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7636280 Calibration of lens position in an optical disc drive  
Disclosed are various systems, methods, and programs embodied in a computer readable medium for calibration of a lens position in an optical disc drive. In one embodiment, a method is provided that...
7633840 Optimizing focus point for optical disc  
An apparatus comprising a focus controller, a photo-diode sensor, a data circuit, a focus error creation circuit and a focus offset circuit. The focus controller may be configured to control a lens...
7633839 Self-sensing active-damping voice coil  
A control circuit creates a self-sensing active-damping voice coil. The control circuit includes a current sensor coupled to a voice coil. A first filter is coupled to the current sensor to create...
7633842 Apparatus for generating tracking error signal in optical disc drive  
The present invention discloses an apparatus for generating a TE signal in an optical disc drive. The disclosed apparatus includes a signal generation module, a quality detection module coupled to...
7630278 Focusing control method for reading/writing optical disc  
An optical reading/writing apparatus has an optical head that includes a collimator and a lens. For efficient and reliable focusing control for writing an empty optical disk, calibration of focus...
7626899 Method for obtaining an optimum focusing point of an optical pickup unit and a servo system of an optical disk drive using this method  
A method for obtaining an optimum focusing point of an optical pickup unit and a servo system of an optical disk drive using this method is disclosed. An optical pickup drive circuit controls a...
7616539 Optical disc apparatus, tracking control method, and integrated circuit  
An optical disc apparatus has: an optical head 400 for emitting a light beam onto a predetermined track of an optical disc 300 before tracking control in order to detect reflected light with a...
7616533 Optical disc apparatus and access control method of the same  
An optical disc apparatus, as a learning operation before a recording or reproducing operation, rotates an optical disc at a first speed to read PID information, discriminates between lands and...
7616538 Method for setting layer-jump point on optical disc  
A method for setting a layer-jump point on a multilayer optical disc in an optical drive for accessing the multilayer optical disc. First, a magnetic-pole cycle value is accumulated. Next, a lag...
7616537 Focus search apparatus and method  
Provided are a focus search apparatus and method for performing a focus search after moving an optical pickup to a focus-on point according to a signal output from a sine wave generator so that a...
7616536 Apparatus for radial tracking in an optical disc drive using tracking an error signal derived from wobble-induced signal components and/or data-induced signal components of a detector output  
An optical disc drive uses a tracking error signal derived from the wobble-induced signal components of the optical detector signal. This tracking error signal is relatively insensitive to...
7616535 Method for determining track searching direction  
A method for determining a track searching direction is disclosed. The method takes advantage of the characteristic that the movement of the photo-diode with respect to the optical disk is not...
7606121 Optical disk drive with target focus control  
An optical disk drive includes: a light source for producing a light beam; an objective lens for converging the light beam; an actuator for moving the objective lens with respect to an optical...
7606122 Layer-jumping and focusing control method  
In a layer jump and focusing control method, a first focusing error signal is generated according to the differential astigmatism method in a closed-loop focusing control manner when focusing on...
7602680 Focus control for optical scanner  
The present invention relates to a method for correcting the operating point of a focus control loop for a scanner for optical storage media. According to the invention, the method comprises the...
7593300 Digital tracking servo system with off-format detection  
An off-format condition in a digital tracking servo is presented. An off-format condition can be detected by low pass filtering a tracking control signal, detecting a DC level over a threshold...
7593295 Apparatus and method for compensating for defect of optical disc  
An apparatus for and a method of compensating for a defect of an optical disc. The method includes: detecting a disc defect zone according to an RF sum signal level read from the optical disc;...
7593293 Optical disk drive  
An optical disk drive includes a pickup head, a servo circuit, and a controller. An optical disk has a first area and a second area for which different tracking methods are to be used. The...
7586818 Optical disc apparatus and semiconductor device  
The purpose is to provide an optical disc apparatus which can accurately calculate a gain for focus control. An optical apparatus ( 100 ) includes: an FE generator ( 20 ) for generating an FE...
7583568 Focus control device and method of adjusting focus gain prior to focus-servo operation  
An optical pickup 4 that converts the reflected light from a laser light irradiated onto a disc into an electrical signal, is provided with an objective lens 42 that performs the irradiation of...
7580330 CE to RRO cancellation for sled control  
An apparatus comprising a center error creation circuit, a center error controller, and a center error repeatable run out circuit. The center error creation circuit may be configured to generate a...
7580331 Center error mechanical center adjustment  
An apparatus comprising a center error creation circuit, a center error offset injection circuit and a center error controller. The center error creation circuit may be configured to generate a...
7580328 Method, medium, and device changing a play mode  
A method, medium, and device changing a play mode if an error occurs in a process of discriminating the type of optical discs. The method includes the operation of discriminating a type of an...
7577066 Method and apparatus for providing high speed recording on an optical medium  
A system and method for controlling the position of an optical head of a disc during high speed recording. In one embodiment of the method, an optical disc has a plurality of tracks. The method...
7558170 Optical pick-up head, optical information apparatus, and optical information reproducing method  
An optical information apparatus of the present invention includes: an optical pick-up head including: a light source; a diffraction unit; a condensing unit; a beam splitter; a photodetector; and a...
