Title of Invention

METHOD FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM A WOBBLE TRACK AND CIRCUIT THEREOF

Abstract

METHOD FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM A WOBBLE TRACK AND CIRCUIT THEREOF Method for obtaining information (INF) from a wobble track (36) of an optical storage medium (34) by producing a wobble signal (TW) from the difference between the signals from two photodetector areas (1A+1D,1B+1C) of a photodetector (1), with the signal from one detector area (1A+1D) being provided with a weighting factor (Kl), characterized in that a data signal (HF), which is obtained by summing the signals (A, B, C, D) from the photodetector (1), is linked to a data signal component (AS') which is contained in the wobble signal (TW, TW) and is used for automatic adjustment of the weighting factor (Kl). 7 OCT 2008

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FORM 2 THE PATENTS ACT 1970 [39 OF 1970] & THE PATENTS RULES, 2003 as amended by THE PATENTS (AMENDMENT) RULES, 2006 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION [See Section 10; rule 13] "METHOD FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM A WOBBLE TRACK AND CIRCUIT THEREOF" Thomson Licensing S.A., a French company of 46, Quai A. Le Gallo, F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France The following specification particularly describes the invention and the manner in which it is to be performed: The present invention relates to method for obtaining information from a wobble track and circuit thereof. The present invention relates to a method and a circuit for recovering the information contained in a wobble 5 track of an optical storage medium. Methods such as these are used, for example, in appliances for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media with wobble tracks, in order to obtain 10 address information from the wobble tracks or to use the wobbly frequency to produce a write clock. In general, in optical storage media which are in the form of discs and are suitable for reading from and/or 15 writing the embossed tracks are formed such that they represent an interleaved spiral or concentric circles. Especially in the case of optical storage media which are suitable for writing to, the embossed tracks additionally are wobbled in a specific form, in order 2 0 to find specific positions on the medium. This means that the track is not embossed in an approximately straight line, but in serpentine lines. By way of example, the shape of these serpentine lines can contain address information which is used to identify a 2 5 specific position on this optical storage medium. Various methods are used for coding, examples of which include frequency modulation or phase modulation. Furthermore, the wobble signal may also be used for rotation speed information or for presetting a write 30 data rate. Normally, the modulation shift of this track wobble is kept small, so that there is no noticeable effect on 7 OCT 2008 the tracking control and the read quality of the data signal. The modulation shift is thus kept in the order of magnitude of a few percent of the track separation. Furthermore, the modulation frequency is designed to be 5 in a frequency band which is typically above the upper cut-off frequency of the tracking regulator, but is below the lowermost signal frequency of the data signal. However, the small modulation shift means that the signal-to-noise ratio of the wobble signal obtained 10 from it is relatively low. Nevertheless, the coded information and the fundamental frequency should be capable of being coded and reconstructed reliably, in order to allow reliable reading and writing. Disturbance noise components must therefore be 15 effectively suppressed. US 5,717,679 discloses a system which is able to correct the noise components in the wobble signal resulting from any eccentricity of the wobble track. 2 0 The circuit which is specified for this purpose uses variable-gain amplifiers in order to compensate for different illumination levels of two detector halves. The system is based on the CD-R technique, which uses a wobble frequency of 22.05 kHz. Since the lowest signal 25 frequency of the data signal is 934 kHz, those data signal components which are likewise present in the wobble signal can easily be removed by means of a low-pass filter, as is also disclosed in US 5,717,679. One disadvantage of this known system is that low-pass 3 0 filtering is impossible when using wobble frequencies which are close to the lowest signal frequency, as is the case, for example, with DVD technology (wobble frequency 825 kHz). Disturbance data signal components 3 therefore cannot be removed with the disclosed system at high wobble frequencies. One aim of the invention is to describe a method within 5 an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media, which can remove disturbance data signal components in the wobble signal even when the wobble frequency and the lowest signal frequency are close to one another. 