Tracking servo apparatus for use in an optical disk player
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorFumihiko Yokogawa
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Abstract
A tracking servo apparatus for an optical disk player enables a braking operation to rapidly draw into tracking servo control even in case of a double density track. The tracking servo apparatus generates an odd/even discrimination signal indicating on which of an odd number track or an even number track a position for reading information by a pick is currently present, samples a tracking error signal according to an edge position of the odd/even discrimination signal, selectively outputs either a positive or a negative section of the tracking error signal according a polarity of the sampled tracking error signal as a brake signal to a driving means for a tracking actuator, and thus draws the position for reading information by a pick-up onto a track which can be put under tracking servo control.
Claims3
A tracking servo apparatus for use in an optical disk player having:
- generating means for generating a tracking error signal indicating a displacement between a position for reading information by a pick-up and a track in the radial direction of an optical disk;
- switching relay means for outputting a brake signal according an instruction for drawing, and relaying and outputting said tracking error signal in place of said brake signal in correspondence to a drop of a frequency of said tracking error signal;
- driving means for driving a tracking actuator provided in said pick-up so that said position for reading information is located on a track according an output signal from said selective relay switch, wherein said switching relay means comprises:
- odd/even discriminating means for generating an odd/even discrimination signal indicating on which of an odd number track or an even number track said position for reading information is currently present;
- means for detecting an edge of said odd/even discriminating signal and generating an edge pulse;
- sampling means for sampling said tracking error signal according to said edge pulse;
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- means for selectively outputting either a positive or a negative section of said tracking error signal according to a polarity of the tracking error signal sampled by said sampling means as said brake signal.
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