Patent ID: 7796478

Claim:
An optical disk apparatus including: an objective lens which projects a light beam onto a record surface of an optical disk, and which receives reflection light from the optical disk; an actuator which moves the objective lens in a radial direction of the optical disk; a light receiving portion which converts the reflection light reflected from the optical disk, into an electric signal; and a tilt correction portion which corrects a tilt having appeared in the optical disk, on the basis of a reflection signal obtained by converting the received reflection light into the electric signal by the light receiving portion, and a tracking error signal contained in the reflection signal; comprising: a tilt-appearance-magnitude detection portion which detects the reflection signal and the tracking error signal by the light receiving portion while the objective lens is being moved in the radial direction of the optical disk by employing the actuator, which detects a temporal difference between a time when a value of the reflection signal becomes a maximum and a time when a value of the tracking error signal becomes zero, within a predetermined period, and which detects a value obtained by dividing the temporal difference by a time period of one cycle of the tracking error signal, as a tilt appearance magnitude; a relational-information record portion which records therein relational information that indicates a relationship between a tilt appearance magnitude and a tilt correction magnitude required for the tilt correction portion to decrease the tilt appearance magnitude; and a correction-magnitude instruction portion which reads out the relational information from said relational-information record portion, which determines a tilt correction magnitude on the basis of the relational information and the tilt appearance magnitude detected by said tilt-appearance-magnitude detection portion, and which gives the determined tilt correction magnitude to the tilt correction portion; wherein the tilt correction portion corrects the tilt having appeared in the optical disk, on the basis of the tilt correction magnitude given from said correction-magnitude instruction portion.