Patent ID: 7471596

Claim:
An optical disc reproduction device comprising: an optical pickup including: a semiconductor laser for irradiating laser light onto an optical disc; an objective lens for condensing, onto a disc surface of the optical disc, the laser light irradiated from the semiconductor laser onto the optical disc; and a photodetector having a light receiving portion, divided into a plurality of regions, for detecting light reflected from the disc surface in which the reflected light is reflected light of the laser light irradiated onto the disc surface of the optical disc via the objective lens; an RF signal amplifier means for amplifying RF signals which are output from the photodetector, and which correspond to information recorded on the optical disc; a signal processing means including: a tracking signal processing means for generating a tracking error signal that corresponds to an amount of focus deviation of the irradiation light from a track on the disc surface of the optical disc, in which the irradiation light is the laser light irradiated onto the disc surface via the objective lens; a jitter signal processing means for measuring jitter level of the RF signal output from the RF signal amplifier means, and for generating a tracking signal for jitter control; a focus signal processing means for generating a focus error signal that corresponds to an amount of the focus deviation of the irradiation light from the disc surface, in which the irradiation light is the light irradiated onto the disc surface via the objective lens; and an RF signal processing means for processing the RF signal output from the RF signal amplifier means; a servo control means for adjusting the laser light to be on the track and also adjusting the position of the objective lens according to the tracking error signal, the tracking signal for jitter control and the focus error signal that are output from the signal processing means so as to adjust the focus position of the laser light irradiated from the semiconductor laser; a decoder for decoding, based on the RF signal output from the signal processing means, information including video and/or audio recorded on the optical disc; and a microprocessor for controlling the optical pickup, the RF signal amplifier means, the signal processing means, the servo control means and the decoder, wherein for automatic adjustment of tracking balance, the microprocessor controls the servo control means to adjust a tracking balance signal value for the optical disc reproduction to be a value between a tracking balance signal value to make a tracking error balance value 0% (hereafter referred to as first tracking balance signal value) and a tracking balance signal value to minimize jitter (hereafter referred to as second tracking balance signal value) when the first tracking balance signal value is different from the second tracking balance signal value.