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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
May. 25, 2000
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Device and method for detecting a non-writable region of an optical recording medium, wherein a read channel signal and a read channel signal are sliced at respective slice levels to produce header mask signals, and a header region which is a non-writable region is determined for the header mask signal taking the slice levels and written/unwritten regions ion the disk, whereby permitting stabilization of servos because servo error signals, such as a tracking error signal, and a focus error signal can be held exactly at a header region even if the servos are not stable, that prevents deterioration of a data quality in writing and reading, and permitting to shift an optical pickup to a desired position and accurate measurement of an amount of eccentricity because there is no influence of the header in a track jump and a disk eccentricity measurement.