RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING METHOD AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR

• US 20120155236A1
• Filed: 02/29/2012
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Hwang, Sung-hee, Lee, Kyung-geun
• Granted Patent: US 8,395,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 369/47.27
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/122 involving the detection of an identification or authentication mark record carriers indicating unauthorised or prior use G11B23/28
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1217 on discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1252 for discontinuous data, e.g. digital information signals, computer programme data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1262 with more than one format/standard, e.g. conversion from CD-audio format to R-DAT format
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2007/0006 adapted for scanning different types of carrier, e.g. CD & DVD
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2007/0013 for carriers having multiple discrete layers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1229 lead-in area
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1259 with ROM/RAM areas
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1275 Calibration data, e.g. specific training patterns for adjusting equalizer settings or other recording or playback parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1278 Physical format specifications of the record carrier, e.g. compliance with a specific standard, recording density, number of layers, start of data zone or lead-out
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/215 Recordable discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/235 Multilayer discs, i.e. multiple recording layers accessed from the same side
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2537 Optical discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/00736 Auxiliary data, e.g. lead-in, lead-out, Power Calibration Area [PCA], Burst Cutting Area [BCA], control information sector headers or adresses in prepits G11B7/00745; address data in track wobble G11B7/24082

Abstract

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage medium having one or more information recording layers; and a control unit controlling the writing and/or reading unit to write the data to the information storage medium by referring to one or more disk information structures including recording related parameter information corresponding to recording characteristics of the information storage medium, and recording characteristic information to which the recording related parameters are applied. According to the apparatus and method, parameters of recording characteristics appropriate to a recording and/or reproducing apparatus and compatibility between different specifications can be achieved.

Claims

1. An apparatus for obtaining recording related parameters appropriate to recording characteristics of an optical recording medium, the apparatus comprising:

a pickup which emits or receives a light to transfer data with respect to the optical recording medium comprising a lead-in area, an user data area, and a lead-out area, the lead-in area comprising a pre-recorded area and a recordable area; and

a controller which

controls the pickup to read at least one disk information structure from the pre-recorded area of the optical recording medium, each disk information structure comprising a pair of tables, a first table comprising recording characteristics information comprising a recording speed and a write strategy (WS) indication information, the WS indication information being information on a type of write strategy, and a second table comprising recording related parameters being used in setting the apparatus to a condition corresponding to the recording speed and the WS indication information,

determines recording characteristics comprising a recording speed and a write strategy, to be applied to the optical recording medium,

selects one disk information structure corresponding to the determined recording characteristics from the at least one disk information structure using the recording characteristic information included in the first table, and

controls the pickup to read the recording related parameters of the second table included in the selected disk information structure,

wherein the recording characteristic information further includes recording layer information.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the recording speed information and the recording layer information included in the recording characteristic information indicates a recording speed and a recording layer to which the recording related parameters in the disk information structure are applied.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the WS indication information included in the recording characteristic information indicates a WS of the recording related parameters in the disk information structure.

4. An apparatus for recording data on an optical recording medium, the apparatus comprising:

a pickup which emits or receives a light to transfer the data with respect to the optical recording medium comprising a lead-in area, an user data area, and a lead-out area, the lead-in area comprising a pre-recorded area and a recordable area; and

a controller which

controls the pickup to read at least one disk information structure from the pre-recorded area of the optical recording medium, each disk information structure comprising a pair of tables, a first table comprising recording characteristics information comprising a recording speed and a write strategy WS indication information, the WS indication information being information on a type of write strategy, and a second table comprising recording related parameters being used in setting the apparatus to a condition corresponding to the recording speed and the WS indication information,

determines recording characteristics comprising a recording speed and a write strategy, to be applied to the optical recording medium,

selects one disk information structure corresponding to the determined recording characteristics from the at least one disk information structure using the recording characteristic information included in the first table,

controls the pickup to read the recording related parameters of the second table included in the selected disk information structure, and controls the pickup to record the data using the read recording related parameters.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the recording characteristic information further includes a recording layer information.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the recording speed information and the recording layer information included in the recording characteristic information indicates a recording speed and a recording layer to which the recording related parameters in the disk information structure are applied.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the WS indication information included in the recording characteristic information indicates a WS of the recording related parameters in the disk information structure.

8. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the disk information structure is arranged according to a sequence in which the recording speed increases.

9. An information storage medium comprising a lead-in area, an user data area, and a lead-out area, the lead-in area comprising a pre-recorded area and a recordable area, wherein:

the pre-recorded area comprises one or more disk information structures, each disk information structure comprising a pair of tables, a first table comprising recording characteristics information comprising a recording speed and a write strategy (WS) indication information, the WS indication information being information on a type of write strategy, and a second table comprising recording related parameters being used in setting a recording and/or reproducing apparatus to a condition corresponding to the recording speed and the WS indication information; and

the disk information structure is arranged according to a sequence in which the recording speed increases.

10. A method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from an information storage medium comprising a lead-in area, an user data area, and a lead-out area, the lead-in area comprising a pre-recorded area and a recordable area, the method comprising:

reading at least one disk information structure from the pre-recorded area of the information storage medium, each disk information structure comprising a pair of tables, a first table comprising recording characteristics information comprising a recording speed and a write strategy (WS) indication information, the WS indication information being information on a type of write strategy, and a second table comprising recording related parameters being used in setting a recording and/or reproducing apparatus to a condition corresponding to the recording speed and the WS indication information;

determining recording characteristics comprising a recording speed and a write strategy, to be applied to the information storage medium;

selecting one disk information structure corresponding to the determined recording characteristics from the at least one disk information structure using the recording characteristic information included in the first table;

reading the recording related parameters of the second table included in the selected disk information structure; and

recording the data using the read recording related parameters.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the disk information structure is arranged according to a sequence in which the recording speed increases.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the recording of the data comprises:

determining a recording characteristic appropriate to the recording and/or reproducing apparatus;

finding a disk information structure including the determined recording characteristic, from the one or more disk information structures; and

recording data on the information storage medium by using recording related parameters included in the found disk information structure.

13. A method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from an optical recording medium comprising a lead-in area, an user data area, and a lead-out area, the lead-in area comprising a pre-recorded area and a recordable area, the method comprising:

reading at least one disk information structure from the pre-recorded area of the optical recording medium, each disk information structure comprising a pair of tables, a first table comprising recording characteristics information comprising a recording speed and a write strategy (WS) indication information, the WS indication information being information on a type of write strategy, and a second table comprising recording related parameters being used in setting a recording and/or reproducing apparatus to a condition corresponding to the recording speed and the WS indication information;

determining recording characteristics comprising a recording speed and a write strategy, to be applied to the optical recording medium;

selecting one disk information structure corresponding to the determined recording characteristics from the at least one disk information structure using the recording characteristic information included in the first table; and

reading the recording related parameters of the second table included in the selected disk information structure,

wherein the disk information structures are arranged according to a sequence in which the recording speed increases.