10 According to the invention, this object is achieved in that the signals from two detector halves of a photodetector from which a wobble signal is obtained and which is used for reading the data contained in a 15 track of an optical storage medium are provided with weighting factors which are adjusted dynamically during operation of the appliance. In order to adjust the weighting factors, the data signal component in the wobble signal that is obtained is linked to the data 2 0 signal. Dynamic adjustment of the weighting factors has the advantage that the data signal components in the wobble signal are always suppressed optimally, even if any changes occur in the illumination level of the photodetector during operation. 25 According to the invention, the signals from the two detector areas of the photodetector are provided with mutually opposing weighting factors. This has the advantage that the amplitude of the wobble signal 30 obtained from the difference between the signals from the two detector areas is not influenced by the weighting factors. According to the invention, the data signal is digitized before being linked to the data signal component of the wobble signal, so that the linking process is carried out as a synchronous demodulation 5 process. The advantage of using a digitized data signal is that the synchronous demodulation represents multiplication by ±1, and, technically, this can be carried out easily. 10 The wobble signal is advantageously normalized before determining the data signal component. This may be done, for example, by means of an averaged sum signal or the signal from one detector half. In consequence, the amplitude of the wobble signal is less dependent on 15 the light power of a light source in the optical scanner/ or reflection on the optical storage medium. The reaction time of the control loop to dynamic adjustment of the weighting factors is then likewise less dependent on these variables. One advantage of 20 using an averaged sum signal is that such an averaged sum signal is generally already available in appliances for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media. 25 In a further method according to the invention, the amplitude of the wobble signal is kept constant, by the signals from the two detector halves being normalized separately by means of their respective averaged sum signal. 30 According to the invention, disturbance data signal components in the wobble signal are removed by means of a circuit which uses one of the methods mentioned above. A method according to the invention or a circuit 5 according to the invention is advantageously used for recovering the information contained in a wobble track in an optical storage medium in an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media. The invention will be explained in the following text 10 with reference to advantageous exemplary embodiments and using Figures 1 to 9. Combinations of advantageous exemplary embodiments are, of course, within the applicability area of the invention. In the figures, identical reference symbols denote the same components 15 and signals. In the figures: Figure 1: shows an arrangement for obtaining a wobble signal according to the prior art; 20 Figure 2: shows an arrangement according to the invention for automatic adjustment of the weighting factors; 25 Figure 3: shows a modification of the arrangement corresponding to Figure 2; Figure 4: shows an arrangement corresponding to Figure 2 with amplitude regulation of 3 0 the data signal; Figure 5 shows an arrangement corresponding to Figure 2 with the data signal being normalized; 35 Figure 6: shows an arrangement corresponding to Figure 2, with the wobble signal being normalized; 5 Figure 7: shows an arrangement corresponding to Figure 2 with amplitude regulation of ■ the wobble signal; Figure 8: shows an arrangement corresponding to 10 Figure 2, with the signals of the two detector halves being normalized; and Figure 9: shows an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage 15 media, which has an arrangement according to the invention for automatic adjustment of the weighting factors. 20 Figure 9 shows an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media 34, which has an arrangement 3 8 according to the invention for obtaining information INF contained in a wobble track 3 6 on the optical storage medium. The scanning beam 40 which is 25 emitted from a light source 30 is collimated by a collimator 31, and is diverted by means of a beam splitter 32. An objective lens 33 focuses the scanning beam 4 0 onto the wobble track 3 6 of a layer 3 5 of an optical storage medium 3 4 which carries information. 