US 7,492,675 B2
Digital servo system with calibrated notch filters
Ron J. Kadlec, Longmont, Colo. (US); and Hans B. Wach, Longmont, Colo. (US)
Assigned to DPHI Acquisitions, Inc., Longmont, Colo. (US)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/950,372.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/264351, filed on Jan. 25, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2002/0131342 A1, Sep. 19, 2002
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G11B 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 369—44.24  [369/44.39; 702/77; 700/280] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of calibrating a notch filter in an optical disk drive's digital servo system, comprising:
digitizing sensor signals from an optical pickup unit within the optical disk drive;
within a digital signal processor, calculating a focus error signal or a tracking error signal from versions of the digitized sensor signals;
perturbing the digital servo system by adjusting either the focus error signal or the tracking error signal responsive to a perturbing signal to provide an adjusted error signal;
obtaining a frequency response curve of the adjusted error signal within the digital servo system over a range of frequencies in response to the perturbation of the digital servo system;
searching the frequency response curve for at least one frequency having a peak frequency response; and
setting notch filter parameters of the notch filter to filter signals in the digital servo system at the at least one frequency.