Patent ID: 7269107

Claim:
A method of detecting land pre-pit (LPP) signals from a digital video disk (DVD), in which land pre-pits are formed in a groove, comprising the steps of: reading a push-pull signal including a wobble component and LPP components, which appear at peaks of the wobble component; and slice-shaping the push-pull signal with a prescribed slice signal so as to binarize the LPP components and detect the LPP signals, characterized by: detecting pulse widths of the LPP signals with gradually changing voltage of the slice signal close to that of the wobble component; calculating degree of dispersion of the pulse widths of the LPP signals; stopping the change of the voltage of the slice signal when the degree of dispersion exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and correcting the voltage of the slice signal, which is the voltage when the degree of dispersion exceeds the threshold value, on the basis of a predetermined correction value so as to use the corrected voltage of the slice signal as the voltage of the slice signal.