30 The scanning beam 40 reflected from the layer which carries the information is collimated by the objective lens 3 3 and is imaged on the photodetector 1 by means of an imaging unit 37. A tracking error signal TW and the information INF are obtained from the signals 35 A, B, C, D from the photodetector 1 by means of an arrangement 3 8 according to the invention for recovering the information INF contained in a wobble track 36 of an optical storage medium 34. The tracking error signal TW' is supplied to a tracking regulator 39, which itself ensures that the scanning beam 40 moves as close as possible to the track centre of the 5 wobble track 36. Figure 1 shows an arrangement for obtaining a wobble signal TW, which is used by a decoding unit 8 to decode the information INF contained in the wobble track 3 6 of 10 an optical storage medium 34, according to the prior art. The basis for obtaining the signal is the linking of the signals A, B, C, D from a photodetector 1. This makes use of the characteristic that the scanning beam 4 0 which strikes the optical storage medium 3 4 as shown 15 in Figure 9 causes an effect which makes it possible to use the push-pull tracking control method. This effect is based on the principle that a diffraction effect occurs at the edges of the tracks 36, so that not only is a vertical beam (zeroth order) reflected in the 2 0 direction of the photodetector 1 from the memory layer 3 5 which carries the information, but also higher-order beams, which are not reflected precisely at right angles to the surface of the memory layer 35. In this case, an objective lens 3 3 is generally used to collect 25 the reflected zeroth order and ±lst order beams and to image them on a photodetector 1, which is subdivided into at least two areas 1A+1D, 1B+1C. In the process, destructive interference of different intensity is formed in the overlapping area between the zeroth order 3 0 and ±lst order as a function of the tracking position, and this is evaluated in the form of a tracking error signal TW. The resultant tracking error signal TW is thus referred to as the push-pull tracking error In order to obtain this tracking error signal TW , the output signals A, B, C, D from the photodetector 1 are 5 first of all amplified by means of amplifiers 2, and are then linked, for example as shown in Figure 1. The photodetector 1 is typically subdivided into four areas 1A, IB, 1C, ID, in order to obtain a focusing error signal- (not shown) at the same time, in addition to the 10 tracking error signal TW . However, in order to obtain the tracking error signal TW using the push-pull effect, it is sufficient to subdivide the photodetector 1 into a right-hand half 1B+1C and a left-hand half 1A+1D, and to subtract the output signals from these 15 two detector halves from one another. In the case of a four-quadrant detector, this is done by first of all carrying out the logic operations (A+D) and (B+C) using two adders 4, 5. The difference signal (A+D) - (B+C) is then formed by means of a differential amplifier 6. The 20 difference signal (A+D) - (B+C) obtained in this way is then supplied to a tracking regulator 39, as the tracking error signal TW . The tracking regulator 39 for its part ensures that the scanning beam 4 0 is moved as close as possible to the track centre of a 2 5 predetermined track 36. In order to decode the information INF contained in the wobble tracks 3 6 of an optical storage medium 34, or in order to form a write clock, the wobble signal TW is 30 supplied to a decoding unit 8 which, by way of example, emits address information and/or a write clock. The wobble signal TW is itself formed by filtering from the push-pull tracking error signal TW, by means of a filter 7. On the other hand, the data signal HF which represents the information content of the optical storage medium 5 34 is formed from the output signals A, B, C, D from the photodetector 1 by addition in an adder 3. In order to allow detection by addition of the photodetector signals A, B, C, D, the information is stored by writing light/dark contrasts or by embossing so-called 10 pits on the optical storage medium 34. If the scanning beam 40 is following the centre of an embossed track 36, the scanning beam 40 is reflected at the layer 3 5 of the optical storage medium 34 which 15 carries the information, such that, ideally, a round light spot is imaged onto the photodetector 1, at whose sides the already mentioned interference resulting from the push-pull effect is observed. The total intensity of this light spot is modulated by the brightness 20 contrast of the area illuminated by the scanning beam 40. Since the data is stored by means of structures which cause brightness differences, the intensity of the 25 light spot is thus modulated such that it corresponds to the data on the memory layer 35. Ideally, this is carried out in a synchronized manner on the two detector halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C. Since the tracking error signal TW' and the wobble signal TW derived from it are 3 0 derived from the difference (A+D) - (B+C) between the signals from the detector halves lA+lD, 1B+1C the data signal component caused by the brightness contrast is cancelled out during the subtraction process by the 10 differential amplifier 6. However, if the imaging of the scanning beam 4 0 on the photodetector 1 is not ideally axially symmetrical, then a data signal component AS' is superimposed on the desired signal 5 component which represents the wobble track 36. This results in it not being possible to evaluate those-signal components which are caused by the wobble track 36 as well as before, so that errors occur in the address evaluation. 