Optical recording medium, reproducing system, method of reproducing optical disk, method of fabricating optical disk original record, and method of stopping illegal program operation

• US 5,807,640 A
• Filed: 08/28/1995
• Issued: 09/15/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1993
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ueno, Fumiaki, Oshima, Mitsuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Krynski, Willaim
• Assistant Examiner(s): MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS
• Application Number:
  US08/507,495
• Time in Patent Office: 1,114 Days
• Field of Search: 428/64.1, 428/64.2, 428/64.4, 428/913, 369/116, 369/124, 369/54, 369/275.1, 369/275.2, 369/284
• US Class Current: 428/64.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/80 in storage media based on magnetic or optical technology, e.g. disks with sectors preventing unauthorised reproduction or copying of disc-type recordable media G11B20/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 11/10595 Control of operating function
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 13/04 magnetically or by magnetisation and optically or by radiation, for changing or sensing optical properties
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 13/045 combined recording by magnetic and optic means
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/04 Arrangements for preventing, inhibiting, or warning against double recording on the same blank or against other recording or reproducing malfunctions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• 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 20/00086 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 20/00123 the record carrier being identified by recognising some of its unique characteristics, e.g. a unique defect pattern serving as a physical signature of the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00557 wherein further management data is encrypted, e.g. sector headers, TOC or the lead-in or lead-out areas
• 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 20/10009 Improvement or modification of read or write signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1217 on discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2007/0013 for carriers having multiple discrete layers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1259 with ROM/RAM areas
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/211 Discs having both read-only and rewritable or recordable areas containing application data; Partial ROM media
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/213 : Read-only discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/237 : having exactly two recording layers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2525 : Magneto-optical [MO] discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2529 : Mini-discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 : CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2587 : Laser Discs; Optical disc using analog recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/65 : wherein solid state memory is used for storing indexing information or metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/655 : Memory in cassette [MIC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 : Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/282 : Limited play
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/284 : on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 : on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 : of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/107 : of operating tapes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 : by using information not 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 27/3063 : Subcodes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 : on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 : Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 : Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0037 : with discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/005 : Reproducing G11B7/0065 takes precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/00745 : Sectoring or header formats within a track formats in general G11B20/12
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/013 : for discrete information, i.e. where each information unit is stored in a distinct discrete location , e.g. digital information formats within a data block or sector
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/24088 : for storing more than two values, i.e. multi-valued recording for data or prepits
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/26 : Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/261 : Preparing a master, e.g. exposing photoresist, electroforming
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/28 : Re-recording, i.e. transcribing information from one optical record carrier on to one or more similar or dissimilar record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/913 : Material designed to be responsive to temperature, light, moisture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/21 : Circular sheet or circular blank

Abstract

The present invention provides an optical disk 9 with a duplication preventing function, reproducing system 47 for the optical disk 9, optical disk reproducing method, method of fabricating an optical disk original record, and illegal program operation stopping method. An area in which a CP signal 24 is recorded is made after a signal having a constant pattern in the optical disk, the CP signal 24 being produced such that the center of an eye pattern is shifted from the center of the amplitude. In the reproducing system, CP signal arrangement information 25 or a CP preceding signal 26 is detected, before an offset voltage is applied to a threshold value to be used in demodulating an RF signal into a digital signal so that the threshold value varies, thus normally reproducing the signal in which center of the eye patter is shifted from the center of the amplitude. The reproducing system has a function whereby the reproduction is stopped when a predetermined offset signal is not reproduced.

Claims

1. An optical recording medium having a first recording area where an offset signal is recorded, and a second recording area where a signal indicative of the fact that said first recording area is provided and/or the position whereat said first recording area is recorded, said offset signal being produced by shifting a center of an eve pattern corresponding to an optimal slice level of a recorded signal in an analog signal processing section in a reproducing apparatus which reproduces the recorded signal, from a center of an amplitude of said eye pattern.

3. An optical recording medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein a signal indicative of the fact that said first recording area is close to its end is further recorded in said first recording area.

4. An optical recording medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein said second recording area is formed in one of a position preceding said first recording area in reproduction and a lead-in section of said medium.

2. An optical recording medium having a first recording area where an offset signal in which a duty ration of a signal recording section in a recording track is shifted from a standard value is recorded and a second recording area where a signal indicative of the fact that said first recording area is provided and/or the position whereat said first recording area is recorded.

5. A method of fabricating an optical disk original record for forming and manufacturing an optical disk having a first recording area where an offset signal in which a duty ration of a signal recording section in a recording track is shifted from a standard value is recorded and a second recording area where a signal indicative of the fact that said first recording area is provided and/or the position whereat said first recording area is recorded, comprising the steps of applying a photoresist on a base material for said optical disk original record, making said photoresist exposed to light intensity-modulated in accordance with an information signal to be recorded, and developing said photoresist to form an irregular pit configuration corresponding to its sensitivity on said base material for said optical disk original record, wherein for the formation of said irregular pit configuration a recording equalizing quantity for said information signal is changed so that a duty ration of a length of each of pits to a distance between said pits is changed to form a signal area where a center of an eye pattern is shifted from a center of an amplitude in a specific relationship.

6. A method of fabricating an optical disk original record for forming and manufacturing an optical disk having a first recording area where an offset signal in which a duty ration of a signal recording section in a recording track is shifted from a standard value is recorded and a second recording area where a signal indicative of the fact that said first recording area is provided and/or the position whereat said first recording area is recorded, comprising the steps of applying a photoresist on a base material for said optical disk original record, making said photoresist exposed to light intensity-modulated in accordance with an information signal to be recorded, and developing said photoresist to form an irregular pit configuration corresponding to its sensitivity on said base material for said optical disk original record, wherein for the formation of said irregular pit configuration the intensity of said light to which said photoresist is exposed is changed to form a signal area where a center of an eye pattern is shifted from a center of an amplitude in accordance with the change of the light intensity.

