JP2500927B2 - Optical disk recording and playback device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information on an optical disk whose address area is composed of a plurality of address signals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus, a disc is formed by using a photosensitive recording material, the disc is rotated, and a laser beam of 1 μm is applied thereto.
It has been practiced to record and reproduce a signal at a high density on the disk by irradiating the disk with a fine diameter of mφ or less and irradiating the disk with unevenness, formation of holes, or changes in density.

For example, an optical video disc is well known in the above-mentioned techniques as a device for reproducing a high-density recorded signal in advance.

In addition, a technique for recording the above signals is used in a device for producing a master for a video disc.

Further, video signals, audio signals, digital signals, and the like are also considered as targets of recording signals.

In the optical recording / reproducing apparatus, for recording a signal, the recording thin film on the disk is irradiated with laser light to melt and evaporate the light irradiation portion of the thin film or change the reflectance or transmittance of the thin film. The recording is done by means of this. That is, it is common practice to use the energy of laser light thermally to change the optical characteristics of the recording material.

In the above optical disc capable of recording and reproducing with optical properties, guide tracks are formed in advance on the optical disc for recording tracks at high density. Because the guide track prevents the light beam from flying due to the vibration of the device, the super-precision feed mechanism for recording at a track pitch of 1 to 2 μm is unnecessary, and the position reproducibility of the recording track in the case of erasing and rewriting. This is because it has the effect of enabling

Like an optical video disc, an optical disc with a guide track is prepared by cutting a guide track on a master by a laser cutting device, making a replica by stamping, vapor-depositing a recording medium on the replica, and coating a protective layer. Made

FIG. 1 shows an example of an optical disk having a guide track with an address area in which a track address indicating the guide track is recorded in each guide track.

The optical disc 1 is formed with a concentric or spiral guide track 2. The guide track 2 is generally a groove having a width of 0.5 to 0.8 μm and a depth of λ / 8n. Where λ is the wavelength of light and n is the refractive index of the substrate.
Two address areas TA are recorded on each of the guide tracks 2 at half intervals.

[0011]

The optical disk causes many dropouts due to scratches on the substrate, defects on the recording medium, dust, dust, and the like. According to experiments, dropouts of the order of several μm occur randomly, and the error rate is 10 −3 to 1
It is very bad with 0-4. On the other hand, the address signal of each address area TA attached to the guide track 2 needs to be reliably read, and the reading accuracy affects the manufacturing yield of the optical disk.

The present invention has been made in view of the above facts, and provides an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus which correctly reads a guide track address and records / reproduces information in / from a target sector even in an optical disk having a low error rate. It is a thing.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to an address area portion of an optical disk having tracks divided into a plurality of sectors each of which is composed of an address area portion previously formed in the shape of an uneven pit and a data recording portion. In an address reading device that detects and corrects an error in the address signal of the above, the address area portion is composed of a plurality of address signal portions, and the address signal includes at least track address information and CRC (Cycl
ic Redundancy Check) A clock regenerating means for regenerating a clock from an address signal, an address mark detecting means for detecting the start of address information from the address signal, an address signal demodulating means, and a demodulating means output are stored. Shift register, CRC check means for checking the presence or absence of an error by the CRCC error detection code, and address output means for outputting address information in which no CRC error is detected by the output of the CRC check circuit as a reproduction address signal. This is an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus.

Further, according to the present invention, an address signal of the address area portion of an optical disk having a track divided into a plurality of sectors, each of which is composed of an address area portion formed in advance in the shape of an uneven pit and a data recording portion. In the address reading device for detecting and correcting the error of, the address area portion is composed of a plurality of address signal portions, and the address signal is
It consists of track address information, error detection and correction code,
A clock reproducing means for reproducing a clock from an address signal, an address mark detecting means for detecting the beginning of address information from the address signal, a demodulating means for the address signal, a shift register for storing the output of the demodulating means, and an error by an error correction code. The optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus is provided with an error detection / correction unit for performing detection and error correction, and an address output unit for outputting a reproduction address signal in which no error is detected by the error detection / correction unit or an address signal corrected in error.

[0015]

According to the present invention, recording / reproducing is performed on the sector by outputting an address in which any one of the plurality of address signals in the address area portion does not detect a CRC error.

