Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Takefumi Sakurada

Takao Rokutan

Naoaki Tani

Mitsuo Oshiba

Takumi Sugaya

Akira Shirai

Yuichiro Akatsuka

Akira Matsueda

In an optical card recording/reproducing apparatus having a multi-track read type optical head in which a reproducing light beam is radiated on a plurality of tracks on an optical card having a large number of tracks parallel to each other so as to cause a plurality of reproducing light-receiving elements to simultaneously reproduce data of the plurality of tracks on which the reproducing light beam is radiated, the light beam is moved such that the maximum or minimum address of addresses of the tracks irradiated by the light beam is located at the target track. After one multi-track reproduction is performed, the light beam is moved by the distance corresponding to the number of multi-tracks.

Optical recording/reproducing apparatus capable of multi-track access

An optical information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a first and a second laser diodes for generating recording light and reproducing light, respectively. A light emission condition of the second laser diode is always controlled to the constant or predetermined light intensity which is adequate for reproduction, by an APC circuit. The first laser diode is controlled by a light-intensity control circuit so as to be brought to the intensity of light emission lower than a level which forms a pit on an optical card, in a reproducing mode other than a period of time of a recording mode. Under a focus and tracking control due to the reproducing light, a value of a focus error and a value of a tracking error due to the recording light at a low level are detected and sampled/held as a focus offset and a tracking offset. During a period of time of the recoding mode, focus control and tracking control due to the reproducing light are performed so that these offsets are brought to zero.

Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus in which

In an optical card recording/reproducing apparatus having a multi-track read type optical head in which a reproducing light beam is radiated on a plurality of tracks on an optical card having a large number of tracks parallel to each other so as to cause a plurality of reproducing light-receiving elements to simultaneously reproduce data of the plurality of tracks on which the reproducing light beam is radiated, when the light beam is to be moved to a target track to be reproduced, the maximum value of an error to be caused during moving the optical head is subtracted from a difference between a current track and the target track so as to determine a moving amount, or when an error generated during the movement of the optical head is represented by .+-.G, and the number of light-receiving elements is set to be 2G+1 or more, any one of the light-receiving elements can be located on the target track by moving the optical head once.

An optical information recording/reproducing device is constituted of a focus control circuit connected to a controller, a tracking control circuit, a data processing circuit, and a card feed control circuit. The data processing circuit includes a plurality of I/V converters for converting signals received by a plurality of signal reproducing light receiving elements arranged to an optical detector into current/voltage, and a plurality of binary circuits each for converting the output from the I/V converters into a binary signal in a reference level. The data processing circuit includes a selector for selecting at least two outputs of a plurality of binary circuits. The data processing circuit includes a plurality of bit-clock producing circuits and a plurality of demodulation circuits. The bit-clock producing circuits produce bit clocks based on binary signals originated from selectors and a plurality of binary circuits which are not connected to the selectors. The demodulation circuits executes sampling the two binary signals in accordance with bit clocks and executes data demodulation using the sampled results. The data processing circuit includes a plurality of memories storing demodulated results from the plurality of demodulation circuits.

Optical information recording/reproducing device which simultaneously

In an optical card reproducing apparatus, the data of a front ID portion is read, and whether a track address can be identified is determined. If the track address cannot be identified, a flag is reset, and the data of a data portion is read. If the track address can be identified, whether the identified track address coincides with a target track address is determined. If they do not coincide, the operation is ended. If they coincide, the flag is set, and the data of the data portion is read. After the data read from the data portion is stored in a buffer memory, whether the flag is set is determined. If the flag is set, data in the buffer memory is output as the data of the target track. If the flag is reset, the data of a rear ID portion is read, and whether the track address is identified is determined. If the track address cannot be identified, the buffer memory is cleared, and the operation is ended. If the track address can be identified, whether the identified track address coincides with the target track address is determined. If they do not coincide, the buffer memory is cleared, and the operation is ended. If they coincide, data in the buffer memory is output as the data of the target track.

