Information storage medium evaluation method, information storage medium evaluation apparatus, information storage medium, information reproduction apparatus, information reproduction method, and information recording method

摘要

An information storage medium according to an aspect of this invention has an information storage area for storing information, and a wobbled track which is used to guide a light beam on the information storage area, and is wobbled in correspondence with a frequency, a phase of which is modulated at predetermined timings to reflect predetermined information. The wobbled track is formed so that an evaluation result based on the frequency characteristics of a squared reproduction signal obtained by squaring a reproduction signal corresponding to the wobbled track, obtained from the reflected light of a light beam with which the wobbled track is irradiated, meets a predetermined evaluation measure.