Patent ID: 8064301

Claim:
A reproduction apparatus for reproducing data on a disk recording medium, the disk recording medium including a recording and reproducing area in which address information is recorded by wobbling of a spiral groove and a track formed by the spiral groove is used for reproducing mark information, and a reproduction-only area in which prerecorded information is recorded by wobbling of a groove, the reproduction apparatus comprising: an optical system to irradiate the track with a laser and to obtain a reflected light signal; a matrix circuit configured to extract a first signal related to wobbling of the spiral groove in the recording and reproducing area and to extract a second signal related to wobbling of the groove in the reproduction-only area, from the reflected light signal; a reader circuit configured to extract a signal related to the mark information from the reflected light signal; a wobble circuit configured to perform minimum shift keying (MSK) demodulation of the first signal related to the wobbling extracted by the matrix circuit to generate a data stream; an address decoder configured to decode address information based on the generated data stream; a first decoding circuit configured to decode the signal related to the mark information extracted by the reader circuit so as to obtain information recorded as the mark information at a time of reproduction in the recording and reproducing area; and a second decoding circuit configured to decode the signal related to the wobbling extracted by the matrix circuit so as to obtain the prerecorded information at a time of reproduction in the reproduction-only area based on a frequency of the wobbling, wherein an error correction code format of the prerecorded information uses a same code and structure as an error correction code format of the mark information.