Patent ID: 7990816

Claim:
An optical disk apparatus comprising: a light source; an optical pickup having an objective lens that condenses a beam emitted from the light source on an optical disk and an objective lens actuator that drives the objective lens; a sled mechanism that moves the optical pickup in a direction of a radius of the optical disk; an optical pickup moving portion that moves the optical pickup in the direction of the radius of the optical disk with the sled mechanism for making access to a target track on the optical disk; a shift signal detecting portion; a shift amount control portion; a memory which stores a predetermined offset, said offset is a shift signal obtained in a state where the amount of displacement of the objective lens from an optical axis of the light source is zero, wherein the shift signal detecting portion detects a shift signal of the objective lens based on a push-pull signal, among signals based on reflected light resulting from the beam reflected from the optical disk, the push-pull signal generated in a course of generating a tracking error signal based on the reflected light, and wherein, when the optical pickup moving portion operates, the shift amount control portion corrects the shift signal detected by the shift signal detecting portion by use of the offset read from the memory, and drives the objective lens actuator based on the corrected shift signal; a beam generating portion that generates, from the beam emitted from the light source, a main beam and at least one sub-beam, the main beam and the sub-beam being condensed by the objective lens on the optical disk; a main beam push-pull signal generating portion that generates, based on reflected light resulting from the main beam reflected from the optical disk, a main beam push-pull signal containing a tracking error component and an offset component; a sub-beam push-pull signal generating portion that generates, based on reflected light resulting from the sub-beam reflected from the optical disk, a sub-beam push-pull signal containing almost zero tracking error components but containing an offset component; and a tracking error signal generating portion that generates the tracking error signal based on the main beam push-pull signal and the sub-beam push-pull signal, wherein the shift signal detecting portion detects the shift signal based on the sub-beam push-pull signal.