Patent ID: 7310296

Claim:
A method for decoding address data of an optical disc drive for decoding an input wobble signal into an address data unit signal, the method comprising: (a) converting a wobble carrier frequency signal output by a phase lock loop into a wobble carrier frequency signal with the same phase as the input wobble signal; (b) multiplying the wobble frequency signal with the input wobble signal to obtain a product signal; (c) accumulating the product signals at each clock to obtain a quotient summation signal; and (d) determining phase changes of the input wobble signal according to the quotient summation signal to obtain a phase change signal; (e) sequencing the values of the quotient summation signals at each clock, and selecting a plurality of clocks having smaller quotient summations in order to obtain a sync pattern; and (f) comparing the sync pattern with a plurality of address data patterns, and using the address data pattern closest to the sync pattern as the address data unit signal.