10 An improvement is achieved if the weighting between the output signals (A+D), (B+C) from the two halves 1A+1D,1B+1C of the photodetector 1 is changed before the subtraction process by the differential amplifier 15 6, so that the contrast-dependent components of the alternating light amplitudes are cancelled out on the two halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C of the photodetector 1. To this end, the four photodetector signals A, B, C, D 20 are first of all amplified by means of amplifiers 2. Two signal elements (A+D), (B+C) are then produced by summation in the adders 4, 5 and these reproduce the modulation on the respective halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C of the photodetector 1. Before the subsequent subtraction 2 5 process, the signal (A+D) is passed through an amplifier 9K1 with a variably adjustable gain Kl, so that the difference signal TW' is formed in accordance with the following relationship: 30 TW =Klx (A+D) - (B+C) The weighting process results in the data signal components which are imaged onto the detector halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C as a result of the different modulation being set to the same magnitude before the subtraction process, so that they cancel one another out. This can also be achieved in an equivalent manner by passing the 5 signal (B+C) through an amplifier 9K2 with a variably adjustable gain K2, corresponding to the following signal calculation: TW' =(A+D)-K2x{B+C) 10 The two solutions have the common feature that the resultant amplitude of the difference signal TW changes as a function of the weighting factor Kl, K2 setting. This can be avoided by the two signals 15 (A+D), (B+C) being weighted, and by the weighting factors Kl, K2 being matched to one another such that K2=1-K1. The following signal calculation is thus used: TW'=Klx(A+D)-(l-Kl)x(B+C) 20 The tracking error signal TW normally has any further undesirable signal components, such as low-frequency disturbances caused by residual tracking errors and so on, removed from it by means of a filter 7, in order to 25 obtain the wobble signal TW which is supplied to the decoding unit 8. During operation of the appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media 34, it is 30 possible, however, for a situation to occur caused by heating, ageing or other disturbance variables in which the intensity distribution or position of the image on the photodetector 1 changes. A situation such as this can occur in particular as a result of residual errors in focus control or in tracking control 39. If the weighting factors Kl, K2 are set only once during production of the appliance, it is impossible to 5 compensate for such variables, which vary dynamically. In order to overcome this disadvantage, it is advantageous to adjust the weighting factors Kl, K2 automatically during operation such that the 10 disturbance data signal components cancel one another out as well as possible in the subtraction process 6. An arrangement according to the invention for automatic adjustment of the weighting factors Kl, K2, in which 15 the data signal HF obtained by summation of the signals A, B, C, D from the photodetector 1 is multiplied by the data signal component AS' from the difference signal TW or from the wobble signal TW, the result of the multiplication is integrated, and the result of the 2 0 integration used to adjust the weighting factors, is shown in Figure 2. The difference signal TW obtained in the manner described in Figure 1 has low-frequency disturbances 25 removed from it by means of a filter 10 which can pass only the data signal frequency band, and this is supplied to a first inputof a multiplier 11. The wobble signal TW can also be used instead of the difference signal TW . The second input of the 30 multiplier 11 is supplied with the data signal HF which also has low-frequency disturbances removed from it by means of a filter 10b. The output signal from the multiplier 11 .is integrated by an integrator 12. The ft output signal from the integrator 12 controls the first weighting factor Kl, while the output signal converted by a converter 13 controls the second weighting factor K2. The converter 13 is, for example, a divider, a.n 5 inverter or a functional block which calculates the value 1-x to a value x. Other converters may of course also be used. The