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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideki Kobunaya, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G06M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377 39 ; 369 4428 ; 369 4434 ;
Abstract
In an optical disk apparatus, a circuit for counting the number of tracks crossed by an optical head comprises a first storage means for storing a sampling value obtained for each predetermined sampling cycle, a second storage means for storing a sampling value obtained for the immediately preceding sampling cycle and a comparator means for comparing the first and second values each stored within said first and second storage means. If the value obtained by this comparator means is smaller than a predetermined value, then the first value is selected as the count of the number of crossed tracks, and if the opposite is the case, then the second value is selected as such.