Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Hajime Koyanagi

Takanori Maeda

Kiyoshi Tateishi

Yoshitsugu Araki

Masakazu Ogasawara

Shogo Miyanabe

A detection device () includes a transmitter (), a receiver (), and a control unit (). The transmitter () is capable of transmitting an electromagnetic wave. The receiver () is capable of receiving a signal (S), that is, the electromagnetic wave transmitted from the transmitter () and reflected by an object (O). The control unit () controls the size of an instantaneous field of view (so-called IFOV) of the receiver ().

Detection device, method of detecting distance to object, program, and storage medium

An optical pickup device for focusing a light beam includes a focus error detecting optical element which splits and leads return light to a photodetector. The focus error detecting element has an area quadrisected by two division lines defining a plane substantially perpendicular to the optical path of the return light for applying astigmatism to the return light in directions rotated by 90&#xb0; from each other and for separating the return light into at least four by the respective quadrants. The photodetector has a plurality of spaced light receiving elements for receiving the separated return light, each receiving element has contour lines corresponding to the division lines on an image plane on which a light beam is shaped into a circular beam. The light receiving elements are comprised of two light receiving areas divided by a bisect line extending substantially in parallel with one of the contour lines.

Optical pickup device with focus error detecting optical element and method for focus error detection

In an optical pickup, the focal position of the reflected light from the information bearing surface where information is to be reproduced and that of the reflected light from other information bearing surfaces are adjusted by an optical device such that the two reflected light components are separated optically.

Optical pickup

An optical pickup for reading information from a recording medium comprises a light illuminating portion for illuminating a plurality of light beams having different wavefronts onto a recording surface of the recording medium to create a plurality of light spots including a first light spot and a second light spot. The first and second light spots at least partially overlap with each other. A detector receives light beams reflected by the recording medium. The detector has a first light-receiving surface for receiving reflected light of the first light spot and a second light-receiving surface for receiving reflected light of the second light spot.

Optical pickup and optical disk drive for use with a high-density optical disk

An optical pickup apparatus for properly detecting crosstalk amounts to a read signal for one track from adjacent tracks thereof and their balance. A difference between a second read signal value for one track at a time point when a first read signal value for one adjacent track is smaller than a first threshold value and a third read signal value for the other adjacent track is larger than a second threshold value and a second read signal value at a time point when the first read signal value is larger than the second threshold value and the third read signal value is smaller than the first threshold value is formed as a value indicative of a balance level of crosstalks to the second read signal. A difference between a second read signal value at a time point when the first read signal value is larger than the second threshold value and the third read signal value is larger than the second threshold value and a second read signal value at a time point when the first read signal value is smaller than the first threshold value and the third read signal value is smaller than the first threshold value is formed as a value indicative of a crosstalk amount to the second read signal.

Optical pickup apparatus with a crosstalk balance detecting circuit

An optical pickup device for writing or reading data from an optical information recording medium has a recording layer whose state changes in response to a density of intensity of an irradiated light beam and a track being used for a tracking servo control system. The device includes a first light spot irradiating element for irradiating a writing or reading light beam onto the recording layer to form a writing or reading spot and a second light spot irradiating element for irradiating at least one controlling light beam onto the recording layer to form a controlling spot having a major axis extending along the track and being longer than a transverse axis perpendicular to the major axis within a level of luminous flux density keeping an original state of the recording layer, whereby a tracking servo control signal having a sufficient level is obtained.

Optical pickup device for eliminating unwanted data

Optical pickup device with three beam tracking servo control using oval

Optical disk information recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus are designed to efficiently improve the transfer rate in information recording and reproduction, and have compatibility with the existing recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus using a single light beam while keeping the disk form with a single spiral track structure. Beam spots are simultaneously irradiated on a plurality of different radial positions on a disk at a pitch of a predetermined number of tracks to independently record various information signals, and the optical head is allowed to jump over a predetermined number of tracks every time the disk makes a predetermined number of turns. Another feature lies in that beam spots are simultaneously irradiated on a plurality of different radial positions on a disk at a pitch of a predetermined number of tracks to independently record various information signals, and a jump over a predetermined number of tracks is made in a predetermined interval corresponding to a period from the point where each light beam has made a track jump during which period signals are stably reproducible or recordable.

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Tsurugashima, Japan

Hajime Koyanagi