Claims
- 1. An optical reproducing method using an optical recording medium having an aligned prepit portion straddled on a plurality of tracks in a radial direction;
the prepit portion including a first and a second prepit portion divided in a track direction; the respective first and second prepit portions being arranged on a boundary of respective tracks; the first prepit portion including a synchronous information prepit arranged at every two-track pitch in the radial direction, the second prepit portion including a synchronous information prepit arranged at every two-track pitch in the radius direction, and the synchronous information prepit of the first prepit portion and the synchronous information prepit of the second prepit portion being arranged at opposite boundaries of the same track; a trailing end of the first prepit portion being aligned with the radial direction in arrangement; the optical reproducing method comprising the steps of: irradiating an optical spot on the optical recording medium; detecting a reflected beam from the optical recording medium; and reproducing information on the optical recording medium by using a signal obtained in accordance with the reflected beam.
Priority Claims (3)
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This is a continuation application of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/437,912, filed May 15, 2003, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/067,817, filed Feb. 8, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,580,685, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/809,048, filed Mar. 16, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,392,985, which is co-pending with U.S. application Ser. No. 09/808,993, filed Mar. 16, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,370,106, which are continuations of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/514,284, filed Feb. 28, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,262,968, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/181,677, filed Oct. 29, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,064,644, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/958,867, filed Oct. 27, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,898,663, which is a continuation application of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/733,924, filed Oct. 18, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,982,738, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/600,730, filed Feb. 13, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,805,565, the subject matter of which are incorporated by reference herein.
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