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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:
Mar. 16, 2010

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2001
Applicants:

Ron J. Kadlec, Longmont, CO (US);

Christopher J. Turner, Niwot, CO (US);

Charles R. Watt, Longmont, CO (US);

Inventors:

Ron J. Kadlec, Longmont, CO (US);

Christopher J. Turner, Niwot, CO (US);

Charles R. Watt, Longmont, CO (US);

Assignee:

DPHI Acquisitions, Inc., Longmont, CO (US);

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

A servo system with in an optical disk drive with an inverse non-linearity compensation is disclosed. An error signal calculated from signals received from an optical pick-up unit can be offset by an offset value and amplified by a gain in the early stages of a calculation of a control signal for controlling a position of the optical pick-up unit. The non-linearity compensation adjusts the gain based on the offset value so that the response of the servo system to changes in the error signal is substantially linear. The error signal can be the tracking error signal in a tracking servo system and can be the focus error signal in a focus servo system.


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