Patent ID: 6947359

Claim:
An optical disk device comprising: light emitting means for emitting light to an optical disk; driving means for carrying out a predetermined operation with respect to said optical disk based upon a driving control signal; reflected light information detection means for detecting reflected light information related to reflected light from said optical disk; normal control signal generation means for generating a normal control signal for determining amount of control in said predetermined operation based upon said reflected light information; defect detection signal generation means for generating a defect detection signal for specifying presence or absence of a defect area lacking optical information in said optical disk based upon said reflected light information, a period in which said defect detection signal indicates that there is no defect area being defined as a normal period and a period in which said defect detection signal indicates that there is a defect area being defined as a defect detection period; low frequency correction signal generation means for performing a filtering process to said normal control signal, said filtering process allowing a varying frequency of said normal control signal to pass and removing a high frequency component of the same to generate a low frequency component signal as a low frequency correction signal in said normal period, and for generating said low frequency component signal sampled at the time of defect detection start when said normal period is switched to said defect detection period as said low frequency compensation signal in said defect detection period; disturbance pulse correction signal generation means for recognizing a disturbance pulse based upon a difference between said low frequency correction signal and said normal control signal during a period from the time of said defect detection start back to a predetermined point of time to generate a disturbance pulse correction signal containing a first correction pulse obtained by inverting a polarity of said disturbance pulse with the same impulse with said disturbance pulse; addition means for obtaining a defect compensation signal by adding said disturbance pulse correction signal to said low frequency correction signal; and signal selection means for selecting said normal control signal as said driving control signal during said normal period, and selecting said defect compensation signal as said driving control signal during said defect detection period.