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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gijsbertus Bouwhuis, Eindhoven, NL;
Christiaan Hendriks Velzel, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358127 ; 1791 / ; 358128 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for reading a record carrier on which information is stored in an optically readable structure of trackwise arranged areas and intermediate areas where at least one of the surfaces of the record carrier body has periodic surface undulations along the track direction. A focussing error signal is derived by reflecting a focussed light beam on the record surface and by measuring the amplitude and phase of the portion of the reflected beam that corresponds to the surface undulations.