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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1994
Yutaka Ogasawara, Yokohama, JP;
Hirotake Ando, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Miyashita, Tokorozawa, JP;
Nobuyuki Tonegawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording data onto and/or reproducing data from a recording medium such as a magnetic disk, a magnetooptic disk, or the like by irradiating a laser beam emitted from a light source such as a semiconductor laser onto a desired track of the recording medium through an optical system, wherein the apparatus includes a single processor for executing an input/output control of data for the apparatus and a servo process of the laser beam by interrupting the servo process between the input/output control at every predetermined period. The processor switches a precision of the servo process in accordance with a predetermined situation such as a change in operating mode.