Abstract:
An optical pickup device employing a signal detection unit including a hologram element having a plurality of pattern regions for diffracting and/or focusing light reflected and incident from a recording medium, a photodetector having a plurality of light receiving regions for receiving and photoelectrically converting the light diffracted by the hologram element and a signal operation unit for generating a focus error signal and/or a track error signal from a signal detected from the photodetector. The optical pickup device can implement a stable servo operation even at deviations of the photodetector, a change in the wavelength of light emitted from the light source, and/or shift of focusing means such as an objective lens, and can record and/or reproduce high-density information on/from the recording medium.
Abstract:
A light emitting module packaging two light sources emitting two light beams of different wavelengths, and a compatible optical pickup device adopting the module are provided. The light emitting module includes a base, first and second light sources installed on the base, for emitting laser beams in different wavelength regions, a beam splitter and a monitoring photodetector for monitoring the optical outputs of the first and second light sources by receiving the beams emitted from the first and second light sources and split from the beam splitter in one direction. Also, another light emitting module includes a substrate, first and second light sources installed on the substrate for emitting laser beams of first and second wavelengths from both lateral sides thereof, a reflection member for reflecting the laser beam emitted from one lateral side of each of the first and second light sources to proceed in one direction, and first and second monitoring photodetectors for monitoring optical outputs of the first and second light sources. The compatible optical pickup device includes the light emitting module having the above structure, an objective lens for focusing first and second laser beams on an optical recording medium, an optical path converting device, a grating arranged on an optical path between the light emitting module and the optical path converting device for diffracting and transmitting an incident light, a photodetector.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus compatible with disks having different thicknesses is provided. The optical pickup apparatus includes an optical source, a beam splitter for changing the direction of the incident beam, an objective lens which is located between the optical source and the disk for focusing the incident beam to form an optical spot on the disk, and a photodetector for detecting information and error signals by receiving the beam which is reflected from the disk and passed through the beam splitter. A hologram optical element (HOE) is provided between the beam splitter and the photodetector for diffracting the beam reflected from the disk into a zero-order beam and a positive first-order beam. The photodetector includes a first photodetector and a second photodetector which receive the zero-order beam and the positive first-order beam, respectively.
Abstract:
An optical pickup for high-density recording/reproducing, which can read the information recorded at a close interval to exceed the limit of a given cut-off frequency, includes an objective lens having divided portions for respectively transmitting a zero-order optical component and .+-.1st-order diffracted components. To detect a signal for reproduction, a focusing lens is used for focusing the zero-order component and .+-.1st-order diffracted components passing back through the objective lens so as to mutually interfere. Stable high-density optical recording/reproduction can be realized regardless of the numerical aperture of the objective lens and the optical wavelength.
Abstract:
Provided is a signal generator. The signal generator includes an insulating substrate, a chip disposed on the insulating substrate and including an oscillator including a capacitance element determining a resonant frequency signal, and a plurality of conductive lines disposed on the same surface of the insulating substrate to be spaced apart from each other. At least one of the plurality of conductive lines is electrically connected with the oscillator and provides an inductance element determining the resonant frequency signal to the oscillator.
Abstract:
Provided are a display device and method. The display device includes a plurality of data driving integrated circuits (ICs) configured to receive reception signals, each of which includes data and load signal information indicating an application starting time point of the data, and apply parallel data signals corresponding to the data at the application starting time points according to the load signal information included in the reception signals, and a display panel configured to display an image according to the parallel data signals, wherein at least two of the data driving ICs apply parallel data signals at different application starting time points.
Abstract:
An optical pickup, photodetector, and optical drive adopting the optical pickup are provided. The optical pickup may include a light emitting system having a plurality of light sources corresponding to a plurality of mediums a light receiving system including a photodetector for converting light reflected from a medium into an electrical signal. The photodetector may include first and second light receiving sensors corresponding to the plurality of mediums, each of the first and second light receiving sensors comprising a plurality of regions, each region comprising a plurality of sectors. The plurality of regions of the first and second light receiving sensors may include shared sectors that are shared by the first and second light receiving sensors and exclusive sectors that are exclusively used in the first light receiving sensor or the second light receiving sensor.
Abstract:
Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data bits. The apparatus includes a transmitter configured to generate a transmission signal corresponding to the data bits and having a periodic transition, a data line configured to transmit the generated transmission signal, and a receiver configured to generate a reception clock signal from the periodic transition of the transmission signal (“reception signal”) transmitted through the data line, sample the reception signal according to the generated reception clock signal to recover the data bits. Accordingly, it is possible to transmit clock information without a clock line separate from the data line.
Abstract:
A data driver circuit and a delay-locked loop (DLL) circuit that can operate normally in spite of errors, etc., caused when an analog data signal is applied to a display panel are provided. The data driver circuit receives a first data signal and a first clock signal and outputs a second data signal to be transmitted to a display panel. The data driver circuit includes a data driver for sampling the first data signal in response to a second clock signal and outputting the second data signal obtained by analog-converting the first data signal, a mask signal generator for generating a mask signal indicating presence within a predetermined time period measured from a point in time at which the second data signal begins to change, and a DLL for generating the second clock signal from the first clock signal. Here, there is a delay between the first and second clock signals, the delay changes according to a phase difference between the first and second clock signals, and the change in the delay according to the phase difference is prevented by the mask signal.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a decoding circuit for a flat panel display, and more particularly to a decoding circuit for a flat panel display wherein a miniaturization is possible by reducing an area of the circuit. There is provided a decoding circuit comprising: a first decoder for selecting a predetermined number of gradation voltages from a plurality of gradation voltages according to a least significant bit or least significant bits of an image data; a second decoder for selecting one of the selected gradation voltages to be outputted to an output terminal according to a plurality of selection signals; and a third decoder for outputting the plurality of the selection signals according to a most significant bit or most significant bits of the image data, wherein a minimum length of gates of a plurality of MOSFETs included in the first decoder is shorter than that of a plurality of MOSFETS included in the second decoder.