Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205219 | JITTER MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD, SIGNAL PERIOD MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISK PLAYER - An apparatus to measure jitter of a signal read from an optical disk includes a binarization unit to binarize an input signal to generate a binary signal, an ideal signal generator to generate a noise-free ideal signal based on channel characteristics of the optical disk, and a jitter measurement unit to measure jitter of the input signal based on the binary signal and the ideal signal. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212423 | Method of Ensuring Reproduction Compatibility of Information Recording Medium, and Recording and/or Reproducing Apparatus and Information Recording Medium Therefor - A method of effectively ensuring a reproduction compatibility of an information recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus performing a write/read operation to effectively ensure the reproduction compatibility, and the information recording medium, the information recording medium having a plurality of areas, wherein a usage order of the areas is determined according to a location of data stored in a user data area of the information recording medium, and data is recorded in the plurality of areas based on the determined usage order. Accordingly, it is possible to effectively ensure the reproduction compatibility of the information recording medium. | 09-04-2008 |
20080239933 | WRITABLE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING THE SAME - A writable optical information recording medium, an apparatus for reproducing the same, and a method of determining the same are provided. The amplitude of a push-pull signal (PPS) of the writable optical information recording medium is determined to be within an amplitude range of a PPS of a reproduction-only optical information recording medium. Accordingly, it is possible to stably reproduce copy protected content by recognizing a loaded writable optical information recording medium as a medium of a reproduction-only type. | 10-02-2008 |
20080270712 | METHOD OF OVERWRITING DATA IN WRITE-ONCE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND DATA RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR WRITE-ONCE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A method of overwriting data in a write-once information storage medium and a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus provided for overwriting data in such a write-once information storage medium. In the data overwriting method, a command to overwrite new data in a first area of the write-once information storage medium where data has already been recorded is issued. Then, the first area is considered as a defective area, and the new data is recorded in a second area. Thereafter, updated defect management information, including information about the locations of the first and second areas, is recorded in the write-once information storage medium. Accordingly, overwriting can be performed in write-once information storage media, which is incapable of physical overwriting, by using a logical overwriting technique. Thus, data recorded in the write-once information storage medium may be changed or updated. | 10-30-2008 |
20080273431 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORAGE LAYER WITH OPTICAL POWER CONTROL AREA, AND RECORDING APPARATUS TO RECORD DATA WITH RESPECT TO INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - An information storage medium is provided with a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage layers viewed from a direction in which light is incident upon the information storage medium are disposed one on another to not directly face each other. An actually usable area of an optimal power control area in each of the information storage layers varies depending on use circumstances of each of the information storage layers. Therefore, when an OPC area of one information storage layer performs OPC, this OPC does not affect another information storage layer. Also, an area of each of the information storage layers can be efficiently used. | 11-06-2008 |
20080279065 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING MULTIPLE STORAGE LAYERS WITH OPTIMAL POWER CONTROL (OPC) AREAS AND BUFFER AREAS - An information storage medium and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing the information storage medium are provided to control optimal recording power without an influence of an optimal power control (OPC) area in a layer upon an OPC area in a different layer. The information storage medium includes at least one information storage layer including an optimal power control area for obtaining an optical recording condition. OPC areas in adjacent information storage layers are disposed within different radiuses of the information storage medium. Accordingly, even when the information storage medium is made eccentric or has a manufacturing error, a recording property of the information storage medium is prevented from being degraded due to an influence of an OPC area in an information storage layer upon an OPC area in an adjacent information storage layer. | 11-13-2008 |
20080316885 | METHOD OF RECORDING ERASE PATTERN INFORMATION ON AN OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, ERASING INFORMATION ON THE OPTICAL RECORDING MEIDUM BASED ON THE ERASE PATTERN INFORMATION, AND OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - An optical recording medium is provided for allowing data to be recorded on, erased from, and reproduced from, and storing information about power levels of an erase pulse. The recorded erase pattern information may include information about power levels of first and last pulses of an erase pattern for erasing data. The first and last pulses of the erase pattern can be differently set depending on the differing kind of recording layer or layers of a disk or differing kinds of disks and recorded in a reproducible only area or rewritable area of the optical recording medium. Thus, by presetting the appropriate erase power levels, the time required for selecting an optimal erase power for the optical recording medium can be considerably reduced. | 12-25-2008 |
