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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2013
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Shin-ichi Kadowaki, Fukuoka, JP;
Mamoru Shoji, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Nakamura, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Ishida, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical disc drive having an optical pickup head emitting a light beam to an optical storage medium, detecting the light beam reflected from the optical storage medium, and outputting a signal based on the received reflected light, having a jitter measuring unit measuring jitter in signals output from the optical pickup head and having an evaluation unit determining from the measured jitter if the optical storage medium is good or defective. The jitter measuring unit measures jitter in a train of 3T or longer marks or spaces from an optical storage medium to which digital information is recorded as a train of marks or spaces of length kT based on a period T and an integer k of two or more.