Abstract: A record carrier (1) is described comprising a servo track (4) indicating an information track (9) intended for recording information blocks represented by marks having lengths expressed in channel bits, which servo track (4) has a periodic variation of a physical parameter. The periodic variation is modulated for encoding record carrier information, such as addresses. The modulation is a bi-phase modulation in which a data bit of the record carrier information is encoded by a first predetermined number of variations of a first phase followed by the same number of variations of a second phase inverse to the first phase. A recording and/or playback device has a demodulator for retrieving data bits of the record carrier information from a first predetermined number of variations of a first phase followed by the same number of variations of a second phase inverse to the first phase.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for determining the type of an optical disk so as to implement an optimal servo operation according to the type of a loaded optical disk. In the method, the level of a wobble extraction signal is detected while a focusing servo is turned on, and the type of the loaded optical disk is determined based on the detected signal level, and then a tracking servo adjustment operation is performed according to the determined optical disk type. Accordingly, optical disk reproduction and/or recording characteristics are improved by performing an optimal tracking servo adjustment operation according to the determined optical disk type. Further, if the type of the loaded optical disk is read-only, there is no time loss, thus allowing a swift reproduction operation, since unnecessary operations such as recording mode adjustment and gain adjustment of a digital recording signal processor are omitted.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting a wobble signal read from an optical disc. The wobble signal detection apparatus comprises an analog/digital (A/D) converter for A/D-converting an analog wobble signal, read from the optical disc and then band pass filtered, a slope detector for detecting a slope of the A/D-converted wobble signal according to a variation thereof, and a wobble signal detector for detecting a peak point of the A/D-converted wobble signal using the detected wobble signal slope, and detecting/outputting a square-wave wobble signal with a high level or low level transition at the detected peak point. The slope detector calculates variations of data values of the A/D-converted wobble signal sampled within a predetermined period on the basis of predetermined different weights, accumulates the calculated values and detects the slope of the A/D-converted wobble signal on the basis of the accumulated value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a circuit for recovering information contained in a wobbled track on an optical storage medium. One aim of the invention is to describe a method within an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media, which can correct disturbing data signal components in the wobble signal even when the swept frequency and the lowest signal frequency are close to one another. According to the invention, this object is achieved in that the signals from two detector halves of a photodetector which is used for reading the data contained in a track on an optical storage medium are provided with weighting factors which are adjusted dynamically during operation of the appliance. In order to adjust the weighting factors, the data signal component in the wobble signal is linked to a disturbance signal from a disturbance signal generator.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for use with a read-only optical information storage medium having a plurality of areas, including: a recording and/or reading unit which records data on and/or reads data from the plurality of areas; and a controller which: controls the recording and/or reading unit to record data in at least one of the plurality of areas in the form of pits in a first pit pattern, and controls the recording and/or reading unit to record data in others of the plurality of areas in the form of pits in a second pit pattern different from the first.

Abstract: An optical recording disk includes a support substrate, grooves and lands alternately formed on one major surface of the support substrate, an optical functioning layer formed on the one major surface of the support substrate on which the grooves and the lands are formed and including a recording layer and a light transmission layer formed on the optical functioning layer, the grooves and the lands being formed so that the depth Gd of each of the grooves is equal to or larger than 15 nm and equal to or smaller than 25 nm and the half width Gw is equal to or larger than 150 nm and is equal to or smaller than 230 nm, and the recording layer including a first recording film containing Si as a primary component and a second recording film containing Cu as a primary component.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting information recorded as a phase-modulated wobble along a track of an optical disk, whereby a reference phase section is recorded with wobble having a predetermined reference phase and whereby respective polarities of phase integration values obtained by synchronous detection of phase-modulated unit sections following the reference phase section, in a playback wobble signal, are compared with the polarity of a reference phase integration value obtained for the reference phase section, to thereby detect respective bit states expressed by the phase-modulated unit sections.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to stably reproduce wobble signals of all disks of CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM by one wobble signal reproducing circuit. In the wobble signal reproducing circuit, an AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL) circuit for equating a push-pull circuit output of a wide range and an RF amplitude of an optical detector output of two systems obtained by push-pull, and an AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL) circuit for making a wobble amplitude uniform are provided with a function to hold a gain or to change over a response time constant, and at the time of reproduction of the DVD-R/RW, a land pre-pit region is detected by the push-pull output to hold AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL) or change over a response time constant. Besides, in an address information recording region (PID region) at the time of reproduction of the DVD-RAM, the AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL) is held or the response time constant is changed over.

