Optical disk using land and groove tracks

• US 5,648,954 A
• Filed: 06/08/1994
• Issued: 07/15/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Satoh, Isao
• Primary Examiner(s): Neyzari, Ali
• Application Number:
  US08/255,648
• Time in Patent Office: 1,133 Days
• Field of Search: 369/275.1, 369/275.3, 369/275.4, 369/32, 369/64, 369/59, 369/54, 369/116, 369/49, 369/277, 369/109, 369/110, 369/44.26, 369/44.37, 369/13, 369/58, 369/275.2, 369/28 3, 360/59, 360/114
• US Class Current: 369/53.17
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1217 on discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/14 using self-clocking codes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1883 Methods for assignment of alternate areas for defective areas
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1889 with discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2007/0133 Details of discrete information structures, e.g. shape or dimensions of pits, prepits
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1232 sector, i.e. the minimal addressable physical data unit
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1238 track, i.e. the entire a spirally or concentrically arranged path on which the recording marks are located
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1239 the track being a pregroove, e.g. the wobbled track of a recordable optical disc
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1265 Control data, system data or management information, i.e. data used to access or process user data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1267 Address data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1268 Address in pregroove [ADIP] information
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1292 Enhancement of the total storage capacity
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2537 Optical discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/19 by using information detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/24 by sensing features on the record carrier other than the transducing track ; sensing signals or marks recorded by another method than the main recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0053 Reproducing non-user data, e.g. wobbled address, prepits, BCA
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/00718 Groove and land recording, i.e. user data recorded both in the grooves and on the lands
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/00745 : Sectoring or header formats within a track formats in general G11B20/12
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/08505 : Methods for track change, selection or preliminary positioning by moving the head
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0901 : for track following only G11B7/0925, G11B7/094, G11B7/0941, G11B7/0943, G11B7/0945, G11B7/0946, G11B7/0948 take precedence

Abstract

In an optical disk comprising a recording plane having a spiral first track and a spiral second track, information being to be recorded into and/or reproduced from the first and second tracks, the first track is formed into a groove-like shape, the second track is formed between adjacent the first tracks and into a land-like shape, and the first and second tracks record informations in different modulation methods.

Claims

1. An information recording/reproduction method by which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from an optical disk comprising a first track in which information is recorded into and/or reproduced from a groove, and a second track in which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from a land sandwiched by said first track, said first and second tracks being formed on the same recording plane, wherein

one defect list area in which a defect list including a defective sector address of a defective sector and an alternate sector address is to be recorded is formed in one of said first and second tracks, and, when a defective sector is detected in said first or second track, a defect-alternation process is conducted while additionally recording said defect list into said defect list area.

2. An information recording/reproduction method by which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from an optical disk while conducting a defect-alternation process on said optical disk, said optical disk comprising:

a first track in which information is recorded into and/or reproduced from a groove; and

a second track in which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from a land sandwiched by said first track, said first and second tracks being formed on the same recording plane, wherein

one defect list area in which a defect list including;

a defective sector address of a defective sector of said first or second track in which a defect is detected and is alternated; and

an alternate sector address is to be recorded, is formed in one of said first and second tracks,

a spare area which is to be used for an alternate sector is formed in both of said first and second tracks, and

a defective sector of said first or second track is alternated in the respective spare area, and said defect list is recorded into said defect list area, thereby conducting the defect alternation process.

3. An information recording/reproduction method by which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from an optical disk, said optical disk comprising:

a first track in which information is recorded into and/or reproduced from a groove; and

a second track in which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from a land sandwiched by said first track, said first and second tracks being formed on the same recording plane, wherein

first and second defect list areas and first and second spare areas are respectively formed in said first and second tracks,

in each of said first and second defect list areas, a defect list including;

a defective sector address of a defective sector of said first or second tracks in which a defect is detected and is alternated; and

an alternate sector address , is to be recorded, and

said first and second spare areas are to be used for an alternate sector,

a defective sector of said first track is subjected an alternation process by said first defect list area and said first spare area, and

a defective sector of said second track is subjected an alternation process by said second defect list area and said second spare area.

4. An information reproduction method by which information is reproduced from an optical disk, said optical disk comprising:

a first track in which information is recorded into and/or reproduced from a groove; and

a second track in which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from a land sandwiched by said first track, said first and second tracks being formed on the same recording plane, wherein

in a process of initializing said optical disk,

a defect list area in which a defect list including;

a defective sector address of a defective sector in which a defect is detected in an information recording/reproduction and which is alternated; and

an alternate sector address, is to be recorded, is formed in one of said first and second tracks,

a spare area is secured in both of said first and second tracks, and

defect process method identification information, and address information of said defect list area and said spare areas are recorded into a disk management area,

said defect process method identification information indicating that defective sectors of said first and second tracks are collectively subjected a defect process in accordance with said defect list area.

5. An information reproduction method by which information is reproduced from an optical disk, said optical disk comprising:

a first track in which information is recorded into and/or reproduced from a groove; and

a second track in which information is recorded onto and/or reproduced from a land sandwiched by said first track, said first and second tracks being formed on the same recording plane, wherein,

in a process of initializing said optical disk,

first and second defect list areas in each of which a defect list including;

a defective sector address of a defective sector in which a defect is detected in an information recording/reproduction and which is alternated; and

an alternate sector address is to be recorded, are respectively formed in said first and second tracks,

first and second spare areas which are respectively used for alternate sectors of defective sectors of said first and second tracks are secured, and

defect process method identification information, and address information of said defect list areas and said spare areas are recorded into a disk management area,

said defect process method identification information indicating that a defective sector of said first track is processed in accordance with said first defect list area and said first spare area, and a defective sector of said second track is processed in accordance with said second defect list area and said second spare area, said defect process method identification information also indicating the defect process method.

6. An information reproduction method by which information is reproduced from an optical disk comprising first and second tracks which are formed on the stone recording plane, wherein,

when said first track is to be accessed, a defect list is read out from a first defect list area of said first track, and a defective sector is reproduced in accordance with contents of said defect list by reproducing an alternate sector of a first spare area of said first track, and

when said second track is to be accessed, a defect list is read out from a second defect list area of said second track, and a defective sector is reproduced in accordance with contents of said defect list by reproducing an alternate sector of a second spare area of said second track, wherein

said first track is a track in which information is recorded into a groove,

said second track is a track in which information is recorded onto a land sandwiched by said first track, and

the switching of said first and second tracks is conducted by inverting a polarity of a tracking error signal.

7. An information reproduction method by which information is reproduced from an optical disk comprising first and second tracks which are formed on the same recording plane, wherein,

when said first track is to be accessed, a defect list is read out from a defect list area of said first track, and a defective sector is reproduced in accordance with contents of said defect list by reproducing an alternate sector of a first spare area of said first track, and,

when said second track is to be accessed, a defect list is read out from said defect list area of said first track, and a defective sector is reproduced in accordance with contents of said defect list by reproducing an alternate sector of a second spare area of said second track, wherein

said first track is a track in which information is recorded into a groove,

said second track is a track in which information is recorded onto a land sandwiched by said first track, and

the switching of said first and second tracks is conducted by inverting a polarity of a tracking error signal.