Optical disc access control apparatus

Claim 2

An accessing control apparatus for an optical disc comprising: disc rotating means for rotationally driving the optical disc at a constant linear velocity; tracking controlling means for causing a light beam emanating from an optical pickup to follow a recording track on the optical disc; translating means for translating said optical pickup along a radius of the optical disc; detection means for detecting if a number of revolutions of the optical disc by said disc rotating means is within a frequency range in a vicinity of a resonant frequency of said optical pickup; access controlling means for effecting accessing control of said optical pickup by switching between a track jump control of translating said optical pickup from a current position on the optical disc to a target track on the optical disc with said tracking controlling means in an energized state and a high speed accessing control of shifting said optical pickup by said translating means from the current position on the optical disc to the target track position on the optical disc with said tracking controlling means in a and deenergized state, respectively controlling means for switching an operation of said access controlling means depending on a detecting output by said detection means for effecting said track jump control for the number of revolutions of the optical disc within the frequency range in the vicinity of the resonance frequency of said optical pickup or effecting high speed accessing control by said translating means for said number of revolutions of the optical disc outside said frequency range in the vicinity of said resonance frequency.

Claim 3

The accessing control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said detection means includes position detection means for detecting a position of said optical pickup with respect to said optical disc and wherein said controlling means controls the accessing operation of said accessing control means based on a detection output from said position detection means.

Claim 4

An optical video disc reproducing apparatus comprising: disc rotating means for rotating the optical video disc about 30 cm in diameter at a constant linear velocity; an optical pickup having a resonance frequency of approximately 30 Hz; tracking controlling means for causing a light beam emanating from the optical pickup to follow a recording track on the optical video disc; translating means for translating said optical pickup along a radius of the optical video disc; detection means for detecting if a number of revolutions of the optical video disc by said disc rotating means is within a frequency range in a vicinity of the resonance frequency of said optical pickup; access controlling means for effecting accessing control of said optical pickup by switching between a track jump control of shifting said optical pickup from a current position on the optical video disc towards a target track on said optical video disc with said tracking controlling means in an energized state and a high speed accessing control of shifting said optical pickup by said translating means from the current position on the optical disc towards the target track position on the optical video disc with said tracking controlling means in a deenergized state; and controlling means for switching an operation of said access controlling means depending on a detection output by said detection means for effecting said track jump control for the number of revolutions of the optical video disc within the frequency range in the vicinity of the resonance frequency of said optical pickup or effecting high speed accessing control by said translating means for the number of revolutions of said optical video disc outside said frequency range in the vicinity of said resonance frequency.

Claim 5

An optical video disc reproducing apparatus comprising: disc rotating means for rotating the optical video disc about 30 cm in diameter at a constant linear velocity; an optical pickup having a resonance frequency of approximately 30 Hz; tracking controlling means for causing a light beam emanating from the optical pickup to follow a recording track on the optical video disc; translating means for translating said optical pickup along a radius of the optical video disc; detection means for detecting if a number of revolutions of the optical video disc by said disc rotating means is within a frequency range in a vicinity of the resonance frequency of said optical pickup; access controlling means for effecting accessing control of said optical pickup by switching between a track jump control of shifting said optical pickup from a current position on the optical video disc towards a target track on said optical video disc with said tracking controlling means in an energized state and a high speed accessing control of shifting said optical pickup by said translating means from the current position on the optical disc towards the target track position on the optical video disc with said tracking controlling means in a deenergized state; and controlling means for switching an operation of said access controlling means depending on a detection output by said detection means for effecting said track jump control for the number of revolutions of the optical video disc within the frequency range in the vicinity of the resonance frequency of said optical pickup or effecting high speed accessing control by said translating means for the number of revolutions of said optical video disc outside said frequency range in the vicinity of said resonance frequency.

Claim 6

The optical video disc reproducing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the optical video disc reproducing apparatus is adapted for detecting, by said detection means, if the number of revolutions of said optical disc by said disc rotating means is within the range of 25 to 30 Hz.

Claim 7

The optical video disc reproducing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said detection means includes position detection means for detecting a position of said optical pickup on said optical video disc, said detection means detecting, on the basis of a detection output from said position detecting means, if said optical pickup is within about six minutes from an innermost periphery of a recording area of said optical video disc.