Abstract: An optical head having a semiconductor laser and a generation of a plurality of reflected light beams from an optical disk which have polarities of intensity distribution variations which are substantially inverted to each other when a periodic structure of the optical disk crosses at least one focused spot on the disk. An optical detection system splits the plurality of reflected light beams and detects the split reflected light beams. An electrical circuit provides a focus error signal of the at least one focused spot and a tracking error signal from the plurality of reflected light beams. The electrical circuit adds focus error signals provides a difference signal between the focus error signals, amplifies tracking error signals with a gain, and obtains a difference between amplified tracking error.

Abstract: There is disclosed an information recording medium comprising a guide groove for recording/reproducing information in an information recording region, the information is formed as a recorded mark both in concave and convex portions of the guide groove, management information including address information is recorded by a wobble of the guide groove, and the wobble is formed in such a manner that an offset of a reproducing signal of the recorded mark generated by the wobble of the guide groove is 5.5% or less of an amplitude of the reproducing signal.

Abstract: An information recording method for a recording medium including a spiral or concentric-shaped groove structure along tracks formed on a disk-like substrate, wherein each of the tracks is divided into a plurality of recording units. Each of the recording units includes a blank portion in a circumferential direction of the groove structure, the blank portion being a non-groove portion, the groove structure being formed with a wobble in a fixed cycle in a radial direction, the fixed cycle of the wobble continuing in the circumferential direction along the track, and each length of the recording units is an integer multiple of the cycle of the wobble. The method includes irradiating a light beam to the recording medium, and recording information to the recording medium.

Abstract: A reproduction-only optical information storage medium including a plurality of areas and at least one transition area. Each transition area is located between two adjacent areas. The transition area allows data to be smoothly reproduced from the reproduction-only optical information storage medium at a low error generation rate. Also, since the optical information storage medium provides standards for the transition area, it is compatible with existing optical information storage media.

Abstract: An optical disk drive capable of securing reliable reproduction of a wobble signal even under a constant angular velocity control of a recordable or rewritable optical disk is disclosed. The optical disk has a guide track wobbled to produce a constant frequency when the optical disk is driven under a constant linear velocity control. An optical pickup unit detects the light reflected from the optical disk, and a wobble signal reproducing section takes out a wobble signal. The wobble signal reproducing section has two band-pass filters; a first band-pass filter detects a center frequency of the wobble signal, which is caused to vary under the constant angular velocity control, and a second band-pass filter has a center frequency set to the detected center frequency whereby the wobble signal is extracted by the second band-pass filter. The extracted wobble signal is subsequently demodulated address information.

Abstract: A physical identification data (PID) addressing method using a wobble signal, a wobble address encoding circuit, a method and circuit for detecting the wobble address and a recording medium therefor. A wobble signal obtained by phase modulating address information indicating the physical identification information and a wobble signal having only a simple carrier are recorded in each groove track by way of time division multiplexing. Groove tracks are divided into odd groove tracks and even groove tracks, and a wobble carrier and wobble address information are alternately recorded in each groove track and between odd and even groove tracks such that the wobble address information is not recorded in a section of an even groove track corresponding to a section of an odd groove track in which the wobble address information is recorded. Therefore, interference between wobble signals of adjacent tracks can be removed, and a method and a circuit for detecting a wobble address can be simplified.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a circuit for recovering information (INF) contained in a wobble track (36) of an optical storage medium (34). One aim of the invention is to describe a method within an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media (34), which can correct disturbing data signal components (AS′) in the wobble signal (TW) even when the swept frequency and the lowest signal frequency are close to one another. According to the invention, this object is achieved in that the signals (A+D, B+C) from two detector halves (1A+1D, 1B+1C) of a photodetector (1) which is used for reading the data contained in a track (36) on an optical storage medium (34) are provided with weighting factors (K1, K2) which are adjusted dynamically during operation of the appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media. In order to adjust the weighting factors (K1, K2), the obtained swept-frequency signal (TW) is linked to a data signal (HF).

Abstract: A record carrier (1) is described which has a servo track (4) indicating an information track (9) intended for recording information blocks, which servo track (4) has a variation of a physical parameter, a so called wobble. The wobble is modulated for encoding record carrier information, such as addresses. The servo track is subdivided in modulated parts in which the frequency and/or phase of the variation deviates from the wobble frequency, and non-modulated parts. The slope of the wobble is substantially continuous at transitions between the modulated and non-modulated parts by using wobbles (25,26,27,28) starting at the maxima or minima of the wobble in the first part of the modulated parts.

