KR100209157B1 - Method for controlling rotating position of a turn-table in an optical disk changer system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a rotation position control method using ID search of an optical disk changer system. (A) When a function key signal for selecting a desired disk and executing a function is input in the optical disk changer system, the turntable is rotated. Determining whether the start pulse is detected twice consecutively from the rotating turn table, and (b) if the start pulse is detected twice in succession in step (a), Recognizing the number of the disk by the width, (c) determining whether or not the disk is mounted by the width of the disk center pulse detected after the (c) (b) step is completed, and (d) (c) If a disc is loaded, the step of checking the number of the disc by the width of the disc ID pulse detected later, and (e) the number of the disc identified in step (d) If a is the desired disc number according to the key signal input in step (a), the stop table is detected twice, and then the turn table is stopped, otherwise steps (a) to (d) are repeated. When controlling the rotation position in the disc changer system, it is possible to not only accurately determine and control the position of each disc, but also to easily determine whether the disc is loaded at each disc mounting unit by using the same sensor used for the rotation position control. It works.

Description

Rotational Position Control Method of Optical Disc Changer System

The present invention relates to a disc position determining method of an optical disc changer system. In particular, the optical disc changer system searches for a disc ID (identification) for determining the position of a plurality of discs mounted on the disc tray. A rotation position control method of an optical disc changer system for controlling.

Conventional optical disc players, i.e., optical disc players, include compact disc players (CDP), laser disk players (LDP), compact disk graphic players (CDGP), and video. Video compact disk players (VCDP) have been developed and used, and recently, digital video disks (DVD) using MPEG-2 moving picture compression technology have been developed. It is possible to record and play back gigabytes (GB) of data including moving images in a 12 cm optical disc, and it is continuously developing to improve its performance.

On the other hand, such optical disc players reproduce images and / or audio recorded on the optical disc and output them through a screen and / or a speaker, and have a higher signal-to-noise ratio than conventional image and / or audio reproducing apparatus, resulting in better image quality. And / or can reproduce signals with sound quality, generate no noise due to irregular reproduction and modulation, very little distortion, no ghosts, and random access. There is a trend that is spreading.

In addition, as the performance and functions of such an optical disc player develop, various kinds of data recorded on the optical disc are diversified. In the case of a large amount of data such as a movie, the data corresponding to one movie is recorded on one disc. There was a case where not all of the recordings were possible, and also, inconvenience in use was caused by replacing the disc with a desired disc every time it was used.

Therefore, an optical disc changer system has been developed to alleviate these inconveniences, and such an optical disc changer system can mount a plurality of discs in one disc tray and then selectively play a desired disc sequentially or as needed. Developed.

As described above, the optical disc changer system is provided with a disc tray made for mounting a plurality of discs, the disc tray having a disc mounting portion for mounting a plurality of discs, and rotating the discs. Turn table is provided.

In addition, as described above, the turn table constituting the disk tray is rotated to perform a predetermined function to change the position in the disk tray of a plurality of disks, each of which is fixed to a predetermined position on the upper surface of the turn table. The lower surface, that is, the lower surface corresponding to the position of each disk mounting portion, is provided with a sawtooth-shaped protrusion for distinguishing each disk during rotation of the turntable.

1 is an internal perspective view of a disc tray in an optical disc changer system capable of simultaneously mounting three discs.

As shown in FIG. 1, the disc tray 100 of the optical disc changer system is coupled to the disc mounting portions 5 in a vertical direction through predetermined axes (not shown) to the lower portions of the disc mounting portions 5. A driving unit for determining the turn table 3 and the rotational position of the disk, the sensor being installed at a predetermined position, fixing the turn table 3 through the predetermined shaft, and rotating the turn table 3 through the shaft ( (Not shown) includes a built-in turn table base 1.

On the other hand, each of the disk mounting portion 5 of the disk tray 100 is assigned a respective disk ID to distinguish each disk mounting portion 5, which is the lower surface of the turn table 3, that is, each This is achieved by forming a predetermined number of serrated protrusions on the lower surface of the turn table 3 corresponding to the position of the disk mounting portion 5 of the disk. For example, in Fig. 1, three disk mounting units 5 are assigned IDs 1, 2, and 3, respectively, which makes it easier to search for one desired disk among the disks mounted in the disk mounting units 5, respectively. In order to achieve this, each of the protrusions is detected by a sensor mounted at a predetermined position of the upper surface of the turn table base 1 when the turn table 3 is rotated to determine each disc ID.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a rotational position control device in the optical disk changer system that searches for the ID of each disk to control the rotational position, and FIG. 2 is as shown in FIG. 5 when the turntable 3 is rotated. This is a waveform diagram of the pulse detected by the sensor unit 30.