20090010125 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DISC DEFECTS USING UPDATEABLE DMA, AND DISC THEREOF - A disc defect management method and apparatus using a defect management area that can be updated, and a write once disc incorporating the method. A data area is disposed between a lead-in area and a lead-out area. The disc includes a defect management area (DMA) that is present in at least one of the lead-in area or the lead-out area, wherein defect information and defect management information are repeatedly recorded in the DMA according to a recording operation. Accordingly, the disc defect management method and apparatus enable effective use of the defect management area. The method is also applicable to a multi layer disc having a user data area on each layer. The defect information and the defect management information for an individual defect may include cumulative defect information and defect management information related to previously identified defects. | 01-08-2009 |
20090059752 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An optical disc apparatus, and a method of driving the same, includes a light focusing element disposed to focus light emitted from a light source onto a disc; an actuator to move the light focusing element toward or away from the disc according to a voltage applied to the actuator; a light intensity detection unit to detect the intensity of light reflected from the disc ; a servo unit to generate a gap error signal and a third voltage, the third voltage being the sum of a first voltage and a second voltage, and to apply the generated third voltage to the actuator; and a control unit to control the servo unit to perform a gap pull-in operation when the light focusing element is moved toward the disc according to the gap error signal and the third voltage. | 03-05-2009 |
20090135692 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WRITE STRATEGY, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING DATA - An apparatus and method for determining an optimal write strategy when recording data onto an optical disk, and an apparatus and method for recording data, the method of determining a write strategy including: recording test data for each size of marks and spaces based on a plurality of write strategies; reproducing the recorded test data; measuring jitter values of the reproduced test data based on the plurality of write strategies; and determining an optimal write strategy according to the measured jitter values. | 05-28-2009 |
20090154309 | NEAR-FIELD GAP PULL-IN METHOD AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS THEREFOR - A gap pull-in method and an optical disc apparatus. Whether light condensed on a disc as an actuator ascends is near-field light is determined using a gap error signal. The range of an actuator driving voltage value during a section where the decrease rate of the gap error signal is constant is obtained when it is determined that the light condensed on the disc is near-field light. Gap pull-in is performed on the disc during a section where the actuator driving voltage value is within the obtained range. | 06-18-2009 |
20090190453 | SOLID IMMERSION LENS (SIL) NEAR-FIELD SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING TILT - In a near-field optical recording/reproducing system and a method of controlling a tilt, the near-field optical recording/reproducing system includes: a light source; an objective lens to focus light emitted from the light source to transmit near-field light to an information storage medium; a PD (photodetector) to receive a portion of the light that is transmitted from the objective lens to the information storage medium and is reflected from the information storage medium, to detect a GES (gap error signal) used for controlling an air gap formed between the objective lens and the information storage medium; a signal processor/determiner to obtain an edge voltage using the GES detected by the PD and determine a tilt control point using the edge voltage; and an adjuster to control a relative tilt between the objective lens and the information storage medium in the tilt control position. | 07-30-2009 |
20090268600 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH PRE-PIT IS FORMED AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information recording medium for enabling quick finalization and efficient data recording/reproducing, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method are provided. The information storage medium includes a finalization area of which both of an in-groove pre-pit and a land pre-pit are formed in at least a part, while the information storage medium is manufactured. | 10-29-2009 |
20090310474 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information storage medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method, the information storage medium including a plurality of recording layers, each layer including a lead-in area or a lead-out area, a data area, a middle area, and a dedicated area, wherein the data area is flexibly allocated according to data capacity to be recorded in each of the recording layers, the middle area is allocated behind the data area, and the dedicated area is allocated behind the middle area. The dedicated area for a special purpose may selectively be allocated in an outer circumferential area of the information storage medium, i.e., an optical disk including a plurality of recording layers. In particular, optical disks in various formats are provided in which dedicated areas for special purposes can selectively be allocated in outer circumferential areas of the optical disks depending on recording characteristics of the optical disks and the outer circumferential areas. | 12-17-2009 |
