Patent ID: 6965549

Claim:
An optical disc apparatus comprising: a pickup head which illuminates an optical disc set in a main unit with a light beam via a lens, and which detects a quantity of reflected light from said optical disc; a focusing section which vertically moves said lens of said pickup head with respect to said optical disc; a tracking section which moves said lens of said pickup head in a radial direction of said optical disc; a controlling section which, when a supply of operation power is started, instructs said focusing section and said tracking section to move to a preset position that is previously determined with respect to said lens, which instructs said pickup head to emit said light beam, and which judges whether an optical disc is set in said main unit or not, on the basis of said quantity of reflected light detected by said pickup head; and a displaying section which, if said controlling section judges that an optical disc is not set in said main unit, displays a message indicating that an optical disc is not set, wherein said lens preset position on which said controlling section instructs said tracking section is a position where said light beam impinges on a vicinity of an innermost circumference of said optical disc, and if said controlling section judges that an optical disc is not set in said main unit, said controlling section transferring to a power save mode in which power consumption of said main unit is suppressed.