In FIG. 5, the turn table 3 rotates forward or reverse by driving the driving unit 210 under the control of the controller 120 by the key signal input from the key input unit 110.

On the other hand, the sensor unit 30 is mounted on the upper surface of the turn table base 1 so as to face the rear of the turn table 3, when the disk mounting portion 5 of ID No. 1 when the turn table 3 is rotated That is, when a protrusion formed on the back of the turntable 3 is detected to correspond to the position of the disc mounting portion 1, as shown in FIG. 2, one low pulse is generated and the disc mounting portion 5 of the ID 2 is generated. When facing, two consecutive low pulses are generated, and when the disk mounting unit 5 of ID 3 is opposed, three consecutive low pulses are generated and provided to the controller 220.

Accordingly, the control unit 220 counts the number of consecutive low pulses provided from the sensor unit 30 to determine the ID of the disk mounting unit 5 facing the current sensor unit 30 so as to rotate the turn table 1. Will be able to control.

That is, the driving unit 210 operates under the control of the control unit 220, and the driving unit 210 rotates the turn table 3 in a predetermined direction. As the turn table 3 rotates, the disk mounting portions 5 installed on the top of the turn table 3 face the sensor portion 30, and the sensor portion 30 faces each time the disk mounting portions 5 face each other. The number of consecutive low pulses corresponding to the ID of the disk mounting unit 5 is generated and provided to the controller 220, and the controller 220 counts the number of consecutive low pulses to face the current sensor unit 30. By determining the ID of the disk mounting unit 5 located in such a way that the rotational position is controlled, various functions such as playing on a desired disk can be executed.

The conventional rotational position control device of such an optical disk changer system only controls the rotational position by the unique ID of each disk mounting portion and cannot determine whether or not a disk is mounted in each disk tray. That is, the conventional rotational position control device has a separate sensor for disc presence determination, or can determine whether the disc is mounted only by focusing the pickup unit constituting the optical disc changer system.

Therefore, the present invention has been proposed to solve the above-mentioned problems. The object of the present invention is to search for and recognize a disc ID to search for a desired disc, as well as to quickly determine whether a disc is loaded at each disc mounting unit. To provide a method of controlling the rotational position of an optical disk changer system.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, a turn table having a plurality of disk mounting portions on which a disk is mounted and rotating by driving of a driving unit, and having a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion, A sensor unit for outputting a disk ID pulse for determining the position of each disk mounting unit, a start / stop pulse for controlling the rotation of the turntable, and a pulse for determining the presence or absence of a disk, and provided from the sensor unit. In the rotation position control device of the optical disk changer system including a control unit for generating a control signal according to the disk ID pulse and the start / stop pulse, and a drive unit for driving the turn table driven by the control signal provided from the control unit In the rotation position control method of the, the turn table is the A pair of different disk ID holes corresponding to the number of the disk mounting parts for forming the disc mounting parts symmetrically to allow the sensor unit to generate the disk ID pulses is formed, and the different disks are formed. Between the different disc ID holes formed between the mounting portions, two pairs of start / stop holes formed of four holes of the same size to generate pulses for controlling the rotation of the turntable are successively formed, respectively. The disc mounting portion has two disc center holes of different sizes for causing the sensor portion to generate a pulse according to whether the disc is mounted, the disc ID hole, the disc center hole and the start / stop hole are located at the same rotation radius. The sensor unit of the turn table base for fixing the turn table rotatably Is mounted at a predetermined position corresponding to the rotation radius equal to the respective holes on the upper surface, and (a) a function key signal for selecting a desired predetermined disk and executing a function from the optical disk changer system is inputted. Determining whether the start pulse is detected twice consecutively from the rotating turn table by starting the rotation of the turn table; and (b) if the start pulse is detected twice consecutively in the step Recognizing the number of the disk by the width of the disk ID pulse to be used, (C) Determining whether or not the disk is mounted by the width of the disk center pulse detected after (B) is completed; Checking the number of the disk by the width of the disk ID pulse detected after the disk is loaded in the step (c); and (e) the step (d). If the disc number identified is the desired disc number according to the key signal input in step (a), the stop table is detected twice, and then the turn table is stopped. Otherwise, steps (a) to (d) are repeated. It includes and consists of steps.