20100100694 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING RMW FOR LOW, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD THEREFOR, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - Replacement data for updating data recorded on an information storage medium is recorded in an area for logical overwrite (LOW) replacement; replacement data for replacing a defect generated on the medium is recorded in an area for defect replacement; and, if a defect is generated in an original block recorded in a predetermined area of the medium during a read-modify-write (RMW) process for a LOW for at least partial data of an original block, a replacement block replacing the original block is recorded in the area for LOW replacement and a defect list (DFL) entry including location information of the original block and location information of the replacement block is generated to indicate the replacement state. | 04-22-2010 |
20100142341 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information storage medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method, the information storage medium including a plurality of recording layers, each layer including a lead-in area or a lead-out area, a data area, a middle area, and a dedicated area, wherein the data area is flexibly allocated according to data capacity to be recorded in each of the recording layers, the middle area is allocated behind the data area, and the dedicated area is allocated behind the middle area. The dedicated area for a special purpose may selectively be allocated in an outer circumferential area of the information storage medium, i.e., an optical disk including a plurality of recording layers. In particular, optical disks in various formats are provided in which dedicated areas for special purposes can selectively be allocated in outer circumferential areas of the optical disks depending on recording characteristics of the optical disks and the outer circumferential areas. | 06-10-2010 |
20100142343 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD - An information storage medium and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method are provided with the ability to extend at least one middle area of an information storage medium comprising two or more recording layers so as to ensure optimal data recording/reproduction. The information storage medium comprises a plurality of recording layers, each including a user data area for recording user data and at least one middle area used by a recording/reproducing apparatus that records/reproduces data on the information storage medium to move among two recording layers, wherein the at least one middle area is extended when the information storage medium is finalized. As a result, when an information storage medium that contains an OPC area for obtaining optimum recording conditions (such as recording power) in an outer circumference thereof is finalized, and if a middle area of the disk is not large enough, the middle area can flexibly be extended. | 06-10-2010 |
20100195465 | METHOD OF RECORDING INFORMATION TO AND REPRODUCING INFORMATION FROM AN OPTICAL INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A method of recording information to a read-only optical information storage medium comprising a plurality of areas, including: recording data in at least one of the plurality of areas in the form of pits in a first pit pattern; and recording data in others of the plurality of areas in the form of pits in a second pit pattern different from the first. | 08-05-2010 |
20100284255 | WRITE ONCE DISC ALLOWING MANAGEMENT OF DATA AREA, METHOD OF MANAGING THE DATA AREA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING DATA FROM WRITE ONCE DISC - A write once disc allowing management of a data area, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation information which indicates whether at least one section of the data area is allocated for disc defect management. In the disc and method, area allocation information specifying a structure of the data area is recorded on the disc, thus allowing a recording/reproducing apparatus to recognize the data area structure. Therefore, allocating areas, such as a spare area, for disc defect management other than an area for storing user data, to the data area is possible. The allocation of the areas for disc defect management to the data area enables effective use of the write once disc. | 11-11-2010 |
20100296372 | RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING DATA ON THE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING DATA ON THE RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording medium on which data is recorded in units of clusters, a method and apparatus for reproducing data on the recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording data on the recording medium, wherein each of the clusters includes a plurality of address fields, each address field includes 32-bit address unit number (AUN) address information, and the AUN address information includes a reserved area recorded on 4 bits, layer information, recorded on 3 bits, indicating a layer on which data corresponding to the AUN address information is recorded, and location information, recorded on 25 bits, indicating a location of the data corresponding to the AUN address information. In the recording medium of the present invention, a space in which addresses are recorded is expanded, thereby securing an address area in which addresses of data can be recorded in a data structure. | 11-25-2010 |
