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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2002
Jin Yong Kim, Kyungki-do, KR;
Seong Yun Jeong, Seoul, KR;
Jin Yong Kim, Kyungki-do, KR;
Seong Yun Jeong, Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An optical pickup apparatus that can adaptive for a plurality types of optical discs different in the layout condition such as a recording density, etc. and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup apparatus. In the optical pickup apparatus, first and second light sources generate a different wavelength of light beams. An optical system allows a light beam generated from any one of the first and second light sources to be selectively irradiated onto the optical disc and have an aperture number controller allowing the number of aperture of a light beam to have a different value. A photo detector detects the light beam reflected from the optical disc to be accessed to convert the same into an electrical signal. The apparatus is capable of accessing three types of optical discs different in the layout condition by utilizing an appropriate combination of a wavelength of the light beam with the number of aperture.