Abstract: An optical disc which is a rewritable optical disc using a phase change medium or a magneto-optical (MO) medium, or a write once type optical disc using a pigment based medium, and has a track for recording user data, in which a wobble portion waved in a radial direction of the optical disc and a non-wobble portion that is not waved are provided on the track, first sub-information and second sub-information which are data other than the user data are recorded on the track by being overlapped, by using a combination of the wobble portion and the non-wobble portion, in the first sub-information, the length of at least one of the wobble portion and the non-wobble portion is different when a bit takes a logical value “0” and when the bit takes a logical value “1”, and in the second sub-information, the phase of a wave in the wobble portion when a bit takes a logical value “0” is different from the phase of a wave in the wobble portion when the bit takes a logical value “1

Abstract: An optical disc and an optical disc drive for the optical disc are provided which are suitable for recording data with a high density. The optical disc D uses both lands and grooves as recording tracks. Each of the tracks consists of one address segment and forty five data segments. The address segment is wobbled at one side thereof. Each of the data segments is a DC groove. The address segment records an address information including a sync signal, frame address, track address and CRC, a tilt pattern and a clock mark. The clock mark is adapted to reflect laser beam in one amount before the mark and in another amount after the mark. The tilt pattern has a different track pitch from those in other areas. The data segments record data magneto-optically.

Abstract: On an optical disk medium according to the present invention, address information is recorded along a wobbling track groove 2. The track groove 2 is made up of a plurality of unit sections 22, 23. Each of these unit sections 22, 23 has side faces that are displaced periodically in a disk radial direction. This displacement oscillates at a single period in a tracking direction. However, the displacement pattern differs depending on “each bit of address information (subdivided information)” allocated to each of the unit sections 22, 23.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical information recording medium including a disk-shaped transparent substrate and a recording layer for recording, reproducing or erasing information by irradiation of laser light, the recording layer being formed over the substrate. The recording layer of the present invention includes information tracks including groove tracks and land tracks that are formed alternately in a radial direction of the disk. The information tracks comprise information recording regions and address regions interposed between the information recording regions, the information recording regions and the address regions being arranged along the tracking direction of the laser light.

Abstract: A wobble detecting apparatus for an information recording and/or reproducing for an optical disk, includes a wobble detecting unit for detecting a wobble on the basis of a signal from a light receiving element which receives light reflected from the optical disk; an offset voltage generating unit for generating an offset voltage; an adder unit for adding said offset voltage to a control signal to an actuator for the optical disk; an actuator switch for on/off controlling a control signal to said actuator; and a control unit for turning on said actuator for wobble detection to decide whether or not the wobble has been detected by said wobble detecting unit, and if the wobble has not been detected, causing said offset voltage generating unit to generate a positive or negative prescribed voltage to decide further whether or not the wobble has been detected by said wobble detecting unit. In this configuration, the wobble can be detected with high accuracy.

Abstract: In order to provide an optical disk of a small radius suitably used in recording/reproducing data at a high density and an optical disk apparatus capable of according/reproducing information into/from such an optical disk, the optical disk of the present invention uses both the grooves and lands as recording tracks. each recording track is divided into a plurality of sectors each including an address segments ASG 0 and ASG 1, and data segments DSG 0-DSG 52. The address segment 0 (ASG 0) and address segment 1 (ASG 1) respectively have wobbled areas in the opposite side walls, by which the address information is recorded. The data segments are non-wobbled DC grooves. Further, each segment is provided with a clock mark.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for an optical disc in which the loop gain variation in tracking servo control can be suppressed to cause the illuminated laser light to follow correctly the recording track center. An optical disc recording/reproducing device 1 detects a traversing signal generated when the laser light traverses a track at the time of tracking servo pull-in and sets the amplification degree of a GCA 4 so that the push-pull signals will be at a predetermined level. The optical disc recording/reproducing device 1 holds the amplitude of the wobbling signals on memory as an initial setting value. On starting the recording or reproduction, the optical disc recording/reproducing device 1 monitors the amplitudes of the wobbling signals during the recording or reproduction to compare the amplitudes to the initial setting value.

