Optical disc, device for checking optical disc, and device for recording information on optical disc

• US 5,572,507 A
• Filed: 09/11/1995
• Issued: 11/05/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagano, Hirofumi, Ozaki, Kazuhisa, Kayanuma, Kanji
• Primary Examiner(s): Epps, Georgia Y.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Edun, Muhammad N.
• Application Number:
  US08/526,190
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 369/58, 369/54, 369/47, 369/48, 369/49, 369/50, 369/59, 369/116, 369/32, 369/44.26, 369/44.34, 369/275.3, 369/275.4
• US Class Current: 369/53.21
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00586 said format change concerning the physical format of the recording medium
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00594 wherein the shape of recording marks is altered, e.g. the depth, width, or length of pits
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00601 wherein properties of tracks are altered, e.g., by changing the wobble pattern or the track pitch, or by adding interruptions or eccentricity
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/24085 Pits

Abstract

An optical disc has a sequence of pits which extends along a track. The pit sequence represents a recorded signal divided into data blocks. The pit sequence includes a normal pit train and an unusual pit train. The normal pit train is symmetrical with respect to a center of the track. The unusual pit train is different from the normal pit train in at least one of shape and pit arrangement. The unusual pit train is at a position having a predetermined relation with the data blocks.

Claims

1. An optical disc having a sequence of pits which extends along a track, the pit sequence representing a recorded signal divided into data blocks, the pit sequence including a normal pit train and an unusual pit train, the normal pit train being symmetrical with respect to a center of the track, the unusual pit train being different from the normal pit train in at least one of shape and pit arrangement, the unusual pit train being at a position having a predetermined relation with the data blocks and causing a variation in symmetry of an RF signal.

2. The optical disc of claim 1, wherein the unusual pit train is different from the normal pit train in duty factor.

3. An optical disc having a sequence of pits which extends along a track, the pit sequence representing a recorded signal divided into data blocks, the pit sequence including a normal pit train and an unusual pit train, the normal pit train being symmetrical with respect to a center of the track, the unusual pit train being different from the normal pit train in at least one of shape and pit arrangement, the unusual pit train being at a position having a predetermined relation with the data blocks, and representing a wobbling signal superimposed on a tracking error signal, wherein the wobbling signal represented by the unusual pit train has a burst shape.

4. The optical disc of claim 3, wherein pits in the unusual pit train are on the center of the track which radially wobbles at an amplitude smaller than a track pitch.

5. The optical disc of claim 4, wherein the wobble of the center of the track corresponds to a given frequency at which a reproduced signal component of a tracking error signal is minimized, and a carrier of the wobbling signal is maximized when information is reproduced from the optical disc by an optical pickup having tracking side beams, the given frequency being higher than a tracking servo frequency band.

6. The optical disc of claim 3, wherein the unusual pit train is located in a part of the optical disc in which a reproduced signal component of a tracking error signal is less than a reference when information is produced from the optical disc.

7. A device for checking an optical disc, comprising:

first means for reproducing a signal from the optical disc;

second means connected to the first means for detecting whether or not an unusual pit train is present in the optical disc by referring to the signal reproduced by the first means, the unusual pit train being different from a normal pit train in at least one of shape and pit arrangement, the normal pit train being symmetrical with respect to a track center; and

third means connected to the second means for judging whether the optical disc is a legitimate production or an illegal production in response to a result of the detecting by the second means.