Therefore, even if there is an error in a plurality of address signals, another address signal can be used, so that the address can be read with high reliability and reliability.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the address area TA of the optical disk according to the present invention, and shows the state of tracks when there are two address areas TA in one track. Each address area TA has two track address portions TA1 and TA2.
It is composed of Information is recorded as the data area 1 and the data area 2 on the tracks other than the address area TA.

FIG. 3 is a detailed view of an embodiment of the address area TA. The address area TA is the track address portion TA1, TA
2 track address parts. The track address portions TA1 and TA2 have a structure in which track addresses having the same contents are repeated at a time T. In each track address part, 3 is a preamble, 4 is an address mark, 5 is a track address, 6 is an error correction code, 7 is a cyclic code, and 8 is a postamble. The preamble 3 and the postamble 8 are for facilitating the demodulation of the track address part. For example, the preamble 3 is for clock reproduction. The address mark 4 indicates the boundary between the preamble 3 and the track address 5, and is a signal used for frame synchronization of the track address 4. The error correction code 6 is for correcting an error generated at the track address 5, and for example, the track address 5
If is 16 bits long, 1-bit error correction and error detection up to 2 bits can be performed using a 6-bit modified Hamming code. The cyclic code 7 is a cyclic redundancy check code (CRCC) that uses a generation polynomial, and detects a burst error for the track address 5 and the error correction code 6. For example, a 16-bit CRCC can detect all burst errors of 16 bits or less.

The cyclic code 7 is included to reinforce the error correction code 6 because it has a low error detection capability. That is, when a 6-bit modified Hamming code is used as the error correction code 6, an error of 3 bits or more cannot be detected. Therefore, the cyclic code 7 is reinforced.

Track address portions TA1 and TA2 of FIG.
The error handling procedure when reading the track address from
See below.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a track address reproducing circuit for reading a track address from the address area TA shown in FIG.

In FIG. 4, 9 is a waveform equalization / pulse shaping circuit, 10 is a demodulation circuit, 11 is a clock recovery circuit, and 12 is a circuit.
Is a cyclic code check circuit, 13 is a shift register, 1
Reference numeral 4 is a timing control circuit, 15 is a latch circuit, and 16 is an error detection / correction circuit. Reference numeral 17 is an AND gate, and 18 is a multiplexer.

The reproduction output a from the optical disc is subjected to pulse shaping after the frequency characteristic is corrected by the waveform equalization / pulse shaping circuit 9, and is input to the demodulation circuit 10 and the clock reproduction circuit 11. Since the track address portion is modulated by FM, MFM, etc., it is demodulated by the demodulation circuit 10 and becomes the NRZ signal b. The NRZ signal b is a bit string signal and is a pulse string in which the track address 5, the error correction code 6, and the cyclic code 7 are read out in bit serial.

The NRZ signal b is taken into the shift register 13 by the clock signal c from the clock reproduction circuit 11.
The shift output d of the shift register 13 is decoded by the timing control circuit 14 to detect the address mark 4,
A cyclic code check enable signal e and a latch strobe f are generated. The cyclic code check circuit 12, after detecting the address mark 4 of the NRZ signal b, fetches the NRZ signal b at the timing of the clock signal c to perform a polynomial operation, and outputs a CRCC error detection signal q if an error occurs. The clock signal c is gated by the cyclic code check enable signal e in the AND gate 17, and is controlled so that the track address 5, the error correction code 6, and the cyclic code 7 are input. The shift output d has the track address 5 and the error correction code 6 latched in the latch 15 by the latch strobe f. The latch output h is applied to the error detection / correction circuit 16. When the error correction code 6 is a 6-bit modified Hamming code, error detection /
The correction circuit 16 outputs the single error detection signal i. When the single error detection signal i is'TRUE ', the correction start signal j
The error correction is executed by inputting, and the corrected track address output k is output. The track address signal m is output by the multiplexer 18 as the latch output h or the corrected track address output k depending on the presence or absence of error correction.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for reading the track address in the structure of the address area of this embodiment. In FIG. 5, the address area TA has two track address parts TA1 and TA2, each track address part shows a case of a single error correction code and a cyclic code, and each signal corresponds to FIG.

