Patent ID: 7310295

Claim:
An optical disk drive device, comprising: at least two optical pickups that are arranged so as to reproduce the same surface of an optical disk; a guiding means for each optical pickup for moving the optical pickups in the radial direction of the optical disk; a tilt detecting means provided on at least one of the optical pickups for detecting the tilt of the optical disk; and a tilt correcting means, provided on at least the other of the optical pickups for adjusting the tilt of a laser light axis from the optical pickup with respect to the optical disk, in accordance with a detection result of the tilt detecting means; wherein detection of the tilt of the optical disk is performed by the tilt detecting means on the one of the optical pickups, and recording or reproduction of the optical disk, and adjustment of the tilt of the laser light axis by the tilt correcting means is performed on the other of the optical pickups.