20100306487 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An information storage medium includes: a user data area for recording user data; a spare area including spare blocks each for replacing a defective block occurring in the user data area; and a defect management area in which information about the defective block occurring in the user data area is recorded, wherein the spare blocks of the spare area include usable spare blocks with replacement blocks existing in forward parts of the usable spare blocks in a usage order, and usable spare blocks without replacement blocks existing in forward parts of the usable spare blocks in the usage order, wherein a next available position pointer of the spare area is recorded in the defect management area, and the next available position pointer of the spare area indicates a first usable spare block from among the usable spare blocks without the replacement blocks existing in the forward parts of the usable spare blocks in the usage order. | 12-02-2010 |
20100309765 | WRITE ONCE DISC ALLOWING MANAGEMENT OF DATA AREA, METHOD OF MANAGING THE DATA AREA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING DATA FROM WRITE ONCE DISC - A write once disc allowing management of a data area, a method of managing the data area of the write once disc, an apparatus recording data on the write once disc, an apparatus and method of reproducing data from a write once disc. The write once disc, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation information which indicates whether at least one section of the data area is allocated for disc defect management. In the disc and method, area allocation information specifying a structure of the data area is recorded on the disc, thus allowing a recording/reproducing apparatus to recognize the data area structure. Therefore, allocating areas, such as a spare area, for disc defect management other than an area for storing user data, to the data area is possible. The allocation of the areas for disc defect management to the data area enables effective use of the write once disc. | 12-09-2010 |
20110010604 | INFORMATION ENCODING METHOD, INFORMATION DECODING METHOD, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A method of encoding information and a method of decoding information, and an apparatus to perform one or both methods, and an information storage medium on which to store the information, the method of encoding the information including encrypting data between two ECC-encoding operations, and the method of decoding the information including decrypting data between two ECC-decoding operations | 01-13-2011 |
20110058466 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECORDING/REPRODUCING DATA OF OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical recording medium, an apparatus and method of manufacturing an optical recording medium, and an apparatus and method of recording/reproducing data of an optical recording medium, allocated with a wobble address suitable for a capacity of a high density recording disc, the optical recording medium including a first area and a second area on which data is recorded/reproduced by a recording/reproducing apparatus, the optical recording medium including: a recording unit block on which the data is recorded or reproduced, and a wobble address corresponding to the recording unit block and indicating a location of the recording unit block in the optical recording medium, the wobble address including a plurality of address units (ADIPs), wherein last two bits in the ADIPs in the first area are one of: 00, 10, and 01, and last two bits in at least one ADIP in the second area are 11. | 03-10-2011 |
20110085426 | RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING DATA ON THE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING DATA ON THE RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording medium on which data is recorded in units of clusters, a method and apparatus for reproducing data on the recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording data on the recording medium, wherein each of the clusters includes a plurality of address fields, each address field includes 32-bit address unit number (AUN) address information, and the AUN address information includes a reserved area recorded on 4 bits, layer information, recorded on 3 bits, indicating a layer on which data corresponding to the AUN address information is recorded, and location information, recorded on 25 bits, indicating a location of the data corresponding to the AUN address information. In the recording medium of the present invention, a space in which addresses are recorded is expanded, thereby securing an address area in which addresses of data can be recorded in a data structure. | 04-14-2011 |
20110096642 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A computer readable medium, apparatus, and method for efficiently managing a space bitmap. A computer readable medium includes: a user data area on which user data is recorded; and a temporary disc management area on which a space bitmap indicating a recording status of recording and reproducing unit blocks of the user data area is recorded. The space bitmap includes header information for distinguishing an additional space bitmap from the space bitmap. The additional space bitmap is assigned when a space provided for the space bitmap is insufficient to represent the recording status of the recording and reproducing unit blocks of the user data area. | 04-28-2011 |
20110292775 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information storage medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method, the information storage medium including a plurality of recording layers, each layer including a lead-in area or a lead-out area, a data area, a middle area, and a dedicated area, wherein the data area is flexibly allocated according to data capacity to be recorded in each of the recording layers, the middle area is allocated behind the data area, and the dedicated area is allocated behind the middle area. The dedicated area for a special purpose may selectively be allocated in an outer circumferential area of the information storage medium, i.e., an optical disk including a plurality of recording layers. In particular, optical disks in various formats are provided in which dedicated areas for special purposes can selectively be allocated in outer circumferential areas of the optical disks depending on recording characteristics of the optical disks and the outer circumferential areas. | 12-01-2011 |