7. A method of fabricating an optical disk original record for forming and manufacturing an optical disk having a first recording area where an offset signal in which a duty ration of a signal recording section in a recording track is shifted from a standard value is recorded and a second recording area where a signal indicative of the fact that said first recording area is provided and/or the position whereat said first recording area is recorded, comprising the steps of applying a photoresist on a base material for said optical disk original record, making said photoresist exposed to light intensity-modulated in accordance with an information signal to be recorded, and developing said photoresist to form an irregular pit configuration corresponding to its sensitivity on aid base material for said optical disk original record, wherein for the formation of said irregular pit configuration a recording equalizing quantity for said information signal is increased and the intensity of said light to which said photoresist is exposed is lowered, or said recording equalizing quantity for said information signal is decreased and the intensity of said light to which said photoresist is exposed is increased, thereby forming a signal are in which a center of an eye pattern is shifted from a center of an amplitude.

8. A method of reproducing an optical disk comprising a step of, after a signal having a specific pattern is detected, changing a threshold value to be used in demodulating an RF signal into a digital signal.

9. A reproducing system for an optical disk comprising means for, after a signal having a specific pattern is detected, changing a threshold value to be used in demodulating an RF signal into a digital signal.

10. A reproducing system for an optical disk as set forth in claim 9, further comprising means for, when a signal is not reproduced from an area in which a signal having a center of an eye pattern shifted from a center of an amplitude is recorded, stopping a further reproduction.

11. An optical disk reproducing system which reads out, through an optical head, a data signal including a program modulated and recorded on an optical disk to reproduce an analog signal, and slices through a slice circuit, said analog signal with a slice voltage corrected with an offset voltage being applied to a reference slice voltage in accordance with a duty ratio of said analog signal to reproduce a first digital signal, and demodulates said first digital signal into a second digital signal through a demodulator to reproduce a third digital signal from said second digital signal through an error correction circuit, said reproducing system comprising an offset signal variation detecting section for detecting that said offset voltage varies in a specific state, and means for, when said offset signal variation detecting section does not detect that said offset signal is in said specific state, stopping one of an output of said data and an operation of said program.

12. An optical disk reproducing system as set forth in claim 11, further comprising means for reproducing offset signal arrangement information recorded in an area of said optical disk, and further for, only when said offset signal variation detecting section detects that an offset signal is recorded in a specific area of said optical disk in a specific state indicated in said offset signal arrangement information, continuing one of an output of data on said optical disk and an operation of said program, and, when not detecting it, stopping one of the output of said data on said optical disk and the operation of said program.

13. An optical disk reproducing system as set forth in claim 12, wherein said optical head reproduces said offset signal arrangement information recorded in an optical recording section.

14. An optical disk reproducing system as set forth in claim 12, wherein a magnetic head reproduces said offset signal arrangement information recorded in a magnetic recording section.

15. An illegal program operation stopping method using a reproducing system which reads out, through an optical head, a data signal including a program modulated and recorded on an optical disk to reproduce an analog signal, and slices through a slice circuit, said analog signal with a slice voltage corrected with an offset voltage being applied to a reference slice voltage in accordance with a duty ratio of said analog signal to reproduce a first digital signal, and demodulates said first digital signal into a second digital signal through a demodulator to produce a third digital signal from said second digital signal through an error correction circuit, wherein an offset signal variation detecting section is provided in said reproducing system to detect that said offset voltage varies in a specific state, and when said offset signal variation detecting section does not detect that said offset signal is in said specific state, one of an output of said data and an operation of said program is stopped.

16. An illegal program operation stopping method as set forth in claim 15, wherein offset signal arrangement information recorded in an area of said optical disk is reproduced, and only when said offset signal variation detecting section detects that an offset signal is recorded in a specific area of said optical disk in a specific state indicated in said offset signal arrangement information, one of an output of data on said optical disk and an operation of said program is continued, and when not detecting it, one of the output of said data on said optical disk and the operation of said program is stopped.

17. An illegal program operation stopping method as claimed in claim 16, wherein said offset signal arrangement information recorded in an optical recording section is reproduced by said optical head.

18. An illegal program operation stopping method as claimed in claim 16, wherein said offset signal arrangement information recorded in a magnetic recording section is reproduced by a magnetic head.

19. A reproducing system comprising:

means for reproducing a disk physical feature from an optical disk in which disk physical feature information indicative of an optically detectable feature extracted from said optical disk is enciphered with one direction function and recorded in a cipher recording section;

means for converting the reproduced signal into a plain text through a cipher decoder;

measuring means for obtaining said disk physical feature information and further for measuring a disk physical feature of said optical disk;

check means for obtaining the measure disk physical feature information from said measuring means to check the measured disk physical feature information with said physical feature information; and

means for carrying out one of reproduction of said optical disk and operation of a program recorded in said optical disk only when the check result of said check means satisfies a constant condition.

20. A reproducing system as set forth in claim 19, wherein one of a RSA function, elliptic curve function and disclosed key cipher function is used as said one direction function.

21. A reproducing system as set forth in claim 19, further comprising:

address detecting means for, when said measuring means reproducts the information from said optical disc, detecting an address to use, as said optically detectable feature information, an arrangement coordinate including an arrangement angle in a specific address of data on said optical disk; and

rotational angle detecting means for detecting at least said arrangement angle of said specific address on said optical disk.