First, the track address portion TA1 is read (first reading means) and the CRCC error detection signal q is checked (first judging means). If there is no CRCC error, the track address has been read correctly, and the track read sequence ends (control means). CRC
When a C error is detected, the single error detection signal i is checked to determine whether it can be corrected next. If a single error is detected, the error is corrected and temporarily stored as a track address TA1 (first correction means). ), Next track address T
A2 is read (second reading means). This is because when a bit error that exceeds the error detection capability of the error correction code 6, for example, a 3-bit error occurs, no error is detected or a single error and false detection information is output. This is because the truth cannot be ascertained even in cases. After reading the track address portion TA2, the presence or absence of a CRCC error is checked (first judging means), and if there is no error, the read sequence is ended (control means). When a CRCC error is detected, the error correction code is checked to see if it is a single error. If the error is not a single error, the error cannot be corrected, and the process jumps to the track address unreadable processing routine. In the case of a single error, error correction is executed (second correction means). The corrected track address TA2 'and the corrected track address TA1' of the track address TA1 are compared, and if they match, it is judged that the error correction has been correctly performed (comparison judgment means). If they do not match, the track address cannot be read. Jump to the processing routine. As described above, when the track address cannot be read, the error occurrence rate becomes almost negligible when errors of 2 bits or more occur at the same time.

The track addresses TA1 and T shown in FIG.
The time T between A2 is set longer than the processing time in the section AA 'in FIG. By doing so, the address area of this embodiment can be subjected to error correction processing without waiting for rotation.

Further, as the quality of the optical disk is improved, the present invention is characterized in that the reading circuit can be simplified by using only a part of each error detection / correction code. In this case, it is necessary to make any changes to the optical disk. There is no.

Further, the present invention is naturally applicable to an optical disk having a sector structure.

[0031]

As is apparent from the above description,
In the present invention, one address signal section is read, and at that time,
If there is no read error, another address signal part is not read. On the other hand, if there is a read error, another address signal part is read, and information is recorded / reproduced in / from the sector with an address signal in which no error is detected. , The address area can be read reliably and reliably.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of an optical disc having an address area as a guide track.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing an address area in one embodiment of the present invention.

[Fig. 3] Detailed configuration diagram of the same address area

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an example of a track address reproducing circuit for reading a track address from an address area.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a track address reading process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Optical Disc 2 Guide Track 3 Preamble 4 Address Mark 5 Track Address 6 Error Correction Code 7 Cyclic Code 8 Postamble 9 Waveform Equalization / Pulseization Circuit 10 Demodulation Circuit 11 Clock Recovery Circuit 12 Cyclic Code Check Circuit 13 Shift Register 14 Timing Control Circuit 15 Latch circuit 16 Error detection / correction circuit 17 AND gate 18 Multiplexer TA address area TA1, TA2 Track address section

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An error in the track address portion of the address area portion of an optical disk having tracks divided into a plurality of sectors, each of which is composed of an address area portion which is previously formed in an uneven pit shape and a data recording portion, In the optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus for detecting and correcting, the address area portion has address contents indicating the same sector.
To is composed of a plurality of track address portion, the track address portion is at least the track address information, consists of a CRCC (Cyclic Redundancy Check Code) error detection code, the track by the CRCC error detection code in the track address portion read CRC checking means for checking whether or not there is an error in the track address information in the address portion, and the check result of the CRC checking means are used to sequentially check the plurality of track address portions. An optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus comprising: an address output unit for outputting undetected track address information as a reproduction address signal, and recording / reproducing to / from the sector by address output from the address output unit. 2. An error in the track address portion of the address area portion of an optical disk having tracks divided into a plurality of sectors each of which is composed of an address area portion which is previously formed in an uneven pit shape and a data recording portion. In the optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus for detecting and correcting, the address area portion has address contents indicating the same sector.
A plurality of track address parts, the track address part is composed of at least track address information and an error detection / correction code, and the error detection / correction code is used to detect an error in the track address information in the track address part. Using the error detection and correction means for performing error correction and the error detection and correction means, the plurality of track address portions are sequentially checked, and the first detected track address information in which no error is detected or the error is detected. When there is no track address information that is not detected, an address output unit that outputs error-corrected track address information as a reproduction address signal is provided, and recording / reproduction is performed on the sector by address output from the address output unit. Optical disk recording / reproducing device.