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7391682 Optical disk system with improved signal regulation capability  
A system, method, computer program and apparatus for providing regulating signals for regulating the position of an objective lens relative to a track on a disk. The regulating signals are obtained...
7382697 Optical disk apparatus  
A seek control unit increments by a first magnitude the maximum speed when the pickup head is moved while the number of jumped tracks can be counted appropriately. If the number of tracks jumped...
7372025 Scanning probe microscope using a surface drive actuator to position the scanning tip  
A scanning probe microscope includes a scanning probe tip and an electrostatic surface actuator operatively coupled to the scanning probe tip. The electrostatic surface actuator includes a movable...
7369000 Adaptive frequency detector of phase locked loop  
An adaptive frequency detector used in a phase locked loop for detecting a frequency difference between an input signal and an output clock generated from an oscillator of the phase locked loop...
7345966 Method and apparatus for achieving a short seek with a stepping motor  
A method for controlling a stepping motor in an optical storage system and for achieving a short seek with the stepping motor is disclosed. The optical storage system comprises a pick-up head and...
7345965 Method for track counting and corresponding apparatus for reading from and/or writing to an optical recording medium  
In an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to an optical recording medium, it is desirable, in particular in the case of track jumps, to detect the direction of the track jump, i.e. the...
7342852 Method and apparatus for differing focus between at least two dimensions  
The present invention obtains a more optimal focus in at least two dimensions (such as axial and radial dimensions) by setting or keeping a focus in at least a first dimension (such as both axial...
7336568 Method and apparatus for long seeking control in an optical disc drive  
A method for controlling long seeking operation in an optical disc drive is provided. The optical disc drive includes a sled actuator, a pickup head installed on the sled actuator for reading...
7336566 Method and apparatus for track type identification, and method of track jump  
The track jumping of a scanner on optical storage media in which information items are stored on groove and land tracks or which have not yet been written to is intended to be made possible in a...
7315492 Header mask signal generating track jump method for a recording medium  
A track jump method for an optical recording/reproducing medium is provided. In the track jump method, once a track jump command is input, a track jump operation is held until a falling edge of a...
7315491 Disk driving apparatus and information readout method with selective servo control for read-out destinations of lands and grooves  
A disc driving apparatus and an information readout method according to the present invention realize optimum servo control of a readout unit in reading out the information from a recording medium...
7304918 Servo error signal generation circuit and servo error signal generation method  
A servo error signal generation circuit comprises a first sampling unit for sampling first detection signals at first sampling timings, a second sampling unit for sampling second detection signals...
7289411 Optical disc apparatus  
The present invention provides an optical disc apparatus capable of rotating an optical disc with high speed while enabling reduced current consumption. The optical disc apparatus comprises a...
7289399 Tracking error detection apparatus including reduction in false tracking error detection during phase error detection  
A tracking error detection apparatus comprises a photodetector comprising plural photoreceptor elements; zerocross detection circuits for detecting zerocross points at which two sequences of...
7289398 Optical disk apparatus and method for tracking thereof  
An optical disk apparatus and method having a pick-up part for emitting a light onto a recording surface of an optical disk and receiving the light reflected from the recording surface of optical...
7274640 Apparatus and method for determining disc type  
A disc type determining apparatus in a disc recording and reproducing apparatus in which vibrations generated by rotations of a disc occur in a focus and tracking control actuator includes an error...
7260031 Digital focus and tracking servo system with one-track jump  
A tracking and servo system with a one-track jump is disclosed. The one track jump algorithm holds a control signal from the tracking servo system. The one track jump algorithm adds an acceleration...
7251087 Lens driving apparatus and image pick-up apparatus including the same  
An image entering from the left side of the figure passes through a correcting lens unit, and forms an image on an image pickup device on the right side of the figure. The correcting lens unit...
7239587 Approximating topology of optical disc surface  
A method of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that outputs an oscillating wave towards a surface of an optical disc. A proximity signal is detected in response to the oscillating wave...
7221627 Optical device for reading information  
An optical playback or recording device is equipped with mass-unbalance detection means ( 20 ) for detecting unbalance on the record carrier ( 2 ). Mass-unbalance causes vibration and sound in the...
7218582 Optical disc drive  
An optical disc drive is used to read and/or write data from/on an optical disc having a data storage layer. The drive corrects electrical offset while reading and/or writing data. The drive...
7218579 Long seek control device for optical disk drive and method thereof  
A optical disk drive long distance seek control device and method thereof, capable of feeding back the optical head control device through the step motor control device during the long distance...
7212472 Focus point switching  
A focus jump technique enables focus control on recording layers of a disc in such a manner that its effect is not absorbed by disturbance or a variation in the movement speed of an objective lens....
7206263 Method for position control in optical data carriers with address information  
Track jumping on optical storage media whose address information items invalidate the track error signal at time intervals is intended to be configured more securely and more reliably. For this...
7196980 Information disk recording/reproducing device and method for controlling recording/reproducing speed thereof  
Information about the number of traversed tracks is acquired with a code at a first rotational speed and a second rotational speed in each area provided by dividing one rotation into m (m is a...
