbol from the beginning of the PI code string, PO. The position of column-2 is the 23rd symbol from the top of FIG. In the PI code string, when there are errors of 4 symbols whose error positions are known, errors of unknown error positions can be corrected up to 3 symbols. Therefore, errors of PI string-1 to PI string-16 in FIG. Can be corrected by PI correction.

  In the PI code string, if there is an error of 2 symbols whose error position is known, an error whose error position is unknown can be corrected up to 4 symbols. Therefore, the error of PI string -17 in FIG. It can be corrected by correcting once. Even when an error as shown in FIG. 12 occurs, the second embodiment of FIG. 13 can be corrected by two corrections of PI-PO, so that reproduction is performed as compared with the conventional error correction apparatus shown in FIG. Increases performance. FIG. 12 shows an example in which two erasure correction pointers are added to one prepit. The erasure correction pointer to be added may be added up to the maximum possible number of erasure corrections of the code string to which the erasure correction pointer is added (10 in the case of the PI code string).

  The above-described operations will be collectively described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. When the correction process is started in step S1 in FIG. 14, PI code data is read from the correction RAM 6 in step S12, and in step S31, it is determined whether or not the optical disk being reproduced is a DVD-R / RW. If it is determined in step S31 that the optical disk is a DVD-R / RW, that is, recordable, error correction processing using only the PI code is performed in step S33, and in addition, erasure correction based on prepit position information is performed. . When it is determined in step S31 that the optical disk being reproduced is read-only, error correction is performed using the PI code alone in step S13.

  Next, in step S14, the information data in the correction RAM 6 is corrected to generate PI code error position information. Thereafter, the PO code data is read from the correction RAM 6 in step S2, and error correction is performed with the PO code alone in step S3. In addition to this, erasure correction is performed based on the error position information of the PI code. PO correction is performed by correcting the information data to generate error position information of the PO code.

  Therefore, the processing operation of the second embodiment shown in FIG. 14 is performed between steps S12 and S13 in the flowchart of FIG. 3 for explaining the PI-PO twice correction operation in the conventional optical disc apparatus shown in FIG. In step S33, if the optical disc is recordable, erasure correction is performed based on the pre-pit position information. If the optical disc is not recordable, that is, if it is a read-only optical disc, the PI correction is performed as in the prior art. Is to do. In the second embodiment, whether or not the optical disk 1 can be recorded is determined based on the disk information supplied to the prepit position information generation circuit 16 in FIG.

[Third Embodiment]
In the second embodiment, the determination as to whether or not the optical disk 1 is recordable is performed based on the disk information supplied to the pre-pit position information generation circuit. However, the present invention is not limited to this and reads from the optical disk 1. The determination may be made based on the received signal. A specific example of the error correction apparatus according to the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  As shown in FIG. 16, the optical disc device according to the second embodiment includes the same or corresponding components as those denoted by reference numerals 1 to 14, and in addition to this, the error correction according to the second embodiment. A device 15 is provided. As shown in FIG. 16, the error correction device 15 includes a prepit decoder 13 that outputs a prepit detection pulse based on a prepit signal SP output from the matrix amplifier 3 and a wobble clock output from the wobble PLL circuit, and a prepit decoder. 13 is a pre-pit position information generation circuit 16 that outputs pre-pit position information based on the pre-pit detection pulse output from the matrix 13 and the PI code string position information output from the matrix amplifier 3, and a second position that is output from the pre-pit position information generation circuit 16. An error correction circuit 5 is provided as an error correction unit that performs erasure correction on an error of the PI code string as the second code string using the pre-pit position information as information.

Next, an operation based on the configuration of FIG. 16 will be described. The error as shown in FIG. 12 described in the first embodiment occurs, and the position of the prepit and the error position on the correction block are j + 1 and k + 1 columns from the beginning of the PI code string as shown in FIG. A case corresponding to the eyes will be described. In reproducing recorded data, the RF signal S _RF output from the matrix amplifier is output to the host computer 8 via the demodulation circuit 4, error correction circuit 5, correction RAM 6, and data buffer circuit 7. In the pre-pit position generation circuit 16, when the reproduction disc is a DVD-R / RW, that is, a recordable optical disc, the pre-pit position on the correction block set by the system controller 14 is used for erasure correction in correcting the PI code string. The pointer information is converted and output to the error correction circuit 5.