Abstract: A physical identification data (PID) addressing method using a wobble signal, a wobble address encoding circuit, a method and circuit for detecting the wobble address and a recording medium therefor. Groove tracks are classified into odd groove tracks and even groove tracks. Address information indicating physical identification information is phase modulated using wobble signals having a predetermined phase difference between two adjacent groove tracks, and recorded in each groove track so that address information modulated using the wobble signals having the phase difference of 90° between adjacent two groove tracks can be a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signal. Accordingly, a larger amount of data can be recorded on the recording medium, and since an interval in which a wobble signal disappears is not caused, recovery of a wobble clock signal can be advantageously performed.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium according to the present invention includes at least one groove track and at least one land track allowing information to be recorded on or reproduced from the groove track and the land track, the groove track and the land track adjoining each other. The optical information recording medium further includes: an identification signal region including a pre-pit array, the pre-pit array indicating identification information concerning the groove track and the land track; and a servo control region disposed ahead of the identification signal region along the groove track and the land track, the servo control region including wobble pits positioned so as to shift to opposite sides of a center line of either the groove track or the land track.

Abstract: An information recording medium has a recording track, a plurality of address areas which are formed on the recording track and record address information, and mark areas, the number of which is larger than the number of address areas, and which are formed at predetermined intervals and include mark information. Each address area records address information by means of pits, and each mark area records mark information by means of wobbles as a part of a track boundary.

Abstract: An optical reproducing method using an optical medium having a disk-like substrate with plural levels associated with grooves, and a plurality of zones. Each track is divided into a plurality of recording and radially adjacent recording units of a respective zone are delimited by a pair of radial lines joined to form a central angle at an apex proximate to a center of the disk-like substrate. The grooves are wobbled in the radial direction of the disk-like substrate with a length of each recording unit being an integer multiple of a cycle of the wobble, and the integer multiple being the same for the different zones. An optical spot is irradiated on the optical medium, a reflected beam from the optical medium is detected, and information on the optical medium is reproduced by using a signal obtained by the reflected beam.

Abstract: Structures of storage media for optical storage systems, especially for systems in the near-field configuration to couple radiation between the optical head and the media at least in part by evanescent fields.

Abstract: An optical pick-up actuator of the present invention includes a lens holder having a objective lens and tracking and focusing coils, a frame for raising the lens holder in a magnetic field using a suspension wire, and a tilt driving magnetic circuit for driving the actuator in a third direction as well as focusing and tracking directions.

Abstract: A tracking error signal detector includes: a photodetector (103) for detecting reflected light from an optical recording medium having a servo area provided with a first wobble mark and a second wobble mark; an amplifier (104) for producing a summation signal of the reflected light; a sampling portion (105) for sampling the summation signal; a first arithmetic portion (106) for calculating an extremum of the summation signal in the vicinity of reproduction timing for each of the first and second wobble marks from the sampling values so as to produce first and second extremums; and a second arithmetic portion (107) for producing a tracking error signal that corresponds to a difference between the first and second extremum. The tracking error signal detector can produce a high-accuracy tracking error signal even if sampling is performed with an asynchronous clock relative to the summation signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical disc for recording data at a constant density, so called CLV (Constant Linear Velocity) or at zoned CLV. The disc has headers distributed along the disc on regular angular positions, a so called CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) pattern subdividing the track in track portions for recording an amount of data proportional to the radial position of the track portion concerned. Address information included in the headers is provided at the data density, which is CLV. The apparatus comprises header detection means for detecting the headers at the CAV locations, and for recovering position information from the headers at CLV density. Data sectors do not start at headers and are not fitted regularly between the headers, but start and stop at arbitrary positions which are calculated from the known amounts of data recordable in the track portions.

Abstract: An information recording medium includes a substrate having a microscopic pattern which has a shape of continous substance of approximately parallel grooves formed with a convex shaped section and a concave shaped section alternating on a surface of the substrate, a recording layer that is formed on the microscopic pattern and a light transmitting layer having thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.12 mm that is formed on the recording layer. The microscopic pattern is formed so as to satisfy a relation of P≦&ggr;/NA, wherein P is a pitch of the convex shaped section or the concave shaped section, &ggr; is a wavelength of reproducing light beam and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens. Further, the microscopic pattern has modulated address information formed on both side walls of the convex shaped section that is viewed from the light transmitting layer side as a wobble having same period and phase.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided receiving wobble signals indicative of a wobble pattern formed on an optical medium. A wobble lock/unlock detector detects whether the wobble signals exist during a wobble window period and generates wobble lock/unlock signals indicative thereof. A wobble defect detector counts the wobble window signals in response to the wobble lock/unlock signals indicating that the wobble signals do not exist during the wobble window period, detects a wobble defect in response to the counted wobble window signals satisfying a defect decision condition, and outputs a defect detection signal indicative thereof.

