Patents Represented by Law Firm Staas & Balsey
  • Patent number: 5142520
    Abstract: A system for obtaining an optimum focusing position in an optical disc system. An optical beam is impinged onto a track of an optical disc, and a reflection signal having information regarding an intensity of an optical beam reflected by an optical disc is obtained. A predetermined frequency component, the frequency component being generated by a modulation caused by an existence of a pit on a track of the optical disc in a reflecting signal, is extracted from the reflection signal. Then a focus position in which a maximum intensity of the extracted frequency component is obtained is searched by changing the focus position of the optical beam. Further, the above system is incorporated in a focus servo control system for maintaining an optimum focusing position in an optical disc system during reading and writing operations, to determine an optimum offset value which is to be adjusted to compensate an error arisen from a construction of the focus servo control system, during an offset adjusting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shigenori Yanagi, Akira Minami, Masateru Sasaki, Shigeru Arai, Toshitaka Iwamoto, Hidenori Saitoh