Patent 7142498 was granted and assigned to Pioneer Corporation on November, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
It is an object to provide a recorded information reproducing apparatus that allows to eliminate crosstalk from an adjacent track correctly, even from a recording medium having both a recorded area in which information data are recorded and an unrecorded area. In order to detect a crosstalk component from an adjacent track based on a correlation between a main read signal read from a main track and a sub read signal read from an adjacent track, the relative phase between the sub read signal and the main read signal is shifted.