Abstract: An optical disk device reproduces an RF signal by projecting a light beam on an optical disk and detecting a reflected light therefrom. On the optical disk, information is recorded by forming a pit on a track determined according to a groove having a wobble signal recorded thereon. The optical disk device comprises a comparator comparing the RF signal with a threshold value so as to output a binary signal, a first band-pass filter filtering a frequency band of the wobble signal from the binary signal so as to extract a wobble signal component, and a first adder obtaining a value by adding the wobble signal component to a fixed reference value so as to supply the value to the comparator as the threshold value.

Abstract: On an optical disk medium according to the present invention, address information is recorded along a wobbling track groove 2. The track groove 2 is made up of a plurality of unit sections 22, 23. Each of these unit sections 22, 23 has side faces that are displaced periodically in a disk radial direction. This displacement oscillates at a single period in a tracking direction. However, the displacement pattern differs depending on “each bit of address information (subdivided information)” allocated to each of the unit sections 22, 23.

Abstract: A physical identification data (PID) addressing method using a wobble signal, a wobble address encoding circuit, method and circuit for detecting the wobble address and a recording medium therefor. When addressing physical identification information on a recording medium, which has land and groove tracks in which data can be recorded, using wobbles, a wobble signal obtained by phase modulating address information indicating the physical identification information and a wobble signal having only a carrier are repeatedly alternatively recorded on both walls of either of a groove track and a land track by way of time division multiplexing. Accordingly, land and groove addresses can be detected by the same method, and the land track can be easily discriminated from a groove track by making the sizes of the addresses different in the land and groove tracks.

Abstract: A substrate for an optical recording medium, includes recording tracks formed in guide grooves on a disc; and an address section having an address pit sequence formed between the recording tracks in the guide grooves along an information reading direction of the recording tracks. The recording tracks in the guide grooves are divided into a prescribed number of zones. In each of the zones, the center of the address section corresponding to a recording track in the radially outermost or radially innermost guide groove is disposed so as to shift in a radial direction of the disc in relative relationship to the center of the recording track in the guide groove.

Abstract: The optical disk recording apparatus of this invention includes: a first detection section for detecting a ID address cycle based on a timing of detection of an ID section of an optical disk; a second detection section for detecting a wobble cycle based on a wobble clock; and a state determination section for determining a state of the wobble clock based on the ID address cycle and the wobble cycle.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling the position of an optical head of a disc during high speed recording. In one embodiment of the method, an optical disc has a plurality of tracks. The method comprises implementing CLV recording by said optical drive, determining a wobble signal based on address information contained in said plurality of tracks of said optical disk and determining a wobble clock signal based on said wobble signal. The method further comprises decoding said wobble clock signal by a decoder, said decoder to provide a sync clock signal to an encoder loop circuit, said sync clock signal based on said wobble clock signal generating an encoder clock signal using said encoder loop circuit. In addition, the method comprises comparing said sync clock signal to said encoder clock signal to provide a position command to position the optical head of said optical drive.

Abstract: In recording on an optical disk, tracking control is performed using tracking error signals detected during an OFF period and a rear time segment within an ON period of a recording pulse signal. The time segment for detecting the tracking error signal within the recording pulse ON period is variably controlled in accordance with recording conditions such as a disk type and recording speed. This control can effectively prevent a tendency of pits being formed off the center line of a track toward the inner circumference of the optical disk due to the influence of residual heat from an adjoining inner track, thereby allowing pits to be formed accurately on and along the track center line.

Abstract: An optical disc 1 has spiral grooves GR formed on a data recording surface thereof and in which information is written to, and read from, both a land between the grooves and the grooves as tracks. Each track has a plurality of address areas AR1 and user areas AR2 formed thereon, and each of the address areas AR1 has embossed pits for a groove header GRH and embossed pits for a land header LH. Each of the address areas AR1 has provided in a leading part thereof a header mark area HM formed from a mirror finished surface. That is, this optical disc is of an on-land/in-groove recording type. An offset taking place in a tracking error signal and focus error signal is removed to accurately control the tracking and focus of an optical head.

