Patent ID: 7154831
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A tilt servo control device of an information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information on and reproducing information from an optical recording medium set into said apparatus, said apparatus comprising an optical system for leading a laser beam emitted from a light source to a recording surface of the optical recording medium and a laser beam reflected by the recording surface of the recording medium to a photo detector and a read signal generator for generating a read signal in accordance with an output signal of the photo detector, said photo detector having a main light receiving section which is divided into at least two portions and two sub light receiving sections between which said main light receiving section is inserted, which are respectively divided into two portions, and each of said main light receiving section and said sub light receiving sections being arranged so that the divided line thereof is parallel with a tangential direction of a track of said optical recording medium, and generating an output signal for each divided portion, said device comprising: a recording medium type determining device which determines a type of said optical recording medium; a tilt drive signal generator which generates a tilt drive signal so as to reduce a tilt angle between a normal to the recording surface of said optical recording medium at a position of the laser beam irradiating said recording surface and an optical axis of said laser beam by a method for generating a tilt drive signal corresponding to the type determined by said recording medium type determining device; a tilt angle adjuster which adjusts said tilt angle; and a driver which drives said tilt angle adjuster in accordance with said tilt drive signal, wherein said apparatus comprising; a main push-pull signal generator which generates a main push-pull signal representing the differential component of the output signals of said main light receiving section; a sub push-pull generator which generates first and second sub push-pull signals representing the differential components of the output signals of said two sub light receiving sections; and a first adder which adds said first and second sub push-pull signals and multiplying the sum of the addition by a predetermined coefficient to generate a sub push-pull sum signal, and wherein said tilt drive signal generator includes: a first tilt servo section having a second adder which adds the main push-pull signal and the sub push-pull sum signal to generate an output signal including only a direct current (DC) component, a low pass filter which smoothes the output signal of said second adder to remove an eccentric component of the recording medium, a first tilt error signal generator which stores an output signal of said low pass filter as a reference signal before an information recording operation onto the recording medium and subtracts the reference signal from the output signal of said low pass filter during the recording operation to generate a first tilt error signal representing the tilt angle, and a generator which generates a signal representing a correction value for each of said plurality of regions in response to said first tilt error signal; a second tilt servo section having a delay element which delays said read signal by a predetermined time period, a second tilt error signal generator which generates a second tilt signal by subtracting said read signal from an output signal of said delay element and a generator which generates a signal representing the correction value for each of said plurality of regions in response to said second tilt error signal; a third tilt servo section which generates a signal representing the correction value for each of said plurality of regions so as to maximize the level of the read signal; a selector which selects one tilt servo section of said first, second and third tilt servo sections in accordance with the type of the recording medium determined by said recording medium type determining device; and a generator which generates said tilt drive signal in accordance with the correction value output from the one tilt servo section selected by said selector.