7190644 Track-locking method and apparatus for optical disk drive  
A track-locking method for an optical disk drive is conducted according to the following steps. First, a tracking error signal (TE signal) is detected, and then the time period for a pickup head...
7180835 Data access method for improving performance of an optical disk drive  
A data access method for improving performance of an optical disk drive is applied on a predetermined data access operation. A predetermined application program and the optical disk drive are used...
7164628 Optical disk device  
An optical disk device in which data is written to or reproduced from an optical disk having an area which contains a header section and another area which does not contain a header section. When a...
7154821 Compensation method for detecting the seeking speed of an optical disk drive  
A compensation method for detecting the seeking speed of an optical disk drive involves the following steps. First, a TE signal is converted into a TEZC signal, or an RFRP signal is converted into...
7145849 Method to reduce the offset component of tracking error in an optical disc player  
A method of tracking error correction, primarily for utilization in optical disc drives using single beam optical pick-up heads. Delinearization in the tracking servo of a single beam optical...
7145838 Method and apparatus for performing target search on optical storage disc  
An optical storage disc stores storage information and includes track information. A method for performing a target search on the optical storage disc includes: generating a first intermediate...
7142485 Information storage apparatus  
The present invention provides an information storage apparatus that generates a tracking error signal based on a detection signal, and performs various control operations based on the tracking...
7136339 Positioning control apparatus and method capable of reducing relative position error without increasing gain and frequency band of transfer characteristics of control system  
A positioning control apparatus for controlling a moving member to trace the position of a target member which almost equally repeats the position shift at a predetermined period comprises a...
7126890 Multitrack readback and multiuser detection for disk drives  
Techniques for reading data from a storage medium ( 150 ) having a high track density prone to adjacent track interference are disclosed. One or more sensing elements ( 120 ) are used to extract...
7126889 Tracking error detector  
A circuit to improve the SN characteristic of a tracking error signal. This tracking error detection circuit is formed as a push-pull system utilizing a quadrant type photo-detector and provided...
7120095 Apparatus for generating seek direction detecting signal using track error and track cross signals for an optical pickup  
An apparatus to generate a seek direction detecting signal for an optical pickup to determine a position of a center of an optical spot focused on an optical disk relative to a center of a track,...
7120094 Device for reading and/or writing information from/onto an optical information carrier  
A device for reading and/or writing information from an optical carrier, the device comprising an imager for imaging a radiation beam into scanning spot to scan the carrier, and a detector for...
7116610 Optical disk device and tilt correction method  
An optical disk device and a tilt correction method capable of high precision tilt correction with a smaller number of measurement positions are provided. Prior to data recording and reproduction,...
7110331 Information storage device  
An information storage device having a uniaxial tracking mechanism as a pickup which can perform a stable track pull-in operation is provided. A deceleration pulse amplitude รก supplied to a...
7106670 Method and apparatus for long seeking control of pickup head  
A method for long seeking control of an optical read/write head is disclosed. The optical read/write head includes a sled moved by a sled motor, and a lens mounted on the sled and moved by a lens...
7095685 System and method for detecting and recovering from an off-format state in an optical disc drive  
A disc drive includes a tracking actuator, and determines when the tracking actuator is positioned off a formatted portion of optical media in the disc drive. The optical media includes a pitted...
7088646 Track search control circuit and optical disc drive  
Disclosed is a track-search control circuit for performing track-search of an optical disc stably even at the time of multi-speed reproduction of the optical disc. The track search control circuit...
7084895 Multiple passes over tracks of and radially non-collinear track starting positions on label side of optical disc  
A method for labeling an optically writable label side of an optical disc of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed which includes at least one of the following. First, the method may...
7065023 Light spot advancing direction judging device and method, optical head device control device and method, and optical disk recording/reproducing device  
A device and a method for judging the radial moving direction of light spots formed on the signal recording surface of an optical disc having grooves of two types, which are different from each...
7065011 Method for adjusting mechanical error of optical disc reading device  
The present invention provides a method for adjusting the mechanical error of an optical disc reading device. The optical disc reading device consists of a driving device and an optical pickup. The...
7065010 Method for tracking in an optical recording/reading apparatus, and corresponding apparatus  
Method for tracking in an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to an optical recording medium, and corresponding apparatus for reading from and/or writing to an optical recording medium. In...
7046592 Optical disk reproducing apparatus  
When a run-away phenomenon of an optical disk occurs, a control circuit detects a rotational direction of the optical disk that runs away by comparing an initial track count value and a braking...
7046591 Track traverse counting on an optical disk  
An apparatus detects the number of tracks traversed on an optical disk. The apparatus includes a differentiation part for differentiating an output signal of a bandpass filter provided on an...
7038979 Method and apparatus for a high-speed search of an optical medium  
An apparatus and method for high-speed searching of an optical medium having a plurality of tracks. Light spots are directed by the apparatus onto the optical medium. As the spots traverse across...
7035187 Apparatus and method for generating RFZC signal for optical systems  
An apparatus and related operating method for generating slice levels adapted to an optical system is disclosed. The apparatus basically encompasses a multiplexer, a low-pass filter, a digital...