Focus controlling method and optical disk drive using the focus controlling method

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PATENT NO 9177591
APP PUB NO 20090067299A1
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12230535

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An apparatus and method control a disk drive servo, and more particularly, an apparatus and method control a servo when moving between layers of a disk in a multi-layered disk drive. A focus controlling method, as an example of the servo controlling method, includes the operations of performing aberration correction according to a change of a recording layer of a disk from a currently accessed recording layer to a recording layer desired to be accessed, and changing the value of a parameter set that determines characteristics of signals for use in servo control of an optical disk drive, according to an aberration correction amount that is used during the aberration correction.

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TOSHIBA SAMSUNG STORAGE TECHNOLOGY KOREA CORPORATION14F BLDG NO 102 DIGITAL EMPIRE 2 486 SIN-DONG YEONGTONG-GU SUWON-SI GYEONGGI-DO REPUBLIC OF KOREA SUWON-SI

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Chun, Kwan-ho Seoul, KR 6 6

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