Patent ID: 8040775

Claim:
An optical disc apparatus to perform reproduction or record reproduction of an optical disc, comprising: an optical pickup which irradiates a laser beam onto the optical disc; an actuator which moves a light spot of the laser beam in an optical axis direction; a photodetector which detects the light reflected from the optical disc at the time of focus control by the actuator; and a signal processing circuit which determines an error signal based on an output signal from the photodetector; wherein: the optical pickup further irradiates laser beams having a different wavelength onto the optical disc; the photodetector further detects the reflected lights of the laser beams having the individual wavelengths; the signal processing circuit further determines amplitude of the error signal of the each reflected light, calculates an amplitude ratio based on the amplitude of the each reflected light, and discriminates the optical disc based on the amplitude ratio; the optical pickup further irradiates a first laser beam having a first wavelength and a second laser beam having a second wavelength onto the optical disc; the signal processing circuit further determines amplitude of a focus error signal and amplitude of a pull-in error signal of a first reflected light of the first laser beam, and determines amplitude of a focus error signal and amplitude of a pull-in error signal of a second reflected light of the second laser beam; the optical pickup further irradiates a laser beam having a wavelength corresponding to a first standard as a first laser beam to the optical disc and irradiates a laser beam having a wavelength corresponding to a second standard as a second laser beam to the optical disc; the first standard is a CD standard, and the second standard is a DVD standard; the signal processing circuit further measures: amplitude (FE 1 ) of a focus error signal of the reflected light obtained by irradiation of a DVD laser beam to an information recording surface of the optical disc; amplitude (PE 1 ) of a pull-in error signal of the reflected light obtained by irradiation of the DVD laser beam to the information recording surface of the optical disc; amplitude (FE 2 ) of a focus error signal of the reflected light obtained by irradiation of a CD laser beam to the information recording surface of the optical disc; and amplitude (PE 2 ) of a pull-in error signal of the reflected light obtained by irradiation of the CD laser beam to the information recording surface of the optical disc; and the signal processing circuit further discriminates a target disc as a CD surface of a dual disc having a CD recording surface and a DVD recording surface when (PE 1 )/(FE 1 ) is larger than a third specific threshold value and discriminates the target disc as a label surface of a LabelFlash disc when it is equal to or less the third specific threshold value.