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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1998
Hideo Ando, Tokyo, JP;
Mikio Yamamuro, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An information storage medium, which is manufactured with high yield and is little influenced by a reproducing apparatus, and an information reproducing apparatus capable of performing stable information reproduction. The information storage medium has a pre-groove with a groove-like, continuous projection-and-recess shape and a pre-pit with an intermittent projection-and-recess shape. A level difference (depth or height) of the projection and recess of the pre-pit is substantially equal to that of the pre-groove. Each of the pre-pit and pregroove has a recording surface wobbling along a predetermined curved line. A reproduction signal from the information storage medium having the recording surface can be obtained by at least one pair of a preamplifier and a digitizing circuit.