7551527 Offset calibration system and method of automatic power control loop  
An offset calibration system of a control loop at least comprises an optical-to-electrical converter and an electrical-to-optical converter. The optical-to-electrical converter generates a...
7548493 Extended focus control  
An apparatus for scanning a track on a record carrier has a head ( 41 ) for providing a beam of radiation and generating at least one sensor signal. The device has a focusing unit for controlling a...
7545709 Optical disk apparatus having servo parameter setting unit  
An optical disk apparatus decides reading time parameters to be set in a tracking error signal generation part at the reading time by applying a laser light of record power to an optical disk. A...
7542387 Defocus detection device, defocus detection method and optical disk unit using the same  
Defocus detection device and method capable of detecting a defocus accurately during recording of information to an optical disk having a plurality of recording layers and an optical disk unit...
7539091 Differential push-pull gain controlling method and apparatus to reduce the effects of rotational eccentricity  
An apparatus comprising a photo diode array, a differential push-pull generator circuit and an attenuation prediction circuit. The photo diode array may be configured to generate a plurality of...
7529161 Information reproduction device and information reproduction method for reproducing information by switching to servo polarity corresponding to land track and groove track and information recording method for recording information by switching to servo polarity corresponding to land track and groove tract  
An information reproduction method according to an aspect of this invention is directed to an information reproduction method which reproduces information from an information storage medium on...
7525883 Optical disk apparatus  
An optical disk apparatus is provided with an actuator that moves a beam spot that is formed by an optical head on an optical disk to recording surfaces; position control portions that control a...
7525884 Position control apparatus and method for an optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus with interlinked on/off of a phase compensator and on/off of a servo loop  
The present invention aims to obtain a position control device which, even if the range within which a mechanical part can be pulled in for position control is narrow, enables quickly stabilizing...
7522482 Optical pickup device and apparatus for reading data from optical storage medium  
An optical pickup is provided for preventing an objective lens from colliding with an optical recording medium at the stage of initial adjustments. The optical pickup device comprises a servo...
7522485 Method for adjusting focus or tracking detection unit, and optical disc device  
An optical disc device comprises a spherical or coma aberration correction unit to pre-correct spherical or coma aberration occurring in the light beam, a focus or tracking detection unit operable...
7518961 Optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data in and from optical disk  
An optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus includes a focus unit that focuses an irradiation light beam on an optical disk having data recording layers and tracks; a drive unit that...
7518960 Method and apparatus for positioning beam spot on recording medium  
A method and apparatus position a beam spot on a recording medium. The positioning includes (a) observing a first center error in a first closed loop control during tracking mode, the first center...
7499382 Method for gain adjustment for production of a lens position signal, and a corresponding appliance for reading from and/or writing to an optical recording medium  
A lens position signal LCE which indicates the discrepancy between the lens and its geometric mid-position is required for coarse tracking of optical storage drives. The prior art is for the lens...
7492678 Apparatus and method for stabilizing operation of disc driver in section for setting mode conversion  
An apparatus which stabilizes an operation of a disc driver in a mode conversion setting section includes a pickup which reads information from a disc that is inserted into the disc driver, a...
7483346 Digital disk read/write device  
A device for reading from and/or writing on a rotating disk including a mobile opto-electromechanical device placed above the disk and connected to a motherboard via a set of electric wires. The...
7480218 Optical disk control device with focal point movement control  
The present invention provides an optical disk control device that can perform focus pulling in a short time for a target information surface of an optical disk having a plurality of information...
7468935 Optimized tracking method  
The invention relates to a method for optimized tracking of an optical scanner along a track of an optical recording medium, the track having information markings arranged in dense succession, and...
7460455 Method for determining relationship between difference of object lens location and driving control effort in optical storage device and apparatus thereof  
A method used in an optical storage device having a pickup head. The pickup head includes an object lens, a first and a second light source. The object lens focuses the laser light generated by the...
7443774 Optical head and data processing apparatus including the same  
An optical data processing apparatus reads and/or writes data from/on a data storage medium, in which first and second data storage layer are stacked, by radiating light from the second layer. The...
7436739 Optical disk drive and correcting method for differential push-pull tracking error signals of the optical disk drive  
The invention is disclosed a correcting method for differential push-pull(DPP) tracking error signals of an optical disk drive. A Step (A) divides a CD into a plurality of areas according to...
7426159 Method of reproducing optical disk and optical disk reproducing apparatus  
A method of reproducing an optical disk that that shortens the time between optical disk insertion and implementation of a standby mode enabling reproduction is provided that comprises a step of...
7423940 Signal processing method and signal processing apparatus  
A signal processing apparatus is provided with a converter for converting at least one analog light detection signal into a digital light detection signal, and a signal generator for generating at...
7420348 Drive apparatus  
Optical disc drives designed for reduced power consumption switch the supply voltage in three stages between first, second, and third power supplies. The reduction in power consumption that is...
7414928 Method for determining sub-beam add signal (SBAD) value  
A method for determining a sub-beam add signal (SBAD) value is provided. At first, a j th read SBAD value is obtained at the j th read status. Next, the j th write SBAD value is determined...
7414940 Calibration of a focus error signal gain in a focus servo system  
A calibration of a focus error signal gain in a focus servo system of an optical disk drive is presented. The focus error signal gain can be calibrated by oscillating an optical pick-up unit in a...