Fujitsu Corporation

Yasuaki Morimoto

Nobuhide Aoyama

Ryota Akiyama

Tetsuo Hosokawa

Hideki Nishimoto

Satoshi Yamashita

Hirataka Ukai

Ryouta Akiyama

Motohiro Ito

In a storage device, a bad-sector detecting unit detects a bad sector, and a process determining unit determines whether rescue process is performed for the bad sector. Upon determining to perform the rescue process, the process determining unit controls a damping ratio. A table-updating control unit records various information in an alternating-process control table, and a controller records and reproduces data with respect to a rescue sector based on the alternating-process control table.

Storage device, memory, terminal, server, server-client system, storage medium, and control device

An information writing/reading apparatus that cooperates with an information record medium including a ROM area and a RAM area, either the RAM area or the ROM area having in advance control information recorded thereon used to limit reading and/or writing of information, the information writing/reading apparatus including an optical pick-up unit for reading information stored on the information record medium; and a control unit for, based on the control information read by the optical pick-up unit, limiting reading and/or writing of information from/to the other area on which the control information is not recorded and outputting a signal which notifies of presence of the other area only out of the ROM area and the RAM area on the information record medium.

Information record medium and information writing/reading apparatus

An optical disk apparatus records new information related to the ROM information into RAM at a position linked with the ROM information of an optical information storage medium while continuously regenerating the ROM information of the optical information storage medium. At least the ROM signals are read at n (n&#x3e;2) times of the information regeneration velocity V, which is a reference, and stored in a buffer memory for reading, then the stored information is output at a velocity of the information regeneration velocity V. And while the stored information is being output from the buffer memory for reading, the input information is stored in the buffer memory for writing, then the optical head is accessed an address position that is managed so that the time relationship of the output information and the input information link for recording.

Apparatus and method for storing ROM and RAM data into magneto-optical recording medium

A storage apparatus, capable of record or reproduce of an optical information recording medium in which ROM information is recorded with phase pits and RAM information is recorded on top of a recording region of the phase pits, has a main controller that, when the output of the recording information detection system&#x2014;a system for detecting reflected light of a laser beam from the optical information recording medium and generating signals corresponding to ROM and RAM information&#x2014;simultaneously contains ROM and RAM signals corresponding to ROM and RAM information, performs negative feedback control of a semiconductor laser emission using ROM signal in the output of the recording information detection system and performs control so as to obtain read-out and played-back ROM signal from the output of an optical intensity detection system for detecting the intensity of the laser light.

Storage apparatus

An optical information recording medium having a plurality of grooves and a plurality of lands alternately formed, where each groove and each land function as recording tracks. The medium includes a first header region having a plurality of first phase pits respectively formed on extensions of the plurality of lands, and a second header region having a plurality of second phase pits respectively formed on extensions of the plurality of grooves. Each groove has an optical depth of about 3&lgr;/8, where &lgr; is the wavelength of a light beam to be used. Each first phase pit has an optical depth that is smaller than that of each groove. Each second phase pit has an optical depth that is substantially equal to that of each groove. The first header region and the second header region are shifted from each other along the extension of each groove.

Optical information storage medium having lands and grooves both serving as recording tracks

An optical information storage unit for reproducing information recorded on lands and grooves of a magneto-optical recording medium by means of a reflected light obtained from a luminous flux which has been emitted from a light source, irradiated onto the recording medium and reflected from the recording medium. The optical information storage unit includes a first wave plate on which the reflected light from the magneto-optical recording medium is incident; a diffraction grating on which the light having been transmitted through the first wave plate is incident; a second wave plate on which the light having been transmitted through the diffraction grating is incident; and a polarization detecting unit on which the light having been transmitted through the second wave plate is incident.

Optical information storage unit

An optical storage unit which uses a light beam to record information on and/or reproduce information from a recording medium. The recording medium is provided with at least one land and at least one groove, and information is recorded in plural sectors in each of the land(s) and groove(s). The optical storage unit includes an optical phase adjuster for adjusting a phase of a polarization component of the light beam reflected from the recording medium based on a track type determination of a target address. An optical pickup is provided for reproducing information recorded on the recording medium using the phase-adjusted polarization component of the light beam.