Apparatus and method for reproducing information data from optical cards

According to the optical information recording/reproducing device of the present invention, upon recording of information, when a pit image on an optical detector which is formed by a recording optical beam spot at an information recording time arrives at a position of a O-order diffraction light spot image, while an optical card is moving in the forward direction, a light receiving element for signal reproducing senses a change in light amount. A verify signal is obtained immediately after recording based on the light amount change to perform a verify operation. Further, when a pit image on the optical detector formed by the recording optical spot arrives at a position of the image of the primary diffraction optical spot while a moving direction of the optical card is reversed and the optical card moves in the reverse direction to perform recording, a signal reproducing light receiving element senses a change in light amount. A verify signal is obtained immediately after recording based on the light amount change to perform a verify operation. Since irradiation is made in which the space between the recording optical spot and the O-order diffraction light spot is made equal to the space between the recording optical spot and the primary diffraction light spot b, an optical detector can receive the verify signal at the same timing even if the optical card moves in the forward or reverse direction.

Optical information recording/reproducing device capable of recording

An optical information recording/regenerating apparatus includes an optical head for irradiating a regeneration light spot to a plurality of tracks on an optical recording medium simultaneously via an objective optical system. A regenerating arrangement is provided for simultaneously scanning the plurality of tracks to which the optical head has irradiated the regeneration light spot, and then reading recorded information from the plurality of tracks. An error-correcting arrangement is provided which receives the recorded information read by the regenerating arrangement for performing error correction using the error-correcting codes for the plurality of tracks. An error-correction result memory arrangement is provided for storing results that indicate whether or not the error-correcting arrangement succeeded in error correction. A control arrangement is responsive to results stored in the error-correction result memory which indicate that error correction has not succeeded for the information regenerated from at least one track among the information regenerated from the plurality of simultaneously-scanned tracks. A driving device drives the regeneration light spot and the optical recording medium relatively to each other. The control arrangement controls the drive device so that the track for which the error correction has not succeeded will be included in a scanning range.

Optical information recording/regenerating apparatus and track scanning

A beam-spot control unit is arranged such that a light beam is irradiated onto an optical recording medium having a plurality of tracks, through an objective lens, to detect reflecting light of beam spots formed on the tracks by three or more photo detecting elements which are arranged in a direction corresponding to a track transverse direction. From a tracking error signal which is generated by a difference signal of pairs of photo detecting elements which are selected by a selecting switch from these photo detecting elements, a control signal is generated which positions the beam spots to a plurality of recording lines within a single track. A tracking control mechanism is utilized to enable positioning of the beam spots to a plurality of recording lines within the single track to be performed.

Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for performing

An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on and/or from an optical card, including a plurality of control system units and a driving system unit; in addition the control system units are arranged to be exchangeable. A user selects one of the control system units, which corresponds to an arrangement of an optical card to be used, and applies it to the apparatus, while the driving system unit select operational parameters of the optical card and an optical head which are suitable for driving the optical card to be used in response to a command from the selected control system unit, so that a plurality of optical cards each having a different arrangement can be applied for only one optical card apparatus.

Recording and reproducing system for use with different arrangements of

An optical card scanning apparatus includes a mechanism for forwardly conveying an optical card inserted into a housing through an insertion port toward a carrier, while a shutter is open. First and second detectors for detecting the card passing therethrough are provided between the insertion port and shutter, and between the shutter and the carrier. The time difference between the detecting signals from the first and second detectors are compared with a standard time, and when the compared values are different, the inserted card is backwardly conveyed and outwardly ejected from the housing through the insertion port by the conveying mechanism.

Optical card scanning apparatus

A display apparatus for displaying a cursor over a plurality of display screens including a plurality of display units each having respective display screens, a mouse for generating relative coordinates of the cursor on a display screen, and a signal processing unit for receiving the relative coordinates generated by the mouse and automatically determining a display screen on which the cursor is to be displayed. By moving the mouse continuously, the cursor is removed from one display screen to a next display screen in a continuous manner. Particular positions on a plurality of display screens can be simultaneously denoted from any one of the display screens.

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Akishima, Japan

Takefumi Sakurada