Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Motoi Kimura

Takeshi Sato

Alex Bradshaw

Shinichi Naohara

Yuichi Kimikawa

Takashi Suzuki

Hitoshi Yamazaki

Hiroyuki Abe

Norio Matsuda

Kenichi Takahashi

Hideaki Watarihana

Kazushige Kawana

Morio Nozaki

Masakazu Takahashi

A tilt servo apparatus which can correct a tilt error at a high speed and with high precision irrespective of a magnitude of the tilt error even if a response speed of a liquid crystal device decreases is provided. An amount of change and an increase/decrease of a signal intensity are detected by changing a correction value of a tilt error correcting arrangement by a first correction width, and a correction width of the correction value and a correcting direction are determined on the basis of the detection result. When the amount of change of the signal intensity is smaller than a predetermined amount of change, the correction width is changed to a second correction width which is smaller than a first correction width. When it is larger than the predetermined amount of change, the correction width is changed to a third correction width larger than the first correction width. The correction width is also determined in accordance with a change in environmental temperature.

Tilt servo apparatus and control method thereof

A liquid-crystal tilt servo apparatus in which a reference voltage generating circuit is unnecessary for a liquid-crystal driving circuit and which has a simple circuit configuration and high reliability is realized. The liquid-crystal driving circuit has a DC removing circuit for removing a DC component of a driving signal generated on the basis of a tilt error correction control signal from a control unit and supplying a resultant signal to a liquid crystal device.

Liquid crystal tilt servo apparatus

A focusing bias adjusting apparatus in an optical recording medium playing apparatus, in which a focusing bias adjustment is executed to remove an offset component in a focusing error signal based on each output signal of a split type photodetector in an optical pickup and, thereafter, a tilt adjustment is executed to an optical system so as to maximize a read signal serving as a sum signal of the output signals of the photodetector in order to compensate a tilt angle which is defined by a normal at the irradiating position of a laser beam from the optical pickup on the recording surface of an optical recording medium and the optical axial direction of the laser beam. When the tilt adjusting operation of the optical system of the optical pickup is performed after completion of the focusing bias adjustment, the focusing bias adjustment is executed again.

Focusing bias adjusting apparatus and method in optical recording medium playing apparatus

A focus jump control apparatus of a player for playing a multilayer recording disc surely achieves a focus jump. This apparatus includes: a focusing servo loop for allowing a focal point to trace a recording surface in accordance with a focusing error signal by using a focusing actuator to displace the focal point of read light to a disc in the optical axial direction; and a tracking servo loop for allowing the focal point to trace disc tracks. A loop opening/closing control unit opens/closes focusing/tracking servo loops in response to an instruction and closes the focusing servo loop when the movement of the focal point from one of the recording surfaces to the other. During the movement of the read light focal point, the closing state of the tracking servo loop is maintained. Jump driving means generates a drive signal of the actuator to move the focal point from one of the recording surfaces to the other based on the error signal under the opening/closing control of the focusing/tracking servo loops.

Focus jump control apparatus of a player for multilayer recording disc

A focus control apparatus for a multilayer optical recording medium which performs an appropriate focus jump on a multilayer optical recording medium. This focus control apparatus implements such focus jump control as to temporarily release a focus servo on one layer of a loaded multilayer optical recording medium, shift the focus position of read light on another target layer and then restart the focus servo on the another target layer, detects an ambient temperature, sets a drive signal condition according to the temperature detection output, and moves the focus position of the read light under the set drive signal condition. Specifically, this apparatus generates an acceleration signal to start moving the focus position of read light and a deceleration signal to decelerate movement of the focus position of the read light, as drive signals for a focus actuator in order to execute a focus jump operation, detects an ambient temperature of the focus actuator, and sets signal conditions for the acceleration signal and the deceleration signal according to the detected temperature.

Focus control apparatus for multilayer optical recording medium

A carriage controller for a multi-layer disc which is capable of performing a stable carriage control during reproduction of a multi-layer disc of the opposite recording scheme. A tracking error signal is relayed by an equalizer, and a carriage motor is driven in accordance with an output signal of the equalizer. An information reading direction on a layer of a disc on which a pickup reads information is detected, and an equalizer characteristic is set in the equalizer in accordance with the detection result.

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Kawagoe, Japan

Motoi Kimura