  The error correction operation of the error correction device 15 will be described using the flowchart shown in FIG. In FIG. 17, the difference from FIG. 14 describing the operation of the second embodiment is that a step S32 for determining whether or not the prepit position is an error is added between steps S31 and S33. . Correction processing is started in step S1, and PI code data is read from the correction RAM 6 in step S2.

  Next, similarly to the processing operation of the second embodiment, in step S31, it is determined whether or not the disc is a DVD-R / RW, that is, whether or not it is a recordable optical disc. In the case of error correction, the information data in the correction RAM 6 is corrected in step S14 in the same manner as the two-time PI-PO correction described with reference to FIG. If it is determined in step S31 that the optical disk is recordable, it is determined in step S32 whether the pre-pit position is an error. If it is determined that the error is not an error in the pre-pit position, error correction using only the PI code is performed in step S13, and then the process proceeds to step S14.

When it is determined in step S32 that there is an error in the prepit position, an error correction process using only the PI code is performed in step S33 as in the second embodiment, and in addition to this, an erasure correction based on the prepit position information is performed. ing. Thereafter, the processing flow from step S14 to steps S2 to S5 is the same as that in FIG. Prepit position information in the RF signal S detection processing of the pre-pit signal S _P output by _RF demodulation processing and the pre-pit decoder 13, correction processing in the error correction circuit 5, the pre-pit position information generation circuit 16 of the demodulation circuit 4, FIG. The relationship is as shown in FIG.

  The correction block period indicates a processing period for processing one correction block. The RF signal reproduced from the optical disk is demodulated as correction block data n in the demodulation circuit in the correction block processing period 1 and corrected in the next correction block processing period 2. At the same time, the pre-pit signal reproduced from the disc is detected by the pre-pit decoder in the correction block processing period 1 and the pre-pit position information generated by the pre-pit position information generation circuit is used for the correction process in the next correction block processing period 2. .

  In the pre-pit position generation circuit 16, the demodulation circuit 4 outputs PI code string symbol position information when the reproduction disc is a DVD-R / RW. As shown in FIG. 19, the error correction circuit 5 has a PI code string direction 182 binary counter value (hereinafter referred to as a PI code string) indicating a symbol position in the PI code string direction formed in the demodulation circuit 4 in synchronization with the sync frame. (Symbol position) and a prepit detection signal decoded by the prepit decoder 13 or a pulse indicating that a prepit has been detected (hereinafter referred to as a prepit detection pulse) is received, and a prepit position on the correction block is generated.

  Also, information indicating the pre-pit position on the correction block (hereinafter referred to as pre-pit position information), a signal for selecting either the pre-pit position or a position adjacent to the pre-pit position, and a pointer for erasure correction in PI correction at the pre-pit position Is received from the system controller and output as prepit position information to the error correction circuit and the prepit position error measurement circuit. The PI code string symbol position (j and k in FIG. 19) when the prepit detection pulse is received is the prepit position (j + 1 symbol and k + 1 symbol in FIG. 19) on the correction block.

  The error correction circuit 5 receives prepit position information from the prepit position information generation circuit 16 before starting the correction process, and the prepit positions on the correction block (the j + 1 and k + 1 symbols in FIG. 19) at the time of PI correction. It is used as an erasure correction pointer (hereinafter, the j + 1 symbol in FIG. 19 is the prepit error 1 position, and the k + 1 symbol position in FIG. 19 is the prepit error 2 position). In the PI correction, the erasure correction of the prepit position generated by the prepit position generation circuit 16 and the error of other positions are corrected.

  The PO row-1 in FIG. 12 corresponds to the position of the prepit error 1, and the PO row-2 in FIG. Therefore, the pointer for erasure correction is added from the system controller to the PO column-3 adjacent to PO column-1 and the PO column-4 adjacent to PO column-2 in FIG. 12, and PI correction is performed. In the PI code string, when there are errors of 4 symbols whose error positions are known, errors of unknown error positions can be corrected up to 3 symbols, so the errors of PI string-1 to PI string-16 in FIG. Correction is possible with PI correction.

