Patent ID: 8395975

Claim:
An optical read/write apparatus comprising: a plurality of optical pickups, including a first optical pickup and a second optical pickup, which are arranged so as to irradiate mutually different tracks of an optical storage medium with a light beam; and a control section which controls those optical pickups, wherein the first optical pickup includes a first light source, a first objective lens that condenses a light beam that has been emitted from the first light source onto the optical storage medium, and a first lens actuator that is able to shift the first objective lens in a track crossing section with respect to a middle position, and wherein the second optical pickup includes a second light source, a second objective lens that condenses a light beam that has been emitted from the second light source onto the optical storage medium, and a second lens actuator that is able to shift the second objective lens in the track crossing section with respect to the middle position, and wherein the control section makes the first and second lens actuators operate so that as the magnitude of shift of the first objective lens increases in the first optical pickup, the magnitude of shift of the second objective lens decreases in the second optical pickup.