invention is based on the alternating light 10 modulations on the two detector halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C being in phase with one another. For this reason, the sum of the output signals A, B, C, D from the photodetector areas 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D is used to obtain the data signal. The voltage produced in the 15 photodetector 1 is in this case proportional to the intensity reflected from the optical storage medium 34. A corresponding situation applies to the two detector halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C, so that if the weighting Kl, K2 is 20 set to be the same in the two branches during the subtraction process by means of the differential amplifier 6, the data signal components cancel one another out, provided the amplitudes are equal. However, if there is an amplitude difference, then an 2 5 undesirable data signal component AS' remains in the difference signal TW' after the subtraction process, and this is also present in the wobble signal TW after filtering by the filter 7. This data signal component AS' is at a phase angle of 0° or 180° relative to the 30 data signal HF, depending on which half 1A+1D, 1B+1C of the photodetector 1 receives more reflected light. In the example shown in Figure 2, the phase angle between the data signal HF and the data signal component AS' in 14 the difference signal TW will be zero when the detector half 1A+1D is illuminated more strongly. When the detector half 1B+1C is illuminated more strongly, then the negative mathematical sign in the subtraction 5 process for the difference signal TW means that the phase angle between the data signal HF and the data signal component AS' in the difference signal TW will be 180°. At the limit, when the modulations on the detector halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C are equal or the 10 weighting, Kl, K2 is set correctly, the data signal component AS' in the difference signal TW is zero, and thus in the ideal case, no phase angle can be found. This behaviour is made use of by multiplying the data 15 signal HF by the data signal component AS' in the difference signal TW . This multiplication results in an output signal whose mathematical sign is positive or negative depending on the phase angle, and whose magnitude is dependent on the amplitude of the data 20 signal component AS' in the difference signal TW. The magnitude of the output signal from the multiplier 11 becomes greater the greater the difference between the data signal components in (A+D) with reference to (B+C). The mathematical sign indicates which of the 25 signal components is larger and should be attenuated by appropriate weighting Kl, K2 . If the output from the multiplier 11 is connected to an integrator 12, then the integrator 12 changes its 30 output voltage until the data signal component AS' in the difference signal TV}' becomes zero. If the output signal from the integrator 12 sets the weighting factor Kl, K2 of the one or the two branches to form the difference signal TW', then this results in a control loop with an integrating response. In this case, the integrator 12 varies the weighting Kl, K2 until the output signal from the multiplier 11 becomes zero. 5 The data signal component AS' in the wobble signal TW is thus likewise zero. Since only the data signal components AS' are intended to be multiplied by one another, it is advantageous, as shown in Figure 2, to 10 remove the low-frequency components from the input signals to the multiplier 11. This can be done, for example, by means of high-pass or bandpass filters 10a, 10b, which allow only the data signal frequency band to pass. For reasons of clarity, these filters 10a, 10b 15 are not shown in the other figures. The advantage of an integrating control loop response is that, after a time which is dependent on the integration time constant, the weighting Kl, K2 is 2 0 always set such that the data signal component AS' in the wobble signal TW becomes zero. The remaining residual error, that is to say in this case the data signal component AS' in the wobble signal TW, will always become zero when the control loop has an 25 integrating response. However, the integration time is dependent on the magnitude of the signal at the input of the integrator 12, that is to say in the case of the weighting factor control loop, from the amplitude of the output of the multiplier 11. This amplitude is in 3 0 turn dependent on the amplitude of the input signals to the multiplier 11, that is to say from the data signal HF and the data signal component AS' in the wobble signal TW. If, for example, the light power from the light source 30 in the optical scanner or the reflection of the optical storage medium 34 is halved, then the output amplitude of the multiplier 11 is divided by four, which means that the integration time 5 is increased by a factor of 4. Figure 3 shows an arrangement