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Automatic power control system for optical disc drive and method thereof

US8115661B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 11, 2011
Grant dateFeb 14, 2012
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Expiry dateApr 11, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M1/129
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for calibrating an initial driving signal for driving an optical pick-up head of an optical disk drive is provided. On one embodiment, said optical disk drive is utilized for reading or writing data on an optical disk, the optical disk includes a plurality of auto power control areas (APC areas) and a plurality of data areas, and the APC areas and the data areas are interleaved in between. In at least one of the APC areas that before the data areas for a normal data writing, an initial driving signal is used for the normal data writing to drive the optical pick-up head to emit laserbeam. A detected level of the laserbeam is then obtained. An update initial driving signal is then calibrated according to the detected level and a target level.

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