Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Michael N. Meuer
  • Patent number: 6680892
    Abstract: An optical disk device reproduces an RF signal by projecting a light beam on an optical disk and detecting a reflected light therefrom. On the optical disk, information is recorded by forming a pit on a track determined according to a groove having a wobble signal recorded thereon. The optical disk device comprises a comparator comparing the RF signal with a threshold value so as to output a binary signal, a first band-pass filter filtering a frequency band of the wobble signal from the binary signal so as to extract a wobble signal component, and a first adder obtaining a value by adding the wobble signal component to a fixed reference value so as to supply the value to the comparator as the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Teac Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Mashimo