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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2002
Applicants:

Yong Hee Han, Junrabook-do, KR;

Sung Woo Park, Daegu-si, KR;

Inventors:

Yong Hee Han, Junrabook-do, KR;

Sung Woo Park, Daegu-si, KR;

Assignee:

LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An apparatus and a method of determining an optimal writing power for an aged writable disk after checking whether a writable disk is aged or not, are discussed. The apparatus and method according to an embodiment read signals written on a writable disk, judge whether or not the writable disk is aged based on a signal characteristic, e.g., a level difference between the read signals before and after an equalization and jitter of the read signals, and conduct an OPC for the writable disk to obtain a precise optimal writing power if the disk is judged to be aged. The precise optimal writing power can prevent deterioration of reproduction characteristic of recorded data even though an aged writable disk is used.


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