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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:
Nov. 09, 2010

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2007
Applicants:

Johannes Leopoldus Bakx, Eindhoven, NL;

Stefan Geusens, Eindhoven, NL;

Antoon Dekker, Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Johannes Leopoldus Bakx, Eindhoven, NL;

Stefan Geusens, Eindhoven, NL;

Antoon Dekker, Eindhoven, NL;

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

In a tracking control method for use in an optical disk drive to read/write an optical disk, an open-loop tracking control operation of the optical disk drive is first performed according to an input tracking error signal and a predetermined periodical offset to generate a dynamic offset. Afterwards, a closed-loop tracking control operation of the optical disk drive is performed according to the input tracking error signal calibrated with the dynamic offset.


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