corresponding to that in Figure 2, in which a synchronous demodulator 14, which has a digital input and an analogue input, is used 10 instead of the multiplier 11. The data signal component AS' of the difference signal TW' is supplied to the analogue input of the synchronous demodulator 14. The data signal HF is digitized by means of a comparator 15, and the digitized data signal HFD is then supplied 15 to the digital input of the synchronous demodulator 14. The weighting factors Kl, K2 are set as already described with reference to Figure 2. Firstly, this arrangement has the advantage that the amplitude of the digitized data signal HFD can assume only two fixed 20 values, as a result of which the integration time is less dependent on the light power from the light source 30 in the optical scanner or the reflection of the optical storage medium 34. On the other hand, the multiplication by the digitized data signal HFD 25 represents a multiplication by ±1, which is technically simple to implement. Figure 4 shows a further exemplary embodiment according to the invention, corresponding to that shown in Figure 30 2, in which the amplitude of the data signal HF is kept constant by an amplitude regulator 16. An analogue multiplier 11 is used in this case. Figure 5 shows an arrangement corresponding to that in Figure 2, in which the amplitude of the data signal HF is normalized with the aid of the averaged sum signal UMIA. For this purpose, the data signal HF is supplied 5 to an averager 18, whose output signal UMIA is applied to a normalizer 17, and is used to normalize the data signal HF. An analogue multiplier 11 is used in this case as well. 10' Both exemplary embodiments have the advantage that the amplitude of the data signal HF is kept constant, so that the integration time is less dependent on the light power from the light source 30 in the optical scanner or the reflection of the optical storage medium 15 34. Furthermore, a normalized data signal is generally available in appliances for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media, so that the available signal can advantageously be used. 20 The arrangement shown in Figure 6 differs from the arrangement shown in Figure 5 in that the difference signal TW is normalized, instead of the data signal HF, by the averaged sum signal UMIA. The output signal UMIA from the averager 18 is supplied to a normalizer 25 19, which normalizes the difference signal TW on the basis of the signal UMIA. The arrangement shown in Figure 7 corresponds to the arrangement in Figure 4 with the difference that the 30 amplitude of the difference signal TW, rather than the amplitude of the data signal HF, is kept constant by an amplitude regulator 20. The advantage ot the two arrangements mentioned above is that the integration time is less dependant on the light power from the light source 30 in the optical scanner, or the. reflection of the optical storage 5 medium 34. The signals (A+D), (B+C) from the two detector halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C are advantageously normalised separately, by means of their respective averaged sum signal, 10 before amplification by the variable amplifiers 9K1, 9K2 and before subtraction by the differential amplifier 6, as is illustrated in Figure 8. The sum-signal (A+D) from the first detector half 1A+1D is for this purpose supplied to the averager 21, whose output 15 signal is supplied to the normalizer 22 and is used to normalize the sum signal (A+D). In a corresponding way, the sum signal (B+C) from the second detector half 1B+1C is normalized by means of the averager 23 and the normalizer 24. 20 The advantage of this arrangement is that the amplitudes of the signals (A+D), (B+C) from the two detector halves 1A+1D, 1B+1C are completely independent of the reflection and of the light power. 25 One of the arrangements shown in Figure 2 to Figure 8 is advantageously used in an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media with wobble tracks as is shown in Figure 9. We claim: I. Method for obtaining information (INF) from a wobble track (36) of an optical storage medium (34) by producing a wobble signal (TW) from the difference between the signals from two photodetector areas (1A+1D,1B+1C) of a photodetector (1), with the signal from one detector area (1A+1D) being provided with a weighting factor (Kl), characterized in that a data signal (HF), which is obtained by summing the signals (A, B, C, D) from the photodetector (1), is linked to a data signal component (AS) which is contained in the wobble signal (TW, TW) and is used for automatic adjustment of the weighting factor (Kl) 2. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal (B+C) from the other detector area (1B+1C) is provided with a weighting factor (K2). 3. Method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the weighting factors (Kl, K2) are mutually opposing. 