Patent ID: 7898919

Claim:
An optical pickup apparatus for reading out a signal recorded on a signal recording layer of a first and a second optical discs that are different in distance from an incident surface of a laser light to the signal recording layer, comprising: an objective lens configured to be changed in numerical aperture thereof for reading out a signal from the first and the second optical discs; a focus coil configured to displace the objective lens in a direction toward a surface of the first and the second optical discs; a tracking coil configured to displace the objective lens in a radial direction of the first and the second optical discs; a tilt coil configured to correct an angle of an optical axis of the objective lens relative to the surface of the first and the second optical discs; a numerical aperture changing element configured to change numerical aperture of the objective lens so that the laser light is focused on the signal recording layer of the first and the second optical discs; an incident angle changing element configured to change an incident angle of the laser light relative to the objective lens so that the laser light is focused on the signal recording layer of the first and the second optical discs; and a tilt control unit configured to control driving of the tilt coil so as to correct coma aberration, the tilt control unit including a displacement amount detecting circuit configured to detect a displacement amount of the objective lens in the radial direction based on a DC voltage supplied to the tracking coil, and a memory circuit connected to the displacement amount detecting circuit and configured to store correction data for correcting the coma aberration in accordance with the detected displacement amount, wherein the tilt control unit is further configured to generate a driving current to be supplied to the tilt coil based on the detected displacement amount and the correction data read out from the memory circuit, wherein the read out correction data corresponds to the detected displacement amount.