Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kwan-ho Chun

Seung-hoon Kim

Seung-chul Kim

Sang-hyun Jo

An apparatus and method control a disk drive servo, and more particularly, an apparatus and method control a servo when moving between layers of a disk in a multi-layered disk drive. A focus controlling method, as an example of the servo controlling method, includes the operations of performing aberration correction according to a change of a recording layer of a disk from a currently accessed recording layer to a recording layer desired to be accessed, and changing the value of a parameter set that determines characteristics of signals for use in servo control of an optical disk drive, according to an aberration correction amount that is used during the aberration correction.

Focus controlling method and optical disk drive using the focus controlling method

A method of determining the type of disk loaded on an optical disk drive, and an optical disk drive using the method are provided. The disk decision method includes operations of detecting a change in the magnitude of a focus error signal generated during a focus search for a recording layer of a disk closest to an outermost layer of the disk, wherein the change in the magnitude of the focus error signal depends on a change in a recording layer of the disk for which aberration correction is performed, and determining a recording layer architecture of the disk according to the detected change in the magnitude of the focus error signal.

Disk decision method and optical disk drive using the disk decision method

A method and apparatus for controlling a focus servo of an optical disk drive is provided. The focus servo controlling method includes the operations of, when an operating mode enters into a focus pull-in mode, detecting a period of time that satisfies a first threshold condition, the first threshold condition set to determine a duration in which a focal point of an optical signal emitted from a pickup is passing through a cover layer of a disk, the determination made by using a first signal proportional to a detected portion of an optical signal reflected by the disk, and preventing focus servo control from being performed during a detected period of time that first satisfies the first threshold condition since the operating mode entered into the focus pull-in mode.

Focus servo controlling method and apparatus and optical disk drive using the focus servo controlling method

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; inverting a phase of a tracking error signal generated during a first specified time from the start of the defect zone; and holding a tracking servo control by adding components of the inverted tracking error signal to a tracking drive signal for a second specified time.

Apparatus and method for compensating for defect of optical disc

A tilt adjusting apparatus including a digital signal processor, a first drive integrated circuit, and a tilt adjuster. When an optical recording medium is loaded into a deck, the digital signal processor outputs a focus control signal to control a focus of an optical recording medium, measures a tilt with respect to the optical recording medium, and outputs a tilt adjustment signal and a switch control signal so as to adjust the tilt. The first drive integrated circuit either synthesizes the tilt adjustment signal and the focus control signal or receives only the focus control signal according to the switch control signal and then outputs the synthesized signal or the focus control signal to the optical pickup. The tilt adjuster synthesizes the tilt adjustment signal output from the first drive integrated circuit and the focus control signal and then outputs the synthesized signal to the optical pickup.

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Seoul, South Korea

Kwan-ho Chun