4. Method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the weighting factors (Kl, K2) are dependant on one another in accordance with the relationship K2=1-K1. 5. Method as claimed in one of claims 1-4, wherein the data signal (HF) is digitized, the digitized data signal (HFD) and the data signal component (AS') contained in the wobble signal (TW, TW) are demodulated in synchronism with one another, and the resultant signal is integrated. 6. Method as claimed in one of claims 1-4, wherein the data signal (HF) and the data signal component (AS') contained in the wobble signal (TW, TW) are multiplied by one another, and the resultant signal is integrated. 7. Method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the data signal (HF) and/or the wobble signal (TW, TW] is normalized. 8. Method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the signals (A, B, C, D, A+D, B+C) from the two detector halves (1A+1D, 1B+1C) are normalized. 9. Method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the amplitude of the data signal (HF) and/or of the wobble signal (TW, TW) kept constant by an amplitude regulator (16, 20) 10. Method as claimed in one of claims 1-9, wherein the data signal (HF) and/or the wobble signal (TW, TW) is high-pass filtered before the linking process. 20 7 OCT2008 11. Circuit for obtaining information (INF) from a wobble track (36) of an optical storage medium (34) by producing a wobble signal (TW) from the difference between the signals (A+D, B+C)from two photodetector areas (1A+1D,1B+1C) of a photodetector (1), with the signal (A+D) from one detector area (1A+1D) being provided with a weighting factor (Kl), characterized in that the said circuit has an adder (3) for obtaining a data signal (HF), and a logic unit (11, 14) for linking the data signal (HF) and a data signal component (AS') in the wobble signal (TW, TW5), the output signal from which logic unit (14) is supplied to a unit (12) for determining a weighting signal, which adjusts the weighting factor (Kl) 12. Circuit as claimed in claim 11, wherein the signal (B+C) from the second detector area (1B+1C) is provided with a weighting factor (K2), which is set by a weighting signal produced by a converter (13) 13. Circuit as claimed in claim 12, wherein the weighting factors (Kl, K2) are mutually opposed. 14. Circuit according to claim 13, wherein the weighting factors (Kl, K2) in K2=1-K1 are independent of one another. 15. Circuit as claimed in one of claims 11-14, wherein the said circuit has a comparator (15) for digitizing the data signal (HF), a synchronous demodulator (14) for multiplication of the digitized data signal (HFD) and the data signal component (AS5) in the wobble signal (TW, TW), and an integrator (12) for integration of the output signal from the synchronous demodulator (14) 16. Circuit as claimed in one of claims 11-14, wherein the said circuit has a multiplier (11) which multiplies the data signal (HF) and the data signal component (AS') in the wobble signal (TW, TW) by one another, and has an integrator (12) which integrates the output signal from the multiplier (11) 17. Circuit as claimed in claim 16, wherein the said circuit has an averager (18) and a normalizer (17, 19) , in order to normalize the data signal (HF) and/or the wobble signal (TW, TW) 18. Circuit as claimed in claim 16, characterized in that the said circuit has an amplitude regulator (16, 20) , in order to keep the amplitude of the data signal (HF) and/or of the wobble signal (TW, TW) constant. 19. Circuit as claimed in one of claims 11-18, wherein the said circuit has a filter (10a, 10b) in order to high-pass filter the data signal (HF) and/or the wobble signal (TW, TW') before the linking process. 7 OCT 2008 20. Circuit as claimed in any of the preceding claims whenever incorporated in an appliance for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media. Dated this 30/3/2005 [P. SEETHA] OF REMFRY & SAGAR ATTORNEY FOR THE APPLICANTS]

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105-mumnp-2004-form 2(title page)-(granted)-(19-11-2008).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-FORM 3(10-3-2004).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-FORM 3(11-2-2004).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-FORM 3(7-10-2008).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-FORM 5(11-2-2004).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-OTHER DOCUMENT(7-10-2008).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-PETITION UNDER RULE 137(7-10-2008).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-PETITION UNDER RULE 138(7-10-2008).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-POWER OF AUTHORITY(28-4-2004).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-POWER OF AUTHORITY(7-10-2008).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-SPECIFICATION(AMENDED)-(7-10-2008).pdf

105-MUMNP-2004-WO INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION REPORT(11-2-2004).pdf