IP Library Granted Patent US 7,948,836
Granted Patent B2
US 7,948,836 · App. 11/263,571 · Granted May 24, 2011

Optical disk drive and optical disk drive control method

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Patent No.
US 7,948,836
App. No.
11/263,571
Granted
May 24, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is directed to an optical disk drive in which laser beams are emitted to an optical disk in a state of not rotated, and simultaneously an objective lens which collects the laser beams is moved to a direction approaching the optical disk at a constant speed, a time length required for moving a focused position of the laser beams from a surface of the optical disk to a recording layer is measured by observing a reflected light from the optical disk, and a type of the optical disk is determined based on the time Tdet thus measured, includes a control means which executes, a calculating process which calculates an additional travel time Tadd, based on the Tdet and an in-periphery maximum surface wobbling amount Vd of the optical disk, a moving process which further moves the objective lens for the additional travel time Tadd at the constant speed after the laser beams are focused on the recording layer, a rotating process which rotates the optical disk, a move-away process which moves the objective lens in a direction to be away from the optical disk, and a detecting process which detects that the laser beams are focused on the recording layer of the optical disk after the move-away process is started.

Claims (39)

1. An optical disk drive in which laser beams are emitted to an optical disk in a state of not rotated, and simultaneously an objective lens which collects said laser beams is moved to a direction approaching said optical disk at a constant speed, a time length required for moving a focused position of said laser beams from a surface of said optical disk to a recording layer is measured by observing a reflected light from said optical disk, and a type of said optical disk is determined based on the time length Tdet thus measured, said optical disk drive comprises,

a calculating means which calculates an additional travel time Tadd, based on said Tdet and an in-periphery maximum surface wobbling amount (Vd×2) of said optical disk,

a moving means which further moves said objective lens for said additional travel time Tadd at said constant speed after said laser beams are focused on said recording layer,

a rotating means which rotates said optical disk after the laser beams focuses on the recording layer,

a move-away means which moves said objective lens in a direction to be away from said optical disk, and

a detecting means which detects that said laser beams are focused on said recording layer of said optical disk after said move-away process is started;

wherein the moving means executes a portion of a first half of a reciprocating movement and the move-away means executes a second half of the reciprocating movement.

2. An optical disk drive in which laser beams are emitted to an optical disk in a state of not rotated, and simultaneously an objective lens which collects said laser beams is moved in a direction approaching said optical disk at a constant speed, a time length required for moving a focused position of said laser beams from a surface of said optical disk to a recording layer is measured by observing a reflected light from said optical disk, and a type of said optical disk is determined based on the time Tdet thus measured, said optical disk drive comprises,

a calculating means which calculates a time Tadd, based on said Tdet and an in-periphery maximum surface wobbling amount (Vd×2) of said optical disk,

an additional travel time calculating means which calculates an additional travel time Tadd_sd, based on said Tadd and a predetermined decelerating ratio α,

a moving means which further moves said objective lens for said additional travel time Tadd_sd at a speed obtained by multiplying said constant speed by said decelerating ratio α, after said laser beams are focused on the recording layer,

a rotating means which rotates said optical disk after the laser beams focuses on the recording layer,

a move-away means which moves said objective lens in a direction to be away from said optical disk, and

a detecting means which detects that said laser beams are focused on said recording layer of said optical disk after said move-away process is started;

wherein the moving means executes a portion of a first half of a reciprocating movement and the move-away means executes a second half of the reciprocating movement.

3. An optical disk drive control method in an optical disk drive in which laser beams are emitted to an optical disk in a state of not rotated, and simultaneously an objective lens which collects said laser beams is moved to a direction approaching said optical disk at a constant speed, a time length required for moving a focused position of said laser beams from a surface of said optical disk to a recording layer is measured by observing a reflected light from said optical disk, and a type of said optical disk is determined based on said time Tdet thus measured, said optical disk drive control method comprising,

a calculating step which calculates an additional travel time Tadd, based on said Tdet and an in-periphery maximum surface wobbling amount (Vd×2) of said optical disk,

a moving step which further moves said objective lens for said additional travel time Tadd at said constant speed after said laser beams are focused on said recording layer,

a rotating step which rotates said optical disk,

a move-away step which moves said objective lens in a direction to be away from said optical disk, and

a detecting step which detects that said laser beams are focused on said recording layer of said optical disk after said move-away process is started;

wherein the moving step executes a portion of a first half of a reciprocating movement and the move-away step executes a second half of the reciprocating movement.

4. An optical disk drive control method in an optical disk drive in which laser beams are emitted to an optical disk in a state of not rotated, and simultaneously an objective lens which collects said laser beams is moved to a direction approaching said optical disk at a constant speed, a time length required for moving a focused position of said laser beams from a surface of said optical disk to a recording layer is measured by observing a reflected light from said optical disk, and a type of said optical disk is determined based on said time Tdet thus measured, said optical disk drive control method comprising,

a calculating step which calculates a time Tadd, based on said Tdet and an in-periphery maximum surface wobbling amount (Vd×2) of said optical disk,

an additional travel time calculating step which calculates an additional travel time Tadd_sd, based on said Tadd and a predetermined decelerating ratio α,

a moving step which further moves said objective lens for the additional travel time Tadd_sd at a speed obtained by multiplying said constant speed by said decelerating ratio α, after said laser beams are focused on the recording layer,

a rotating step which rotates said optical disk,

a move-away step which moves said objective lens in a direction to be away from said optical disk, and

a detecting step which detects that said laser beams are focused on said recording layer of said optical disk after said move-away process is started;

wherein the moving step executes a portion of a first half of a reciprocating movement and the move-away step executes a second half of the reciprocating movement.

5. An optical disk drive in which laser beams are emitted to an optical disk in a state of not rotated, and simultaneously an objective lens which collects said laser beams is moved to a direction approaching said optical disk at a constant speed, a time length required for moving a focused position of said laser beams from a surface of said optical disk to a recording layer is measured by observing a reflected light from said optical disk, and a type of said optical disk is determined based on the time length Tdet thus measured, said optical disk drive comprises,

a moving means which rotates said optical disk after the laser beams focuses on the recording layer and further moves said objective lens for a predetermined distance based on an in-periphery maximum surface wobbling amount (Vd×2) of the optical disk under decelerated travel speed,

a move-away means which moves said objective lens in a direction to be away from said optical disk, and

a detecting means which detects that said laser beams are focused on said recording layer of said optical disk after said move-away process is started;

wherein the moving means executes a portion of a first half of a reciprocating movement and the move-away means executes a second half of the reciprocating movement.

6. The optical disk drive according to claim 1 , wherein,

when said detecting means detects that said laser beams are focused on said recording layer of said optical disk after said move-away process is started, any of a process for measuring a reflectivity of said optical disk, a process for discriminating said optical disk layer, and a focus-on process is carried out.

7. The optical disk drive control method according to claim 3 , wherein,

after said detecting step, any of a step for measuring a reflectivity of said optical disk, a step for discriminating said optical disk layer, and a focus-on step is carried out.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2011
From: SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM INC.
To: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Reel/Frame 027449/0380 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 26, 2011
From: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
To: SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM INC.
Reel/Frame 027445/0773 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2005
From: KOBAYASHI, TOSHIKAZU
To: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Reel/Frame 016929/0365 →