1 is an internal perspective view of a disc tray in an optical disc changer system

2 is a waveform diagram of pulses generated for rotational position control in a rotational position control apparatus of a conventional optical disc changer system;

3 (a) and 3 (b) are a plan view and a sectional view of a turntable constituting a rotational position control device for executing a rotational position control method of an optical disk changer system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a waveform diagram of pulses generated for rotational position control in the position control apparatus of the optical disk changer system executing the rotation position control method of the optical disk changer system according to the present invention.

5 is a schematic block diagram of a rotational position control device of the optical disc changer system;

6 is a detailed flowchart of a rotation position control method of the optical disc changer system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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1,10: turn table base 3,13: turn table

5, 14, 15, 16: disc mounting portion 30: sensor portion

100: disc tray 110: key input unit

120: control unit 130: drive unit

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

3 shows a turn table 13 and a rotating shaft 25, a sensor unit 30 and a sensor constituting a rotation position control apparatus of an optical disc changer system for executing a rotation position control method of an optical disc changer system according to the present invention. 3 shows a three changer system as an example.

As shown in FIG. 3 (a), each of the disc mounting portions 14, 15, and 16 provided in the turn table 13 has two disc centers having different widths (A, B) for disc presence determination. A hole is formed, and a pair of disc ID holes 19 or 21 or 23 of the same size are formed on both sides of each of these disc mounting parts 14, 15 and 16 symmetrically with the disc mounting parts 14, 15 and 16. .

In addition, different disc ID holes, for example, disc ID hole 23 and disc ID hole 21, disc ID hole 19 and disc ID hole 21, disc ID hole 19 and disc ID Between the holes 23, two pairs of start / stop holes 17, each consisting of two holes of the same size, are formed.

On the other hand, all the disc ID holes 19, 21, 23, the disc center hole and the start / stop hole 17 as described above are all located on the same radius of rotation.

And, as shown in Figure 3 (b), the sensor unit 30 is mounted at a predetermined position of the upper surface of the turn table base 10, which is the disk ID holes (19, 21) formed in the turn table 13 23, mounted at a predetermined position in the radius of rotation of the disk center hole and the start / stop hole 17, and includes a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion, and when the emitted light is received, a 'high' pulse is generated and is not received. Otherwise it generates a 'low' pulse.

Meanwhile, the rotation shaft 25 fixes the turn table 13 to the turn table base 10 to be rotatable.

FIG. 4 is a waveform diagram of pulses generated by the sensor unit 30 when the turntable 13 rotates as shown in FIG. 3.

As described with reference to FIG. 3, the sensor unit 30 including and including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit emits light when the turntable 13 rotates and pulses of 'high' or 'low' depending on whether the emitted light is received. Occurs.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, when each hole formed in the turn table 13 passes over the sensor unit 30, the sensor unit 30 generates a 'low' pulse by the width of the hole. In other non-hole parts, a 'high pulse is generated. That is, the sensor unit 30 generates a start pulse when the start hole 17 passes, and when the disc ID hole passes, the disc ID pulses having different sizes corresponding to the sizes of the holes (ID = 1, ID = 2, ID = 3) can be used to determine the disc number. When passing through the disc center hole, two pulses are generated depending on whether the disc is installed. In other words, when the disk is mounted, the sensor unit 30 generates a pulse having a width corresponding to the hole size (A). When the disk is not mounted, the sensor unit 30 generates a pulse having a width corresponding to the hole size (B). To generate a disc.

In addition, since the same disk ID pulse is detected before and after the center of the disk center pulse, the disk ID pulse is detected first, the disk number is recognized, and the disk number can be confirmed by the disk ID pulse detected later.

That is, as shown in FIG. 5, when a key signal for controlling the rotation position of the disk mounted on the disk mounting units 14, 15, and 16 is input from the key input unit 110, the control unit 120 firstly turns the turntable. A control signal for starting rotation of 13 is generated to the drive unit 130, and the turn table 13 starts to rotate by the driving of the drive unit 130.

When the rotation of the turn table 13 is started, the sensor unit 30 generates a low pulse corresponding to each of the holes formed in the rotating turn table 13 to the controller 120, and the controller 120 generates a sensor. Among the low pulses provided from the unit 30, the disk center pulse is discriminated from the disk center pulse, and the disk number is recognized by the pulse width of the disk ID pulse, and the start / stop pulse and the key input unit ( Control to stop or maintain the rotation of the turn table 13 in accordance with the key signal input from 110.

6 is a detailed flowchart of a rotation position control method of an optical disc changer system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

If in step S10 a key signal for selecting a predetermined disk mounted on the disk mounting units 14, 15, and 16 from the key input unit 110 and executing a predetermined function is provided, in step S20, the control unit 120 is provided. ) Rotates the turn table 13 by generating a control signal to the driver 130 to drive the driver 130.

