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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2006
Katsuya Watanabe, Nara, JP;
Rie Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Katsuya Watanabe, Nara, JP;
Rie Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
The optical disk drive of the present invention can read data from multiple types of optical disks and includes: a motor for spinning a given optical disk; at least one light source for radiating light beams with multiple different wavelengths; at least one lens for converging each light beam onto the disk; a spherical aberration correcting section that can change the spherical aberration states of the beam; and a control section for controlling the operations of the motor, light source, lens and spherical aberration correcting section. The control section includes a disk type recognizing section that irradiates the disk with a light beam using the light source and the lens, thereby recognizing the type of the disk. The recognizing section performs the recognition by reference to first and second signal waveforms that have been generated based on the light beams reflected from the optical disk when the spherical aberration correcting section sets the spherical aberration states of the light beam to first and second states, respectively.