Patent ID: 7400557
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus which comprises an optical pickup including an objective lens for focusing a laser beam onto a track on an optical disk and adapted to record and reproduce information optically onto and from said optical disk, and a tracking actuator drive circuit for driving a tracking actuator adapted to move said objective lens of said optical pickup slightly in the radial direction of said optical disk, the apparatus comprising: an input port for receiving and analog/digital-converting a tracking drive signal, which is output to said tracking actuator drive circuit, as a feedback signal; a reference voltage value storing means for storing the digital voltage value of a first tracking drive signal input through said input port as a reference voltage value; a comparing means for comparing said reference voltage value and the digital voltage value of a tracking drive signal input through said input port; a D/A conversion and offset cancel circuit for digital/analog-converting an input digital tracking drive signal into an analog tracking drive signal and for adjusting said analog tracking drive signal so as not to be offset in accordance with a comparison result of said comparing means and then to be output; a tracking output port for outputting said analog tracking drive signal; and a low-pass filter for allowing only a low-frequency component of said analog tracking drive signal output from said tracking output port to pass therethrough to be output as a tracking drive signal for said tracking actuator drive circuit and also to be fed back to said input port, wherein the output resistance of said low-pass filter is composed of two serially connected resistors, the resistance of the former one of said serially connected resistors being arranged to be lower than that of the latter one and a connecting point between said former and latter resistors being connected to the input side of said input port, and wherein a tracking drive signal is arranged to be input to said input port as a feedback signal through said connecting point.