Abstract: An apparatus to produce optical recording structures displaying improvements in the shape of three-dimensional features displayed therein. The shape improvements include reductions in berm height and width, dual level data marks and tracking guides, and land areas projecting above or into the surface of the recording structure. The apparatus may include dual and/or dithered beam writing elements.

Abstract: A method and system for correcting tracking errors in an optical storage medium having multiple tracks arranged in different layers of the optical storage medium, directs a reading spot that is nominally focused on to a track in the optical storage medium, and continually moves the reading spot in axial and radial directions so as to receive a signal having an amplitude which varies according to respective offsets from the track in radial and axial directions. The received signal is used to determine a direction of a respective offset from the track in radial and axial directions, and a location of the reading spot is adjusted accordingly.

Abstract: There are provided a spindle motor 12, an optical head 20, a high-pass filter 31, low-pass filters 32 and 33, an adder 38, and a PLL 39. The spindle motor 12 rotatively drives an optical disk 11. The optical head 20 irradiates a laser beam onto a target track and both tracks adjacent to the target track on the optical disk 11 and detects a return light from each track. The high-pass filter 31 filters a high-frequency component in a signal used for detecting a return light from a target track in the optical head 20. Each of the low-pass filters 32 and 33 filters a low-frequency component in a signal used for detecting a return light from each of the adjacent tracks. The adder 38 operates output signals from the high-pass filter 31, and the low-pass filters 32 and 33. Based on a signal from the adder 38, the PLL 39 generates a reference signal used as a time reference for generating recording signals. An operation by the adder 38 nullifies a cross modulation component.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing a disc-shaped recording medium in which difficulties in detecting an address in the case of a groove of the recording medium exhibiting superior recording characteristics and in detecting an address in the case that both a land and a groove of the recording medium are used as recording tracks are resolved. A recording and/or reproducing unit includes an optical head for illuminating the laser light converged as spots on an optical disc and for receiving the return light reflected and diffracted from the optical disc. An address information generating unit generates the address information from the return light received by the optical head in the recording and/or reproducing processing unit. A tilt compensation unit detects the inclination (tilt) of the optical head relative to the optical disc to correct the tilt of the optical head in accordance with the tilt detected.

Abstract: An optical disc is described for recording data, which disc has a recording area for recording data encoded in optical marks at a recording density. The recording area has circular or spiral tracks provided with a servopattern comprising headers alternating with track portions. The headers contain position information encoded in preformed marks. The track portions comprise periodic characteristics, e.g. a wobble, to synchronize the data writing and reading operations. For reliably detecting the headers the phase of the periodic characteristics comprises a phase jump at a predetermined distance before each header.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The method of controlling the apparatus for recording information in or reproducing information from a disc having a wobbled track, the method includes detecting a wobble signal recorded in the wobbled track, and removing an error component occurring during the recording or the reproducing, based on the detected wobble signal. Accordingly, errors arising from a variety of factors can be accurately compensated for during a recording or reproducing operation.

Abstract: An optical disk comprising a substrate, and a plurality of tracks formed on the substrate, wherein the plurality of tracks include groove tracks consisting of a plurality of grooves mutually space apart by a fixed space, and land tracks consisting of areas between the groove tracks, wherein the borders between the groove tracks and the land tracks represent information using the waveforms from their wobbling patterns, wherein the period of the wobbling waveforms of the borders are constant on each border, but the wobbling waveforms of the opposite portions of the borders across the track are shifted in phase by a predetermined phase difference.

Abstract: In an optical disc recording method conducted by irradiating an optical beam for recording onto an optical disc to form pits on the lands thereof, when a recording speed is lower than a predetermined recording speed, the sampling/holding operation of a light receiving signal for detecting a wobble signal is performed during a power-off period of a recording signal. On the other hand, when the recording speed is higher than the predetermined recording speed, the sampling/holding operation is performed during a power-on period of the recording signal. Therefore, a wobble signal can be detected at all times at good C/N ratio independently of the speed recording.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus for recording information to an optical recording medium including a disk-like substrate, a spiral or concentric-shaped groove structure along tracks formed on the disk-like substrate, each of the tracks being divided into a plurality of recording units, each of the recording units including a dropout portion of the groove structure along the track in a circumferential direction of the track, the dropout portion being a non-groove portion and the groove structure being wobbled in a fixed cycle in a radial direction, the fixed cycle of the wobble continuing in the circumferential direction along the track. The information recording apparatus includes an irradiation source for irradiating a light spot on the optical recording medium, and a controller for controlling an irradiation position of an optical spot from the irradiation source.