20110305126 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORD REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND RECORD REPRODUCTION METHOD - Provided is an information storage medium that has a plurality of recording layers, a recording/reproducing method, and a recording/reproducing apparatus. In the information storage medium, each of the plurality of recording layers includes an inner circumference zone and a data zone, and at least one of the recording layers includes, in the inner circumference zone, a temporary disc management area (TDMA) for recording information about a defect detected in the data zone, wherein a size of a TDMA allocated on an upper layer is greater than a size of a TDMA allocated on a lower layer. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310715 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORD REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND RECORD REPRODUCING METHOD - Provided is an information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers. Each recording layer may comprise at least one optical power control (OPC) area, and each OPC area is allocated so as not to overlap an adjacent layer in a given radius. | 12-22-2011 |
20120026848 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD - An information storage medium is provided. The information storage medium includes a user data area on which user data is recorded, and a temporary disc management area on which a space bitmap representing a recording status of at least one recording/reproducing unit block of the user data area is recorded. The temporary disc management area including information about an additional space bitmap which is assigned to provide additional space to represent the recording status of the at least one recording/reproducing unit block of the user data area. | 02-02-2012 |
20120063285 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DISC DEFECTS USING UPDATEABLE DMA, AND DISC THEREOF - A reproducing apparatus is provided. The reproducing apparatus includes a recording/reading unit that records data on or reads data from a disc including a defect management area in which defect information regarding data recorded in a data area of the disc and defect management information for managing the defect information are repeatedly recorded, and a controller that controls the recording/reading unit to read the defect information and the defect management information from the defect management area, and read data from the disc using the defect information. First defect information, which is repeatedly recorded, includes second defect information which is recorded in a predetermined area and defect information regarding a defective block occurring after the second defect information is recorded. The defect management information includes location information of the defect information. | 03-15-2012 |
20120155236 | RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING METHOD AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a recording and/or reproducing method, and an information storage medium, wherein the recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information storage medium having one or more information recording layers; and a control unit controlling the writing and/or reading unit to write the data to the information storage medium by referring to one or more disk information structures including recording related parameter information corresponding to recording characteristics of the information storage medium, and recording characteristic information to which the recording related parameters are applied. According to the apparatus and method, parameters of recording characteristics appropriate to a recording and/or reproducing apparatus and compatibility between different specifications can be achieved. | 06-21-2012 |
20120188860 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING THE SAME - An information storage medium and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method, the information storage medium includes: an area for recording information regarding a predetermined function applied thereto, wherein the information regarding the predetermined function includes specific information in which set information regarding the predetermined function is set by a recording/reproducing apparatus that can recognize the predetermined function, and common information set by the recording/reproducing apparatus that can recognize the predetermined function based on corresponding information dependent upon the set information so that a recording/reproducing apparatus that cannot recognize the predetermined function can use the predetermined function. Accordingly, a recording/reproducing apparatus that cannot recognize a predetermined function can properly use a medium having the predetermined function. | 07-26-2012 |
20120327753 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PREPIT AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING THE SAME - An information recording medium that can be rapidly finalized, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method using the same are provided. In the information recording medium, a prepit is pre-formed in a finalization area. Since the portion that has to be filled with data in finalizing the information recording medium is previously formed as the prepits series in manufacturing the information recording medium, the time necessary to finalize the information recording medium can be shortened, thereby achieving the rapid finalization of the medium. | 12-27-2012 |