In operation S30, the controller 120 detects whether the start pulse is continuously generated twice from the sensor unit 30. In other words, the control unit 120 does not recognize the low pulse generated from the sensor unit 30 before the start pulse is provided twice consecutively from the sensor unit 30. And 16) to control the rotation position.

If the disk ID pulse is detected in step S40 when two consecutive start pulses are detected in step S30, if the disk ID pulse is detected in step S40, the disk ID pulse of the detected disk ID pulse is detected in step S50. By the width, the disc number, that is, the number of the disc mounting portions 14, 15 and 16 on which the disc is mounted is recognized.

Thereafter, in step S60, it is determined whether or not the disk center pulse is detected. When the disk center pulse is detected in step S60, in step S70 and step S80, the disc is loaded with the width of the detected disk center pulse. At this time, if it is determined that the disk is mounted, the process proceeds to step S90, otherwise proceeds to step S130.

When the process proceeds to step S90 in step S80, the control unit 120 determines whether the disk ID pulse is detected again in step S90. If detected, the controller 120 proceeds to step S100 to determine the disk number using the detected disk ID pulse. Check it.

Thereafter, in step S110, it is determined whether the disc number recognized in step S50 and identified in step S100 is the disc number desired for selection according to the key signal input in step S10. In step S110, if the recognized disc number is the desired disc number, the flow advances to step S120, where the control unit 120 detects the stop pulse twice in succession, that is, the stop pulse from the sensor unit 30. Is provided twice in a row, generates a control signal to the drive unit 130 to stop the rotation of the turn table 13, and executes the function according to the function key signal input in step S10 and ends the flow.

If the disc number recognized and confirmed in step S110 is not the desired disc number, the flow returns to step S30 to repeat the flow.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S80 that the disc is not mounted in the disc mounting portion recognized in step S50, the flow advances to step S130 to skip to the next disc, that is, the next disc loading portion, and then step S30. Return to) and redo the flow.

Accordingly, the present invention can not only accurately determine and control the position of each disc in the rotation position control in the optical disc changer system, but also easily mount the disc in each disc mounting portion by using the same sensor used for the rotation position control. The presence or absence can be determined.

Claims (1)

The turntable 13 includes a plurality of disk mounting parts 14, 15, and 16 on which a disk is mounted, and rotates by driving of the driving unit 130, and a light emitting part and a light receiving part. Disc ID pulses for determining the position of each of the disc mounting portions 14, 15, and 16 according to the rotation, start / stop pulses for controlling the rotation of the turn table 13, and pulses for determining the presence or absence of discs. A sensor unit 30 for outputting, a control unit 120 generating a control signal corresponding to the disc ID pulse and a start / stop pulse provided from the sensor unit 30, and a control signal provided from the control unit 120 In the rotation position control method in the rotation position control device of the optical disk changer system including a drive unit 130 to be driven according to the turntable 13, The turn table 13 has a pair of disk mounting portions corresponding to the number of the disk mounting portions for forming the disk mounting portions 14, 15, and 16 symmetrically so that the sensor unit 30 can generate the disk ID pulse. pairs of different disk ID holes (19, 21, 23) are formed, Two pairs of start / stop holes formed of four holes of the same size to generate pulses for controlling the rotation of the turntable 13 between the different disk ID holes formed between the different disk mounting portions. 17) are formed in succession, respectively, the disk mounting portions 14, 15, and 16 have two disk center holes of different sizes for the sensor unit 30 to generate pulses depending on whether or not the disk is mounted. The disc ID holes 19, 21, 23, disc center holes A, B and start / stop holes 17 are located at the same radius of rotation, The sensor unit 30 is mounted at a predetermined position corresponding to the same radius of rotation as the respective holes on the upper surface of the turn table base 10 for rotatably fixing the turn table. (A) When a function key signal for selecting a desired disc and executing a function in the optical disc changer system is input, the rotation of the turn table is started and whether the start pulse is detected twice from the rotating turn table. Determining; (B) recognizing the number of the disc by the width of the disc ID pulse detected after the start pulse is detected twice in succession in step (a); (C) determining whether or not the disk is mounted by the width of the disk center pulse detected after the step (b) is completed; (D) if the disc is loaded in step (c), identifying the number of the disc by the width of the disc ID pulse detected thereafter; (E) If the disc number identified in step (d) is the desired disc number according to the key signal input in step (a), the stop table is detected twice and then the turn table is stopped. And repeating steps (a) to (d).