Signal delay apparatus, leakage signal removing apparatus and information processing apparatus

• US 6,804,187 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2001
• Issued: 10/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Miyanabe, Shogo, Kuribayashi, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): HINDI, NABIL Z
• Application Number:
  US09/955,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20020034268A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,119 Days
• Field of Search: 369/124.03, 369/124.02, 369/124.05, 369/124.14, 369/47.17, 369/53.33, 369/44.42, 369/44.32, 369/44.34
• US Class Current: 369/124.03
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10009 Improvement or modification of read or write signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10037 A/D conversion, D/A conversion, sampling, slicing and digital quantisation or adjusting parameters thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10203 baseline correction DC correction by choosing codewords of the modulation code G11B20/1426
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/005 Reproducing G11B7/0065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0903 Multi-beam tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/069 by detecting edges or zero crossings

Abstract

In the case of delaying any one of the detected signals, which are optically obtained from a plurality of trucks, in which the information are respectively recorded under a state that the DC component is removed, a zero cross waveform is extracted from a main detected signal, which is obtained from a main truck. Then, a sub detected signal obtained from a sub truck is held at a timing at which this zero cross waveform is extracted. Further, a sub detected signal, which has been held during a predetermined time frame, is averaged. Moreover, delay amounts with respect to the sub detected signal and the main detected signal are calculated by comparing a waveform of the averaged sub detected signal and the zero cross waveform. Then, the present sub detected signal and the main detected signal are delayed by the calculated delay amounts.

Claims

1. A signal delay apparatus for delaying any one of detected signals, which are optically obtained from a plurality of adjoining trucks, comprising:

an extracting device for extracting a specific main detected signal having a predetermined specific waveform from a main detected signal which is obtained from a main truck among said trucks;

a holding device for holding a sub detected signal which is obtained from a sub truck when said specific main detected signal is extracted;

an averaging device for averaging a plurality of said sub detected signals, which are held by said holding device during a predetermined time frame, and generating an averaged detected signal;

a calculating device for comparing a waveform of said generated averaged detected signal with said specific waveform and calculating the delay amount for any one of said detected signals; and

a delay device for delaying at least any one of said detected signals by said calculated delay amount.

2. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said specific waveform comprises a zero cross waveform.

3. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said specific wave form comprises a waveform of said main detected signal, which is obtained from any one of a pit formed on said main truck in association with said information and a gap between pits, having a length which is longer than the length obtained by multiplying a unit length of at least any one of said pit and gap by a predetermined number.

4. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said specific waveform during a predetermined time from said detected signal is started to be obtained comprises a waveform of said main detected signal, which is obtained from any one of a pit formed on said main truck in association with said information and a gap between pits, having a length which is longer than the length obtained by multiplying a unit length of at least any one of said pit and gap by a predetermined number, and

said specific waveform after said time passed over comprises a waveform of said main detected signal, which is obtained from any one of said pit and gap having all lengths.

5. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said predetermined number comprises a number corresponding to a length, which is longer than the shortest length of any one of said pit and gap, from which said main detected signal is obtained.

6. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said delay device comprises a shift register.

7. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said delay device comprises a shift register and a FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filter.

8. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said FIR filter comprises two taps and a sum of respective tap coefficients in association with said respective taps is 1.

9. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said sub truck comprises said two trucks, which are adjacently formed on the opposite sides of said main truck and

an irradiation position of respective optical beams, which are irradiated to said sub truck, moves to said main truck side rather than said respective sub trucks, so that said respective optical beams are irradiated.

10. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said main truck comprises said truck, in which said information to be read is recorded.

11. The signal delay apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said main truck comprises said truck, which adjoins to said truck, in which said information to be read is recorded.

12. A leakage signal removing apparatus comprising:

(i) a signal delay apparatus for delaying any one of detected signals, which are optically obtained from a plurality of adjoining trucks, comprising;

an extracting device for extracting a specific main detected signal having a predetermined specific waveform from a main detected signal which is obtained from a main truck among said trucks;

a holding device for holding a sub detected signal which is obtained from a sub truck when said specific main detected signal is extracted;

an averaging device for averaging a plurality of said sub detected signals, which are held by said holding device during a predetermined time frame, and generating an averaged detected signal;

a calculating device for comparing a waveform of said generated averaged detected signal with said specific waveform and calculating the delay amount for any one of said detected signals; and

a delay device for delaying at least any one of said detected signals by said calculated delay amount,

(ii) a removing device for removing a leakage signal, which is mixed in said main detected signal, from said detected signal, which is obtained from said sub truck by using said detected signal, which is obtained from said sub truck and is delayed by said delay device.

13. A signal processing apparatus comprising:

(a) a leakage signal removing apparatus comprising;

(i) a signal delay apparatus for delaying any one of detected signals, which are optically obtained from a plurality of adjoining trucks, comprising;

an extracting device for extracting a specific main detected signal having a predetermined specific waveform from a main detected signal which is obtained from a main truck among said trucks;

a holding device for holding a sub detected signal which is obtained from a sub truck when said specific main detected signal is extracted;

an averaging device for averaging a plurality of said sub detected signals, which are held by said holding device during a predetermined time frame, and generating an averaged detected signal;

a calculating device for comparing a waveform of said generated averaged detected signal with said specific waveform and calculating the delay amount for any one of said detected signals; and

a delay device for delaying at least any one of said detected signals by said calculated delay amount, (ii) a removing device for removing a leakage signal, which is mixed in said main detected signal, from said detected signal, which is obtained from said sub truck by using said detected signal, which is obtained from said sub truck and is delayed by said delay device,

(b) a processing device for effecting at least any one of recording of said information in said truck or playing of said information on the basis of said main detected signal, of which said leakage signal is removed.