Optical disk drive with power save mode

Details Optical disk drive with power save mode Optical disk drive with power save mode

2004-11-06

2008-08-26

Lee, Thomas (Department: 2115)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Computer power control

Power conservation

C713S300000, C713S320000, C369S053130

Reexamination Certificate

active

07418610

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a portable optical disk drive having a power save mode for reducing the energy consumption. It is an object of the invention to propose an improved solution for a power save mode. This object is achieved by a method for driving an optical disk drive in a power save mode having the steps of:receiving an indication to start power save modeturning off a servo driver of the optical disk driveafter that, turning off a photodetector of the optical disk driveawaiting an indication to stop power save modeturning on said photodetectorafter that, turning on said servo driver.

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