Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroto Kitai

Kazuaki Matsumoto

Hiroshi Inoue

Takashi Nakahara

Hideki Hosoya

Keiji Tsuchiya

Satoshi Shikichi

Shinichi Ohta

Shigeto Kanda

Etsuo Yamada

Kengo Emoto

Information is recorded on or reproduced from a hybrid card having an optical recording region and a non-contact type IC memory region connected to a card-side antenna coil. The information recording and/or reproduction is effected by an apparatus including an optical head for scanning the optical recording region with a light beam, a control circuit for exerting tracking and focusing control on the light beam, an apparatus-side antenna coil to be disposed opposite to the card-side antenna coil, a reader/writer for storing information in or reading information from the IC memory region by way of electromagnetic induction coupling between the card-side antenna coil and the apparatus-side antenna coil, and a processing circuit for controlling the operation of the optical head, the control circuit and the reader/writer. The processing circuit controls the read/writer so as not to store information in nor read information from the IC memory region during the period there the control circuit is exerting tracking control or focusing control.

Apparatus and system for at least recording information on or reproducing information from a card-shaped recording medium

An information recording and/or reproducing apparatus, for performing recording and/or reproduction of information on a recording medium with a light beam emitted from an optical head, includes a vibration wave driving device for relatively moving the optical head to the medium, and a device for detecting information corresponding to a relation between a control signal for driving the vibration wave driving device and a relative movement velocity in the relative movement. The vibration wave driving device is controlled based on the information detected.

Optical information recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method

An information recording and/or reproducing apparatuses for performing recording and/or reproduction of information on a recording medium with a light beam emitted from an optical head, includes a vibration wave driving device for relatively moving the optical head to the medium, and a device for detecting information corresponding to a relation between a control signal for driving the vibration wave driving device and a relative movement velocity in the relative movement. The vibration wave driving device is controlled based on the information detected.

In an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, relative movement between an optical head and an optical information recording medium having a linear track is performed to cause a light beam irradiated by the optical head to follow the information track so as to effect recording/reproduction of information. The apparatus is provided with an ultrasonic wave motor for driving one of the recording medium and the optical head relative to each other. The ultrasonic wave motor is controlled to gradually decrease a drive velocity thereof at the end of a drive operation thereof and to gradually increase the drive velocity thereof at the beginning of the drive operation thereof by properly adjusting an amplitude of a drive signal to be supplied to the ultrasonic wave motor.

Optical information recording/reproduction apparatus and method using an

In an optical information reproduction apparatus, digital information recorded as an optical mark on an optical information recording medium is reproduced in the following manner. A light beam is applied to the recording medium, and the obtained reproduction signal is binarized. The binary reproduction signal is sampled by a sampling clock which is generated by a PLL control signal generator, and is synchronized with the binary reproduction signal so as to reproduce the digital information. The PLL control signal generator achieves synchronization based on the leading and trailing edges of a change point of the binary reproduction signal.

Optical information reproduction apparatus and optical information

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a head for performing recording of information on and/or reproduction of information from a recording medium, a carriage on which the recording medium is loaded and being adapted to be movable relative to the head, a first detector for detecting a loading position of the recording medium with respect to the carriage, a second detector for detecting a position of the carriage in a moving direction and a circuit for outputting a signal representing that the medium is loaded at predetermined position with respect to the head on the basis of outputs from the first and second detectors.

Optical card processing apparatus with means for determining a relative

A tracking device usable in an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus for an optical information record medium on which a plurality of tracks are arranged substantially parallel in a first direction. The device includes a light source, a first optical system for forming a small spot on the record medium by converging a light beam from the light source, a second optical system for obtaining the light beam from the record medium, a detecting device for receiving the light beam obtained by the second optical system to output a tracking signal, a vibrating device for vibrating the spot relative to the record medium in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a control device for effecting tracking control with respect to a track, and a selecting device for selectively actuating the vibrating device and the control device in accordance with the tracking signal from the detecting device.

Tracking device to effect tracking pull-in in an optical recording and

An optical information recording-reproducing apparatus includes an optical head unit, a holding device, a moving device and a guide shaft. The optical head unit effects recording and/or reproduction of information on an optical information recording medium. The holding device holds the optical information recording medium. The holding device includes a guide portion and a magnetic field producing device provided near the lower portion thereof. The moving device moves the holding device relative to the optical head unit. The guide shaft, formed of a magnetic material, guides the holding device for movement in a predetermined direction.

Device for magnetically guiding movement of a moving body such as an

Disclosed is a method of seeking a desired track by scanning a recording medium having a plurality of tracks formed thereon by a light spot in a direction across the tracks, and counting track crossing signals detected from the reflected light or the transmitted light of the spot. In this method, of the track crossing signals, only those signals which are detected within a predetermined time inteval are counted as a correct track crossing signal. An apparatus for carrying out such a method is also disclosed.

Method of and apparatus for seeking a desired track by counting track

An optical information processing apparatus comprises an optical head having an optical system contained in a frame and effecting at least one of recording and reproduction of information by applying a light beam condensed by the optical system to a recording medium, a detector for detecting at least one of a tracking signal and a focusing signal, a controller for moving at least a portion of the optical system in accordance with at least one of the tracking signal and the focusing signal, a detector for detecting the postion of the moving portion of the optical system relative to the frame, a position controller for controlling the moving portion so as to be held in a predetermined position, on the basis of the output signal of the position detecting detector, a detector for detecting the abnormality of at least one of the tracking and focusing controls, and a switching device for alternatively operating the tracking and focusing controller and the position controller and rendering the tracking and focusing controller inoperative and operating the position controller when the abnormality of the tracking or focusing control is detected.

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Hiroto Kitai