Patent ID: 7613090

Claim:
A method for controlling tilt in an optical disc device, the method comprising: determining whether a current operating mode of the optical disc device is a play mode or a record mode for storing data on an optical disc inserted in the optical disc device; and selecting a tilt control mode from a first tilt control mode or a second tilt control mode according to the current operating mode, wherein the first tilt control mode is a static tilt control mode which is selected when the current operating mode of the optical disc device is the play mode, and wherein the second tilt control mode is a dynamic tilt control mode which is selected only when the current operating mode of the optical disc device is the record mode, wherein said selecting the tilt control mode further comprises: activating the dynamic tilt control mode in the record mode; determining a cause for pausing the record mode using the dynamic tilt control mode; and maintaining the dynamic tilt control mode or switching to a static tilt control mode according to the determined cause, wherein said maintaining the dynamic tilt control mode or switching to the static tilt control mode comprises maintaining the dynamic tilt control mode when the determined cause is at least one of a write buffer under-run state has been entered, a record pause key has been input, or servo failure has been determined.