Optical storage unit having a dual position optical phase adjuster

Disclosed is an optical storage device for reading information from an optical storage medium by an optical head. The optical storage device comprises an optical head including a track actuator for scanning on the skew across tracks on the optical storage medium by the laser beam, and a divided-by-4 light receiving unit for receiving the laser beam from the optical storage medium, a moving motor for moving the optical head, a first signal processing unit for calculating a track error signal on the basis of an output of the divided-by-4 light receiving unit, a second signal processing unit for calculating a shift signal of the objective lens from the output of the divided-by-4 light receiving unit, and a control unit for controlling the track actuator or the moving motor by the track error signal, and controlling the track actuator or the moving motor so that the laser beam passing through the objective lens is located at the center of the objective lens. With this construction, a lens position can be detected, and hence a lens position sensor becomes unnecessary.

Optical storage device and optical head having TES compensation shift signal compensation

An optical information recording medium having a plurality of grooves and a plurality of lands alternately formed, where each groove and each land function as recording tracks. The medium includes a first header region having a plurality of first phase pits respectively formed on extensions of the plurality of lands, and a second header region having a plurality of second phase pits respectively formed on extensions of the plurality of grooves. Each groove has an optical depth of about 3 &lgr;/8, where &lgr; is the wavelength of a light beam to be used. Each first phase pit has an optical depth that is smaller than that of each groove. Each second phase pit has an optical depth that is substantially equal to that of each groove. The first header region and the second header region are shifted from each other along the extension of each groove.

An optical information storage apparatus is constructed to include a light source, a polarization beam splitter reflecting a light beam emitted from the light source and irradiating a reflected light beam on a recording surface of a recording medium, a first part for eliminating a coma aberration which is generated due to a light beam which is reflected by the recording surface and passes through the polarization beam splitter, a second part for eliminating an astigmatism which is generated by the polarization beam splitter and the first part, and a third part for generating an astigmatism.

Optical information storage apparatus having cylindrical lens for

An optical information storage unit irradiates a light on a recording medium having a recording surface provided with a land and a groove and detects a reproduced signal from a light reflected from the recording medium. The optical information storage unit is provided with a phase compensation mechanism, provided in an optical path through which the light irradiated on the recording medium and a reflected light from the recording medium passes, for applying with respect to the reflected light a first phase compensation quantity required to detect a signal from the land and a second phase compensation quantity required to detect a signal from the groove.

Optical information storage unit having phase compensation means for

An optical information storage unit records information on and/or reproduces information from both a land and a groove of an optical recording medium which have approximately the same width. The optical information storage unit is provided with a first optical system, including a first light source and a first phase compensation means, detecting light from the land of the optical recording medium, and a second optical system, including a second light source and a second phase compensation means, detecting light from the groove of the optical recording medium. The first and second phase compensation means have mutually different phase compensation quantities.

Optical information storage unit for recording and/or reproducing

An optical information storage unit for reproducing information recorded on a magneto-optic recording medium having a land and a groove as recording tracks, is provided with at least one of first and second systems, where the first system includes a 1/2 wave plate which is arranged so that a crystal optical axis of the 1/2 wave plate and an electrical vector of a light beam emitted from a light source forms approximately 45 degrees, where the 1/2 wave plate being removable from a position of the light beam, and the second system is arranged with the 1/2 wave plate so that the crystal optical axis of the 1/2 wave plate and the electrical vector of the light beam emitted from the light source forms approximately 45 degrees, where the 1/2 wave plate is movable so that another 1/2 wave plate can move to the position of the light beam so that a crystal optical axis of the other 1/2 wave plate is parallel to or perpendicular to the electrical vector. An electrical vector of the light beam irradiated on the magneto-optic recording medium is set so that the electrical vector is perpendicular to a direction in which a recorded signal flows when reproducing the signal from the land and is parallel to the direction in which the recorded signal flows when reproducing the signal from the groove.

An optical information storage unit is provided with a light source, a polarization beam splitter reflecting and irradiating a bundle of rays emitted from the light source onto a recording surface of a recording medium, and an optical element receiving a convergent light reflected by the recording surface and passed through the polarization beam splitter, and having an infinite focal distance with a convergent point of the convergent light that is variable.

An optical information storage apparatus is constructed to include a light source, a polarization beam splitter reflecting light emitted from the light source and irradiating a reflected light on a recording surface of a recording medium, and an optical element, made of an optically transparent material, having an input surface to which light reflected by the recording surface and transmitted through the polarization beam splitter is input, and an output surface from which light is output. The optical element is inclined within a plane which is perpendicular to a light incident surface of the polarization beam splitter and includes an optical axis along which light travels. In addition, the input surface and the output surface of the optical element are parallel to each other.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Yasuaki Morimoto