Patent ID: 7693018

Claim:
An optical disk recording and reproducing device having a tilt correcting mechanism for correcting so that a laser beam emitted from an optical pickup becomes perpendicular to the optical disk when information is recorded or reproduced on the optical disk, wherein the device is equipped with a system controller for performing a tilt control of the optical pickup by using an RF signal of a virtual maximum amplitude value that is obtained by the steps of: calculating a primary approximate expression about a tilt from at least a first predetermined position and a maximum amplitude value of a tracking error signal at a second predetermined position on the optical disk, calculating a difference between the tilt values by subtracting the maximum amplitude value of the tracking error signal at the first predetermined position from the maximum amplitude value of the RF signal at the first predetermined position, and offsetting the difference between the tilt values to the primary approximate expression; wherein the system controller includes; a test data write control portion for writing test data in a test writable area of an unused writable optical disk if it is determined that the optical disk is loaded, an RF signal maximum amplitude value calculating portion for calculating a maximum amplitude value of the RF signal at the first predetermined position on the optical disk when the test data are read out from the test writable area, a tracking error signal maximum amplitude value calculating portion for calculating the maximum amplitude value of the tracking error signal at the first predetermined position on the optical disk and for calculating the maximum amplitude value of the tracking error signal at the second predetermined position that is a predetermined distance away from the first predetermined position, a primary approximate expression calculating portion for calculating the primary approximate expression about the tilt from the calculated maximum amplitude value of the tracking error signal at the first predetermined position and the calculated maximum amplitude value of the tracking error signal at the second predetermined position, a tilt value difference calculating portion for calculating a difference between the tilt values by subtracting the maximum amplitude value of the tracking error signal at the first predetermined position from the maximum amplitude value of the RF signal at the first predetermined position, an offset portion for offsetting the difference between the tilt values to the primary approximate expression, and a tilt control portion for performing the tilt control of the optical pickup by using the RF signal of the virtual maximum amplitude value that is offsetted to the primary approximate expression.