Patent ID: 7046592
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk reproducing apparatus comprising: a spindle motor adapted to rotate an optical disk; an optical pickup adapted to emit a laser beam for reproducing information recorded on the optical disk, to receive a reflected light from the optical disk and to output a reproducing signal; a tracking servo-off section adapted to turn off a tracking servo that controls a tracking of the optical pickup after confirming that a focus of the laser beam on said optical pickup is normally set on the basis of a focus error signal included in the reproducing signal; a first count value calculating section adapted to calculate an initial track count value by counting, for a predetermined time, tracking pulses corresponding to a tracking error signal included in the reproducing signal, when the tracking servo-off section turns off the tracking servo; a second count value calculating section adapted to calculate the track count value when a braking is applied to the optical disk, by counting, for a predetermined time, the tracking pulses corresponding to a tracking error signal included in the reproducing signal, when a brake signal is applied to the spindle motor; a rotational direction detecting section adapted to detect a rotational direction of the optical disk by comparing the initial track count value calculated by the first count value calculating section and the braking time track count value calculated by the second count value calculating section; and a control circuit adapted to control the spindle motor on the basis of a synchronizing signal included in the reproducing signal, wherein when the spindle motor is accelerated and the optical disk runs away due to an absence of the synchronizing signal, the control circuit applies a brake signal to the spindle motor in an opposite rotational direction when the rotational direction detecting section detects that the optical disk is positively rotated, and applies the brake signal to the spindle motor in a positive rotational direction when the rotational direction detecting section detects that the optical disk is reversely rotated.