A multi-level information reproducing method is provided which can
increase the degree of separation between distributions of cell boundary
values to thereby improve the accuracy of reproduction. Specifically, in
a method of reproducing multi-level information recorded on a track of an
optical information recording medium by virtually providing cells at
equal intervals and by varying a width of an information pit in a track
direction or an area of an information pit, a cell boundary value (a
value obtained by sampling a reproduced signal when a center of a light
spot is located at a boundary of cells) is corrected based on cell center
values of two cells adjacent to the boundary (a value obtained by
sampling a reproduced signal when the center of the light spot is located
at a center of a cell), and the multi-level information is reproduced
based on the corrected cell boundary value.