Mediatek Corporation

Mediatek Incorporation

Yung-chi Shen

Kuo-Jung Lan

Ming-Jiou Yu

Wei-hsin Hsu

Shih-jung Chiu

The present invention sets forth a power saving method and a power saving system applied in an optical disk drive. The power saving system comprises a central processing unit, a spindle motor, an optical pick-up unit, an analog portion of control circuits and a digital portion of control circuits. Each of the analog or digital portions of control circuits can be divided into several sets of circuits. Each set of circuits is coupled to an associated operation mode of the optical disk drive. The power saving system further comprises a power controlling unit for differentiating the specific sets of circuits not being used in the specific operation mode and powering them down. The sets of circuits not being used will be powered up while the associated operation mode in which they are required to operate is nearly started. The present invention also provides a power saving method of powering down the sets of circuits not being used relative to a specific operation mode of the optical disk drive.

Power saving method and system applied in optical disk drive

A method for controlling the recording speed of a multi-layered optical disc divides a multi-layered optical disc into a plurality of zones with each zone having a corresponding recording speed. It is then determined which zones need the recording speed to be reduced according to the quality of the optical disc. When the optical drive records data onto an inferior quality zone, it reduces the recording speed to guarantee the reliability of recorded data and enhance recording quality. When the optical drive records data on the next recording layer and has passed the zone that corresponds to the inferior quality zone of the previous recording layer, it increases the recording speed. Thereby the method ensures both quality and efficiency. Furthermore, the recording speed of each subsequent zone of the next recording layer corresponds to the recording speed of each previous zone of the recording layer.

Method for controlling the record speed of a multi-layered optical disc

A method of estimation parameter adaptability adjustment of an optical storage device. The method determines an estimation parameter according to a current data recording location of the optical storage device to estimate a channel bit rate. The method includes providing a two-dimensional estimation parameter table. The two-dimensional estimation parameter table includes a plurality of estimation parameters corresponding to linear velocities and data recording locations. The method further includes determining a linear velocity estimation value; and determining the estimation parameter according to the linear velocity estimation value, the current data recording location, and the two-dimensional estimation parameter table to estimate the channel bit rate.

Method of estimation parameter adaptability adjustment of an optical storage device

A control method for a rotation speed is used in an optical disc drive. When the angular velocity of the optical disc in rotation is fixed and the rotation direction is the same as the direction of the torque, then a breaking torque, having the same magnitude as the rotational torque but in the opposite direction, is applied to cause the rotation of the optical disc to cease. In other situation, a fixed rotational torque of the same magnitude as that of the angular velocity is first applied to cause the optical disc to have a fixed angular velocity. Then, a breaking torque having the same magnitude as the fixed rotational torque but in the opposite direction is applied to cause the rotation of the optical disc to cease. In this manner, no matter what rotation speed of the optical disc is, the rotation of the optical disc can always be ceased by a fixed period of time.

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Yung-chi Shen