Mediatek Corporation

Tun-hsing Liu

Hong-ching Chen

Yu-wei Ling

A system and method of controlling data recording process of optical recording medium in a sequential writing are described. The control system comprises an information unit, a data-preparing unit and a recording controller. The information unit generates an information signal. The data-preparing unit prepares the data for recording. The data is then transformed into a writing signal according to the information signal. The recording controller controls the data-preparing unit to adjust the writing signal while acquiring the information signal during a sequential writing. Thus, the recording controller adjusts the writing signal according to the information signal. The data-preparing unit outputs the adjusted writing signal having desired recording area and undesired recording area and the adjusted writing signal is recorded on the optical recording medium during the sequential writing. The adjusted writing signal is outputted to OPU. The OPU performs a recording process of the optical recording medium.

System and method for controlling data recording process of optical recording medium in sequential writing

The displacement of a pick-up head along the radial direction of an optical disk is detected, and the absolute position of the pick-up head is determined by the accumulation of the displacement, hence the apparatus knows which area on the optical disk the pick-up head currently stays. After obtaining control signals for a motor to drive the pick-up head to move along the radial direction, the apparatus calculates the displacement of the pick-up head during every stroke according the control signals. Afterward, the absolute position is determined by the accumulation of the displacement during all strokes.

Method and apparatus for determining position of optical pick-up head

A method for determining the position of a pick-up head involves retrieving the respective parameter values relating to the linear velocity and angular velocity of the pick-up head at a certain place on the optical disk, and then calculating the ratio of the parameter value of the linear velocity to the parameter value of the angular velocity. Since the ratio is linearly correlated with the distance between the pick-up head and the center of the optical disk, the absolute position of the pick-up head can be determined, as far as its whereabouts is concerned.

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Tun-hsing Liu