  In the PI code string, if there is an error of 2 symbols whose error position is known, an error whose error position is unknown can be corrected up to 4 symbols. Therefore, the error of PI string-17 in FIG. 12 can be corrected by PI correction. It is. Even if an error as shown in FIG. 12 occurs, it can be corrected by correcting the PI-PO twice, so that the reproduction performance is improved as compared with the conventional error correction apparatus.

  FIG. 12 shows an example in which two erasure correction pointers are added to one prepit. The erasure correction pointer to be added may be added up to the maximum possible number of erasure corrections of the code string to which the erasure correction pointer is added (10 in the case of the PI code string).

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the error correction apparatus of 1st Embodiment corresponded to a basic structure. It is a flowchart which shows correction | amendment of PO once in an error correction process. It is a flowchart which shows 2 times PI-PO correction in an error correction process. It is a flowchart which shows PO-PI-PO3 times correction of an error correction process. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of 1 sector. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of 1 correction block. It is a schematic diagram which shows the relationship between RF signal and the prepit detection signal of an even (even) position. It is a schematic diagram which shows the relationship between RF signal and the prepit detection signal of odd number (odd) position. It is a schematic diagram which shows the pre-pit detection signal of an even (even) position, and the relationship as the standard of correction block data. It is a schematic diagram which shows the condition of error occurrence on the correction block when an error of one symbol occurs due to the influence of pre-pits. It is a schematic diagram which shows the condition of the error generation on the correction block when an error of 2 symbols occurs due to the influence of the pre-pit. It is a schematic diagram which shows the condition of the error generation on the correction block when the error of 2 symbols and other errors occur due to the influence of the pre-pit. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the error correction apparatus of 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the processing operation of PI-PO twice correction in 2nd Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the pre-pit detection signal of an even (even) position, and the relationship as the standard of correction block data. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the error correction apparatus of 3rd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the processing operation of PI-PO 2 times correction in 3rd Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the relationship between the demodulation process of RF signal, and a prepit detection process. It is a schematic diagram which shows the prepit position on the correction block in a prepit information generation circuit. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the conventional optical disk apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

1 Optical Disc 3 Matrix Amplifier 5 Error Correction Unit (Error Correction Circuit)
13 First position information setting section (pre-pit decoder)
15 Error correction device 16 Second position information generation unit (pre-pit position information generation circuit)

Claims (5)

Code string data in which an error code is added in the same direction as the order of recording information on the recording unit of the optical disk, and before the code string data is recorded as a recording guide for recording the code string data on the optical disk An error correction device for an optical disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing recorded information from an optical disc on which recording guide information recorded in advance in a state where it cannot be erased is recorded,
A first position detector that detects a singular point on the physical structure in the recording guide information as a first position;
A second position generation unit that generates a second position by replacing the first position detected by the first position detection unit with the position of the code string data;
An error correction unit that performs erasure correction on an error in the code string data using the second position;
An error correction device for an optical disc apparatus, comprising:   The first position is a singular point on the physical structure artificially formed with respect to the recording portion of the optical disc, and the position of the singular point on the physical structure when the recording information is reproduced from the optical disc The optical disk apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second position is generated based on a relative positional relationship between a singular point on the physical structure and the code string data. Error correction device.   A positional relationship between the singular point on the physical structure artificially formed with respect to the recording unit of the optical disc and the code string data obtained by reproducing the optical disc is detected, and based on the detection result, 2. The error correction apparatus for an optical disc apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second position is determined.   The second position is a code string before and after the first position is replaced with the position of the code string data when the first position is located between the code string data and the code string data adjacent thereto. 2. The error correction apparatus for an optical disc apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising the second position information generation unit configured to include a position including data.   The optical disc is a recordable digital versatile disc including a DVD-R and a DVD-RW, and the first position is a pre-pit prerecorded as recording guide information on the digital versatile disc. 5. An error correction device for an optical disk device according to claim 1.

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