Patent ID: 7920453

Claim:
An optical information recording/reproduction apparatus for recording data as combinations of marks and spaces on an information recording medium and reproducing the data from the information recording medium, comprising: a reproduced-waveform-information generation unit that generates reproduced waveform information based on a reproduced signal read out from the information recording medium; a conversion unit that calculates at least one of a formational position shift quantity of a leading edge and a trailing edge of a mark/space formed on the information recording medium and a mark length/space length based on the reproduced waveform information; and an adjustment unit that adjusts an edge shift quantity of the leading edge and the trailing edge of the mark/space at the time of recording based on said at least one of the calculated formational position shift quantity and the mark length/space length, wherein said conversion unit: employs a PRML detection for reproducing the data; employs a PR class for which the ideal waveform assumes the central reference level at any time of transition from a mark to a space or vice versa when an ideal waveform is generated, as ideal reproduced waveform information assumed from the employed PR class, based on the binarized data obtained by binarizing the reproduced waveform information, said conversion unit includes: an ideal-waveform generation circuit that generates an ideal waveform; an equalization-error calculation circuit that calculates the equalization error between the reproduced waveform information after PR-equalization and the ideal waveform; and a mark-length/space-length calculation circuit that calculates at least one of the formational position shift quantity and the mark length/space length based on the equalization error at the time when the ideal waveform assumes the central reference level, said mark-length/space-length calculation circuit calculates the formational position shift quantity of the mark/space at the leading edge or the trailing edge thereof based on a ratio of the equalization error that arises when the ideal waveform assumes the central reference level to a transition quantity that arises when the ideal waveform shifts from the level at the time point immediately preceding the time point when the ideal waveform assumes the central reference level or when the ideal waveform shifts from the central reference level to the level at the time point immediately succeeding the time point when the ideal waveform assumes the central reference level.