Apparatus and method for authentication/copy protection of optical storage medium and the optical storage medium

• US 6,826,137 B1
• Filed: 08/20/1999
• Issued: 11/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Jae-Sun, Yeo, Woon-Sung, Sheen, Yong-Hoo
• Primary Examiner(s): EDUN, MUHAMMAD N
• Application Number:
  US09/377,499
• Time in Patent Office: 1,929 Days
• Field of Search: 369/47.1, 369/47.12, 369/47.5, 369/47.53, 369/53.1, 369/53.2, 369/53.21, 369/59.1, 369/83, 369/84, 369/275.1, 369/275.5
• US Class Current: 369/53.21
• 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 20/00173 wherein the origin of the content is checked, e.g. determining whether the content has originally been retrieved from a legal disc copy or another trusted source
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00579 said format change concerning the data encoding, e.g., modulation schemes violating run-length constraints, causing excessive DC content, or involving uncommon codewords or sync patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00695 said measures preventing that data are read from the recording medium
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1816 Testing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1461 8 to 14 modulation, e.g. the EFM code used on CDs or mini-discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/184 using a cross-interleaved Reed Solomon [CIRC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2537 Optical discs

Abstract

The method of recording data in a copy protected manner on an optical disk modifies at least a first signal in a data such that the modified first signal is reproduced as one of a plurality of target signals prior to error correction decoding. The method also includes error correction encoding the data prior to the modifying such that the reproduced target signals remain unchanged after error correction decoding. And, the modified encoded data is written on an optical storage medium.

Claims

1. A method of recording data in a copy protected manner on an optical disk, comprising:

modifying at least a first signal in data such that said modified first signal is reproduced as one of a plurality of target signals prior to error correction decoding;

error correcting encoding said data prior to said modifying such that such reproduced target signals remain unchanged after error correction decoding; and

writing said modified encoded data on an optical storage medium.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of target signals include a first target signal and a second target signal.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said first target signal is the same as said first signal.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein

said first and second target signals form part of first and second target codes, respectively, when reproduced; and

said error correcting encoding encodes said data such that, when reproduced, said first and second target codes have at least one common parity symbol prior to error correction decoding.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said error correcting encoding encodes said data such that, when reproduced, said first and second target codes have at least one more parity symbol in common prior to error correction decoding than after error correction decoding.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein

said first and second target signals form part of first and second target codes;

and

said error correcting encoding generates first parity symbols for a first code including said first signal, said first code being a same code as said first target code, and modifies said first parity symbols such that at least one of said modified parity symbols is in common with second parity symbols which would be generated for said second target code.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said error correcting encoding modifies said first parity symbols such that a number of said modified first parity symbols in common with said second parity symbols is greater than a number of said first parity symbols in common with said second parity symbols.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said first and second target signals have a same galois sum.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein said first and second target signals have a same galois sum.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein said first and second target signals differ in a number of zeros between consecutive ones.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a number of said first signal in said data is set based on an expected error correcting capability of an optical disk reproducing apparatus.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said modifying step modifies said first signal and a second signal in said data such that said modified first signal and said modified second signal are reproduced as one of said plurality of target signals prior to error correction coding, and said data includes at least one first code and at least one second code, said first code including at least one said first signal and said second code including at least one said second signal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a first number of said first signal in said first code and a second number of said second signal in said second code both depend on an expected error correcting capability of an optical disk reproducing apparatus.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

choosing at least one pair of standard symbols from a list containing a plurality of pairs of standard symbols, each pair of standard symbols in said list including a first symbol and a second symbol differing in a number of zeros between consecutive ones; and

generating said data such that said data includes said chosen pair of standard symbols as said first signal and said second signal.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

choosing at least one pair of standard symbols from a list containing a plurality of pairs of standard symbols, each pair of standard symbols in said list including a first symbol and a second symbol differing in a number of zeros consecutive ones; and

generating said data such that said data includes at least one symbol of said chosen pair of standard symbols as said first signal.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said writing step writes said modified encoded data and a control program, said control program instructing how to authenticate said optical disk during reproduction based on said modified encoded data.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein said modifying step shifts a bit in said first signal to generate said modified first signal.

18. A method of recording data in a copy protected manner on an optical disk, comprising:

choosing at least one pair of standard symbols from a list containing a plurality of pairs of standard symbols, each pair of standard symbols in said list including a first symbol and a second symbol differing by a number of zeros between consecutive ones;

first generating first and second codes, said first code including at least one of said first symbol in said chosen pair of standard symbols and said second code including at least one of said second symbol in said chosen pair of standard symbols;

second generating first and second parity symbols for said first and second codes, respectively;

first modifying said first parity symbols;

second modifying said first symbols in said first code; and

writing said modified first code on an optical disk.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said first modifying step modifies said first parity symbols such that said modified first parity symbols and said second parity symbols have at least one common symbol.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said first modifying step modifies said first parity symbols such that a number of said modified first parity symbols in common with said second parity symbols is greater than a number of said first parity symbols in common with said second parity symbols.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein said second modifying step converts said first symbols into a non-standard symbol.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said second modifying step shifts a bit in said first symbols to convert said first symbols into said non-standard symbol.

23. The method of claim 18, wherein said first and second symbol in each pair of standard symbols in said list have a same galois sum.

24. A copy protected recording medium having a data structure stored thereon, comprising:

a test area storing test data, said test data including at least one modified first signal, said modified first signal having been modified such that when said modified first signal is reproduced, said modified first signal is reproduced as one of at least two target signals.

25. The copy protected recording medium of claim 24, wherein said test data includes a first code, said first code including said modified first signal and modified first parity symbols, said modified first parity symbols including at least one symbol in common with parity symbols of a first target code and a second target code, said first and second target codes being a same code except said first target code includes said first target signal at a predetermined position therein and said second target code includes said second target signal at said predetermined position therein.

26. An apparatus for recording data in a copy protected manner on an optical disk, comprising:

a shifter modifying at least a first signal in data such that said modified first signal is reproduced as one of a plurality of target signals prior to error correction decoding;

an encoder error correcting encoding said data prior to said modifying such that said reproduced target signals remain unchanged after error correction decoding; and

a mastering apparatus writing said modified encoded data on an optical storage medium.

27. An apparatus for recording data in a copy protected manner on an optical disk, comprising:

an encoder generating first and second parity symbols for first and second codes, respectively, said first code including at least one of a first symbol and said second code including at least one of a second symbol, said first symbol and said second symbol differing by a number of zeros between consecutive ones, said encoder modifying said first parity symbols;

a shifter modifying said first symbols in said first code; and

a mastering apparatus writing said modified first code on an optical disk.